SSJ2Marx [he/him] @ SSJ2Marx @hexbear.net

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Death to Israel, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.

If course Blastoise would be a cop.

Not like anarchist queen Charizard or vegan king Venusaur.

Unfortunately the more I read the less this seems like a long overdue accounting of the video game industry's hubris and the more it seems like someone with looking for someone to blame for their failson. These companies have literally hired psychologists to come up with ways to more effectively manipulate their players into buying their digital bullshit, and surprise surprise many of the things those psychologists have come up with are basically unregulated gambling.

I wonder if this is a false flag?

Scrolling through the massive list of Humble Bundle games I didn't and still don't care about.

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Too much information from too many places and too much of it is wrong.

Metal_Gear_Solid_2.iso

Everything will be worse under Trump

I'm pretty sure that everything will be worse four years from now regardless of whose in charge - and if it's Trump you better believe the libs are going to be ten times as annoying blaming the inevitable crumbling of their system on the people not voting for them hard enough (which is why they need to move further right, of course).

nationalize the cartels

Something tells me that the cartels wouldn't just let the government do this, and then you're right back to square one where the Mexican government is fighting against them.

I went looking for this a year or so back and I couldn't find any big study that looked at the lifetime emissions of motorcycles compared to cars, but the road emissions by themselves are generally about as bad because while there are fewer emissions from motorcycles, the emissions that exist are worse because the smaller engine doesn't burn the fuel as completely. The thing is a huge chunk of a car's lifetime emissions come from manufacturing, which I suspect makes motorcycles better, but again I never found that comprehensive study.

I think they did at one point, but during the plot he's the only one and he's working unpaid overtime, because he warned them when he signed his original contract that the system they wanted needed more engineers and more time but they didn't listen and then threatened him into working for free when the system wasn't ready at the end of his original contract. This is the direct reason why he committed the corporate espionage that caused the whole park to go fubar.

I love it when good studios do new things

I've been on both sides of that kind of interaction, though not in academia. I met my boss of six months for the first time like two weeks ago, tbh I'm not sure if I would recognize him (or anyone else on my "team" for that matter) if I saw him again right now.

I bet there are a bunch of programs where the overhead of means testing and collecting payments is enough that it would actually be cheaper to just make it a universal benefit.

small trucks that are designed to transport things

The optimal city transport network: people on trolleys and ebikes, cargo entering the city on trains and being "last mile"d with electric kei trucks.

Always worth remembering that American-style suburbs were a deliberate political project in the postwar period. They didn't "just happen", the government spend billions making them happen at the behest of auto makers, property developers, and racists (but I repeat myself).

I have no doubt that for a lot of reviewers the process is extremely wasteful. But for those who make a lot of videos, they're leaving a lot on the table if they don't make an effort to resell their stuff - and depending on where they live they could be leaving a lot on the table if they don't recycle it.

The big ticket items get loaned out to reviewers as part of the company's marketing campaign. Some reviewers are blacklisted from this process (or refuse to be part of it for ethical reasons) and have to beg, borrow, or buy from their contacts in the industry/community.

If a retro reviewer lives in your town, it's possible that they're single handedly keeping multiple secondhand tech stores afloat. Also, if you keep a sharp eye on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace (easy if you're doing it as part of your job) then you'll see interesting tech appear there literally all the time.

Really prolific reviewers will do regular auctions of things that have piled up. This practice is common but they gotta be careful, as we saw when it got Linus Tech Tips into pretty hot water a few months ago when they sold something they had promised to return.

If you have a production team, then you can have people who spend their time listing and shipping out unneeded items - not to mention that people will tend to just take things that aren't being used if they lie around long enough. On the other hand smaller reviewers tend to get big collections because they run out of people to give things to and selling stuff takes time away from video production.

Vietnam was embargoed until the 90s, and dropping it basically allowed the soft power of the US to do it's thing. 'Nam isn't really an ally of the US, they consider themselves neutral, but they're undeniably very friendly. I suspect that a generation of trade and tourism could do the same to our relationship with Cuba and might result in softening attitudes among Cuban-Americans as they reestablish contact with their families and reconcile lingering animosity from the revolution.

I think this would also work for the DPRK, Iran, and others. Trade is really nice and children are rarely willing to carry the grudges of their parents.

It might be discussion of piracy/VPNs or something like that. China's got rules about that stuff too AFAIK. Maybe if one of the admins can read/write Simplified Chinese they could reach out to the relevant government bureau and request clarification.

Well yeah I guess if you're buying a used machine from six years ago with millions in existence because tons of businesses bought them it'll be cheap no matter what manufacturer it's from. Thinkpads do hold up better against age than most.