There’s not going to be anything ‘arbitrary’ about those inspections… In a bad way.

Bad Dragon

Fallout 76.

Thank goodness for that! I don’t even play TF2, but it’s a really important cultural landmark in the history of online gaming and of a large era of the internet, so keeping the game in good condition and taking care of it is still quite important to me.

They haven’t gone overboard with THIS one, because they already went way the fuck overboard years ago and never got back on board

Man I’m gonna have to bite the bullet and make my next machine a linux one

You can say Astarion, it’s okay.

(Seriously, any player who tried Astarion’s introduction at my table would be told to go get a different character, because what the fuck?)

You love to see it! Every little bit helps.

Fun fact, a Tesla spokesperson describing the car’s features was talking about how they wanted something on the car that didn’t make it to final release and said “But sadly we couldn’t get that law changed”, which does… kind of imply that they lobbied the regulatory bodies into allowing this piece of shit to exist.

Very informative, thank you.

You can kind of see how all these problems would compound with each other and make each other worse. Of course people don’t wand to pay taxes to a government that will waste or embezzle their money. But the government does need money to make things happen that might improve the situations of the everyday worker. The government needs competent administrators, lawmakers and judges to properly regulate the private sector, but the private sector can pay a competent person triple what the government pays because the private sector isn’t subject to laws that force them to be ethical.

Guess there’s a reason that corruption is such a common cause of failed governments.

ELI5: Why is the greek economy so fucked?

Somehow this is worse than Reddit. Sure Reddit isn’t good, but at least Reddit was sane enough to understand concepts like ‘working too much is deeply unhealthy both physically and mentally’ and ‘corporations should not hold absolute power’

Lies, there’s no knot in this list

Listen. I do not want fucking ads in the start menu. I have no idea how to code and I can’t use the command terminal to save my life but I swear to god I’m going to switch to Linux before I touch Windows 11 with a 10-foot pole

What about Firefox? Can’t say that I’ve ever heard of Kagi myself, what makes it so special?

Yah, dollar store guided missile. Sure it’s not as guided, but when you can easily afford to just throw 40 of them out right into anti-air defences because if even one slips through it will be monetarily worth it…

The things are a fucking menace.

It’s to do with how the drones operate: A big expensive drone might be fitted with say, a gun or a rocket? The idea being that you fly it out, shoot someone, bring it back and fly it out again.

A suicide drone is much, MUCH cheaper, and consists of a normal drone with a bomb strapped to it. It doesn’t come back, it destroys itself in order to give you one cheap drone attack (which is good in areas where your drones are likely to be shot down regardless of if they’re a suicide model or not, for example trying to drone strike a densely populated and heavily defended city).

Sold shitloads of suicide drones to Russia and went on an absolute crusade against women’s rights.

Alright, that one was pretty clever lmao

SATIRE! ONION NO IT’S MEANT TO BE SATIRE!

Literally both! I got these two exact phrases one after the other on my report card!