But but but! They don’t deserve to make money from that, it would be better if we got to do the money making! So please, subsidise our energy consumption like hell so that we may compete with them on fair terms.

Also, don’t try to lower our electricity costs naturally by building more renewables, our shareholders still have stocks in coal so we can’t switch to electric furnaces.

Out with the old, in with the new?

It is still an event that is mostly relevant to people living in NYC with little bearing on other US states, despite the media reporting on it as if it was a big deal everywhere. We are just starved for good news.

Most of the other news stories here affect entire countries or regions. I’ll grant you, it is more impactful than Japan sending soldiers to deal with bear attacks, but less than any other world news posts on my page 1. It would probably become world news if he pushes through some of his policies for being unprecedented in the US, though.

The problem is the word “internal”, someone winning a mayoral election should only be relevant to people of that city. World news should have bigger impacts than potential future city guidelines.

Kyoto’s tourism tax may be world news, who is elected its mayor isn’t.

That said, we are so starved for good news from the US that I confess it was of interest to me, a person not in the US. And it was treated as way more than a regular local election by the media.

87 billion euros
The deficit in value of exports versus imports will surpass 2022’s previous record of just over 84 billion euros, said GTAI.

At this point I wonder if Inflation is done not to promote investments, but to help journalists so every year a “record number” of something happens in business they can report on.

Anyway, have we tried selling them Opium? Worked for England once I heard.

Interesting what’s written here, I actually saw it more often in some Discord server. As far as I know, there it is just for fun and/or homestuck nostalgia, without any deeper meaning behind it.

Just like calling X “twitter” or “the hellsite”, or annotating everything with parenthesis, or using or refusing to use emoji, there does not need to be more of a reason to do something with written language than “I like it that way”. How much stylisation you can inject into your writing before you stop being comprehensible is another question.

Ah, so it was just a big PR stunt then. I will not look into this further until the news confirm my findings.

I like to analyse stickers stuck on traffic lights and road signs.

I plan on making an app someday where people can contribute to a database of stickers and compare the sticker culture of different regions.

A magnitude 1 quake releases the same force as dropping a partially loaded cement truck from 10 meters onto the street in front of your house. A magnitude 0 earthquake is equivalent to the entire Dallas Cowboys American football team running at full tilt into the side of your neighbours garage.

Given those upper and lower bounds, considering that the scale is logarithmic with 2 points being x1000 difference, then keeping in mind I can never do math properly: roughly 1 and a half American football teams ran full tilt into the house next to the seismometer.

Ah, you know, can’t complain.

Maybe I’ll take a vacation to the US someday and see what kind of bicycle infrastructure the worlds greatest economy can build.

For being mandatory where I live, it sure is odd literally no one decided to draw some reflectors on the spokes.

After all, that is a privilege reserved for politicians.

Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?

I could probably recite Bill Wurtz’s “History of the entire world i guess”. And go into some more detail if someone asked.

I can’t even make the most explicit Gacha hating post without you guys saying how yours is the one, the special one that’s good.

I hate the concept. They are designed to obfuscate how much money and time you spend on them with different currencies that don’t feel like real money. They are dark pattern after dark pattern, trying to get you to look at the shop every time you boot up, and entice you with limited offers every chance they get. And this all is then defended by well meaning people like you and me with “Well, you can play for free if you grind hard”.

And when I look up if the different in-game currency thing applies to this game, I find out I have heard of Limbus company as the Korean one that got a “radical feminist” artist fired because a swimsuit didn’t reveal enough skin for the fanbase’s liking.

You misunderstood my comment. Fuck off with your recommendation.

Gacha.

For most anything else, I can simply chalk it up as a difference in tastes when I don’t like the gameplay, or art style, or whatever. Even those shitty horror games for babies I despise are perhaps fun if you dive into the lore at the right age, who knows. I certainly have obsessed for less than mediocre games.

But no one likes gacha, or at least should like it. It’s gambling marketed to kids, preying on the people without impulse control. No “you can spend 2 hours of your life every day on this and save up 2$ in currency” is changing that, in fact that is even worse.

And yet they give hoyoverse a pass for their series, because everything around it is so high quality. Open your fucking eyes! Games are not supposed to punish you for not playing!

But of course, no accusation without confession, I am quite fond of the yugioh simulator, and used to defend it the same way. I try to resolve this double standard by doing what I feel they should do: Never gush about it, only mention it in shame, and always warn people to not pick it up.

Well, I don’t expect you to know this, but police are actually not supposed to punch protestors. Or anyone else, really. Hope this helps 🤗!

There was a second punch a few seconds after, but this article’s video didn’t show it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUln5weESQ At 1:15 and 1:31

They also believe that other ethnic and religious groups exist within a school district.