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Texas lawyer trapped by cat filter on Zoom call, informs judge he is not a cat

Psh, they probably hacked themselves in an attempt to buy more time to come out with patches.

Um. Setting maximum prices on essential stuff like medicine, groceries and housing is to central planning what removing a wart is to neurosurgery. Nice slippery slope though.

That's only possible with bubbles though. If your landlord immediately racks up the price by $500 you go live elsewhere where rent hasn't been raised because it makes no sense to raise rent on an empty house. Your former landlord is now making a grand total of $0 and the new one is making your old (or close to) rent. Market self-adjustment is an old chestnut, and I think the last few years should be evidence enough that markets are much more sensitive to market manipulation and (de)regulations than the kind of thing you're referring to. I'm not a huge fan of UBI myself. Something like public job guarantee programs are more appealing to me on a conceptual level and they also have the advantage of preempting any "lol u just wanna stay at home playing videogames all day" arguments from neoliberal minions.

Fundamentally there's no reason it can't work. I mean, corps and banks have been getting public monies for a while in the form of stimulus packages, tax breaks and bailouts. It doesn't seem to be "trickling down" all that much. Why not try giving that money to random people and see if it "trickles up", eh?

I know. I remember one of those old Danish shipping companies, Maersk (https://www.maersk.com/), getting hit by ransomware attack a few years ago. The old guy is tough as nails and told the hackers **** you. We'll rebuild our systems. Even if the cost of doing so was $200 million. Mind you, the old guy running the family business can afford it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/08/16/notpetya-ransomware-attack-cost-shipping-giant-maersk-over-200-million/?sh=1277cda54f9a

HA! Good Fun!

If landlords can't take a gunshot wound it's their own fault for choosing to be vulnerable to bullets.

I think it’s fair to say I’m not a communist because I do understand dialectical materialism. Humans are not inanimate objects on the conveyer belt to inevitable progress. economic behavior is human behavior and humans must act in their best interest as only they can understand what those are. They must be free to pursue what they want even if that’s not what’s best for them in the eyes of some folks. Economics is a poor lens through which to view a society. Not a great tool for shaping one either. Economies should be organic not directed

He was unable to ford the median...

https://segmentnext.com/2020/02/24/obsidian-next-gen-aaa-rpg/ Kind of an old news, but what do you think this will be? I really want them to make their own ots/fpv post apocalyptic game. The market is definitely there. The Outer Worlds already had a massive amount of hype, since people are tired of Bethesda's bull**** and post apocalyptic game from Obsidian would be like a second coming of Jesus Christ himself if they played it well. It's also a perfect time, now that that Fallout 76 turned out to be an MMO grindfest and there won't be other Fallout game made in the next 5 years. Get Josh Sawyer working on it though, since I feel like The Outer Worlds lacked his touch.

A group of fans from Europe and America sit down to discuss Race and Class in Eora and how Race/Class may look in Avowed. Enjoy! Avowedcast Episode 9: Race & Class in Eora https://open.spotify.com/episode/5N2zQd2w7Vkf5mRLUSTpAF This is a non-monetized fan podcast. Interested in joining us for a recording and sharing your knowledge and opinions, we would love to have you. Contact us via email: avowedcast[at]gmail.com

The Watership Down movie was renowned for giving kids nightmares, the TV series is renowned for giving them to adults.

I didn't know about this and now I wish I could forget.

Re-watching Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I miss the old Aunt Viv.

lol i completely forgot about this most obvious synergy

All our dystopian fiction is just manuals for some.

Funny you mention that but that is exactly one of the risks and concerns I have with UBI, I have no doubt this will be exactly what some people will do once on UBI Good observation 2133, I agree 100 %

You are indeed a sociopath, majestic 😛 Heh, we once had a computer programming contest at school but we were on a network with a shared drive to store our solutions in a directory. Which was not password protected. As you can imagine everyone cheated or began a campaign of wanton destruction. Rookie action to delete the files, the true craft was modifying people's solutions so they failed and looked like incompetence rather than sabotage.

They need to leak at least something in the next 48h otherwise it becomes suspicious. Like way back when Valve had their uncompilable Source engine source code "stolen" and "leaked" on the internet and was immediately free of all the flak they'd have otherwise gotten for delaying Half Life 2 even more than they already have. That reminds me of the time I faked a hack at school when I learned that they kept no backups (because some poor SoB really had all his precious files trashed by someone malicious douchewaffle and they told him they can't restore his files). I snuck into the computer room, logged in, deleted everything, logged out and pretended to have come into class to an empty user directory and could therefore not turn in the homework I never wrote in the first place. A quick log check confirmed a strange login at a point before I came to school, so yeah, sucks to be me, huh? Even took the train an hour earlier to get there on time.

also, to OP's thread, I'm rolling a shifter/stalker beastmaster right now. it's still early days, but generous boar form DoT plus high ranger accuracy (will also help w/ spellcasting against megabosses where shift form is less useful due to finite duration), plus +1 AR and +5 Deflection from being near pet is promising. A bear form will have stupidly high AR by end-game (better than mythic plate, with no recovery penalty), stag form will have good defenses [especially if I pick up Beast's Claw later on], and of course boar form will just eat up everything else with stupid high accuracy. plus there's some misc synergy - shifter gets a lot of DoT spells for free, which goes well with predator's sense in the ranger tree. ranger has good utility effects that you can use while shifted (like evasive roll). it might not be as stupidly high DPS as a helwalker/shifter or streetfighter/shifter, but it seems like it has good promise.

I recently discovered that WF is kinda buggy somehow. I end up getting way more than +4 secs per kill. I think I pinged @Elric Galad if he could look into it as part of his mechanics deep dives/modding, don't know if he ever got around to it. It was remarkable enough that I changed my recommendation about it in my guide, for single-class it's a great way to extend your duration since it's pretty hard to do so otherwise (versus a multi-class). The extra aoe becomes a nice cherry on the top at that point. edit: quoting an excerpt from my guide "Despite the wording, kills only extend the spirishift duration, not any beneficial effect. However, this duration extension is quite buggy in your favor: while the first kill only gets you the 4s as expected, the duration extension dramatically increases the more kills you get. In a simple test, I was getting up to an additional minute from a kill. This can be obviously extremely powerful effect for spiritshift-heavy builds, since even for a shifter it is otherwise quite hard to get a long spiritshift duration." this same bug might affect similar other abilities (like the chanter might/con/resolve buff invocation upgrade)

no love for my dark angels

"There is nothing historically accurate about this film, it's just a festival for bisexuals."

I agree, but I must clarify your statement that it's not society, but a specific part of society that pushes for SM to be judge and jury of not acceptable content.

Everybody likes to call this stuff free money, but really it is the government giving back money that they take from us. Some people at the lowest levels might come out ahead, but most people are still paying more than they will be getting back.

That's Socialism.

Cured and warm smoked spare ribs. Regular spare ribs, not baby back or St. Louis cuts, that were specifically made to simmer in hot water until soft (45+ minutes), they're not edible without further heating. I'm not sure how that would come out if you used short ribs, eating beef ribs isn't very common here, but I'm also not exactly sure if you can get these ribs in your area - or in the US at all. Could be, Germans got something similar they call Kassler, but like everything that's related to food and Germany it's... yeah, well, it's like German beer. Everyone thinks its good for some reason, but it isn't, or at least it's better in other parts of Central Europe.

I think this example is what happens when society expects SM platforms to become the judge and jury of what is acceptable content and what is considered offensive comments or hate speech We should not be asking SM companies to police what people post. The exceptions to this is very rare examples like the banning of Trump after the Capitol violence because Trump abused various SM platforms and even though I support this its still controversial

@BartimaeusYay, new thread. I find myself being envious. I want to watch Sailor Moon S for the first time too. At least I only have 4 episodes of SuperS left.

Now you're getting it - Guard Dog for President of the Communist States 2024, everybody! 👏👏👏

See, it's proof Socialism doesn't work

Yeah the removal of the shoulder carry makes this mission harder the cheapest solution is the base of that particular bush you can do a few grass floors and bounce webs which will allow you to walk stems up building a zipline anchor across from the unconnected one that is there. Also there are two new dandelions just outside of the bush area that will have enough stems for the zipline. There is a youtube video on this method just not sure if allowed to share the link.

i think you should make a new mode that is survival like, every 10th ingame day there will come waves of ants to attack you and your house. and every 10th day it will be harder so for example day 20 it will come ants and and larvas and so on. almost like ''7 days to die'' becous i like that game but their motor is too bad and your game would make it really good

This is a suggestion to disable the HUD markers for arrows that the player fires during a combat encounter. Basically, while a bug is in combat protocol, any fired arrows would not have the large locating markers attached. Once combat programming is cleared, the markers would return. WHY the suggestion: When firing multiple arrows at an enemy, the HUD becomes very cluttered with all of the arrow markers, making it difficult to even spot the enemy in some cases. It would just be more tidy and attractive to eliminate them during combat. What is more, the markers are rather unnecessary until the player is attempting to retrieve them. The majority of the time, retrieval would not be taking place during combat.

But as a fantasy RPG, why would they go to a new IP when they already have the PoE IP? And just to clarify, when I say "PoE IP" I mean using the setting and lore of PoE, not another game in the same series as PoE1 and 2. And yes, I also would expect that it will be "Skyrim" only in very general ways, and unlike Skyrim will have all those strong RPG elements that Obsidian is known for.

Some people don't have much money to buy a single game, so that's the reason why they need some free stuff. Thanks to Shady and some other guys for this giveaways.