If they’re not making a profit as it is charging rich rubberneckers 250K a trip and cutting corners on their builds, I can’t imagine they’ll ever be able to do it.

Just some ink on a page. Would she rather be Charles and have eggs thrown at her in public?

It’s a bit niche, but I like Japanese mahjong (not the tile matching thing, the actual game) and have gotten hours out of an app called Kemono Mahjong. Cheap, onetime purchase w/no micro transactions and you can play against adjustable AI offline or online with others. It has plenty of guidance for new players.

We’re learning that lesson in spades now with all the shriekers and Bible thumpers trying to stack school boards, ban books and curriculums.

Never played it, but a few people in the CCG crowd at my high school did for a bit. I remember it being a little too complicated for me at the time and just stuck to MTG or Netrunner.

That’s great and all, but presupposes that whoever’s on the other end of that panic button will actually respond and do so effectively or in time. Uvalde and Parkland both had cops make it on site in a reasonable amount of time, but they were basically useless in both cases.

I can see the ads on Fox or OANN now.

“MAGA Mush! Quality gruel for quality patriots! Available at your local Cabela’s now!”

At least I’m assuming they haven’t canceled Cabela’s like Bass Pro yet.

It’s funny, I used to be on BestofRedditorUpdates where almost any “good” story that got reposted was subject to arguments about whether it actually happened or if the OP made it up. Now with ChatGPT it can all be made up. /s

If they actually do wind up forcibly reopening the dark subs and replacing the mods, good luck having to police “Lemmy” or “Tildes” spam on top of all the usual bot nonsense and trolling that goes on. Metal and Motorhead subs are about to get nuked as collateral damage.

Seems like it’s just a human thing to be tempted to do when you’re far from home and don’t think there will be consequences to your actions. There’s graffiti from ancient Greeks and Romans in Egypt and Viking runes carved into the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

I remember there was some talk when the news first came out that the mutual lawsuits were getting to the discovery stage and both sides likely had documents they didn’t want seeing the light of day. Could have been another factor in just deciding to bin the lawsuit and band together.

I work in a library. It’s part of our collection policy that we don’t discriminate as to what viewpoints not to buy books for. Plenty of times I’ve had to grit my teeth and smile while helping some senior citizen put themselves on the waiting list for the latest Fox News anchor book or random ragebait. If we have to swallow that, then it better go the other way as well.