Yes.

And my axe!

Yes, just like the legal term for a predatory debt spiral disguised as a short term loan used to be “payday loan” (now called something else to avoid regulation imposed on the previous euphemism).

The more innocent-sounding but deceptive term that a predatory industry prefers doesn’t become correct just because they successfully bribe politicians to make it become/remain the official one.

Fair enough heh. You have yourself a nice day 🙂

Yes, it was. Now leave me alone before you start your nonsense on me again.

Not really, no. Read my subsequent response to their poorly thought out reply for more information.

It’s going to affect immunocompromised people every day of the year regardless, whether it’s supposed to or not.

Infectious disease doesn’t take a break because the cops “need” to identify “troublemakers” with their Orwellian spying on blameless people.

Besides, making it unsafe for everyone who ever participates in a protest to be around anyone who’s immunocompromised is a whole new level of oppression!

At least that one seems to be targeted at protests

You’re celebrating that, rather than accidentally targeting immunocompromised people, it deliberately targets people exercising their constitutional right to dissent?

Btw, like with abortion, any exemptions a GOP ban has will just be a fig leaf for the complicit media that’s not going to be in effect in the vast majority of cases.

Gambling, not gaming. Games are things you play for enjoyment, not things that you pour money into with the (almost always disappointed) hope that more money will come back to you.

Examples of games:

• Fallout New Vegas
• Settlers of Catan
• Twister
• Truth or Dare

NOT games:

• Roulette

• Blackjack

• Slot machines (whether physical or virtual)

• Predatory capitalism

Hybrids and edge cases:

• Any game with loot boxes and similar bullshit

• Poker, though it’s more akin to sports gambling than enjoyment with gambling.

• online dating

that the moment a physical book is published and sold through it immediately becomes “not available for sale”

Because that specific book now has a new owner who can keep it or sell it as they see fit. Like people still do with physical games.

If you mean that a book becomes generally unavailable when it’s between printings, though, you’re wrong.

Publishers overlap print runs and begin selling the first paperbacks before they’ve sold out the initial hard cover prints PRECISELY to avoid the situation you seem to think happens with every single book.

we have no intelligence or observations (…) we don’t know. We have not been able to locate or identify

They have no clue by their own admission.

To claim that what amounts to a literal UFO might belong to a hostile actor just because you don’t know that it doesn’t is irresponsible at best, scaremongering jingoism at worst.

🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

Probably because overall, this app collection treats you like a machine in need of precise optimization and maintenance of everything including relaxation?

That’s what creeps ME out about it, at least 🤷

My all time favorite “Stig Fact” from Top Gear is

“They say that he knows only two things about ducks…and both of them are wrong”

Which would arguably qualify as knowing less than nothing about ducks 😁

I had a roast cooling off, and this was the only way to keep her and her sister away from it.

Of course, that just makes it much MORE outrageous from her perspective 😄

Did she have an ostrich sized barbie, though, ready to fry up some mortal wombat?

Lujan Grisham also called for reviving a bipartisan immigration reform bill for comprehensive solutions.

You mean that extremely xenophobic and abusive one that the Dem leadership drew up in a successful attempt to prove that Republicans wouldn’t pass a Dem bill containing everything they’ve asked for? THAT atrocious bill?

Yeah. Y’all Qaeda may have a different god than the Iranian regime, but how they want to treat women and minorities is basically identical.

I’m worried I might inhale my own face

It’s not the MOST widespread concern ever… 🤔

Barbs. She got hooked on barbiturates earlier than her peers did.