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@wizordum @Apogee_Ent such a fun game! highly recommended

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@Tecladoquebrou A Nuland também estava a frente do treinamento de “ativistas pro-democracia” que o dep de Estado gringo soltou na Síria. Treinados na Ucrânia, por um acaso. Moça bacana ela.

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@dhh @jack 100% of the Chinese believe in Chinese polls!

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@uncledoomer strange, it is spring here—how odd… 😜

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@FernandesRF3 @Cardoso Minha cidade tinha um canal bem ativo na BrasIRC (se a memória não me falha). Várias "tribos" (gíria velha) na sala disputando espaço para colocar suas músicas favoritas em um programa de uma rádio local que usava a sala para interagir com a audiência.

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@DungeonNoir A cat I had 25 years ago would stay out for days, returning bruised and wounded, until he simply never returned.

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@yuzokoshiro I wake up sometimes wishing I could extract the stories I dreamed. I once tried to write it down immediately, but as soon as I try to focus on the details, the brain start fogging everything and I start doubting which way I went with the story while dreaming.

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@maetthelstan @MorgothsReview just like the britons welcomed the romans and them and the few romano-britons left welcomed the angles, jutes, and saxons

great britain is just a very welcoming place

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@blacklodgegames I did my part killing two flies as quick and painlessly that I could, while reading this rant.

And I am just half kidding because I am in a farm and I did squash two flies out of the five bugging me.

“But it’s not very unlikely that they can.” Gotta love the double negative.

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@RetroMemoriesHQ the 1st i used was 3.11, the one in my 1st computer was 98 (i used 95 too)

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@RicardoFermiran @BrilliantMaps @JakubMarian Iceland shows a previous date in the map for the last execution, which isn’t the same as the abolition of death penalty.

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@GameSack you should start using the meganibble! 1 nibble = 4 bits

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@uncledoomer

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@tsoding Conservative Colonial revival

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

When they say: Please, for the love of God, regulate us. Give us licences, audits, and bans before our digital God destroys us all.

Here is what is actually being requested. Three things, in order.

A regulatory body that they control, to prevent competition from catching up. Written with their people, staffed by their alumni, and calibrated to what they can already afford. Compliance is a fixed cost, which means it is trivial for the incumbent and fatal for the challenger. Not technology, but paperwork becomes their moat.

Immunity from liability. This is the one nobody talks about and it is the most valuable of the three. Today, if your model causes harm, it is your fault. Once licensed, audited, and approved, it is the regulator’s fault – you followed the rules. The licence converts responsibility into a receipt.

Too big to fail status, which means taxpayer funded bailouts in case of problems. Declare it critical infrastructure and the state now has an interest in your survival. Which means, when something goes wrong, the losses are public and the gains stay private. We have watched this film. Banking, 2008, same argument, same vocabulary.

Note the pattern: every one of the three transfers something from them to the public – risk, competition, cost – while the language is entirely about protecting the public from them.

The sincerity of the fear is beside the point. Sincere people can still ask for exactly what an insincere person would ask for, and the request should be judged by what it does rather than by what motivates it.

The alternative is unglamorous and works: competition, adversarial testing between rivals who want to find each other’s flaws, and full liability after real harm. Nobody gets a licence. Nobody gets immunity. Nobody gets a bailout. You build, and you answer for what you built.

That is the arrangement that made the West rich. It has never needed anyone’s permission to work.

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@The_FJC i am not sure about that because we would lose so much time making sure everyone else knows how much better we are that we’d risk going hungry

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@probonopd Bottom!

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@Waynes_Books This one has some fabric around it. Even if very thin, it is still holding after I don’t know how many years and house moves.

[Chubby Funster @ChubbyFunsterGC]

I don't believe that you need your TTRPG books edited by sensitivity readers. I don't believe your emotions need to be coddled. I have faith in you as an adult.

Dark Sun has fallen. ShadowSun rises. I step forward.

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