It’s kind of like an older sibling that picks on you but loses their shit if someone else tries to.

Willful negligence is still as bad if not worse than Ignorance

Japan’s long-standing efforts to protect domestic farmers from outside competition, including limiting imports of foreign rice

Here’s the why in case anyone is wondering. It’s not a global issue.

Final Fantasy VI has almost 30 minutes of credits. Well worth it for the 50+ hours you can put into it. And the music is so worth it (it’s an epilogue more than just scrolling text)

I mean it still works since a camel (the animal) wouldn’t fit anyway. And can be interpreted as a possession.

Honestly I think they blew their load already and now they’re just gonna go quietly sulk in their corners until the find the next grift.

Seriously? Look up Uvalde and see what they (didn’t) do

Are we sure the bill is tanked?

At this point I’d be pushing my immigration lawyer to let me appear remotely so I can’t get picked up like that.

Ever finish this?

Fair enough. It was more of a general statement as politicians lie by default but can always be tracked through their actions. It’ll be interesting to see what he lobbies for or does and not just says.

So zero action on his part as of late.

This is what I was telling people when they were saying “well it’s against the GPDR!” and I was responding that functionally they’d have to go after every single federated instance, including those outside of the jurisdiction and deal with hundreds of other countries. And I got downvoted for it

restless boobs

“Calm your tits”

Again, words mean jack, I’ll believe it when I see his voting record.

So in most cases the place would be immediately shut down. Any bets on that not happening.

It’s like when people pronounce mana like mana, it’s very annoying.

You imply they’re not already here. All it takes is setting up a server that’s federated with common endpoints and then sucking everything in via ActivityPub. No need for scraping.

Been there. Absolutely beautiful, but the inside is unfinished so you only get to see part of it.

So I’ve been on both sides of this equation. I had a rich friend growing up and they would give me random gifts like game consoles and tickets to concerts that we’d go with them. It was “pocket change” to them. As I got older, I came in to money young and started to do the same thing with my friends, and I realized why they did it and why I did it.

It’s nothing about power dynamics or holding it over others, but wanting to share in your joys and successes. I would buy dinner for friends at nice places because I wanted to enjoy something and I wanted them to also. They were my friends, I have money, why wouldn’t I want to share it? I hate when people are selfish and hoard money, so why not use it for everyone to enjoy.