why? because it’s all they have left.

demographics are changing. their population is aging. their kids hate the way they live and move away.

it’s switzerland, I imagine they can sell it to abroad or adude

will they actually serve jail time though?

Left unsaid: the developers were starting to ask for more money and creative freedom than MS was willing to give, and had to be taught a lesson.

is there any evidence of this? It would give MS an excuse, which makes me wonder

yeah but with the beeb at least you got fawlty towers, blackadder, PYTHON!, red dwarf, fuck man, I’d pay the TV snoops for that stuff without much grumble.

they must keep a pair of tongs handy.

I really am beginning to suspect the great filter that remains ahead of us is “listen to imaginary friends instead of dealing with the real people”.

Because if we can’t get that one right, the odds of any of the others - climate change for example - being overcome is basically NIL.

have you ever stopped for one second and asked: maybe it’s not about me?

stfu and move on with life. jfc, not everything is about you mate. I know this is probably exceptionally hard to comprehend, but really, it’s not.

I’m not gonna dox myself for your satisfaction, but in the past few years I’ve volunteered with habitat for humanity, done wetlands remediation and volunteer weekly with an org that repairs and gives away tools to nonprofits, keeping them out of the waste stream and helping people take care of their houses.

if you’re too sick to walk, that shouldn’t cause you to shit on everyone else’s efforts.

It’s too bad we don’t have anyone willing to protest Big oil

literally what they’re doing, you just don’t like their method. I’m not here to defend them, but that’s pretty pathetic.

better chance of that swaying people than sitting around with their thumbs up their asses.

you do you mate.

So you really think you understand what’s going on?

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/6/16/what-grief-for-a-dying-planet-looks-like-climate-scientists-on-the-edge-2

because the scientists are scared shitless.

dunk on peta all you want, it’s not going to stop the world cooking.

…while I may not like the forms their protest takes, I think - well, they certainly think - it’s worth your ire if it opens people’s eyes to the oncoming worldwide disaster.

suspect they’re right.

well put

I’ve got a bridge in New York for sale. It’s in Brooklyn. You could charge tolls and make billions! HMU.

sure thing kiddo. blah blah blah.

pfft no, but we will fulfill our treaty obligations to the 24 million people who don’t deserve china’s bullshit.

TSMC has kill switches installed already. China would only get a pile of slag if they tried it. and they won’t.

What China should do is reassess the Treaty of Aigun - does it still really apply, considering today’s russians are neither the soviet block nor the russian empire? The areas in question are overwhelmingly asian in demographics. There’s a whole lot of resources up there just sitting around because russia’s never been able to chew bubble gum and walk at the same time, much less persecute a pointless, losing war while exploiting it’s own resources.

FLCL, OPM, Bebop, GITS, Macross.

which crops are you working with?

Same with Unity’s devs. It sucks to watch your life’s work being flushed down the drain for stupid grasping at shitty, random fads.

no, it’s just that 20-40+ tubes are eliminated DAILY. which is absolutely bonkers. They’re losing a division of artillery every couple weeks.

you do realize it takes meatsacks to run the guns right?

and while you may be able to refurb some of the damaged tubes, the meatsacks are gone and you’re going to have to train new ones?

It’s not like literally all Russian artillery gets destroyed before firing off a single shot. Fuzing absolutely does make a difference

no, it’s like, mathematically obvious, that literally all russian arty gets destroyed before firing off their second or third salvos, you know, the shots ‘fire for effect’ cover, the ones that matter?

If you knew squat about field artillery you’d fucking know the first few rounds always require adjustment.

You’d also understand shoot and scoot. Apparently all these concepts are new to you.

What a fucking bellend, wannabe redleg pogue