I did, but long ago. Problem is when you’re taking ssri’s/snri’s, especially in large doses, mushrooms lose their effect. Taking psylocibin on these meds doesn’t do anything, you don’t even get visuals anymore, only a mild euphoria at best.
I’ve been depressed for three decades and nothing I’ve tried so far has worked, but I’ll be stone cold dead before they put fucking chips in my brain. /oldmanyellsatcloud.jpg
80K? That’s, what, a party favor’s worth of bribes? Most members of this administration wouldn’t even get out of bed for such a paltry sum.
The fact that all of our freedoms and rights were for sale is bad enough, but if you see the absolute bottom prices that were paid, it’s a hundred times worse still.
Low ball, rookie numbers! I say we go for 90%, including the added costs of re-hiring previous staff or training new ones.
Nato for sure can stand its ground even without the US. But Russia doesn’t need to blitzkrieg and win huge swathes of territory in order to accomplish their goals of destabilizing the EU. Everyone saying “they’re already losing in Ukraine, they wouldn’t dream of opening another front” obviously hasn’t studied Russian history.
I think the biggest deciding factor in whether this happens or not is actually China. Ostensibly, they wouldn’t risk losing a huge market like the EU but afaik things aren’t going well over there either, so if Xi wants to be the strongman Putin is desperately trying to be just in order to hold on to power, I can absolutely see them choosing Russia’s side in a global conflict.
He’s preparing to attack the Baltics.
It doesn’t matter. He said it, that makes it “true” for his followers. That’s the perks of living in a post-truth society.
I know that term was heavily ridiculed when it first started appearing during his first term, but the implications are profound and generation-spanning.
Honestly, I’m in the EU and I fully expect the same thing to happen here, just more gradually than in the US. I will never be able to get out of social security what I’ve been forced to put in my entire life. And that would be okay if it meant it went to people who actually needed it…
I got a samsung phone last year with a 200 bucks rebate. You better believe I cashed that in right quick (“while supplies last”).
So less cheaters and griefers in online lobbies? Rare Putin W.
You know they’re just going to drown you in “civil matter” shit as soon as you try.
For every person like you that won’t take the shit, there are many more that will just give up. Just like unemployment and insurance claims - denial is the first step in protecting the bottom line.
This is the crucial part. Same reason many brands have shifted from giving discounts to “rebates”. You have to jump through a few hoops yourself to get it, it’s not automatic. And that immediately results in a decent % of customers simply not even bothering, which is exactly what manufacturers are banking on.
Getting those orders is one thing.
Acting on them is another.
Can’t we like, globally cut off any and all ties with the US and leave them to fester in their own hellhole? Hell, we’ll build the walls AND pay for them!
“What are they going to do? Sue us from beyond the grave?”
More enshittification, more rent-seeking by locking pedestrian features behind monthly subscriptions, …
Innovation is stone cold dead, no one is trying to create anything new anymore, they’re all just trying to MaXiMizE ShAreHolDeR VaLuE while cutting costs.
Yes, which is why it’s important for them to realize what they’re getting themselves into. Did Warmbier deserve what happened to him? Absolutely not, but knowing what happened and still going over there to play tourist means you’ve understood, accepted and internalized the possible risk. I will reserve my tears for the many thousands of people who get into trouble through no fault of their own.
In Dutch, there’s the saying “de een zijn dood is de ander zijn brood” which roughly translates to “one man’s death is another man’s bread”
Not gamedev but other software, going through the exact same thing (new, external CEO). Guess the axeman cometh for us all eventually.