Looking in the right places. I’ve had cats all my life and there’s no way they go to heaven.

I sometimes deliberately leave them to sit in the open for a day or so. Makes them less crunchy.

It also reduces the pool of available replacements because if the leadership keep getting killed, you end up with decidedly less volunteers for promotion.

And just like that, piracy seems to become a viable profession again.

Owning a home guarantees nothing in terms of retirement. Best case scenario you sell with a decent profit, then it’s still going to the hospital or old folks home instead of your heirs.

Not gamedev but other software, going through the exact same thing (new, external CEO). Guess the axeman cometh for us all eventually.

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.

I have two; a male common corn snake and a male hognose. They are definitely not cuddly animals, as you stated. However, they absolutely can and do get to know their handlers, and learn how to be relaxed when handled - and they obviously enjoy it, since they often seek out being handled of their own free will (I usually open the enclosure when they’re “surfing” up against the glass and let them decide whether they want to slide into my hands). I’ve had them for a few years now and I have been bitten, but never out of “malice”. All biting incidents were my own fault due to inexperience, and the snakes mistaking my hands for their meal. A snakebite from a non-venomous or very mildly venomous snake is no worse than a bee sting. If you have cats, you’ve probably been through worse than whatever a snake can do to you.

All in all, could recommend!

Snake tax:

If Hobbes was a tortoise, this would be factual.

Considering a 5080 retails for about €1400, this is gonna be €1800 and up innit?

They’re all owned by billionaire techbros. That’s misalignment right there. /j I know there’s open source and China as well.

Low ball, rookie numbers! I say we go for 90%, including the added costs of re-hiring previous staff or training new ones.

I remember the giant boss from the second level. That thing was positively humongous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

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.

Dehumanization is the stage before eradication. Just sayin’.

I got a samsung phone last year with a 200 bucks rebate. You better believe I cashed that in right quick (“while supplies last”).