Oh they’re real. They’re just arbitrary most of the time.

Video runs a bit long for this topic but it’s a good point about the whole subject.

Anyone who wants to know more about the exact craziness in retro game code should read “Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System” by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort.

That’s not why we were able to get Apollo 11 onto the moon using only 8 kilobytes. The real reason is because we used the most batshit sorcery mankind may ever know to eek out every last ounce of usefulness we could muster from those 8 kilobytes.

Personally, I doubt that most enslavers would be killed had they been turned over to their newly-liberated slaves. Why act out in aggression when you’ve just won what you would have killed for before?

Even so, you as the enslaver have cast the dice and been shown mercy. Can’t really sell that whole ‘Black retribution’ bullshit when the moment has come and gone without occurrance. I agree, turning the land over to the enslaved and letting them decide the fate of the enslavers would’ve done the US a load of good.

Let’s try and turn this from a defeatist post into an actionability post.

Here is Hank Green talking about saving coral reefs with a rep of the Coral Reef Alliance.

Here is Mossy earth helping a coral reef recover by splicing in new coral snippings, which also gives the local aquafauna new shelter

Here is an Italian community dumping sculptures into the ocean to block illegal seafloor netting.

Work is being done to stop the destruction. I imagine the work needs much more manpower

It is dependent on your cat. You need to know whether your cat is food-anxious or not before doing this kind of diet format.

Quite often cats have food anxiety, often from periods of food competition or just food scarcity. These food-anxious cats will eat all the dry-food in the bowl immediately. Some cats are so food-anxious, that they will eat to the point of vomiting, then continue eating after vomiting.

Grazer cats are not food-anxious, and will usually take small nibbles from the dry-food throughout the day. These cats are usually given one meal during the day to meet nutritional needs that their dry food may not provide. I’ve met these cats before, and they are able to stay a healthy weight without any negative health effects.

I don’t think that narrative survived what with how many people they’ve needed to draft for service. That illusion fell away pretty quickly I bet.

It is possible that this is a grazer cat that gets one meal a day ON TOP of constantly having open access to dry food. I’ve known several owners that do that.

JFK, probably.

So close to salvation

The Azov brigade… Is that different from the Azov Battalion - as in the portion of the Ukrainian military that was raising red flags for being known for only recruiting fascists? I had thought they majority died in Mariupol.

My gut tells me to probably meet criticism from this guy with a healthy dose of skepticism. Obviously should still listen, since these criticisms do matter. I just don’t know how much I trust where it’s coming from.

Edit: switched ‘branch’ to ‘portion’, since ‘branch’ is a more formal subdivision than I’m meaning.

When in Rome…

BTW, which Rome? Like, I’d assume Italy, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was another Rome.

Edit: confirmed that it’s Rome, Italy via other articles.

I love this idea of the asshole getting transferred to a new project, removed from said project shortly after, only to be put back on the project after another short period.

Haha! Take that, asshole!

For anyone who is working in the oil industry: as things get worse and more people are impacted by climate change more and more, you’re who those effected will come after. Not the CEOs high up and out of reach - it’s gonna be you guys operating the rigs, inspecting the pipelines, driving the tankers, operating the plants, and crunching the numbers. It’s going to be you who gets targeted because you’re the ones with the logo stamped on your uniforms.

IIRC this also happened in Insurgency. I seem to recall being fired upon while my character screamed “FUCK SHIT SHIT”, bullets wizzing by.

Great game prior to changing hands and being nuked. It filled a niche between ultratactical gameplay and Call of Duty intensity. Squad does this alittle but not in the same style.

EDIT: Proof here.

You European? This meme’s most likely referring to American Libertarianism, which is described by Ayn Rand and is actually Anarcho-capitalism. Think more ‘Atlas Shrugged’ than anarchism.

Yeah, mostly. I understand they were politically very different. My main lense I was looking through in this case was progressive policy vs regressive policy.

Could trump be our hoover/Reagan and Walz end up being our Roosevelt/Gore?

History rhymes, but I’m not saying we’re gonna see ground breaking changes that bring the federal government back from the brink. Walz just seems like a possible candidate for garnering mass approval across the board and potentially unopposed enough to social programs to maybe implement some.

They say ‘or’, then they act out ‘and’.