Restaurant fries and drinks.

Was on a really tight budget for a time, so I know I can feed myself for a few Euros a day. Going back to fast food restaurants at all still instils some guilt in me, but there is 1 that has unbelievably good prices and I can still appreciate the convenience at times.

But fries and drinks are just a scam with how big the profit margins are, and not even hard to prepare at home if you’re ordering take out or have it delivered (I also don’t pay for delivery, my bike is free).

It is still an event that is mostly relevant to people living in NYC with little bearing on other US states, despite the media reporting on it as if it was a big deal everywhere. We are just starved for good news.

Most of the other news stories here affect entire countries or regions. I’ll grant you, it is more impactful than Japan sending soldiers to deal with bear attacks, but less than any other world news posts on my page 1. It would probably become world news if he pushes through some of his policies for being unprecedented in the US, though.

The problem is the word “internal”, someone winning a mayoral election should only be relevant to people of that city. World news should have bigger impacts than potential future city guidelines.

Kyoto’s tourism tax may be world news, who is elected its mayor isn’t.

That said, we are so starved for good news from the US that I confess it was of interest to me, a person not in the US. And it was treated as way more than a regular local election by the media.

87 billion euros
The deficit in value of exports versus imports will surpass 2022’s previous record of just over 84 billion euros, said GTAI.

At this point I wonder if Inflation is done not to promote investments, but to help journalists so every year a “record number” of something happens in business they can report on.

Anyway, have we tried selling them Opium? Worked for England once I heard.

A dozen every day? I’d change my number after a dozen total.

Interesting what’s written here, I actually saw it more often in some Discord server. As far as I know, there it is just for fun and/or homestuck nostalgia, without any deeper meaning behind it.

Just like calling X “twitter” or “the hellsite”, or annotating everything with parenthesis, or using or refusing to use emoji, there does not need to be more of a reason to do something with written language than “I like it that way”. How much stylisation you can inject into your writing before you stop being comprehensible is another question.

After all, that is a privilege reserved for politicians.

Would you say Charlie’s proposal was… shot down?

Well, I don’t expect you to know this, but police are actually not supposed to punch protestors. Or anyone else, really. Hope this helps 🤗!

There was a second punch a few seconds after, but this article’s video didn’t show it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUln5weESQ At 1:15 and 1:31

The last time a country was suspected of breaking the non-proliferation treaty, it was pre-emptively attacked with thousands of civilians dead and injured, and our European leaders said how justified that attack was.

But I’m sure going back on that will work just fine for us.

“forced” to play

because the path of the gamer isn’t a choice™

What’s the matter, big boy, can’t compete in the free market? Is your job too hard? Do you need more subsidies? Yeah? Tariffs on Chinese cars? Shall the politicians come over and fuck your wife as well?

Judging by the comments, reading the article seems to be a lost art. Here’s the image for y’all:

It’s very specifically about 18-24 year olds, compared to last year, with video games seeing the steepest decrease.

You can stop complaining about games being soulless, unless you want to claim that wasn’t a problem last year. Well, you can, but it’s unrelated then. Compared to last year, this age group has felt the need to cut back at everything more so than anyone else.

Here’s the thread mentioned in the article. Suspected reason is restarting of student loan payments and difficult job market.

Ah yes, the “it’s been 3000 years” guy, genuinely one of the series best moments.

What else was there? The villain? Whack. The champ? Whack. The prof? Whack. The 5 rivals? Whack. I don’t think 2 great scenes make a good story, no matter how elaborate the lore.

Thank you for your input, but I won’t leave my mountain to fight you on your hill.

Yeah, we’re all mad, fuck the suits and all that.

But why does the distinction between “real-world adult material” and “creative, non-realistic”, “artistic, animated works” that “do no harm” matter? Last time I checked, realistic adult material can be just as artistic, and the harm done by negligently letting children watch it seems comparable.

Are they in favour of age verification for “uncreative, realistic” pornography, or is the real distinction just between real-life and online?

???

What does the US have to do with anything I said?

If only the “tax the rich” petition had such a great villain to reinvigorate interest, but I take what I can get.

If you visit the official website of krafton https://www.krafton.com/en/ you should get this pop up:

Basically, Krafton claims that the 3 founders they fired did not do their job in overseeing the project, leading to a game without any direction. Since the game would not meet their standards, they decided to rework a lot and push the release date back.

This is an official statement of a company, meaning they can be (and if I read it correctly have been) sued for slander should they lie here. So a legal department looked over this and decided “Yep, we can claim that they abandoned responsibilities, we can prove that in court”. Whether or not this is actually true or just an attempt to regain public opinion, it’s a real shitshow.

This, too, is c/fuckcars.