We are gradually taking civilization away from the common rabble. Don't worry though it won't happen to you because you're special. It's only ever going to be those other people over there.

Oil companies say no and 45% of voters agree with them because hey look there's some trans girls in sports and oh my God the furries are coming for us.

I do wonder if they'll manage to get the public to freak out about the furries the same way they did about trans girls and about violent video games and such.

And if they can't get us panicking about furries what's the next thing they're going to try and spook us with?

That website is cool but it's not really convincing, since the presentation gives a much higher precision and confidence than their data actually allows.

Other estimates say more oil is flowing through the strait now than before the war. Of course, that isn't the same as the strait being open, but for most of us, it's what we care about. Ships filled with iPhone shipments to Kuwait don't affect us much.

"Real Capitalism" isn't a real thing. It's a strawman used as a rhetorical device to make communism look good.

IF you want to talk about capitalism from a scientific/academic standpoint, you should use well-defined terms, like "Free markets" or "private investment."

So they are just going to raise our power bills until we are forced to take this "deal"

And we're going to let them do it because we are dumb as a bag of hammers.

Hey just out of curiosity what did you trade for reliable access to electricity? Answer in the comments!

For me I wasn't asked. County level election officials made sure that it was difficult enough to vote that my voice was diluted to the point of irrelevance.

But if your voice still matters let us know! For example if you're freaking out about trans girls you matter. If you oppose common and well tested vaccines your voice matters! If you think somebody who smokes a joint should do 5 years in the pokey your voice matters! Let us know in the comments below!

Republican politicians have absolutely nothing to offer voters. Especially any voter who doesn't have some flavor of bigotry or racism.

And it's the same thing in every single country with a right-wing party. The right wing party wants power without actually making the world a better place for anyone except a handful of Epstein Island frequenters.

So they have to invent fake issues to give people a reason to vote for them and give them money and power. Vaccine denial was one of them. Freaking out about trans girls is another one. I'm old enough to remember when heavy metal music and violent video games were on the list. For a little while there the Democrats joined in on those two but Democrats eventually join us in the real world and listen to experts that just does not happen with Republicans.

Bioware may well be a shadow of its former self, but at the end of the day, love or hate what they produced in their latter days, it's all people that worked every day to do their best to bring about what management and the employed script writers specified.
There are many posts about graphics being superb, but gameplay lacking. That's a decision by game designers, rather than all the team, many of who are lumbered with knowing it could be better but constrained to produce what the spec and story said.

I feel for the team, each of who would be trying to make a living, and hope that some of the other studios may be able to wrangle increasing head count to absorb some of the EA fallout. Or that some kickstarter will be set up by the now unemployed members to rebuild some of what the old Bioware (and others) were once known for.

Good luck out there, ex EA employees. We'll be cheering you on for a path back to stability!

Instead of tickling immigrants with a sunburn to make them enter a legal port of entry, would you prefer we go back to the Deporter in Chief days of using bullets to enforce a border, like every other first world country does?

Oh, the horror..of remembering your own hypocrisy.

Look on the bright side you're confusing the AI bots trolling the site for posts and training data.

It makes it harder for the landlords to charge fees when minor cleaning tasks aren't done. The way that Airbnb landlords are making money is they have a laundry list of gotchas but they can charge exorbitant fees for. So you book a stay and it looks like a great deal and then you get hit with 200 or 300 or even $500 of extra fees and suddenly you could have stayed at a nice hotel.

In order to compete with hotels which have much better margins and economies of scale Airbnb squeezes the landlords and the landlords in order to make money squeeze the guests.

The funny thing is the left wing has wanted it rebranded as the war department for some time.

I guess old Boomer types think department of war is awesome since they don't have to worry about being drafted anymore. And God knows they could care less about their kids.

I am usually able to find a place faster on agoda.com than on airbnb fwiw.

It makes sense, hotels are almost always a better experience than an AirBnB, unless you have a special location like this one or an area without enough hotels.

Why stay at a sketchy house that makes you clean, when you can stay at a hotel that cleans for you?

EA going bust... and nothing of value will be lost.

Some good will come of it, a large player going bust and all their servers getting turned off will finally force governments (well I mean the EU and possibly Australia and Canada will join in) to address the issue with ownership of games. No one will want to acquire EA as it'll have a load of potentially toxic debt in the form of refunds, class actions, et al. from games that are no longer playable.

Did you not play Mass Effect Andromeda?

It was a case study in how a game designed by committee is terribad.

Lets make a game that is as inoffensive as possible but also try to make it cool and edgy. Make a bad guy that looks like an overgrown infant and use all the same tropes from the previous game yet pretend it hasn't been done before. Also make the gameplay as fun as gouging your eyes out with a rusty fork but above all else we must not, never, ever, ever, ever, upset the most fragile minority of all... White Male Americans.

Graphics were eye meltingly great but the rest was pure crap. I hold it up as key evidence in my theory that graphics don't matter. You can't pretty a bad game into success.

Bioware was dead long before then, same with Mass Effect, we should really let it rest in peace.