The line is drawn wherever they are. It is a lot easier to engage in lesser evilism when the lesser evil doesn’t directly affect you.

They could have just used the one that is simply true, incumbents are at a huge advantage in elections and are unlikely to be primaried unless they fuck up monumentally. Since the ghouls are unlikely to release their claws from power until they die we end up with older and older politicians.

Also, the changes in voter patterns they’re showing is largely just shifting demographics. It isn’t that people under 50 were more likely to vote in 96, it is that there are a lot more people over 50 as a percentage of the population.

There should be a law against this.

It is very cool that we are not only using a lot more energy to fuel this shit, but also that entire energy networks are being overloaded to do it.

Look forward to rolling brownouts in order to keep faulty search results and terrible images coming.

He comes back as the final boss of the DLC.

They are already overcharging compared to shelf prices, that is the very thing they’re introducing this to prevent in order to avoid bad publicity and legal costs in states where it is mandated that they should show the same price.

Also, the Walmart employee being yelled at isn’t an issue for them morally, but making people mad and also holding up lines is really not something to be desired. How much do you think they’d earn from this kind of surge pricing before they get flooded in lawsuits?

Modern gavelkind in action.

The main argument for these is to avoid this exact problem with discrepancies between labels and the cash register. Introducing surge pricing would be a lot more bother than it is worth.

I thought people had stopped using it by now. It is like 15 years old, contemporary with pedobear.

Starting to think jewdank should have stayed as a porn sub.

Fast food almost doubles in price and turnover goes up by 15%, surely this means that people are buying just as much fast food.

Wonder if the next Tory leader will do another “hug a hoodie” campaign.

On that note, have Labour said they’ll ban hoodies yet?

I still play video games but decided to cut down heavily on it after feeling like shit reflecting on what the fuck I’m doing with my life after most gaming sessions. Used to be able to just get up, boot up a game and just go for 12 hours straight without eating or drinking. They were a great way to ignore problems, I’ll give it that.

First step of becoming less life avoidant for me was kicking that habit.

Inquisition is alright, but it definetly has issues. The writing for the story missions is pretty good, but there is so much empty area and bland side content that you should probably ignore if you value your time.

I think the main difference is how they were written. In ME everything is written with Shepard becoming the big goddamn hero as the core, everything else kind of came afterwards. In DA the writers were a lot more interested in the setting or Thedas (The Dragon Age Setting, in case you were wondering where they got the name from). They also wanted to deal with subjects like racism and bigotry, which is something that ME is either uninterested in or slightly supportive of. Also that DA was very influenced by the "grey" morality that was incredibly popular in Fantasy writing at the time, this was the heyday of ASOIAF.

I don't think the spectres themselves is what put me off ME though, it is the uncritical portrayal of a very American-style military organisation overruling the UN council about the weapons of mass destruction Reapers who the UN council were doubting them about.

I think the main difference between DA and ME is based on the people that made it. I was in the forums an embarrassing amount from a couple of years before it released until somewhere after DA2.

The writers were actually able to write “romances” that would appeal to women, mostly due to the team being a gay lead writer, 4 women and a straight guy. This also carries out in the fandom, the most noisy people after release until I stopped going were by far horny army wives. There was always a much more even gender distribution in the DA forums than ME, so I don’t think it is Zeitgeist.

I’ve befriended an art collective via my girlfriend, so it is a lot of art projects and such that is a nice thing to do in my spare time.

That is essentially me and my friend group now.

Nice to see some classic libposting in these days of mainstreamed great replacement theory politics.

I swear, 75% of European parties dogwhistle it and 10% just say it openly ahead of this EU election.

Steven Colbert might be the most convincing argument against being yourself. All his output past the Colbert Report has been painful.