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I'm sort of tired of articles describing some catastrophe that happened ten years ago and saying "it's worrying."

As I remember it: It's an online game, so you need a monthly subscription to play. That is a set price in whatever real-world currency as normal. But you can buy as many months as you like in advance; and if you buy more than you need you can sell them in-game for whatever you can get on the open market which is controlled by players.

It was a long time ago, no idea if it still works that way. But it seemed to me like a good system, for a game in which in-game market trading between players is a big part of it.

P.S. Actually come to think of it I think they went free-to-play at some point. I wonder if my account still exists.

I hope it doesn't affect EVE Online. As I remember it their system didn't involve any deception or confusion, even though there was in-game currency you could spend € on if you wanted to.

Well I mean there was plenty of deception and confusion among and between the players, but none from the game itself.

One more idea... If you're willing to temporarily add the Debian testing "deb-src" repository to your sources.list, which should be slightly safer, then there's a chance that this might work: https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation

Seems not completely crazy, unless MX has its own way to do that.

Yeah, I see that MX test is not based on current debian testing (trixie) but also bookworm. So I guess you'll not find the package in MX repos until it makes it into AHS. Apparently there's a PPA that some people use, that might work.

Ok, it didn't seem clear if you were on Debian 12 or MX. I'm not sure what the relationship between them is, but mesa 25 seems to be in trixie only since 13 march.

Maybe you could use that package from debian testing on the MX version of testing if you wanted to live dangerously.

At this point in the debian release cycle your easiest course of action would probably be to switch over to debian testing. It's quite easy to do if you're in debian 12 and wanting newer packages is a legit reason to do it. It should be getting reasonably close to being stable by now I would guess.

You'll need a newer kernel than is currently in debian stable as well, but that is actually quite easy to build and install. Building mesa I don't know about, but it will have many more dependencies and could be a lot of work.

The demands:

• give Alberta full access to export oil to the north, east, west, south, up, and down
• stop saying mean things about oil and gas
• acknowledge that carbon dioxide is what plants crave
• double pollution in other provinces so Alberta doesn't stand out so much
• put a tariff on the sun to stop solar power being so underpriced
• end the prohibition on littering
• dig a canal through B.C. so oil tankers can get to Edmonton
• halt the federal censorship of energy companies

Canada Proud appears to be Poilievre's brand name for spreading lies he can't get away with repeating himself.

The ones in my garden only eat round inches.

Oh yes I did fail to include a full catalogue of all the base instincts it obviously appeals to — but it's as if people are eating a giant pile of shit for breakfast, and you're helpfully explaining that well, we all need to eat.

It says the opposite — they do have an engine that will be ready for 2026, unless they change the rules for 2026. They would want the 2026 changes to go ahead as planned for a couple years before then moving to V10.

... Red Bull that is; Ferrari might be the ones pushing the idea of dropping the 2026 change. If so maybe they just think they have an advantage with the current rules and don't want to risk giving it up.

oh I would quit X, but I'd miss [ politicians / my friends / the latest gossip / the hottest memes / Stephen King ]

It might've seemed to make sense in 2016 but that bullshit doesn't fly any more. It no longer takes any imagination or courage to see it for what it is. There are no more excuses.

I used to think that the worries about social media algorithms exerting some kind of profound mind control on the users were overstated, but holy fuck, what kind of perverted sci-fi brainwashing power does twitter have that people are still using it even in the year 2025?

I hear they've suddenly developed a tendency to spontaneously catch fire.

Antagonizing the journalists, what a strategy — it worked so well for Maxime Bernier.

Un-modded Skyrim has health regen (even during combat) unless you turn on "survival mode" but overall it's a much better game if you spend the first 30 hours installing mods. In particular the melee combat can be much improved with MCO and related things. Or just pick a wabbajack, I hear Tempus Maledictum is one that people like.

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

I felt like I was reading educational material from a high school textbook illustrating the way in which journalists usually fail to understand anything involving numbers. It's not so much cherry picking, more like just randomly grabbing a few data points in the vicinity of a cherry tree which might include fruit, squirrels, wingnuts, and ball bearings and then instead of doing any meaningful analysis just throwing them into an AI-powered blender. And then to top it off, it ends with:

This content has been developed and paid for by Preszler Injury Lawyers without involvement from The Coast’s editorial department.

In case you were wondering why Canada needs so many fighter jets, so far in the 21st century their notable uses have included:

• Provide a show of force at G8 meetings, Olympic games, and other such events
• Drop bombs on Libya
• Drop bombs on Iraq
• Drop bombs on Syria