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The musician I saw last week mentioned that he’ll get more money if you buy a CD from him now than if you stream his catalog on spotify for the rest of your life.

It really shows that netanyahu’s genocidal attempt to cling to power are not just brutal, inhumane and a risk to the whole region, but also strongly against israel’s own interests.

Yep, another great example. When you have as few rules and as tightly focused a scope as lasers and feelings, every single situation the rules can generate is going to be on theme.

every ttrpg has had rules that can be exploited and abused

That’s true for games in the tradition of D&D/F20/Trad, but not all ttrpgs. Fewer rules, a tighter scope and more elegant design make it much easier to rule out the kind of bad interactions or edge cases that lead to rules that run counter to the game’s purpose.

My Life with Master, Fiasco and Fall of Magic are all games i’ve played, where exploitation or abuse of rules is just not possible. Unbound is a tactical combat rpg without any room for abuse of rules.
John Harper’s rules-lite DW hack World of Dungeons is probably too elegant for abuse to be possible.

That’s the first few that I can think of, but i’m sure there are plenty more.

This is the most appropriate response possible. The non-sequitor in the middle makes exactly as much sense as everything that happens in a church.

Yep. Pence is the one with lady blinders, like a horse, to protect him from seeing things that might scare and confuse him.

“Chinese” mummies is a bit misleading. The Tarim Basin has a long history of Chinese rule/influence, but not that far back.

These mummies are from a unique population that descended largely from Ancient North Eurasians, a group who contributed smaller percentages of ancestry to Northern Chinese people, Europeans, Siberians and Native Americans.

So these cheese enthusiasts are less Chinese and more like distant foreign relatives to the Chinese who adopted dairy-heavy pastoralism after it expanded through the steppe.

The funny thing is that actual chinese snake oil was incredibly effective at alleviating things like joint pain or some skin conditions. It has higher concentrations of omega 3s than fish oil and has even been shown to help mice learn mazes faster.

That’s why grifters selling fake medicine all claimed it was snake oil - people already wanted snake oil because they knew it worked.

An investigation into whether Israel violated international law? I wonder who will veto that?

Perun on YouTube has a recent video looking at how the warming atmospheric and military climates are affecting the world’s arctic powers. If anyone wants more detail than just ‘lolrussia’ (but also still some lolrussia).

This is quite reassuring - if medvedev said it you know there’s no chance it could possibly happen.

These many reasons include his words, actions, policies, advisors, finances and friends.

Sometimes, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, looks like a duck, hangs around with ducks, waddles like a duck, lives in a pond, gets fed bread, and has been classified as a duck by experts the world over - it might just be a duck.

Reminds me of a line from The Maxx: “The Crapon-in-a-hat and Jean Paul Satre team up to fight nausea? Sounds like a losing battle to me.”

I’ve heard so many right wingers claim that Californians aren’t real americans, and yet here they are trying to shoot their way out of the consequences of large scale systemic failures.

Ryan Air: No, it’s the airports that are wrong.

You’re a troll though. It’s easy to tell because every single post in your comment history is trolling.

I’m gonna block you now but best of luck with your future trolling.

Threaded messages seems fine to me, as you said that usage is more well understood than threadiverse which risks conceptually-centering a billionaire controlled platform.

The existence of threads makes threadiverse an inappropriate name for fediverse content aggregators, is the point I was being overly sarcastic about.

Defederating from threads seems like the best way to make it nice. That way there’s less influence from psychopathic billionaires who happily stoke genocide for clicks.

Russia seemed to be planning to open another front on the Ukrainian side of the border here, so this has spiked that, seized the gas line, provided potentially ‘swappable’ territory, embarrassed the kremlin and diverted Russian reinforcements from other fronts.