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He’s out doing what I am sure he thinks of as diplomatic meetings. The pope might be the leader of a criminal organisation, but he is generally thought of as a legitimate world leader. JD spoke with the Italian PM while he was there as well, and I think he has moved on to India now where he will meet with various politicians and attend cultural events.

VPs do this kind of thing all the time, it just seems weird because no one can take him seriously.

I recall being told something about two cows…

Are you referring to the song or Reagan?

Folk always seem to underestimate the effect of training and experience. In a match between two unpracticed players, sure, the more analytically inclined of the two will have an edge. This is true of any game with a strategic component. General intelligence helps but specialist knowledge is better.

He inherited from his grandfather Joseph “yeah just lobotomise my daughter before she embarrasses me further” Kennedy.

The thing about billionaires it that they could just stop. It’s not a skin colour, it’s not an ethnicity or even a religion.

If they wanted to they could redistribute the wealth. They could use their power to close the political doors they exploit.

Wouldn’t even have to check themselves out, wouldn’t even have to adopt some monastic lifestyle. But they would rather live in a world where they have lifetimes of obscene luxury at the expense of others. At a certain point you have to ask if causing suffering is part of their fun.

And there generally is, most libraries have a catalogue or at least a directory explaining the numbering system at a topic level. Thing is, this sign doesn’t just help people come to the library wanting help with these things. It helps people in the library who are experiencing this and didn’t know they could find a book to help them.

Hell some people don’t even know they need help with these things until someone offers.

And lo, when he saw the moneylenders working out of the temple, he said: “see how the wealth of these men sometimes falls out of their bulging pockets, and look, they pay that man who carries their wealth enough to survive. I mean not to own a house, or to live comfortably without fear. But you know, he can rent one of their spare houses for just most of his pay, and if he is sick, they shall call to him and say ‘look, we really need you in tomorrow, you need to be a team player.’ They truly are the most righteous of men, for does not my father say: if I wanted the poor to be rich, I’d have given them gold?”

If it’s sending information to Microsoft then it has clearly been hacked. Likely by Microsoft. It was very nice of that young man to break protocol and blow the whistle on this whole thing. You should send him an itunes gift card as a thank you.

Grids certainly don’t slow me down, though they do reduce the spectacle and I suppose lower immersion. They certainly make me more aware that I am playing a game rather than taking actions in a world that actually exists. I’d say this is a feature rather than a bug though as they are often used in games that I want to be handling in that analytic piece moving fashion.

Discord was (is?) rather aggressive about setting up new accounts. You could have clicked an invite link two years ago and it associated with your email and generated an account.

To some of these people the fact that they are rejected by most people just confirms how s have corrupted modern society and how awesome and special they are for being one of the chosen greats to see through it.

They mainline confirmation bias as if it is cheap heroin. Everything reinforces their world view.

The problem is that money is permited to generate money. So the more you have beyond the threshold to sustain yourself the more you can generate without labour. The business with no interest loans accelerates things but it isn’t the problem. It is that the system rewards idle investors at the expense of those whose labour actually generates value.

Capitalism wasn’t fine until someone broke it. The core concepts behind it are flawed.

This has been disproved. We live on a globe in an experimental non-magical universe kept at a university run by wizards who live on a disc held up by four elephants on the book of the Great Atuin.

The stuffing is the worst part of an Oreo.

Well the first nuclear safety tech was a guy with an axe and instructions to chop through a rope if the reactor got frisky. So I suppose there is previous.

All that proves is that that one in particular was bad. Maybe it was out of date.

Contempt of cop is the only actual crime in any juristiction.

Especially the PCSOs.

Cops might be tasty too. You don’t know until you try.