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@minmi @benroyce @MaryAustinBooks That's very silly. Consumer boycotts are mild sauce and also kind of obvious. To me they are very similar to voting. It's obviously not enough but kind of the bare minimum if you are serious about anything at all. (And if there is no one worth voting for still show up and just write something in. It shows that you exist.)

@aSweetGentleman No. I'm really not certain at all. I worry about this often.

Never thought about it before, but the two systems I like most don't do that. In chronicles of darkness, you get penalties when any of your last 3 health boxes (out of 6-10) are marked. In fate, you start getting Consequences, and those both adversely affect you and provide bonuses for your opponents. I think some people don't like this because it can cause a death spiral, where whoever gets injured first is likely to get more injured from the penalties. But, that makes sense for a lot of genres. I routinely found it extremely irritating in BG3 when I'd do a sneak attack critical, and then the enemy would have like 3 HP left, and then they'd turn around and attack just as hard as if i'd done nothing. Unsatisfying.

Guess what I named an Underground Warehouse

@sewblue Consider a tax on speculative gains that starts high and decreases the longer you hold a stock. All the way to zero. (and to be nice it’d only be on gains over some fat threshold say 100k)

That's why I sit around and eat potato chips every night, I can't get better so my only option is to increase the total amount of perfection.

@Longwing @kevinbowrin we will go to prison forever

@futurebird I’ve been reading them too! I read a few when I was a teen but figured “enh, I guess I’m a Douglas Adams person”. I’m really enjoying them now, despite some winceworthy moments (especially in an orientalist vein). I have been using a complex reading order so I can deal with my library’s long hold times/gaps in availability on the excellent audiobooks. I love the witches ones (both the text and narration) and I’m putting off reading the last one of those so I won’t run out.

@Flisty @jalefkowit I've been thinking about making some "how to shop" videos that teach how one can go to a store or even order things online but not on Amazon.It could also include tips such as "ask other people if they have the thing you need so you don't even need to buy it."At school I often just ask for whatever supplies I need and they are just sitting around somewhere on their way to the trash and someone gives them to me for free.

She was raised as a poor sea urchin. I mean… street urchin.

@noplasticshower @futurebird things weren't totally back to normal in us-east-1 for nearly 12 hours.Even 3 hours of downtime is really bad. If you're up over the rest of the month, that's 99.6% uptime. Typical availability targets for a SaaS company are more like 99.9% (43 minutes of downtime a month), 99.99% being achievable if you are careful.AWS gives SLAs of 99.99% for a number of single-region services, and 99.5% for individual EC2 instances. This outage took their overall availability for an entire region from the level of a careful highly-available service to that of a single host with no redundancy. Anyone who relied on those SLAs got screwed, and Amazon is going to be getting a lot of requests for significant refunds per the terms of those SLAs.AWS in general is a beast but anyone who's worked with it at scale for a long time knows us-east-1 is best avoided, due to a long history of incidents like this (though usually not quite as bad).

PERIODS. Use them. And paragraphs. Please and thank you.

@MarvinFreeman That's PERFECT.

@jonathankoren @cobalt123 @noondlyt Everything is about increasing fear right now. Everyone, on all sides, wants us afraid because it makes us easy to manipulate and stops critical thinking. Some want us cowering in the corner afraid to act. Some want us taking up arms afraid not to. Some just want to sell subscriptions to the fear factory.Yep. Gotta be careful out there.If they can they will. He's got the real military but some of them might actually be loyal to country over him.

@holdenweb Feeling good is mission critical.

@futuresprog @futurebird Can't comment on New Zealand, other than to say they were dealing with many of the same shysters as us across the ditch.Which gets us to the great Australian and New Zealand entrepreneurs of the '80s.Mr Alan Bond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_BondMr Christopher Skase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_SkaseBob Farrow, of Pyramid Building Society fame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Building_SocietyThe state of Victoria fell down a particularly deep pit.Basically, the state government there was lending a lot of money to the entrepreneurs through its government-owned Tricontinental Merchant Bank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Bank_of_VictoriaIt also had a bailout of the Pyramid Building Society.On top of the conmen you also had a heavy turn towards neoliberalism through the '80s with industries deregulated, state enterprises privatised, tariffs lowered, and currencies floated.#auspol #nzpol

@alienghic @MLE_online very tactful choice of words, "sludge"

@inthehands A "signs of fascism" checklist seems very helpful and comforting as you are certain that as you and everyone else keeps checking off more things on the list everyone will become suitably alarmed. But, then you have a peek and they haven't been paying enough attention to check off half of the things and are ready to nit-pick and argue about the others. And now you are arguing about if firing a comedian is "really state censorship" instead of getting anything done.

Yeah the OGL junk was enough to help me decide to never give them another dime. My friends know that I'm open to playing it but I won't be running anymore games myself.

@beisbolcards Pads fans are definitely welcome on the bandwagon.