And getting spare parts is an adventure!

His big trick was handing out food. It’s about hygiene.

All plants are carnivorous or cannibals.

Typically there’s an entourage that includes the people who actually run things and/or communicate the decisions made by the oligarch. They will own the company but rarely make direct decisions for the company. They may make business decisions in the beginning of the company history but by a certain size they are detached from most operations and hand down proactive choices about what the company should be doing with its resources.

The primary vehicle for their money is the control of the company they own, the actual stocks that they borrow against for spending money.

Since they have access to any amount of money they want, there is no need to do any actual work. Any interaction with the company is just personal preference and the owner is more useful as a mouthpiece and investment magnet for the company. With few obligations each week, days start to not matter and sleep schedules are fucked. Sobriety becomes a burden since there is nothing to live for - it has all been accomplished. The only thing left to do is get drunk/high and spend money.

Owning a successful company, even a successful local business, is usually enough to detach a person from the average experience of daily work and set schedules. Millionaire business owners are just as warped as a billionaire so it becomes a question of where the shit happened. Billionaires go overseas to do fucked shit.

Anecdotally, most millionaires don’t work. Some have hobbies that make a few thousand here and there but they don’t worry about schedules. They are on rich time.

Edit: the ones who are in business leadership and making millions each pay period are literally sociopaths. They run shit to exercise power. They don’t actually need to be there either except for some decision making meetings and coordinating with other organizations.

“They”, who run the planet.

Our parents and their parents all tried to conform to a type of idyllic family stereotype that was never attainable. Family members were ignored and ostracized for behaving outside that stereotype. Excuses like “it’s a fad” started specifically because of the need to explain away the behavior without allowing any follow up questions.

It took a long time but we are finally able to embrace our differences and recognize what’s actually normal. Conservatives are still fighting to live that unattainable lifestyle and mad at everyone else cause they can’t.

But why couldn’t an elf pin the torch to the ground with a well placed arrow? Checkmate atheists.

No matter what other games I start, I keep drifting back to ∆V. I need to get my thrusters checked.

Oh, so true. I didn’t want to assume any Continental tastes because it is so varied, but ketchup and mayo are absolutely a European sauce. Thanks for the reminder.

My cat did this too and after a good minute of sneezing that progressively got slower, the final big sneeze ejected a snot blob the size of a ping pong ball. I think the video cut just before the snot cannon is fired.

Heyo, national economies need to run at a deficit. The amount of debt needs to be maintained but running a negative is a good thing because the interest payments become stable capital injection. These regular, anticipated payments build the confidence of very conservative money managers to spend their own money. It’s trickle down but in a way that helps increase the likelihood of money being spent, which is basically the GDP. And the speed of people spending money in the system is a metric that central banks use to set interest rates.

It’s all connected and that’s why running a deficit, a (relatively) small one, is a good thing. Nations don’t use checkbook accounting.

Brown sauce? Please, that’s only a thing in Britain. The only sauce which defies national borders and cultures is mustard .

Ketchup is a western sauce. Mayo is an JP/K sauce. Hot sauce isn’t even mentioned but is more widespread than brown sauce.

The law must apply to all, including public servants. As they are beholden to the public, they are subject to review and FOIA requests are automatically granted for the content.

Remember the rule of authoritarians: if someone wants to stop you from being suspicious, they want to stop you from doing the same things they’ve done.

Clouds will form over the spot as a warm wind blows in from the southeast. Flecks of rain will fall and a slow rumble will build from below as the ground shakes and a hole appears from the fallen ground. A representative of each will be sent: a sheriff, an artist, a socially conscious libertarian, and a racist.

They will each give you one gift and then the sheriff arrests you and takes you to be judged by the racists. The others watch on in quiet disapproval, to the abortion or the arrest it isn’t clear. The racist then says “As foretold, the skies open and you’re on trial in another state.”

Welcome to democracy.

Comparing the Civs steals the joy they bring for their various reasons.

• Civ 1 was unlike anything else and so legendary it created the 4X genre.
• Civ 2 had the best espionage until an expansion for 4. Civ2 also defined the scope for all future Civs.
• Civ 3 was fine. Resources were a good addition and tile quirks, like Floodplains on top of another base tile like desert, helped bring tons strategy and gave the ability to grow Tall.
• Civ 4 was probably peak Civ for many people, especially including DLCs.
• Civ 5 removed unit stacking and made happiness a resource.
• Civ 6 emphasized the city development aspect and brought back the climate stuff from 2, 3, and 4.

They are all good but they are not collectively suitable for every person. Civ6 is amazing but it took me literally 30 hours to finally have it click. I also have 550 hours in Civ 6 and over 1200 in Civ 5. CiV is also a high water mark but it overshadows the real value and fun in 6.

It’s a shame most folks will ignore us and say 6 was bad for being too game like.

Surely these are marmots!

Rock

It’s their own system! People who don’t believe in something never proven have to prove shit in order to be understood as “not crazy”. Science then proved God doesn’t matter in weather, dreams, etc those crazy religious nuts are desperate to be relevant again.

At least science doesn’t force people to accept it by murdering whole generations of people. The crusades were religion trying to prove shit is real.

It’s reverse AC for your groin! Get swamp crotch without the hassle of effort.