Unfortunately there's no shocked Pikachu face, because industry doesn't care about consumers. They're getting truckloads of money from AI companies, so it doesn't matter to them that Joe Blow can't afford things anymore.

Surely it's less immoral than turning them into a zombie minion without their consent?

I'm not fundamentally opposed to nuclear. The country's power needs are only going to keep growing, and I could see an argument for having multiple options for sourcing that power. It's a very expensive argument though, and one that's hard to swallow when all the experts are saying renewable is the way to go, and I haven't seen any projections that show that we'd necessarily need anything other than renewables in the foreseeable future.

The thing I'm strongly opposed to with regards to nuclear is rerouting funding away from renewables to pay for it. It's an expensive technology that won't be ready for decades, so I just don't see the need to pivot to it. If we'd started the transition to nuclear three decades ago things would be different, but the LNP was strongly opposed to the technology back then, funnily enough.

And it's absolutely absurd to then announce a cap on renewables spending as part of their plan to get to net zero by 2050.

The whole thing is a farce, and the LNP hasn't given any good reasons why nuclear is the way forward over renewables. They haven't said much of anything other than shout about it being the better option, but then that's been the LNP's go-to political strategy for as long as I've been old enough to vote so no surprise there.

Maybe orcs have always been "soft", but it's taken a cultural shift to get to a point where they're allowed to be themselves.

Editor: The article is great! All we need now is a quote from social media and we can publish.

Journalist: We haven't been able to find anything suitable, everyone thinks this story is satire.

Editor: Then just post one yourself and then quote that! But don't reference your name, that'll be a dead giveaway.

A professional tennis serve often reaches speeds up to 230km/h, with the fastest recorded being 263km/h. So yeah, the balls wear out quickly.

I appreciate where the author of this article is coming from, but I think they're being a bit too one-sided.

For example, they make the point that zoos don't contribute enough to conservation, donating only around 5% of their spending, as if the millions of dollars given doesn't justify their existence. But if zoos didn't exist, that's a big chunk of money that wouldn't be going towards conservation at all.

They also talk about the education aspect, that visitors don't necessarily read the information about the animals and instead go for the spectacle. But a child isn't going to read those plaques regardless, but seeing animals up close might ignite an interest in conservation later in life.

And one thing that the article doesn't really go into is the fact that humans are still actively hunting animals in the wild, and destroying habitats for profit. And while I think zoos are a bit of a band-aid fix when it comes to endangered species, I'd much rather see an animal in captivity surrounded by zookeepers that care about it rather than extinction.

In an ideal world, zoos wouldn't exist. In a slightly less ideal world, only open-plain zoos would exist. But we are a very long way from that, and I personally believe that reputable zoos are a positive in the world we currently live in.

The thing about the corporation paying less taxes is a myth. The extra contribution you make counts as revenue in their books, and that revenue is then offset as a donation, making no overall difference to their tax benefits.

That said, it does help them in other ways, mostly around marketing. They can then say they've made a massive amount of charitable contributions, when really it was their customers that did so.

As others have said, by making that donation at the checkout, you haven't really made an informed decision about whether the charity is one you would donate to otherwise, so if that's important to you you should stop doing so.

The way I look at it, if you are going to make a conscious decision to donate to charities you support, there's no real reason to round up at the checkout. But if you aren't really going to be donating otherwise and you're not struggling financially, you may as well make that small contribution at the checkout.

Is that a slur? It has a racial component, sure, but I hardly think it is actually a racist comment, and definitely not a slur. And to label it as "racially motivated harassment" is laughable.

If this is actually what Kerr said, it's pretty indicative of the systemic issues that have been popping up in the UK for awhile now. They've been travelling further and further down the fascist highway since Brexit.

Wonder if they'll be recommending content from all sides of the political spectrum, or just the right-wing content...

They're a company that made environmentally sustainable shoes out of wool and eucalyptus gum. The looks were never really the main selling point, but I've been buying from them for a few years now and I always liked them, very comfortable and I like the simple style. Unfortunate that I'm now going to have to find an alternative.

"I saw an article that said the universe is going to end in 10.78 years!" "10 to the power of 78, not 10 point 7 8..." "That's what I said! That's less than eleven years!"

I'm completely fine with increasing defence spending, let's introduce a wealth tax and close all those tax loopholes to pay for it. And then all the leftover money can go towards societal improvements.

Girls or woodlice?

The first tweet is almost satirical, so if it had stopped there I might have bought it being "taken out of context".

I'm curious to know what possible context would make those tweets okay.

This is useful for countries where the Steam Deck is unavailable but other handhelds aren't. Here in Australia, Steam Decks are only available as grey imports, and that makes warranty issues a potential headache, but you can walk into most electronic retailers and buy a ROG Ally off the shelf.

That said, I personally wouldn't buy a handheld that didn't have touchpads, so I bought a grey import and have had no issues.

Depends what she means by it. It's completely normal for rewrites and reshoots to happen during the filmmaking process, simply because some stuff that works on paper just doesn't translate that well on screen, and sometimes the actors do something on the fly that is better than what was in the script, but that triggers rewrites to accommodate the change.

If Marvel actually didn't have a completed script before the initial shooting began, that would be potentially worrying, but highly unusual.

I think the major difference between the two is that in video games, the cost of the loot boxes is deliberately obfuscated through the use of whatever single-use currency the publisher has dreamed up, and made worse by the fact that the currency is only purchasable in select denominations, meaning you're always spending more than you're going to use.

You're not wrong that there are plenty of examples of physical "loot boxes" marketed at children, but at least with those you know exactly how much it costs straight up.

I wish our government would look into the actual predatory practices that these publishers are using in these games, but this is a good first step. At least the EU is looking into it.

Except it doesn't have trackpads. I guess that's fine for a lot of people, but I imagine there's quite a few PC gamers who want the portability along with the ability to play games without proper controller support.

I use Heroic Games Launcher to run GOG and Epic games on Linux. It'd be great to get some official support, but it's the next best thing.