TLDR, Australia is passing strict anti-protest laws and the police are bought by oil giants.

Fuck Apple, let the man speak.

But that completely defeats the purpose! (which is the racism)

I mean, apparently. The brain is so weird, it's really really difficult to even imagine what it's like to experience certain things that other people do. For example, sometimes people have their corpus callosum (the membrane between the hemispheres that allows them to communicate with each other) severed to prevent certain types of seizures, and afterwards they lose the ability to see "green men" as faces.

For reference, this is what a "green man" is:
https://acc-cdn.azureedge.net/mrlnop420media/0005503_green-man-wall-plaque.jpeg

Can you, who easily sees the face, really even understand what it would feel like to look at that image and not see a face?

The feature is texting replies during a call that are read out to the caller.

Well duh, you always (short term) make more money (short term) when you're paying fewer employees (short term)! And those (short term) gains will look really good in the future ex-CEO's resume (and bank account)!

He's absolutely right; it's a fundamentally Republican feature to allow an extremist minority to control everyone else. The electoral college gives republicans a huge advantage in presidential elections, for example, and now we see that the Freedom Caucus, a very small cadre of right wing extremists, can exert it's will over the entire 435-member Congress. Instead of compromise, a handful of wackos elected a guy who swore to "fight vigorously with the Democrats."

I dunno, if my VPN came out and said "heads up, one of our servers was seized and you have literally nothing to worry about because nothing is stored or logged on our servers," that's good news IMO. Obviously the best case scenario is not having it seized, but sometimes that's not possible, and it's a mark of a good VPN when the consequences to you of a server being seized are the same as if it wasn't (i.e., none).

Very informative but you see, science doesn't convince the anti-science crowd, pretty much by definition.

Fun fact! The concept of "hit points" were originally developed by military wargames, and were defined as the number of 14-inch shell hits a vessel could survive.

Every living creature has 1hp!

Source is BDG

Funny enough, "cutting down on costs" and "not having a voice actor" isn't actually what makes a good cartoon.

"oh we'll just make them think that a bunch of violent extremists are coming specifically to hurt them and they'll scatter like the rats they are"

arms themselves against bodily harm instead

"wait not like that"

Yeah, this is dumb. Minecraft is fun and they should definitely add all 3 mobs

"My game?? Buddy, this is your game, I'm just the narrator."

Yo why are we making fun of the way someone looks who's just trying to see her own children, instead of the nutjob who's keeping them from her?

Do you ever feel just about something?

I have very little idea about the salary of everyone on the grid, but according to a random article I found on the internet:

Max Verstappen - $55,000,000
Lewis Hamilton - $35,000,000
Charles Leclerc - $24,000,000

…

Oscar Piastri - $2,000,000
Yuki Tsunoda - $1,000,000
Logan Sergeant - $1,000,000

And this doesn't even include sponsorships, of which Max and Lewis have significantly more than Yuki and Logan, it seems crazy to me that a single fine can be a driver's whole salary for the entire season. It's just running into the same problem that speeding tickets have for regular people: the same ticket could mean not making rent for one person, and be pocket change for someone else.

The game is so much better now but it still falls short IMO, and it'll never live up to its original promise. Plus, the game was soooo bad on release that they decided to kill all future DLC except for this one. Which means the game is never getting another major update, no more fixes and no more work towards delivering on the original vision.