All I see is the tower making a surprised face.

And picked a paint colour that promotes algae growth

I said it when the whole thing started. The idiot was vibe warmongering. He had no strategy, only the hope that the Iranian government would quickly collapse and that someone would take its place with zero plan of what to do if that didn’t happen.

May I presume you live far from where lobsters are found? In places local to where they’re caught they are no where near that expensive. Transporting live lobster is probably far more expensive than most other foods.

Crypto doesn’t magically create money. That money came from other poor suckers.

Lobster, caviar, mussels, oysters, sushi, ribs, fondue, raclette… They all started as poor people’s dishes

TL;DR: They probably haven’t actually contacted the authorities and it was likely made up by the customer service representative.

But there is a growing realisation that through age verification they are giving Apple and Google the power to decide who can access web services and who can’t and they’re clearly using it to make life difficult for anyone who doesn’t let them have full control of their personal devices.

Most people don’t use GrapheneOS to commit crimes. They use it to regain control over the device that they own and give the middle finger to all that data collection big tech is doing behind everyone’s backs.

That’s not a problem for you.

For those on the ground however…

Well yeah, it has become a way to leverage as much money as possible out of people because they’re controlling something people need to not die.

"And then I’ll plaster my face all over the place, see;

I’m going to win the human race, see;

I’m going to make the world a better place…

For me."

Just like brass, as it is worked and repeatedly stressed over time, the human body becomes hard and brittle.

Bambu used to only remotely disable your printer if you didn’t connect it to their servers. Then they sent a legal team to harass you if you tried to circumvent this restriction.

Now they remotely burn your house down.

The “modern” XCOM games cheaped out on their game mechanic budget.

The game Phoenix Point made by a much smaller studio with fewer resources came up with a vastly superior way to tackle hit probability. In that game you can free aim using a reticle made of two concentric circles. The outer circle represents where your shot(s) have a 100% chance falling inside of. The inner circle represents where 50% of your shots have a chance of being inside. The more accurate weapons have smaller circles. Then when you shoot the game simulates the path of your shots and any character or environmental object that gets in the way will be taken into account. If you fire a burst or shoot a shotgun, you’re not bound to only 100% hitting or 100% missing. You can have a partial number of rounds or pellets hit the target, while others might miss, be blocked, or even hit another enemy or ally if they were sharing that cone of probability.

This makes the whole thing feel far more real than the shitty dice roll system XCOM relies on that just feels cheap and simplistic in comparison especially for a game of that price. Too bad that overall Phoenix Point had difficulty curve issues and the story was not every interesting to me at least.

If they ever make a new XCOM game I really hope they make that mechanic more like Phoenix Point’s. And also lose the arbitrary turn limits that they’ve introduced in XCOM2 because they force a reckless game style that I absolutely hate in those types of games.

France will jail their political leaders if they do something crooked. It’s like “nobody is above the law” means something there or something.

We noticed a long while ago.

Mullvad

We’ve been at it for a year now

I hate this Putin’s cock-sucking traitor so much.

Blatantly corrupt judges are the real threat

And they won’t be held responsible for it.