That’s the biggest sticking point for me, and it’s so big I’m not sure how liberals are ignoring it: we’re seeing what happens right now when you’re a friend to the US empire. How anyone can still advocate for being a friend to the US empire - outside of a desire to benefit from imperialism - astounds me.

I agree entirely - especially a game like TF2, which continued limping along as a live service generating money from key purchases and the like. We really need greater protections on art preservation in general.

tf2c fans eating good

Honestly reminds me of Civ VI’s Australia, themed exclusively after colonial Australia complete with mixing Aboriginal music conventions with, like, waltzing matilda. Like, really.

Thanks for the mod recommendation, making this post actually made me take a trip back to Civ IV and try the ‘Caveman2Cosmos’ mod, which is absolutely unhinged in how expansive it is. Civ V was my personal favorite so knowing there’s a decent overhaul mod (especially one that adds vassal states back in) gives me another civ-related thing to look forward to.

If I’m paying attention to something, it needs to be on a largish screen with me at attention on the couch. Otherwise, most content gets put on as background noise on my phone, tablet, whatever, while I do the dishes.

we forgot it was valentines until the next day

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented

Sounds like a replacement for the cheap agricultural labour immigrants presented.

always thought the movie was more of the same as the last one. musical aspect was kinda shitty

Space race number two but the US isn’t even going to participate this time.

Australia, already infamous for detoothed unions, just signed the death knell for any serious collective action in a legal sense with this one. Unions already cannot strike without express permission and a promise they won’t impact economic livelihood, now they can’t even grow to a certain size and power without the threat of being placed under administration.

Oh, and it was the government party supposedly made of labor unions that did this. Still waking up every day pissed off about this.

this doesn’t track for me because we don’t hold other groups collectively responsible for eg. maintaining a car or cleaning up litter. it would track with me that we all clean up our environment as much as we personally can and then hold responsible the ones who actually generate and neglect to clean rubbish, dog poop, etc.