Even if the GOP is slowly collapsing, I would point out that they courted and legitimized America’s fringe-crazy, radical, violent extremist in their descent to hell (because there was no else left to court for votes). That should concern you, because that particular group isn’t going to let go of its power quietly.…

That’s the typical fallacy that has kept this problem in the US from being addressed for decades, because it doesn’t work when the group controlling the supply also controls demand. Which is *EXACTLY* the scenario in play in Portugal. They control the supply and the demand. Why do you think the only kinds of housing…

Building more housing won’t work, because the *property owners* are the reason why regular people are being priced out of the market. And since the property owners are the ones who will build houses on those properties, they’ll build housing that maximizes their investment, not what serves the community. It’s the same…

This is a general problem that contributes to social and economic instability *around the world* — instability that the wealthy exploit for personal gain. It is a big part of how the wealthy skirt taxes and shelter their wealth — offshoring. If a government chooses not to ‘play ball’ with whims of the wealthy, the…

‘3/5ths’ didn’t start out as law of the land for no reason. It’s a culture of believed superiority, and it exists at the core of Christianity. Contrary to popular belief, White Supremacy and Christianity are connected at the hip. They are inseparable. Or haven’t you noticed how Christianity’s figurehead, a man…

Uhm, actually, that’s about right for many, many games. Witcher 3 employed dozens designers (of various specialties) to ‘fill’ out its game world. So did Skyrim. And Fallout 4. Now, admittedly, for ‘levels’ as simple as these, one person can churn them out pretty quickly based on some loose direction (a text prompt,…

This reminds me of a situation I said something about very recently. A friend watches a lot of ‘true crime’ docuseries. I happened to notice a running theme — when it’s a white person who dies, the media goes crazy and everyone loses their minds. I’m still waiting for an episode where a black person or someone of…

The funny thing is, when Trendy closed its doors on Dungeons Defenders and surrendered it to the community, it actually *DID* ‘wind up’ the game’s development. The community developers are more active than Trendy ever was with it.

...quite possibly. And given the way things are going for Putin, who is absolutely that kind of petty, spiteful tyrant, well...what more need be said?

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” — rational people

If the past is any indication of how we’ll ‘respond’ the answer is ‘killing one another.’ Lots and lots of killing one another. Especially given the rise of rabid nationalism around the world. I fully expect some flailing nuclear-power tyrant to pull the rip cord as a “F*** all of you — if I can’t have it no one…

And my reply was specifically to the question: “...was there really any danger of a lawsuit?”

“Cholesterol is bad!” has never had more than spurious correlative data to support the claim. See: Eggs, Whole Milk, etc.

I point you to the Fair Use video on Youtube, that Disney attacked on multiple occasions under claims of violating their copyright. In other words, get a clue. Disney *IS* every bit as aggressive at protecting their IP as I said...even when it’s clearly meritless.

It’s Disney. They sue anyone and everyone who comes within a thousand miles of their IP, regardless of merit.

Any currency not derived from the exchange or production of goods at some point is money that doesn’t actually exist and is nothing more than elaborate counterfeit operation.

How Elon is coming across:

But how else are the wealthy going to eat any of the juicy goose-meat goodness? Won’t someone think of the billionaires?!

While I haven’t looked at the EULA that undoubtedly comes with the modding toolkit that CD Project released to the general public, one should not assume that CD Project has to *ASK* for permission to use mods. If you’re using their toolkit to create the mod, and the EULA specifically states using the toolkit gives CD…

Bella was total bad ass in GoT. And I’m even more impressed by their IDGF attitude to the idiot-bigot brigade’s tears of haterade.