Over ten years it’d be a lot more than that, depending on your average number of concurrent players.

It could be worded more precisely, but, basic inference. If you can see what you’re getting and what you see isn’t something you want, you’re not going to spend money on it.

Let’s be real, he wouldn’t last a month. Extreme isolation is bad for the heart and immune system among other things and he’s old and out of shape.

Imprisonment is sufficient to ensure he’s no longer a danger to others. It might not offer much catharsis but it would be way better than knowingly resorting to torture. The anger and frustration will pass with time. Living with the shame of knowing you had been just as callous and cruel as he is will stick around a…

There are those of us who would argue that capitalism in general will inevitably lead to class stratification. No need for qualifiers like “US capitalism”.

Wish I had something to say other than, keep fucking shit up protesters. We’d try to help if we weren’t dealing with our own authoritarians (and those happy to sit back and enable them).

Plants get around. Some varieties at any rate. Wind propagation, bird and insect propagation, human propagation. These are all working strategies. We can actually see some species encroaching northward as areas previously too cold have become more tolerable.

Ha, America? Please.

75+ is the only time I’m alive.

I guess this means Baudrillard was right.

Wow, that was pretty good actually. Though the keyboard glisses were kinda corny.

Whoa whoa whoa, these religions were giving themselves bad names long before the current geopolitical arrangement.

“The only true existential threats to the United States are Climate Change and Christian Dominionist Militias.”

In this case, wouldn’t the righty-tighties consider themselves the superior force? On account of all the gun fetishism?

“If they had the discipline and the wherewithal to pose an actual threat, they wouldn’t have elected an authoritarian strongman as their president.”

That’s a bit of an incomplete evaluation though.

I guess dragons follow the same fits to sits principle as cats.

Not to come across as contrarian, but, kinda?

They can continue to stfu even in the unlikely event they did come around on that.

“Fix the problem where it starts, not a side effect.”