WHAT?

That’s interesting, I might consider moving to US if I got 1-5 million dollars.

Probably not worth it though

Perhaps 10 years ago I seriously thought that moving to USA might improve my life.

You need to watch Andor if you haven’t already.

I went to Rome with my wife and stayed at an Airbnb thing. The guy who rented it to us looked like a mafia boss and wanted the payment in cash.

But the apartement was actually really nice, and right in the middle of old Rome!

Yep.

Tea, gyokuro, 57.4 celsius.

I would never tell my doctor. But perhaps that’s just Finland. We get a permanent mark in the record if you mention it, and especially if at some in your life you need to services of a psychologist, that’s gonna come back to haunt you.

Great parenting advice.

In archaic language (which Ulysses certainly is using in the game), men refers to all human beings.

Threads like this always carry the risk that somebody liked the thing. Sorry.

The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings. It was like a 5-year old had written an epic fantasy novel spanning several millenia.

Wow. Even China doesn’t do that.

I think he also is reported to have said that everybody can be redeemed if they start believing. Frankly speaking, I’d start believing pretty fucking fast if I saw/experienced direct evidence of their existence. Personal mental malfunctions nonwithstanding.

Would that be a bad thing, I wonder.

Russia has been doing that on eastern and northern europe countries several times per year, even against “friendly” countries like pre-NATO Finland. And before that, they did it as Soviet Union.

But of course the current US administration holds those scumbags as role models.

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Which would somehow contradict the idea of social media, wouldn’t it?

No. Nothing about the concept of social media dictates that all data must be available for everybody.

They’re not fining Musk. They’re fining X/Twitter.

That doesn’t fill me with amazing confidence.

Unfortunately blocking an instance still leaves the commenters from that instance visible. That could be technically fixed of course by adding a new type of blocking.