I had to update my Elgato Stream Deck software and it pointed to their new product - the Stream Deck + Lever.

Admittedly I did do a WTF at first but then remembered what day it was. I didn’t check more, but I have to assume! There’s no way it could be real.

Oh, that and today was the first I heard about the scope of the Artemis II mission, but it turned out that actually was real even though it seemed like an elaborate joke. Cue the conspiracy theories

Southern Italian families about to have a hard time

Trump fundamentally misunderstands the idea of NATO and its position purely as a defensive alliance.

Edit: ftfmyself

Let’s be honest here. If they didn’t have the US covering their ass at every turn, and US money fuelling their economy, their territorial expansions, violations of sovereignty and human rights abuses would have caused them to have faced even a modicum of retribution. Essentially they’re a spoilt child, with a parent who can’t see that their kid is part of the problem. But then the parent is a big problem too so the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Some people do be telling on themselves.

“Final Destination” intensifies

Depends where you’re coming from.

From Australia, no. Bali is cheaper and bogan.
From France, yes. Bali is expensive and exotic.

Yes, and no. It can be great tech but it’ll cost an extra 30% on top because Big G is paying.

Also true in government, if you don’t spend the entirety of your budget that’s been assigned to you, you clearly would never ever need it, so finance will take it away next year when you DID need it. So it’s easier to spend the entirety every year just in case you need that amount the next year. It’s dumb and annoying even as a government worker.

Depends on the time and place. Whether standing or sitting and whether I was wiping anyway.

I had not long since started a MSc, we were having our first rounds of IVF and we went to Japan. And we bought our current house.

It was an eventful year.

Within 2 years we would be broke thanks to uni costs, IVF costs and house deposit. Fine now as all of the above helped.

As a former Gov contractor who now works for gov, yes. Price always goes up for government contracts.

Other countries won’t, because we don’t have spoilt children running our governments. It would be deserved, and we would be quietly glad someone gave them a slap, but we wouldn’t. And let’s be honest, the US would be insufferable if anything happened to them - they still bitch and moan about Pearl Harbour.

Edit: but also, as allies, even though it’s an abusive relationship, we would still come to your aid as that’s what we agreed to do. So we also wouldn’t want you to be attacked ever as you are our friends too and also, sadly, knowing it’ll be forgotten and not necessarily reciprocated if the shoe was on the other foot.

Yeah so I had been humming the tune to myself for years so I thought I should look it up on YT. The MS-DOS version was far far more basic. Never had an Amiga so didn’t know they redid it. It’s SOO much better on the Amiga but I do still love the old one too.

https://youtu.be/izadA3nSPbk for reference

Had games before on the ZX Spectrum but probably Prince of Persia (original) on our first PC. But it was a pirated version as that was all you could get in the country I lived in. First boxed game I bought was Sim City.

I was about 8 or 9ish. And yes, to both.

Excellent game. Had it on my 386. Still love the music. I was terrible at it.

What happened to the tradition of pelting Farage and his fascistic goons with milk-based drinks?

Depends where you’re looking. It’s not as active as Reddit for sure, but it also has far fewer non-humans too which seems to be the majority of Reddit these days - either repost bots or even comment bots so the activity isnt real, it’s a mere simulation. I don’t fear that here. PugJesus is real. 😃

“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer,
Bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,–
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”

“we reached out to Lt. Christina Silva for comment but she is currently on administrative leave following this incident”

/s (but possible, given the current US administration)

ICE and Border Patrol agents killed two people in Minnesota, the state Omar represents: Renée Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, both of whose executions were captured on video.

They’ve killed many more USians than just these two white ones (not saying that to diminish their killings but to point out that it only ever seems important when it’s white folks.