Yeah, things get worse until the end of the game, and then you beat the game so it’s over.

It took me a few runs before I understood the mechanics well enough to make sure how to keep people warm enough. Figuring out the right balance of resources is critical, as is making sure you keep up with research.

Played Frostpunk 2 this weekend. Not as good as Frostpunk 1, and uninstalled it after finishing my first playthrough.

The uncommitted movement said they weren’t endorsing her, but they also said that people should vote, but not vote for anyone other than Kamala. So, they effectively endorsed her.

I still like Chapo. I appreciate that they had much better takes on the genocide and war in Palestine from the get-go versus others in their class of radlibs/socdems/demsocs. I definitely agree that they are more radically, and one of the few mainstream podcasts that unapologetically supports the armed resistance. It’s definitely a politics themed entertainment podcast now, as opposed to anything with a program. After Bernie became washed, the dry boys lost all hope. The only suggestions that they (sarcastically) bring up is to hope for a Chavez/Gaddafi figure (they also supported the Uncommitted movement, but that did jack-squat in shifting the Democrat party line on Palestine.)

Knowing Sirota’s radlib, zionist politics, that one was a total skip.

Just like Felix.

The intrusion of capitalism into sleep is a final frontier of absolute exploitation. Why work 8 hours a day when you can work 24 hours a day? Why use vast banks of computer servers to run AI models when you can capture the most efficient and powerful ‘computer’ to ever exist: the human brain. Why provide for housing and recreation when you can lock people in permanent dream states, where they can provide intellectual labor and live in dreamworlds while their physical brain is kept alive through an IV drip.

I am skeptical that any technology trying to directly interface with the slumbering subconscious could work, but I have no doubt that such attempts would be damaging to human health, and would be used to push material imiseration to impossible heights.

Looking at this International Crisis Group’s list of donors:

BP

Chevron

ENI

Open Society Foundation

Rockerfeller Brothers Trust

As well as various Western European & gulf state governments, billionaires and billionaire-founded NGOs. Of course they’re coping: their backers were hoping to get a piece of PDVSA.

If the democrats believed this, and cared about democracy, then they wouldn’t keep a dying man as their nominee or they would be using his Supreme Court-affirmed absolute immunity to neutralize this existential threat. Let me know if they have a strategy other than gaslighting and blackmailing the people they claim to represent.

I mean outside of the Labor party.

Meh. Was hoping that he’d throw support behind a broader left-wing challenge to Starmer, but I guess it’d be good for him to remain in parliament.

I’m not saying it shouldn’t be legalized or that those other benefits aren’t present, I’m saying that cure-alls/panaceas don’t exist and that legalization advocates in the past have indulged in that sort of myth-making.

Hemp/cannabis certainly has benefits, but a lot of those benefits have been exaggerated to support decriminalization/legalization. When it comes to medicine, cannabis has benefits as a non-opioid analgesiac/painkiller, so that’s obviously a huge boon for chronic pain where the risk of opioid addiction and another side-effects are a major concern. However, I would be skeptical of claims of healing properties of cannabis or any other proposed panacea.

The proposal is for a globally-levied tax. Where exactly is capital going to fly to?

It’s been an absurd mishandling of the IP by Take Two. Will probably be permanently stuck in early access with only maintenance development at best.

A lot of people (myself included) had the update installed automatically by Steam with no option for rollback, so it caught people off guard.

It’s buried in the article, but yep it’s a Boeing.

I can’t believe that some actually Vax-maxxed. Absolute legend.

It’s a hoax/transphobic rumor, allegedly from various unsubstantiated reports of schools keeping cat litter or litter boxes. The only case of this actually happening is keeping cat litter on hand to clean up large spills as an absorbant (specifically, it’d be used for cleaning up hazardous spills, like a chemical or blood.)

Either the banking crisis that’s been predicted over the past year due to high interest rates and bad debt, or perhaps there’s more that will come out about how JPMorgan Chase directly facilitated Jeffery Epstein’s operation in the Virgin Islands.