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True and disgusting. Abbott is a despot.

The only state crimes are the original indictments for perjury, which if you read the article, you will see those are the least compelling charges. The last two sets of indictments are from the DoJ and are considered very sound.

Still using Kbin via web browser on desktop and mobile; with Kbin Enhancement Suite. Aside from some availability issues early in the migration, it’s been very stable.

Hey Satan, how’s it going?

Digital Rights Management. Usually DRM agreements are imbedded in the terms and conditions no one reads when they install software. It usually gives the software vendor the right to monitor your use of the software in real time via the internet.

Within the context of Chrome and other Chromium based web browsers, this means that Google will be able to monitor your web browsing in a new way any time you’re using a browser based on Chrome/Chromium.

Beautiful. Where was this taken?

I tried this without the power tool and it didn’t work very well. I have a much newer car now, but I’ll keep this in mind for the next time I need to clear up old headlights.

I also think it will take more than one month to understand the data. For example, my wife and I cancelled our Netflix subscription months or maybe even years ago at this point. We now just subscribe to one service at a time. This month, we happened to renew our Netflix subscription, so we absolutely get counted in the numbers Netflix is reporting right now, even though we canceled the new monthly subscription pretty much immediately after we signed back up.

Jagged Alliance 3. New game from Haemimont (Tropico/Surviving Mars). It’s way different than those other two games, but I’m enjoying it so far.

It’s not going to get fixed, because if the war on drugs was won, there’d be no one to fill up the run-for-profit prisons.

Everything is always made better by Gregorian Chant.

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Thank you for asking. There’s nothing is wrong with it, generally speaking. But it is not an academic or peer reviewed source. It has many editorialized articles.

I generally like the content they produce at least a little bit, but it’s not science.

Not to belittle the issue, but does this community plan to allow posts sourced from non-academic publications like Ars Technica?

Thanks for answering. Sounds like in this case Android would work for you, if you were comfortable using Signal or showing up as a green dot on your family’s iPhones. Not that I am recommending you change or anything.

I just wish* Apple would be more willing to integrate with standardized technologies, like MMS and USB-C. I get that they want to develop as much as possible inside the house, but some things are just inconvenient for their users when they have such a hardline stance.

This makes me legitimately curious. If you’re having this limitation on iPhone, would you consider switching to Android, as the standard MMS protocol supported by Android (and every non Apple vendor) works on wifi/data just fine? iPhone not integrating iMessage with the MMS standard is what causes the issue here.

There’s some great ones that have more of a survival aspect:

Surviving Mars
Made by Haemimont, the original creators of the Tropico series. You build colonies on mars with near-future level technology (at first). The “cities” you build are large, modular dome structures that you place on the map. Within each dome you place the individual buildings that colonists need to live. Your first domes will start off holding just a few dozen colonists or so each; however you can connect domes together so they can share resources and over time you can build larger and larger domes. The largest domes can hold hundreds of colonists. This game also has sophisticated resource management mechanics. You might have to try a few colonies before you get all the basics down. If you’re not able to produce all necessary resources, you’ll experience systematic/ripple effect failures as one problem leads to another. For example, if you’re not producing enough water, your people will eventually die of thirst, but you’ll also have trouble producing rocket fuel which is made from water, no rocket fuel means no resupplying from earth. Finally, the game has a technology “Breakthrough” system. Breakthroughs are unique technologies that you will discover on each different map. This ensures that each of your colonies will have some technological variation and this greatly enhances the game’s replay-ability.

DLC recommendation(s): Green Planet (100% a must have) and Space Race

Frostpunk
A post-apocalyptic, survival city builder set in a steampunk earth that is experiencing the rapid onset of a new ice age. You use streampunk technology to help your city survive the brutally cold weather. There are also resource management aspects in this game, much like Surviving Mars, and the game’s base difficulty is quite challenging to begin with; so again, you may have to make several attempts before you have a successful city. You play as the city’s Authoritarian leader and have the option to run the place as ethically or unethically as you please. Will you build a utopia in the cold? When there are labor shortage will you use child labor? Will you allow children to only work safe jobs, or send them to the mines? When there are food shortages, will you resort to even more drastic measures? The game ships with several great scenarios these days, but I would recommend at least one DLC (see below). This game shows you a brutal, but beautiful streampunk world. It’s lovingly and masterfully crafted to feel real. This game more than almost any other made me actually question my own morality after making some of the decisions you’re forced into during play. A final note, the music is absolutely sublime. The first scenario has a… boss fight… of sorts and the music during this final stage of the scenario will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

DLC recommendations: The Last Autumn

And for those that don’t know, Cities Skylines 2 is coming out October 24th!

I vouch for Tropico! Tropico 4 is my favorite. It captures the original spirit of the series but feels modern enough that it’s not difficult to play mechanically. There’s fun and rewarding scenarios to play through and just sandbox mode if that’s more your speed.