Yeah, but every game has an expiration date if you have to rely on a server still being live to download the full game, which is kinda my point.

If the disk cannot install and play the full game, then it holds little value as physical media for preservation. At that point the only value it has is for collectors.

You love to see it. These fucks are so used being world bully that they never bothered to consider that Iran would be able to meaningfully resist. I’m assuming that they started believing their own propaganda about the Middle East being “backwards” and other racist, orientalist drivel.

You’re not as strange as you think, but I have a sneaking suspicion that you’re still quite young (20s?). Your 20s are largely about trying to fit in and following social conventions - you do all the things you think you’re “supposed to”. As you hit your 30s, you stop caring so much about what other people think and what other people have told you that you’re supposed to do and start figuring out what you want to do. A big part of growing up is learning that there are no “rules”; you can eat candy for breakfast if you want, sing in the shower, be an absolute cringe goblin - sky’s the limit so long as you’re not hurting anyone.

Finding a partner to avoid being alone is a terrible, terrible idea for all involved. Learn to enjoy your own company first and figure out what you actually want your life to look like, then you’ll be much more likely to find someone going the same direction. Figure out who you want to be and take the steps to becoming that person. Be unapologetically yourself, and you’ll find people who like you for you, which is absolutely preferable to trying to fit yourself into a tiny box of what you think you’re supposed to be and earning the admiration of people you despise.

As some other commenters have mentioned, investigate whether you may be neurodivergent, because you’ll be much more able to make sense of yourself and the world around you with that knowledge if you are.

If this isn’t an op, then that’s even more pathetic, honestly. Imagine doing this shit for free.

I literally just bought some Hexclad pans…I guess I’ll try to avoid using metal utensils on them regardless. I did use a Caraway pan before and I can confirm that those do not last long at all - absolutely avoid those.

Go read a book. Seriously.

Revolution comes out of the barrel of a gun, not a ballot box, not because we seek violence but because capital will respond to nothing less.

Platner could have won and nothing would have changed. USian politics is all kayfabe. They’re all on the same side, even if they play it up when the cameras are rolling. The Democratic Party will always have a few “defectors” to keep them from passing legislation, by design; if those representatives are replaced, someone else will fill the role. You can’t vote your way out of a corrupt system.

The 9/11 we should actually remember.

I haven’t shopped at Amazon for a year or two now. It is not as cheap as people believe and anything worth buying can be found elsewhere, usually for the same price (sometimes less). Most places even have similarly fast shipping and some use Amazon as a shipping service, which I wish they would disclose up-front so I could choose to shop elsewhere.

Seconding Ace. They also tend not to have surveillance in their parking lots unlike Lowe’s and Home Depot, which are known to employ Flock cameras.

At the point when someone has volunteered to do that many tours, I think the burden of proof is on them to prove that they did not commit war crimes.

I’d been using Windows forever and always stuck to the “rule of two”: I skipped Vista and Windows 8, and was holding out to see if a Windows 12 was going to happen. When it didn’t, I jumped ship to Linux. 11 took everything I hated about 10 and made it all worse, and that’s without even considering all the telemetry. I’d already started using open source software, so that only made it easier to switch.

And for the record, my hardware was plenty new enough to install 11. But boy is it zippier with Linux! Just goes to show how much bloat Windows has. I have to use 11 on my work machine and I hate every minute of it.

Good.

I’m not a fan of electoralism, but it’s worth pointing out that ICE does not have the manpower to patrol every polling place. I don’t think they could even cover every polling place in a large metropolitan area, let alone an entire state. They’ve only got like 10,000 guys. That’s not that many in a country with over 300 million people.

Butlerian Jihad when?

It’s definitely all three, but I just want to point out that Cuba I believe has more doctors per capita than any other country and sends medical aid all over the world. They developed their own Covid vaccine because they had no access to the others thanks to the blockade. It’s not like they have nothing to offer.

I hope so. If they’d been able to keep the missiles the Soviets had stationed there, they wouldn’t be in this mess.

It’s probably going to come down to the lease terms. There’s likely a mechanism to file some kind of complaint about this that would make the 3-days stop ticking, but I’m not a lawyer. If you can find a legal aid clinic, that’s probably your best bet. Power-tripping landlords are the worst and I’m really sorry you’re dealing with this.

Stems from medical misogyny dating back to the Victorian era. Birthing on one’s back is easier for a doctor to observe, and obstetrics centers the doctor over the person actually giving birth. Everything to stick it to the midwives, who actually knew what they were doing.