Inflation being a major cause is definitely on my mind, too. For the past decade basically everything has experimented with becoming a subscription service, and if people aren’t doing so hot on their monthly budgets they’re going to start looking for things to cut.

It’s a cool ass piece of tech tho. But yeah pretty impractical to require so much specialized maintenance on a standard issue rifle.

I’m also always changing this first, so i agree with the change.

They really, really believe that he’ll have your entire family blown up with an anti-aircraft gun or eaten alive by dogs or something if you speak out against the regime. It’s basically religious dogma (insert parenti quote).

It’s so weird that everybody knows how bad propaganda is and yet we let corporations do it to us hundreds of times per day every single day.

I thought I was going crazy, but no this exact guy had almost this exact same conversation with almost the exact same people back in March of last year.

Italian Fascism

gestures wildly at Greece

Pretty much yeah. It’s all grandstanding and making it look like Congress is doing something when they aren’t.

Kim Jong-Il hit 18 hole in ones the first time he went golfing.

I can’t prove it but I’m certain that these stories about the leader are the DPRK’s version of Chuck Norris jokes.

Guitars are one of the best sci fi weapons.

ahh I’m so hyped. DS1 was so good, the only thing this game needs to be perfect is a really nice vehicle sim to replace the shitty one in the first game.

I know this guy pulled this map completely out of his ass, but what exactly is the methodology here? My guuess is “income per capita” because otherwise why would the Nordic Model countries be “full capitalism”.

I really liked Death Stranding. Not as much as MGSV, but like a lot of Kojima games it was really prescient, and I found it was the perfect game for the COVID era.

California has you do a smog check every other year, I think a safety inspection would be nice too (and make it for the whole country). People who are really dedicated to being assholes will work around it, but most people who just don’t realize that they’re blinding everyone else will get their headlights angled downward and then never touch them again.