Yes, just like the legal term for a predatory debt spiral disguised as a short term loan used to be “payday loan” (now called something else to avoid regulation imposed on the previous euphemism).
The more innocent-sounding but deceptive term that a predatory industry prefers doesn’t become correct just because they successfully bribe politicians to make it become/remain the official one.
Gambling, not gaming. Games are things you play for enjoyment, not things that you pour money into with the (almost always disappointed) hope that more money will come back to you.
Examples of games:
NOT games:
Roulette
Blackjack
Slot machines (whether physical or virtual)
Predatory capitalism
Hybrids and edge cases:
Any game with loot boxes and similar bullshit
Poker, though it’s more akin to sports gambling than enjoyment with gambling.
online dating
Oh yeah! I remember that too, now that you mentioned it! That frog was hella polite-looking! As is his capy successor 😁
Seems that they only counted slaves from the South. I bet that including New England slave owners would take it from “many” to “most”, if not even “almost all”.
While not on an industrial scale like in the South, there was still a lot of slavery in the original colonies and their successor states, which played a big part in enabling generational wealth for any family rich enough to buy a slave at the time.
that the moment a physical book is published and sold through it immediately becomes “not available for sale”
Because that specific book now has a new owner who can keep it or sell it as they see fit. Like people still do with physical games.
If you mean that a book becomes generally unavailable when it’s between printings, though, you’re wrong.
Publishers overlap print runs and begin selling the first paperbacks before they’ve sold out the initial hard cover prints PRECISELY to avoid the situation you seem to think happens with every single book.
Oh wow, that’s seriously one of the best protest songs I’ve heard in DECADES!
The seemingly impossible but very apparent mix of dripping sarcasm and absolute sincerity really elevates what’s already a great song in its own right to an absolute fucking masterpiece! 😘👌✊
Jesse welles is a treasure
My all time favorite “Stig Fact” from Top Gear is
“They say that he knows only two things about ducks…and both of them are wrong”
Which would arguably qualify as knowing less than nothing about ducks 😁
Swedneck can have little a salami, as a treat.
the snake people can go back to Reno where they belong
NGL, literal snake people from Reno would make for an excellent comic book, movie, or Fallout mod 😄
being asked to complete to complete a 13-page document typically required for military personnel involved in war
Being part of the illegal occupation force known as the IDF should DEFINITELY qualify you for that, plus more.
I mean, whatever works for them! As long as it’s consensual, I’m not here to sport shame 🤷
It’s heavily affected by the fact that I used to listen to After the Revolution to fall asleep (in a good way! It’s a great book and Robert Evans’ voice is soothing IMO), but here’s mine:
EDIT: OH! Cup Noodle
Best OOC postscript of the year 😂
They have to pay their bills," Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying he would “absolutely” not consider ever paying his own bills
Again: having standards isn’t the same as being unaware.
Nope. Just still insisting on words having meaning.
…it isn’t really demilitarized then, is it?
Who’s more poor than the moon, though? It not just doesn’t have any money, it’s not even ALLOWED to own money!