The stripped log and the wood are fine, but the regular birch log is almost impossible to use in builds. It just looks bad in almost any context.

The stripped log and the wood are fine, but the regular birch log is almost impossible to use in builds. It just looks bad in almost any context.

Huh. I just looked it up and apparently birch was added just about a year before I started playing. Crazy how we assume everything that was in there when we started has “been there forever.”

The freedom of cars.

It’s kind of a weird game theory thing, because the industries affected aren’t consistently losing. A decision he makes on Wednesday can help the finance industry but hurt the tech industry, and then he can reverse it on Thursday and now the finance industry is tanking but the insurance industry is up. It’s tough to know who would work together to pull him out of office, because between any two given days, the people who have the money have different opinions on how he’s doing.

Lol. Birch trees are the most despised tree by most Minecraft players.

I can’t imagine “Discourse”'s branding will survive for long.

America really biffed it,

Pretty decent summary of American history, that. With few exceptions.

That’s disappointing, but good to know. Thanks.

Whoa, that’s very impressive! The only one you missed was “p10y,” which is in fact “particularly.” (“Practically” would be “p9y.”) But honestly that’s still amazing.

I am so tired of this comment. Yes, I’m also worried about it. But this tired cliche doesn’t tell anyone anything they don’t already know, doesn’t raise any alarms or call anyone to any action, doesn’t do anything but spread more doomerism into an already oversaturated doomspace. It’s useless content, on the level of replying “first!” to a YouTube video circa 2013.

I’m sorry that you had to be the recipient of this tirade. But I swear, I see this comment several times every day, and I can’t help wondering, “so what do you want me to do about it? What are YOU doing about it?” No. We have to assume there will be an election until there isn’t, and then we have to respond. Until then, we have to help each other out and keep on doing what we can. We definitely don’t have to comment the same low-effort doom every time midterm elections are mentioned; it just demoralizes people and makes the Trump fascism machine seem inevitable and unstoppable.

Oh!

Cool!

😬

That would be…what, an ampliviation scheme? (since it’s longer than the original word)

A4y, t2s i0s n1t p10y r6e a1d t3s m2h l4r t0o c5e.

To be fair, that is almost exactly why I moved here. Luxon seems like a somewhat worthless lump, but his most extreme position appears to be a bit further left than Elizabeth Warren. And it’s not impossible that he won’t survive the year in his role.

Also reducing all politics to a left right thing is so stupid and probably the worst thing to do for political discourse

Absolutely agree. I hate that my first reaction to every conversation has to be “…but are they a fascist?”

Hmm, I just realized that I (an American living in New Zealand) have no idea what Japanese politics are like. To Wikipedia!

Takaichi has been described as holding hard-line conservative and Japanese nationalist views,

uh oh

citing former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher as a role model and deeply influential on her personal political beliefs.

Uh oh

Like Thatcher, she is called the “Iron Lady”.

Uh Oh

Takaichi is a member of Nippon Kaigi, a far-right ultraconservative organisation

UH OH

that argues for a reinterpretation of Japanese history

RED ALERT

amongst ultranationalist lines.

WELP

Oof. Well, I guess it had to happen to Japan someday. It’s happened everywhere else. Here’s hoping it doesn’t last long and the damage is minimal.

I’ve been burned too many times for real predictions, but I hope we’re about to need all new words for “blowout” soon.

I’ve seen one of those bases on a truck, too—using an angle grinder on it would be quite impressive. They’re made of very thick metal, at least anywhere a human can reach.

Unlike the totally un-bombable tanker ships and pipelines we use now.

This isn’t about the email marketers. I think you’ve got it in your head that this one guy is a scummy email marketer when he’s really just trying to let people who have opted in to getting email from him know when he has more stuff for sale.

Believe it or not, there are other uses for email lists that aren’t spam.

How is Amazon preventing customers from signing up? How even could they?

When Amazon scrapes the seller’s website for listing information and then circumvents the seller’s own storefront, they’re not giving the customer the information that (1) the seller has a website at all, or (2) the seller has a mailing list. This means that the customer will just never find out that information without looking for it, despite clearly being interested in the seller’s work (as they’re purchasing from the seller). It’s Amazon inserting themselves into the process so that they can skim some money off the top at best, or extort the seller for access to their customers at worst. And all of this while the seller has created the mailing list specifically to prevent such corporate malfeasance.

What he is saying is that he doesn’t get the customers email from the sale, to which he’d start to send marketing emails.

“customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for,” Montes-Tarazas said."

That’s not what he said.

You know, what pretty much every company does when you buy something.

Pretty much every big company, yes. Small businesses are pretty careful with that sort of thing, though, because unless they want to be dependent upon Facebook or Instagram or whatever for their entire lives, they have to not make their customers upset.

“Not being exposed to me, the ‘artist’” is a perfectly valid reason, and one I would agree with. But the mailing list excuse rings hollow to me.

“customers never get to interact with my website, they have no ability to sign up for my mailing list. They have no idea who I am as an artist or what I stand for,” Montes-Tarazas said."