Macciavellian? Are you serious? Macchiavelli said you can be a cruel asshole, but the one thing you cannot be is unpredictable. Old Mac would have given this US government a 2/10 score.

“real man” cosplay.

I’d tell my best friend to question her sexuality. Like right now, not 30 years later when it is too late to have an operation.

The shah’s reign of terror was ended by the people of Iran, not by islamists. The islamists just coopted the revolution. Nobody wants the shah back.

Hot air baloons are still allowed. Perfectly good option if you do not care too much where you end up or how far you will go.

Malice, not incompetence.

And all that so big tech can spy on you better.

Crazy! Just played a mission, takes me waaaaay back. I just gotta ask: did they also port the bug where the range of the Atreidis sonic tank depends on the game speed?

There is a cheap beer brand from Bremen (“Hemelinger”) that’s running with the slogan “Reicht doch” which could be translated as “good enough”.

Not for productivity, but to keep the workers too tired to resist.

What do you call it when even the shark has jumped the shark?

If Github just kills repos without explanation, then using Github for anything is a mistake.

the rot is in the insurance companies

The rot is in a system that allows this. What you people need is much more regulation, not less.