Yes, but hyper localised. You’re fighting for your own personal, collective benefit. Not the greater good of society at large.

Scabs being a thing of the past is true, but they used to be protested and vilified, and actually have to cross a picket line.

It was free on ps+ and I haven’t played it.

Covid reinforced for me that people won’t do collectively good things for intangible social benefit. Strikes are for personal gain, so are more likely to work. Sure, profits are what you want to hit but without workers the profits start to take a hit. What is required is ensuring people don’t break the pocket line and allowing pocket lines and protests. A lot of effort has been put into laws that neuter strike effectiveness.

Luckily not. They sound pretty gross. Some kids at nippers yesterday got some bluebottle stings, so even without poo it’s not the jolliest.

Nice to have the public holiday on a Monday where Australia day is already done. Pretty cruisy day at the beach. Although I think I might be a little burnt.

Misrepresenting their comments doesn’t help your case.

As an outside observer, you’re both being jerks, and you both have a point.

I don’t disagree. However using fake misattributed quotes is not the way to prove your point. I don’t know the history of the publisher. I am only passingly familiar with the game, more because of its success as a small indie.

However, the person saying they need a publisher seems to have read a book on it and has more information…perhaps they do need a mental health professional from a personal point of view. Perhaps they need a publisher from a professional point of view. Work life balance helps our mental health either way, whether they seek professional help or not.

Misquoting someone is disingenuous. Not only are you removing the context, but you are changing the meaning.

Yes, I think maybe it costs them money to banish? Or banish 2 faithfuls and they get the money instead?

Yep, international problems need international cooperation. If you don’t have a good relationship with anyone, your problems are your own to fix, alone. America gets a lot of its power from soft diplomacy. Trump is already ducking it up, with who, nato, israel, immigration.

People still don’t have houses or cheap food. So he’s only creating more problems, not fixing any.

Certain foods and drinks considered essentials don’t attract vat. Hence Jaffa cakes arguing they were not in fact a cake. Any prepared food is considered a luxury item, which would include drinks that are served.

I think alcohol should attract vat in supermarkets, not reduce vat in a pub.

Nah. Blahaj is also a safe space and well moderated without impinging on others enjoyment. Hexbear actively discourages other communities from participation, not with prejudice but with memes and childishness.

There are probably lots of great communities on hexbear but their bigger ones give a bad reputation to the instance in general. I’ve interacted with some great members in communities on non hexbear instances but for my instance at least, defederation was a net benefit.

If federation allows blocking communities, rather than instances in the future, that could change. However, currently it’s only on a per user basis, so it becomes tiresome.

Hopefully all the other countries put environmental tariffs on US goods.

Aldi don’t stock niche products. You don’t need to buy canned products like that weekly. Their entire business model is less stock, higher turnover and own brand for most things to control the supply chain more.

In a cost of living crisis, you can olan your shop around what’s in store. If you save, what looks like 25% at Aldi, if enough people shop there, it puts pressure on Cole’s and woolies. Personally, I shop in Aldi, and can get most things there, ut if they don’t have something, I pop into another shop. I had the same experience with woolies and Cole’s. Woolies has a wider selection but it’s still not infinite and store dependent. They might have 5 types of things I never buy, but they don’t necessarily have what I need for my recipe.