One could even argue that there's no incentive to participate in the regular economy, and every incentive to go 'under the table' when you're receiving any form of welfare, disability included.
If the government says 'if you earn other money, you lose your benefit,' then it makes sense to earn money in ways the government doesn't track: grey/black markets or criminal activity.
The big one I recall is the Time Article / (Archive), which basically gloated about activity taken against Trump in 2020.
I think this is where the term 'fortifying' was first used, too. Per the linked article: "They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it."
I want to hope this is hubris, that the judge is letting the mask slip because he believes the victory already won, that he will be punished for assuming the citizenry will not respond to his overweening pride...
but it's Canada.
To be fair, I don't see how you can wrap up a 'cynical deconstruction of heroes' sort of novel in a satisfying way. GRRM fucked himself in that regard by not finishing before the GoT TV show blew his load for him, and ruined the characters by proxy.
I think that quoting the tweet and then voicing your take in its own thread is how people cope with not being able to blow out the limited tweet properly.
Because "not responding" isn't something that happens on Twatter.
Paradox DLC is basically as monetized as you get without microtransactions.
Their current model is to launch a game, and then ~7-10 20 buck DLCs, with supporting 7 buck content packs that are associated with them, and 10 buck 'flavor packs' that bridge between the major DLCs-- all of which launch in parallel with a free patch that supports the system changes in the DLC.
It's cancer, but it funds their studio's continuous development.
You get things like this: CK II.
The game itself is free, but the 'full experience' will run you 300 dollars, and buying in after the game has launched requires a strategy guide for which DLC you need to buy and which are optional.
Paradox? They're Swedish. You have to vet them project by project on that front.
They earned a reprieve by axing the Bloodlines 2 team, but they're still questionable-- even to me, with my raging Grand Strategy boner making me less hesitant.
If anything, leaving Paradox alone on principle because of their DLC policy would make sense, but I'm hardly rational about my map staring games.
V Rising & Old World are my latest purchases. V rising has some potential for multiplayer, though, so I'm waiting on actually playing it. Old world is basically "what if your immortal civ leader was a dynasty instead?" so it borrows from CK3.
Speaking of which, CK3's Battle for Iberia just dropped, (the last piece of the Royal Edition I bought a long time ago.) I've been having a blast being a Viking interloper, ruining the lives of Andalusians and Asturians alike.
There's also a modded minecraft world I've been fiddling with-- but that's on life support. Can't maintain interest in it.
Yep. And they will straight up disqualify you from the Jury pool if you know about Jury Nullification-- there is usually a question from the Prosecution/DA specifically designed to screen for jurors who know about it.
This case is one where the guy should have walked.
I personally enjoyed the Monsters of Grok line of faux band intellectual T-shirts.
There are a fair number of lefties/atheists in the mix, but the western canon is well represented.
I used a script a long time ago to mass edit my comments to nonsense and then delete my account.
I understand more selective editing on accounts used to post in hostile territory, just to poison the record before you go.
Reddit's still a lost cause, either way.