The newer seasons are hamstrung by a developed 'metagame.' Contestants know that they need to be trying to think laterally and the showrunners have to write challenges in a way they don't just get circumvented all the time, same way laws have to be eight paragraphs long because shitters are always trying to find loopholes hidden between typoed commas.

Funny moments still happen but the newness has worn off and in some ways it's just been 'figured out.''

Yeah, but they need to figure out if the cause of death was being chopped up or if that happened afterward. Helps them figure out the sequence of events.

I don't see how allowing content uploaders to manually set their content as 'not for kids' would lead into a COPPA violation. You just blacklist the content from the 'for kids' app at the uploader's request and no additional data gets collected.

Probably somewhere in the East.

There isn't anything in west Texas except for Lubbock and Amarillo in the panhandle. It's mostly desert or flatlands. That presents three issues; no infrastructure, no employees, and no customers. All the largest population centers in Texas are Eastward; DFW, Galveston, and Houston. That's also where all the tourists pass through thanks to DFW airport.

Texas is very proud of the fact that it was one of 10 states that was a sovereign nation before joining the United States in the year 1846. It was independent from Mexico for ten years before being granted statehood (the third longest; the other two being the Republic of Vermont which lasted 14 years and the Kingdom/Republic of Hawaii which lasted 103). The state pledge of allegiance is a cultural holdover from that period.

The state culture in general (outside of the metropolitan zones) is very independence-minded and there's a general disdain present for the Federal government. Especially lately with how they've decided to handle the border. The State government recently even passed a law forbidding local law enforcement agencies from rendering aid to the ATF in regards to federal silencer laws, and our electrical grid is separate from the Federal grid for better or worse.

But yeah we don't like the Federal government.

The construction jobs are a bonus. That's tens of millions of dollars being injected into the Texas construction and utilities industries along with whatever jobs the park brings along with it. Any tourists who come to Texas to visit the park in the future are bringing in money from out of state, which gets disseminated through the park employees and utility companies providing service and into the state economy. The cut taken by Disney themselves is a relatively small piece of the pie.

From a fiscal point of view it's a great deal. Though as a Texas native I can't say I really like the idea of another large park. I guess it depends on where they wind up putting it.

More than a few of these dom/sub type kinks share significant overlap with exhibitionism.

My favorite narrative from Halo was ODST. But I was also a massive sucker for Republic Commando so I just kind of like those sort of narratives (and jazz. Jazz is cool).

Of course we aren't getting an ODST style narrative either; it's going to be some chick angsting and looking sadly off to the side of camera while sad music plays for half the runtime if the trailer is anything to go by.

They need the $500 dish that's like a year on backorder...

That just means Musk diverted a batch that was ready to go but not shipped or not yet distributed. Ukraine's not that large and I doubt they're setting up general internet for the country, just service for some specific government or military locations and maybe some avenues for getting news in and out of the country. It likely wouldn't take that many to get started.

Starlink has also been active in Europe for a while now, though not this far east. I think they're getting to the point that the largest bottleneck is their ground-based infrastructure if the various satellite trackers on the net can be trusted.

That's definitely what it sounds like. IIRC there was no evidence of any struggle or violence in his room. Either he collapsed or simply tripped and fell at the wrong time and busted his head wide open on something, maybe a bedpost or a dresser corner.

I mean 'no right answer' as in 'no answer that doesn't leave them open to serious reprisal.' They're between a rock and a hard place and are basically living in the embodiment of J. Peterson's warning "you would have been a Nazi."

IMO, it's likely to be more just general stress. They know they're being scrutinized from all angles all the time and pressured in different directions by both the public, their department heads, and the politicians over said heads. It's easily enough to put the grunts on edge because they've been put into a situation where there is no clear right answer and anything they do could get them some serious blowback.

They know they're in the middle of a minefield and if things go sideways they're more than likely going to be hung out to dry.

A buddy of mine got me into Valheim a few days ago. It's a very nice way to chill out when you aren't being chased by thirty foot trolls.

Hahahaha. The mods nuked the post.

They aren't supposed to be. Apparently they got access to this one via wi-fi through the building's thermostat, if I'm understanding his statement correctly. They aren't supposed to be on wi-fi period, let alone engaging in two way communication on the wi-fi network.

'White Hat' means they're a paid contractor working to find security holes, btw. In case that isn't immediately clear.