There’s also a 27th (non-alphabetical) “ending” that’s quite different from all the others. I think it was originally part of a DLC but it just came with the version on Steam when I played the game ~5 years ago.

Owls have such great expressions.

Adding to this, the money to repay bonds has to come from somewhere – usually taxes. So, if a government issues a bond it is committing to collecting the amount of money for the bond-plus-interest from the populace. It’s the government taking out a loan, essentially, on the basis that it can use long term tax revenue for repayment.

Why not just use taxes directly then? Sometimes you need a lot of money for a specific project and it would take too long to collect that money through taxes at a rate that is reasonably payable by the populace over a short enough time frame.

Suppose you need a million dollars to cover the cost of replacing some infrastructure – like a critical pipeline for your town’s drinking water – but you only have 100 people in your small town. That’s $10,000 per person if the cost is split evenly. The people in town may not have that much money to pay all at once, but getting the pipe fixed so they have water to drink is really important. So, the government gets a loan (i.e. issues a bond) and pays out the amount plus interest over a long period of time. Adding 5% interest and breaking the payments up over a 30 year term would require everyone in that hypothetical town to need to pay about $30/mo more in taxes to cover the cost. That’s probably a lot more politically feasible to actually collect than trying to get everyone to pitch in $10k right now.

The 19th Century expansionism was sort of tempered by the racists though – e.g. the political jackasses from back then, like John C. Calhoun, rejected annexing Mexico in its entirety after the Mexican-American War because they didn’t want to integrate non-white Mexicans into the US.

Bill’s PC. As in Bill Gates, probably. You’re lucky it didn’t get overrun with malware.

(No idea who/what inspired the Japanese name マサキ though.)

Yes. Have done so several times, and have had people come up and talk to me out of the blue as well. Sometimes it has gone well. I’ve had a few good conversations with random people on long distance transport (planes, trains, and such) when I struck up conversations with whoever ended up in the seat next to me, and a few times (more rarely) in grocery stores when I’m having trouble finding something (or vice versa). e.g. got asked about uses for unusual ingredients I was having trouble finding and traded some recipe tips.

Usually when other people come up to me they just want me to give them money, or join their religion though.

One Shot, One Kill?

Later:

(Src: Silver Spoon)

Maybe replace the 2029 incident with “Panamania”? 🤔️

whenever the top pirate site goes down, a decent chunk of its users switch to legal services.

[X] Doubt

I’m not quite sure what’s going on there exactly, but I block JS in my browser (via NoScript). When I downloaded the link you provided with wget in the terminal, it returns what looks like a bot block page to me. (It includes the text “This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submission.” with an embedded CAPTCHA image.) If I load the link in Firefox though, it provides a PDF even with JS disabled in my browser. Usually that means a site is doing something like User-Agent sniffing or running a cookie check to block automated scrapers, but if I download the link with wget again after loading it once in my browser, it provides the PDF directly – so presumably the site has some middleware that allows requests by IP after you’ve passed an initial not-bot approval? (Maybe time limited? Haven’t experimented to find out.)

You might be able to get around this by setting User-Agent and other headers in an initial request to impersonate the browser? (Check copy as cURL for the URL in FF’s network dev tools to see how to emulate the request exactly as your browser would do it.)

Nom!

(src: Twitter - Danbooru)

They would probably make more money if they’d just put the shows up for sale for direct download as soon as they air.

Seriously, it’s 2026 for fucks sake. Why can’t I just go to the studio’s website and pay them a dollar (or whatever) to download an MP4?! I can understand the old conservative idiots running old studios with old stupid practices, but why is NO ONE doing this? Especially as studios keep going out of business and reforming? Have they never seen Steam and GOG for game sales? Bandcamp for music?

…rant rant rant…

From the discussion in the report, it looks like the website is serving HTML not a PDF. (The author seems to be getting an Anubis-like bot block page instead of the file they expected?) This seems like it has nothing to do with running JS embedded in a PDF if I understand what’s going on correctly.

I don’t care which way they go. Hell, split the difference and move us to a 30 minute offset if you can’t make up your minds. Just stop changing the bloody clocks twice a year. Please!

minimal inaccuracies

I (mostly) liked the show, but conflating the physical compression of a blackhole with data compression really grated on me.

Their website sucks. Price please?

Hmm. I don’t think I’ve seen seeds/nuts used directly in pasta before (other than as an ingredient in pesto). That’s an interesting idea. I’ll have to experiment with that one.

Huh. I don’t think I’ve ever seen goose eggs for sale. Usually just chicken, plus sometimes duck or quail too.

Do you keep geese or do they sell goose eggs in the stores where you live?