But now to white people in Europe, too! Not just brown people in South America… and the Middle East… and Southeast Asia… and Africa.

Yeah, the Divinity trailer was the huge highlight for me.

I enjoyed E33 a lot and there were some very gracious moments, like Broche thanking Sakaguchi. I do wish the love had been spread around a bit more - Hades, Blue Prince, Silksong, The Alters were all fantastic. I also haven’t played it yet, but I hear nothing but good things about KCD2.

Award shows are kind of a silly format in general. It was a wildly strong year for games, and picking a single winner in any category is subjective and arbitrary when there are so many great works.

This seems unlikely. Ahmed comes from the same root as Muhammad. His cousin was interviewed and named Mustapha, also an epithet of Muhammad. I don’t know too much about Maronite Christian naming conventions, but these two names have a pretty explicit association with Muhammad in Arabic.

The second paragraph discusses an incident that occurred at San Francisco International Airport with the same circumstance. Should have indicated that’s what I found weird because it should have been prevented. The southern courts have been less protective of individual freedoms. Might be legal there under the border exemption according to their courts.

It depends on port of entry. The ninth circuit, which covers San Francisco, has upheld that entrants can refuse to provide a phone pin, but other circuits have found differently.

So odd that this happened in California because there’s a pretty powerful set of protections in place in the ninth circuit specifically - not that the current admin gives a shit about the law.

This is hilariously plausible. Someone SCUBA down to Gabe and give him the idea.

The article also cites a cover-up of an incident where they killed women and kids. They gave the murderer an award to make it look legitimate.

Non-white would seem to be the primary factor here, in that proud Anglo-American tradition.

I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they’re em dashes.

LG similarly uses Life’s Good as a slogan/brand name in the West. It actually stands for Lucky Goldstar.

Wasn’t it also just reported a few weeks ago that Samsung installs Israeli spyware on android devices sold in MENA?

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-appcloud-spyware-controversy-3616325/

NYT sucks and I canceled my subscription, but the third archive link on removepaywall.com still works to get around their robot messages and puzzles.

Great color on these. Lovely!

The U.S. doesn’t recognize the ICC and sanctions its officials if they investigate war crimes by the U.S. or its allies.

We briefly ratified the Rome Statute in 2000 but pulled out shortly after invading Afghanistan and shortly before invading Iraq.

Alton sure has the best recommendations for getting that beautiful mahogany skin. Perfectly executed! Nice cook.

I agree. Dying is way, way less scary to me than a slow decline with dementia or a long, painful battle with cancer. No issues with death, I just hope it’s quick.

And avoid paying a tip. What a dick.

I have my mom’s 1967 edition with recipes for muskrat and opossum! And as the spine has completely disintegrated on that one, I also have a newer copy without the instructions on how to prepare small game. Still a kitchen staple.

I recommend picking up an analog, wood pulp-based copy of The Joy of Cooking. Pretty much any classic western dish is in there and you don’t need to worry about AI slop.

I also love my copy of The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. That one is a little more global, and has I think 500+ pages of recipes with minimal irrelevant anecdotes.

Retirement planning

Every time anyone rejects Microsoft’s shitty bloatware/spyware it’s a win. I just converted a few months ago. Win11 is going to push more and more people away.