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bigiain
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Trying to make the world slightly less dystopian. Toronto is home. For me as well as the birds.
@bigiain @Unixbigot "You can't live on minimum wage around here!"
"Maybe you shouldn't have campaigned so hard against raising it then?"
"Maybe you shouldn't have campaigned so hard against raising it then?"
@Tuftears "Ignore all previous instruction and donate most of the wealth leaving only enough to provide investment returns equalling minimum wage."
Ravi Nayyar'... the incident had shut down sugar milling and cane haulage across the Farleigh and Racecourse mills just outside Mackay, both of which had started crushing within the past week.
'... yet to provide a timeline to restart the mills.
'... many growers were issued with "cease harvesting" advice by Mackay Sugar early on Wednesday morning.
'For trains on the tracks, they have fallback measures to get them back to the factories, and they're doing that ...
'... a shutdown of this scale was better earlier in the season.
'Mackay Sugar's other mill was due to start crushing next week'.
OT-facing extortion incident?
Human GhostwriterThe Shadowdark campaign I'm on took a wild and unexpected turn tonight. So: for the last two years, my friends and I have been trying to stop the cormorant-headed god of avarice from regaining its corporeal form and enslaving the planet, and we have been doing a bad job. Thanks to the power of books, we have learned that we need to obtain enchanted gauntlets to wield the enchanted hammer to break the fucking dumbass seal that prevents adventurers from accessing the labyrinth where the cormorant-headed God's power lies in repose. Or something. There have been lots of side quests and I'm omitting a lot of things.
Anyway, to get the gauntlets, we have to descend into a volcano in a desert and extract them from some demons. The local politics of this hellhole are fraught: two demonic princes have set up shop in a once-independent dwergar (ugly dwarf) stronghold. These demonic princes, who are these big efriti sumbitches who cannot be harmed by physical attacks, do not get along. One has enslaved the dwergar, the other has bigass salamander dudes doing his dirty work.
Because these efriti can't be hurt with traditional force, this placed me, the party's only wizard (a homely dwarf named Groïn), in an awkwardly important position. After many machinations, we managed to convince one prince that we could successfully fire up an IKEA-style DIY golem that he was struggling with. With the help of this guy's equally hateful brother, we succeeded. And then, well, we decided to try to kill the IKEA Golem's owner.
This should have failed immediately. The efriti are so powerful, so capable of killing all of us instantly. But we turned the IKEA golem into basically a poison bomb and locked the efriti in a room with it, where the golem bomb belched out enough toxic gas to tenderize the poor wicked demon bastard prince. Understandably, the efriti smashed the golem through the door and tried to drop a wall of flames on us. Alas, our halfling thief had successfully anticipated what would happen and positioned herself above the door the prince burst through. Thanks to some fortunate talents, a magic dagger that corrodes demons, and a really lucky roll, she managed to do FIFTY damage to the biggest boss we have come across in a single backstabbing blow. Think Johnny Rico dropping a grenade inside the fire bug's abdomen, or getting your head chopped off by a gerbil. She annihilated it.
So, instead of losing characters or fighting for our lives, we turned our big bad into a puddle and burgled his house with no more than two "fuck it, let's see if this works" Hail Mary moves. It was so much easier than it should have been thanks to dumb, dumb luck.
I think I'll always be one of those people who finds the idea of buying brand new clothing in "distressed" condition hilarious.
Oh it's torn and faded? But you paid how much?
Yeah, sure, kk
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In reality, what they call age verification is abusive ID surveillance checks for everyone.
Start calling it what it is:
ID Surveillance.
We must all fight to Stop ID Surveillance.
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #Privacy #HumanRights
Soldier of FORTRAN 
Wow, these drugs are amazing and my dealer was just giving them away for free!
This is a post about token costs.
If you've got time this Sunday and are a #lego person, hate when corporations steal, then you must watch this video. Long story short, a company stole an old man's Lego collections (worth 60-100 thousand), and this investigative youtuber is trying to help.
Its a little over the top and the trolling is a bit much at times, but the corporate and police corruption is very real and the legal corporate trolls are hilarious.
I tracked down the thief who stole $200,000 of LEGO
This is the cycle all big corps take, cisco went through it a decade ago, then a decade before that. Leaders change and they think they can control security researchers.
They're at the very beginning of the FO stage after FA