“When other’s human lives are deemed worthless, it is not surprising to have others view your life of no value as well,”

If his life was seen as of no value, he wouldn’t have prompted any action. The guy who killed him clearly thought his life had negative value, prompting corrective action.

In other words: the world’s a better place without you, apparently.

Gamers are used to fiddling, so that shouldn’t be a big deal for now

Video series? Dude need to make a freaking videogame!!

I think I can see 3 “new” laptops in my future!

Genocide, you say?

No, I prefer to listen to Bark at the Moon

Just slightly worse than all the others that came before… Our politicians are too incompetent to even do fascism “right”.

Aside from what others said, it could be that they’re kept as weapons, kinda like baseball bats.

Your Lord doesn’t allow you to have actual weapons, but nobody can stop you from buying farming tools, so you keep one by the door to fend off lycanthropes and Jehovah’s witnesses.

AIX?

Yeah 'cause they need it, poor widdle gigacorporations

Ziplock

And back when we had community hosted servers, evading a ban was so simple, change server or restart your dial-up connection to get a new IP and change nickname, yet it was incentive enough to behave, because people recognized you just through your text (voice chat was usually limited to clan games)

TYRANNY! It’s an RPG from Obsidian that shares the Pillars of Eternity engine, very cool premise and story, main campaign is short so it shouldn’t keep you occupied long, unless you decide to replay of course, the storyline changes A LOT depending on your actions (and even upon choices you make before even playing), so replayability is very high.

So you don’t actually explore map, but lore.

You can start out without zigbee or z-wave devices, just wifi, in order to get your feet wet… after some experience you can decide how you want to go forward. If you check HA’s integrations page you linked, be aware of each integration’s IoT class, Local Push and Local Polling means you don’t have to go through the internet to interact with those devices, it’s more reliable and likely faster.
I’d try some smart plugs as well, they can be quite versatile.

Personally I’m a big fan of Shelly devices when it comes to wifi stuff

I use FastGPT on Kagi and it lists the sources for its conclusions, so it’s like a better aimed search

Yeah no the fascists don’t have anything to do with this, or better, they’re just the last of a list of legislatures going back to the 90s who kept cutting the public services’ budgets, with a big upturn after the 2008 subprime crisis.

No we haven’t lost unemployment pay, they removed, for better or for worse, what the previous government instituted and labelled as “universal basic income”, which in the end took the form of a more generous unemployment pay, but we still have the standard one.

The truth is there’s actually very little difference between “left” and “right” governments nowadays: 10 years ago Renzi, with an allegedly left-wing government, actuated the biggest removal of workers right in recent history… They’re all rich kids anyway, all they care about is taking more and more money from the general populace.

I’m Italian and here public healthcare gets worse every day, thanks to continuous budget cuts and political incompetence. Nowadays if you want get blood tests in my region you have to wait months, or go through insurance, usually provided by… Your employer. Fuck them all.

It’s unlikely for a nation to “fall” into democracy

Eating out every day is already unhealthy, if you limit yourself to take away places you’re really asking for trouble

I once spent a week on a project with a colleague who’s, let’s say, kinda intense… You know smart guy and hard worker, but he always wanted to have the last word, whenever you explained something he never really believed you until he tried himself… Whatever, his work was ok, but as a person he was really exhausting. He left the customer’s before I did, the first evening I was alone I was so people-tired that I didn’t even go to the restaurant (it was in the hotel!), I stopped for groceries at a supermarket and ate in my room!