Blazing Angels. Amazing flight simulator fighting game that I still have the discs of for either XBox or XBox 360.
The game is still listed on Steam, but you can't buy it. I absolutely loved that game growing up, making your way through the ranks, taking part in some of the biggest air battles of WWII.
When it stands up, it made me think that RoboCop and the Pixar Lamp had a baby 😱
It doesn't.
I didn't want to use a credit card, that doesn't mean they don't accept them. They made that clear they do.
So no... Your point does not still stand.
Yep, that must be why I walked into a dispensary, that sold only recreational and medicinal marijuana to adults aged 21+, that checked all IDs at the door, and reverified them by the cashier. Then, after completing my transaction using a debit card, and having my aforementioned conversation with the cashier, who was wearing the identification as is required by all states with recreational marijuana on a lantern around their neck, and proceeded to leave with legitimate marijuana...
I know delta 8 and all those substitutes. This was a legitimate dispensary advertising and using Visa for credit transactions for their purchases.
Hence why I said they're very barely doing so, but Visa appears to at least be starting to, and that your statement of "no store selling marijuana will use a credit care" was false.
Not a single cannabis store that I know of in the US accepts credit card.
False. Went to one in June, 2024, in New York City, right around Time's Square, and the guy behind the counter asked if I was paying via cash, debit, or credit.
I asked him about the credit option, and he said Visa has started working with some dispensaries and offering their credit services for payment. I even mentioned it to a dispensary employee in Maine (they only accept cash), and he said the same thing: Visa is the only one that's barely starting to offer credit service for dispensaries.
I had a coworker who cited music licensing as the sole reason he can't find his favorite show anymore: The Drew Carrey Show. Whatever schmuck owns the music licensing refuses to cooperate with the rest of the show owners, so it can't be streamed or distributed anywhere.
Another example would be Scrubs, most of the songs used in the show (including key moments and the OG songs were perfect for them) have been edited out and replaced because of licensing issues. Unless you've got the DVDs or pirated older versions, you're stuck with the new music and it's not the same.
I use my own bag a lot of the time because my usual grocery store (ShopRite) doesn't put out baskets anymore. I don't want a cart or need a cart, I want a basket, but they're never out anymore. Like, they're just gone...
So either put the baskets back out, or accept we're going to use our reusable bags as baskets. Granted, I flip mine upside down in front of the self checkout camera to show I'm not stealing, but ffs... Just put the baskets back. 😭
~~Richard Cranium~~
Edit: someone beat me to it 😆
They wouldn't have had their lives upended if we weren't doing everything in our power to prolong the war!
They wouldn't have had their lives upended if Russia didn't illegitimately invade their homeland. Twice, in the last decade, I believe. I also don't know wtf you mean when you say prolong the war, if Ukraine stopped fighting now you don't think Russia wouldn't just go at it again?
So you understand making the world a worse place isn't the gotcha you seem to think it is right?
So you understand that this discussion is about OPC and their view on Ukraine and the Russian invasion? I told you I served to answerbyour initial question as to why I don't go fight in Ukraine: I've already done my time in the service, was the implication you seemed to miss.
Trying another subject change isn't the gotcha you think it is, kid.
The one who suspended elections after he got elected on a platform of peace and failed to end the civil war?
Not being literate on the world stage isn't the gotcha you think it is, bud.
How many Ukrainians living in Ukraine do you know? I'm certain it's less than the actual Ukrainian right here telling you what the situation is.
None, as does the very obvious Russian bot who's, like I said before, just propagating the same Russian State Media talking points that you've somehow fallen for. Sad, really.
You really don't give a shit about actual Ukrainians beyond their willingness to bleed for the profits of the military industrial complex.
Mm, no, I do give a shit about a sovereign nation defending themselves from a foreign aggressor, and reclaiming any illegally held territory going back to, idk, 2013-ish. 🤷♀️ If it was so important to the military industrial complex, why did the GOP actively fight to stop it? That's taken money out of the wealthy's purse, can't have that.
You also never answered why you're defending a Russian troll, so let's try again in a language you may understand:
Почему вы защищаете русского тролля?
Do you think we'd be sending them weapons (and buying up their assets for pennies) if this battle wasn't yours?
Welcome to the world under capitalism, guess we should just do nothing then, fuck all the actual people that live in Ukraine and have had their lives upended or destroyed because of the war.
Seriously? Fuck off with that bullshit.
They've also supported Israel. By that logic, you, personally are assisting them in genocide.
Yep, and I'm fucking pissed about it. This discussion also isn't about Israel, so don't change the subject.
I will serve crack before I serve this country. Look at every military action in this country's history since WWII. In none of them were we the good guys.
Edgy, wow, impressed. Never said we were, just said I've served, so don't put words in my mouth.
Oh fuck off. He knows more about the situation than you do. He is right there experiencing it.
By his own admission, he left Ukraine before the invasion, so no, he isn't there experiencing it. He's safely in another country, acting like he understands what's going on in a country he currently doesn't live in. And then acts like he speaks on behalf of Ukraine when they democratically elected their leader, continue to fight against their unjustified invaders, despite apparently living in a prison-state worse than Russia.
While also claiming Russia is not actively engaged in the very same activities he is accusing Ukraine of.
So go fuck yourself, I don't know why you're defending some Russian troll.
It's not my battle, my country wasn't invaded. His was, but he had already left, and refuses to go back and help, but defends the people invading his country. That's pathetic and cowardly, and spoken by someone in a position of privilege from foreign soil (again, he left before the invasion) but claims to speak for his countrymen and women actually living through the atrocities and attacks.
My country is supplying military aid to Ukraine via my tax dollars, so while I'm not directly fighting, my country and myself are assisting them in their effort to defend themselves against an unjustified invasion.
I am a veteran of my country's armed services, can you say the same?
I also never told him to go fight, but it seems pathetic and cowardly to sit behind a computer screen in another country, claim to speak on behalf of your home nation while propagating Russian-media talking points. So I stand by what I've said.
Three Mile Island, and they want to do it to power their AI development. Not move their current servers and infrastructure to the nuclear power grid.
And the owner of Three Mile Island, who's working with Microsoft, is trying to get the fed to give him the money needed to get the plant running again. Taxpayer money for Microsoft's AI project that they'll reap all the reward from.