Yeah but that probably won’t impact the share price that much, for some reason.

They’re publically traded - they now only exist to generate profit, and that’s the only metric that matters to them. It’s the same in any industry, unfortunately.

The only bit that matters is the first sentence. Games are here to make money now, same as everything else.

Britain is still in Europe last I checked - I don’t think we’ve gone full Noah’s Island and fucked off into the north sea on our own tectonic plate yet…

Bold of you to assume I’m intelligent - I use Arch BTW.

Additionally - That asset stripping and profiteering are “efficient”. It’s a bit of a euphemism at this point I think.

Most companies I’ve worked for have cut their resources to the bone in search of efficiencies which are more accurately described as shareholder profit maximisations, but are pitched as “just in time” operation. Why hire two people when one can do a good enough job at half the pay. Why fabricate something locally when we can get a third party in SE Asia to make the same thing for peanuts and then charge EU pricing in our market.

Neither maximise efficient operations, just the efficient extraction of profit.

In-group suoremacy isn’t restricted to conservatism though, sadly.

They’re not banned. I live in the country and there’s a lot of Dodge Rams, Ford Rangers (and the odd Fx50 imports round here.

UK is also the spiritual home of the Land Rover, and those fuckers are insanely big now. The ionos grenadier is a beast also…

The argument is almost always “I need it to tow”/drive it over field a hill but it’s typically some farm lad running it on red diesel and claiming it’s for farm purposes (on his way to or from the pub)…

In many ways. I remember reading an argument against the monarchy on the grounds that it’s cruel to the people who are born into it, and the environment lends itself to creating absolute arseholes who then perpetuate the whole thing.

Depends - there will be a lot of local things around the place; in Oxford a choir sing from Magdalen College Tower to a crowd below.

There’s lots of local things like the 'Obby 'Oss, maypole dances and so on.

But it’s not really a big thing nationally over here.

I guess so - better something than nothing?

I have a similar issue (UK garden) where my cats have trodden a desire path into my lawn over years, plus some over-shaded areas from an evil combo of a fig and a buddleia.

I’m tempted to sow some clover, but equally I’m sure some lawn-gurus here might be able to advise on what would be best to keep some plant cover?

If you have a functioning example of democracy I have a bridge to sell you.

There’s a lot of worse options out there but western democracy on the whole doesn’t really represent the “demos” in any real sense - that’s both good and bad of course, but it’s also not democracy.

Flowers and a card - if my wife was a mother? I’d probably go a bit more high effort but what that means will depend on what she wants generally!

I’m also British so Mothers day has been and gone (it’s tied in with Easter here), and I don’t bother with the superfluous additional one…

I genuinely don’t get this stance - are you as okay with far right marches as pro-worker strikes and pickets?

I’ve thought about changing mine to a spelling I prefer but honestly the paperwork involved after changing it seems like a total headache.

Finding the joy in the mundane is 100% the trick to life.

100% not dull!

Loved doing repairs like this when I was a bike wrench - incredibly satisfying to save components from the scrap bin.

It doesn’t serve ads if you pay for it - I used it for Reddit and moved over during the API debacle and I haven’t had any issues with it personally.

To avoid accusations of some kind of class war, I expect.

Difference being, of course, that this would likely be a progressive tax, like the mansion tax or income, so as to impact the “big fish” and allow movement of others.