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California Assembly Passes Protect Our Games Act , a big win for consumer advocates and gamers

A little background for those new to this :
The video games industry used to operate on a buy-it-own-it principle - you walk into a video game store and buy a video game and you can play it for as long ...

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ICE goons return empty ...

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Even the mobile fire groups (Russian anti-drone units in vehicles as a sort of makeshift AA) are now complaining about lack of fuel. And they're the ones supposedly shooting down Ukrainian drones so that Russian supply vehicles can possibly make it to their destinations. When the ...

Linguistic stock exchange update:

Exaggerations are up 900 million percent this quarter
Vagueness is down slightly
Ambiguity is either over-valued or under-valued
Understatement is not doing great
Figurative language is yesterday's news
Anagram is a telescope to see place
Word salad is ...

The children yearn for the mines: Putin advocates "allowing" Russian 12-year-olds to work

Russia is considering lowering the country’s working age to 12 and reopening Soviet child labour camps to solve a jobs crisis driven by the war in Ukraine.

Moscow’s children’s rights commissioner proposed ...

Ukraine strikes back:

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For starters, Ukraine strikes Russian corvette Boikyi at dock in St Petersburg . It was at dock for scheduled repairs, and now looks like it'll need much more extensive repairs, if it can be saved at all. This ship was previously used to escort shadow fleet ...

Russian Official Says Crimea Gas Crisis ‘Temporary’ as Ukrainian Drones Pound Infrastructure

“This [gas rationing for selected individuals like police and government officials, and a ban on sales to average citizens] is a temporary measure. In the course of today there will be deliveries of fuel ...

Russian telegram has a post from a woman who brought her kids with her to Crimea and is bitterly disappointed that there is no fuel. She very much has the attitude that she's entitled to fuel and seemingly doesn't understand the root cause of the fuel crisis. Her posts ends with this comedy gold ...

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I would watch the hell out of this.