“[…] the entire world’s resources become dominated by 3 players within the first two weeks. There’s a barely-funcional civics system where players can elect somebody national leader, and there’s a toy government of the president’s cronies […]”

I mean, that doesn’t sound fun, but actually sounds pretty realistic :(

When it says “trans activists” does it mean “anti-trans activitists” or “people who think trans people should be allowed to exist”?

I didn’t realise there was a legal limit on sending texts.

If they’re saying “apparently I smell great”, that suggests they’re relying on other people’s noses.

Sadly, that’s exactly what I can see happening :(

There’s a bit of missing punctuation, perhaps - Epstein’s banker’s daughter.

The daughter of one of the people who dealt with Epstein’s finances.

Ha, might be a bit harder to work out - but good to have a fully grown cat photo as comparison.

Looking at your “before and after” photos, and based on what my own cats looked like at 3, 4 ,5 ,6 months, I’d say your guess of 4 months isn’t far off. 4 or 5 months?

You’re thinking she’s less than a year - is she full size yet? If not measure and weigh her now. When she reaches her adult size/weight, work backwards from that.

It depends on the cat, but generally they grow quickly for six months, then slowly for six months, then they stay at that size, but bulk out a bit for 6 months.

I can’t tell if you’re impressed or disappointed.

To cover both:

1. Yes :)
2. Yeah, sorry :(

That’s not a shitpost.
This is a shitpost.

The thing is, two-tier policing does exist - except in entirely the opposite way this is claiming.

Smash up a city centre in a right-wing protest? Loot and burn down local businesses? Drag people out of cars and kick their heads in in front of their children? Smash up a hotel, and violently assault their staff?

Government and police say “All fine. We understand why they’re angry”.

Block roads and motorways with tractors to protest against large companies paying tax on property worth millions?

Government and police say “All fine. We understand why they’re angry”.

Hold up a placard saying “Save the environment”, “trans people are people” or “I’m not 100% convinced Israel is entirely correct”?

Terrorist! Send the riot police in! Smash their faces in with batons and drag them down the road. Imprison them without trial for over a year.

[…]pretty much anything.

as long as it’s right-wing.

Mixed feelings about this - there’s clearly a point where “I’m making a bit of food for friends” drifts into “I’m running a small shop” - but at what point in that do you say “you need to make sure your food preparation area is compliant”?

In an ideal situation, there would be a significantly smaller street trading fee for micro-businesses, or perhaps one which scaled with business size? If the council was running for the benefit of its community, the focus would be on supporting these micro-business through the process of bringing things up to standard and applying for the correct things, instead of fining them for being wrong.

Those will definitely help (along with sleeping properly, not having kids and trying to live non-stressfully) within the boundaries of your genetic “visual age range”, but I wonder if the biggest difference is just genetics.

I spent many a year as an underslept, hard drinking, rubbish-food-eating, stressed-out, lazy chain-smoker - but I still look much younger than a lot of people my age, because I was lucky with my genetics - younger looking skin, full head of thick hair, hair still original colour, eyes don’t need glasses yet etc. I can knock another few visual years off if I’m really looking after myself (or add quite a few on if I’m tired and ill).

Some of my significantly healthier-lifestyled friends have got the “Captain Picard” grey/bald hair thing going on, wrinkled foreheads and glasses, and whatever they do, they’re always going to look significantly older than me, which doesn’t really seem fair on them.

Birdseye Crispy Chicken Dippers?

Clockwise from left:

Pepperoni Pizza
(Probably) Turkey dinosaurs
Spiced curly potato chips/fries
(Maybe) Fish or chicken fingers
(Probably) chicken nuggets
Alphabites potato chips/fries
Potato waffles
Potato Smiles
Spaghetti Hoops in Tomato Sauce

Mostly potato, therefore mostly vegetable, therefore healthy.

That looks absolutely delicious.

Not sure if that’s Autism or Britishness to be honest.

So, by carefully implementing good taxation rules in different countries at different times, we can herd them all into one place at one time?

Also, even if 90% of scientists did say that… what percentage of those scientists are not biologists?

Do we need to know a geologist’s or physicist’s opinion about “some sort of weird meat-science”?

Like the old “Yeah, sorry, I am a Doctor, but I’m a Doctor of Jazz, not medicine”

“Yeah, it does do that, doesn’t it?”

*click*

"Yeah, I know, it used to better, didn’t it?

*click*

“Yeah, I don’t know why they changed it”

*shuffle*

“No, no, it’s not just you, I’ve heard loads of people saying the same”

*click*