I’m playing CoD Ghosts - multiplayer with bots. Not getting the time to game at the moment and 10-minute bursts of entertainment have their place.
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joined 2 years ago
Yes; I don’t think there’s much to gain by belittling and dehumanising your political opponent - you risk underestimating (and failing to learn) from them, but you also risk alienating the people you need to persuade to follow you (if a political shift is what you seek).
Articles like this feel like a missed opportunity; it's a real shame because the author can clearly write.
Littering the piece with emotionally-charged language and pejoratives - while also attempting to dismiss Mr Kirk's prominence and effectiveness (whatever one may think of him, his methods or his views) as "unremarkable" undermines the article's credibility and leaves it coming across as a rant. Mr Kirk was killed for his political views; the way this is handled in the article almost comes across as victim-blaming.
The central messages - that the conditions have been set for extremist rhetoric and hate speech to proliferate, that Mr Kirk was but one of many who hold the same views and that there is real concern with how far things have got (with no clear pathway back to politics from the centre) - don't therefore cut through to as wide an audience as it could.
I have been home with my poorly infant. Family and team at work have all been amazing. Child is getting better too.
Someone shared this with me years ago and I find it increasingly helpful in remembering how much bullshit our economies are built upon.
Link to the Financial Times here - “The parable of the ox” by John Kay
I think much of Geocities remained accessible until 2013/2014 before going completely (apart from Japan 2019 or so).
Holiday soundtrack for one particularly memorable break. Nice to revisit.
Sniper Elite 5. I played V2 way back and fancied an updated experience. Going reasonably well so far and that x-ray cam experience remains gnarly.
Half-Life was my introduction to FPS gaming; I loved every game in the series that I had the pleasure to play - Half-Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift and Half-Life 2 (Lost Coast, Episode One, Episode 2). I never got round to playing Alyx; I didn't have hardware that would cope!
Half-Life also spawned the CounterStrike series; I sank way to many hours into them.
My favourite game remains the original; I enjoyed the narrative and the occasional puzzle. I purchased the upgraded graphics pack (which also fixed a few glitches) and prefer the original with this pack to the remastered version of the game (Half-Life: Source).
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Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019
(bmjoncology.bmj.com)
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I ended up using Readkit; started with Reeder, moved to Feedly and then Readkit. I cannot remember the cost but it was a one-off at the time I joined the service. I found it to work well for me.