Tobasco da Gama @tobascodagama@witches.town

"It's so deeply embedded in contemporary capitalism that they regard this as acceptable behavior. What they then do is they try to distance themselves from this by saying "we use this place because it's tax neutral"—which means nothing at all. "We assume the wealthy people are paying taxes where they're due." That's an assumption that they're not in any position to know. They have no idea whether their clients are paying taxes."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4ebe/the-paradise-papers-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

"Of course, tax avoidance is a full-on attack on democracy": https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x4ebe/the-paradise-papers-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg

@sixohsix That was only temporary, I think.

Which is a shame, because I think shutting down m.s registrations permanently would be great for the federation as a whole.

@And_Zoidberg Yeah, Japan re-militarising is not cool or fun at all.

On the other hand, the "delay attackers until the US shows up to help" strategy that they've been using since the end of WWII definitely is showing some cracks right now...

Oh, look, another mass shooting that turned out to be committed by a white man with a history of domestic violence:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-texas-shooting/texas-gunman-attacked-church-where-in-laws-worshipped-sheriff-says-idUSKBN1D510F

Pretty convincing theory, IMO: https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/4/16602714/phnglui-mglwnafh-cthulhu-rlyeh-wgahnagl-fhtagn

(Full Throttle is pretty good about not having a whole lot of moon logic, and the remake lets you hold Shift to display all interactable zones. But there's a lot of "oh, I didn't realise there were multiple interactable parts to this object" and "oh, there's a whole entire other screen off to the right but it only shows up when you walk across some invisible line on the floor")

Finally got around to playing Full Throttle about a million years after that time I played a demo disk from PC Gamer or EGM or whatever dead tree magazine I used to buy. Pretty good game! The remaster is nice, too, because you can toggle the original graphics while keeping the remastered music or whatever you like.

Playing with an internet walkthrough handy does drive home just how much "playtime" on old games is the player throwing stuff at the wall and repeatedly failing because they can't figure out what the game is expecting them to do.

Like two minutes after I took this picture, a small fishing boat pulled into dock near the breakwater with several dozen gulls hovering in its wake looking for something to steal: https://www.instagram.com/p/BbFDeeIlu6s/

We, The Employees Of ClickHole.com, Have Voted Unanimously To Debase Ourselves In The Most Humiliating Ways Possible To Please The Billionaires Who Could Destroy Our Website On A Whim: http://www.clickhole.com/article/we-employees-clickholecom-have-voted-unanimously-d-6952

COD WWII: https://www.instagram.com/p/BbCvx_tnn6o/