illumego

> That type of cooking is a natural monopoly.

Should bulk cheese puffs be state owned?

All of it has always served a commercial use. It's meant to be for you, whether you like it or not.

Or you could just go outside.

You'll eat the bugs and you'll be happy.

VR goggles? Dude. How about the part where they tried to consign your grandchildren to a dystopian technocratic panopticon?

https://hackernoon.com/on-the-infestation-of-small-souled-bu...

Wake me up when September ends.

There are no viable alternatives. Their business model is monopolistic vendor lock-in.

If you don't like it, administer your own database.

Where would a Roman run? To somewhere in Gaul?

"Ave! Auxilium requiro."

"Oxnychz navar werun dosh? [laughs in extinct language]"

"Quid?"

That's not how the legions worked. The men assembled three ranks deep. The first rank was comprised of those with middling experience, who had seen combat before. The rear rank was the senior veterans. The cherries with no experience went in the middle, both to be reassured by the E4 mafia laying skunion in the front rank, and to be prodded on by the very experienced guys behind them.

I think the reasoning behind decimation was that it was supposed to be an equivalent bloodbath defeat. Historically, a rout typically resulted in about 10% casualties. Decimation reduced the calculus of a Roman soldier to 'stay in the fight, and risk a 10% chance of death' versus 'run, and risk a 10% chance of being killed at random by your tentmates'.