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Yeah I don't trust the canary at all but this sounds in line with what she's been saying so far.

And then there was the Quake 2 engine which gave us Deus Ex, American McGee's Alice and then (through the modified GoldSrc version) Half-Life, Counter Strike and countless others! The family tree of 3D engines is really interesting.

If Andrew Tate was a Persona character his dungeon would be something else.

It only works if you whistle the theme tune.

But I thought LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder?!

Actually I never got that. WINE isn't an emulator, but LAME very much is an MP3 encoder

Interesting, thanks for explaining!

Right, for some reason I thought it was a binary choice: close at 12 or get the (probably expensive) 24-hour licence.

Is there such a thing as a 1am or 2am licence? I feel it would be better if pubs/bars could just choose whatever opening times they want, it would prevent this "chucking-out time" phenomenon where everyone spills onto the streets with nowhere to go.

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Oh how I long to be in Belarus right now...

Vance faced an onslaught of bad press, as many commentators—including Harris’ step-daughter, Taylor Swift fans, Democratic officials, actor Jennifer Aniston, and several conservative women pundits—decried his comment.

My reading comprehension must be pretty bad because for a second it sounded like Taylor Swift was Kamala Harris' step daughter.

On the flipside of this: adolescence is an extremely important part of life where we make thousands of decisions that impact the whole rest of our lives. We sit exams that determine whether or not we do higher education, and therefore what opportunities we have later in life. Teenagers can get arrested and thrown in jail, or just excluded from schools and denied the essential education that they need in later life. There are far more children in jail than are on puberty blockers. The idea that individual agency starts at 18 is a myth.

And I don't really agree with the comparison with alcohol and smoking. Puberty blockers aren't an indulgence or vice - for a teenager going through gender dysphoria they can be the line between life and death. Plus, let's face it - lots of us are drinking and smoking a few years before 18.