Wait, the gabecube isn't exactly a cube? Well that's just mildly annoying for no good reason!

The other problem, of course, is that we’ve spent a century and a bit messing with the forests, which used to have regular burns that acted as fire breaks for the next year’s burns. Ground cover grew back thick and green in the ashes, and trees dispersed their seeds.

Now however, we’ve stopped that cycle, leading to overpopulation of insects, buildup of deadwood, and no natural fire breaks, meaning humans have to artificially do all the work that used to happen naturally… right when everything is heating up and weather systems are shifting.

As I understand it, at least some of the fires that had been happening previously were controlled burns by ~~Native Americans~~ First Nations people (sorry, USian talking about Canada), not "naturally" occurring ones.

https://parks.canada.ca/nature/science/conservation/feu-fire/autochtones-indigenous

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fire/indigenous-fire-practices-shape-our-land.htm

Ironically, crocodile nuggets aren't dino nuggets. Chicken nuggets are closer.

'Course, if all you're really looking for is "scary scaly monster nugget" regardless of taxonomy, by all means, croconugget away!

I actually had a job for a while where I was responsible for the Changeable Message Signs (CMSs) on the freeways. So not quite a traffic reporter, but responsible for giving traffic advice to drivers in real time. You're right, it was a reasonably interesting job.

That said, other than making people aware of multiple-lane-closure wrecks in time to take an alternate route, there isn't much "alleviating" that mere comments can do. The fundamental problem is that too many people are trying to use the roads at once because the system isn't designed to facilitate alternatives to driving. Having some engineer on the TV every day saying "lobby your politicians for more funding for bikes and transit" might be a good thing, but wouldn't exactly be "news."

From a purely legal standpoint, purchasing from GoG is still only purchasing a license for a game, no different from Steam, Epic, any other online game storefront, and no different from buying physical.

All game purchases, for decades, have only been purchases of a license.

WRONG!

It's true that GoG is exactly like Steam is exactly like buying a physical disk, but none of those things are "licenses!" In all of the cases, you are buying an individual copy of the game, not "licensing" a damn thing! It's exactly the same as buying any other piece of media going all the way back to paper books, and nobody (honest and sane) is trying to bullshit us about those being "licensed."

"Licensed, not sold" is 100% a lie in service of the copyright cartel.

It's a shame, because your comment was otherwise correct and excellent except for that one crucial point.

All chicken nuggets are dino nuggets.

No, you're mistaken. In America, prison is about creating a permanent underclass (mostly) of ethnic minorities to use as slave labor. Scandinavia treats their prisoners like humans because, being fairly racially homogeneous, there's no visibly-obvious way to "other" them.

This makes me want Adam Conover and Obama to make a sequel to The G Word showing how much damage the Federal government has taken in the last couple of years.

I was thinking of custom-painting it (like Alton Brown did to his mixer) and keeping it.

I almost read that name as "Kathy Najimy" (the actress from Sister Act and Hocus Pocus) just now.

The movies are one thing, but in the Clone Wars TV series Anakin was a reasonably competent general.