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  • You can see which country spends money in US politics on OpenSecrets, actually.

    Link for 2023 spending: https://www.opensecrets.org/fara?cycle=2023

    • Country | 2023 Spending

    • Liberia $235,465,089

    • Saudi Arabia $93,058,680

    • China $85,378,704

    • Japan $69,410,221

    • Hong Kong $55,957,695

    • Bahamas $52,861,943

    • Marshall Islands $45,711,184

    • United Arab Emirates $40,491,794

    • South Korea $30,982,223

    • Canada $21,529,601

  • Guild Wars 2: Janthir Wilds - exclusive Homestead reveal
  • You can still try the base game for free if you want to give it another go.

    And when it goes on sale, the "Complete" Collection (First three expacs + the Living Story 2, 3, 4 and 5) is a steal at 50$/€. That's 10 years of content you can catch up to. Even full price I'd say worth it, if you're looking for a casual-friendly MMO with enough content to keep you entertained for a long time.

  • Overwatch 2 PvE completely canceled after poor sales: report - Dexerto
  • Another rec for GW2. I'd recommend you try the F2P game so you get a general sense of the mechanics and see if you like it, then wait for a sale to buy the "Elder Dragon Saga—Complete Collection" for half-price. I mean, there's enough content for it to be worth 100 bucks, but for 50 it's a bargain.

  • Hundreds of exhausted nurses quit Swiss hospital jobs each month
  • I get that we don't want to increase healthcare costs more, but the working conditions of our public health service are dramatic and should have been improved 20 years ago.

    We need a profound reform of the system, because healthcare workers should deserve 40 hour weeks like the rest of us, and doctors should be able to get enough operating hours to get their degree without having to work 70 hour weeks for a literal decade. It's insane.

  • Swiss parliament approves ban on full-face coverings like burqas, and sets fine for violators
  • The other big reason which isn't covered is privacy (in protests for example)...

    But thanks for finding the law, you saved me some time. I'll just add the equivalent text in the Constitutition

    3 The law shall provide for exceptions. These may only be justified on the grounds of health, safety, weather conditions or local custom.

  • A Textbook Case of Genocide
  • You know you can support the Palestinan cause without having to lie egregiously right. In terms of support, this is not "A first world, heavily subsidized, safe government" [...] versus "a poor destitute region" alone.

    Like Israel has the US as an ally, there is massive financial support from different oil-rich, Middle Eastern countries in the infowar in favor of Palestine. From one side Iran, which is sworn enemies with Israel, and is financing Hezbollah in Lebanon. From another Qatar, where Hamas leaders are (were? I've seen reports of them moving so I may be out of date) living in luxury. Hell, even Russia is probably using their troll farms because making Israel look bad makes the US look bad and there is no way they would miss that chance.

  • Hot Take: 5e is too bloated with unnecessary rules and should be simplified
  • So why not lean into it fully and make the GM responsible for the whole balancing?

    Because having things balanced properly in regard to the myriad options that are possible in people imaginations is hard, especially related to combat. Improper balacing leads to people having a bad time, while having an established, fair ruleset lets the DM and the players focus on other things.

    No need for the framework to do balancing, because a good GM will do that.

    But at this point why even have rules? A "good GM" can just entirely improvise a system.

  • Aw hell
  • I mean, to each group their own, but 4176 is the total of all together, which is a very unfair way of presenting it.

    You'll never have to choose between all of them, or even a decent fraction.

    While leveling up, you'll have to choose between 4-8 class feats accessible at your level, and you would usually prioritise ones available from your current levels to those available beforehand. Plus, at some point many feats require prerequisite, which means you can cut down half of options you can choose from really. Same thing with the race feats, skill feats and general feats.

    8 possibilites maximum at every level up might be too much for some people, but really isn't in the same ballpark of having to choose between 4000+ every time.

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