First we’d need to define “internet” for this purpose. Does classic mail qualify? It certainly can carry more data than pidgeons, and if you can still have computers you might get relatively close to the 90s internet by sending data by mail (especially when you’re communicating with people within a day’s travel, rather than on the other side of the earth).

Other than that, you can do a lot with visual signals. In the Discworld novels, they developed a kind of optical telegraph network with a technique that is somewhat similar to ship flag communication, and optical telegraphy exists/existed in the real world, too, though it never got much traction. If you have computers, you might be able to get pretty alright data rates with something like that.

Sapient creatures are people, yes. Especially when they speak human/humanoid language, which is true for many (most?) dragons in tabletop settings and even Lord of the Rings. In Faerun (D&D) they can even easily transform into humanoids.

Dragons are generally much bigger than PCs or most other creatures, therefore whatever a sapient dragon does is “being the bigger person”.

Himmler was a militay/police guy (e.g. head of the SS), the propaganda minister was Goebbels. Musk is far more similar to a propaganda minister than to an SS head.

AFAIK complete amnesia is rarely permanent, so it would probably fix itself most of the time if there’s no serious compounding issues.

Either way, the likelyhood of two missing people in the same general area looking so similar that their family can’t tell them apart visually seems extremely low.

Damn, that’s a lot! The $5 cig-and-coke makes a lot more sense like that, that’s $2.5 per cigarrette.

Good point. IIRC Australia also has relatively high tobacco taxes, right?

Damn, that’s expensive. Is this a gas station?

If you’re not on .world, defederating .world remains a possibility. Also, have you never browsed your instance’s local tab?

Only if you think that the instance’s userbase doesn’t matter for any given community.

dbzer0 or shitjustworks would have been way better than world. There’s just way too many assholes on world, and even if you ban everyone who is overtly malicious there’s still going to be a ton of normal users who are bringing a completely different vibe/political direction than the blahaj users (I say, as a feddit.org user).

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Gotta have peers to get peer pressured.

But D&D also massively changes the magic system periodically, and they actually add it to the lore as cataclysms and whatnot.

In D&D, elves don’t typically get several thousand years old.

Workers rights activists are leftist activists by virtue of advocating for workers rights, IMO.

Unfortunately, the tankies are also impeding the change we actually need (e.g. expansion of workers rights). It’s harder to get involved in leftism when such a large part of vocal leftists are tankies.

singular of “dice” is “die” btw

How is that a “flavor”?

China has a different flavor? 🤷‍♂️

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People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anaemic

AFAIK they also have a somewhat severe housing crisis. No idea whether it’s actually worse than e.g. in Australia, though - who doesn’t have a housing crisis these days?