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You were able to send guys with cockroaches, stinky cheese or rats to the competition, then call the health inspector on them. Or send punks there to scare customers. Or you could rough up their staff (and of course make sure to keep gang members close to your pizzerias as well to fight back when they do the same!). The gang members also were able to rob banks or prisons (to free captured mates) if I remember well, but it was a lot of effort to manage this.

Thank you for tour blast from the past. But I wonder if it's correct that the author calls it Pizza Connection 2 - rather I think the game is correct to call itself Pizza - there were Pizza Connection, Pizza Connection 2 and finally Pizza Syndicate, which I think is the one we see in the article.

That said, I too miss this game and think about it sometimes still decades later. It had a beautiful world, great mechanics, many interesting quirks and things to learn over time, and even cheats (you could 'punish' your gang members until their health bars were empty and then they became invincible!). Nice to see the artwork again and to learn how it was made and finally understand the Pizza rating!

One of the best features of the game was though the handbook - it came with a pizza recipe and motivated me and probably many other teen boys to take their first baking steps.

Thank you to the author and even more to the artists that made this cool game. Wish there was something like this again today.

This may be US specific - from your average EU country I get a clear Joe Biden and the exact vote %.

Not sure it's a good or a bad thing that they apply their filters locally. Surely worse to have a global misinformation, on the other hand this means there are likely for all countries specific filters.

It seems that the videos are free to access so I don't understand this comment. You think he's getting rich off selling the accompanying book?

European here, that's absolutely false in Europe.

I have no strong views on whether US or Russia or China are the biggest hackers (and think it's impossible to k ow or judge objectivel) but feel compelled to point out that you seem convinced without evidence and proactively attack any replies contradicting you ("everything else is propaganda").

This is neither good discourse style nor does it help the accuracy of your own worldview to proactively decry and dismiss every contrasting position as propaganda. It's a surefire way to maintain incorrect worldviews and while it may hell your confidence does not make your positions true.

Am in Europe and pivoting away from Amazon because they started using own carriers and the insane practice of leaving parcels in front of your door. Should have probably left earlier but price + convenience are often hard to beat.. Especially as different amazons all deliver for free across Europe but have different prices so you can even arbitrage between them.

Quaint but really not worth reading. There was no mystery, just an author that decided to try to give an LP he bought to a choir member. Then he does some internet sleuthing and identifies locations but none of the people.

He fires off a few emails and that's it. He doesn't even follow up as he doesn't want to come across as a stalker - definitely a wise move, but then why write an article about it if there's nothing to report?

I guess it could be easier for users with low skills, and might make updating easier. All depends of course how this works in practice.

Hey Google, nice starting point. Please widen the scope so I can use these also with my family group. This opens a whole new possibility for family apps where I can share info or files with the kids. Thanks!

Not Europe but a few Baltic states are feasible. No one says they can hold it, but Putin has his own reasons so we should not think we can conclude on future Russian actions based on what we consider reasonable - e.g. no one predicted that a war on Ukraine was likely as it seemed to be completely irrational and self-defeating.

If nothing else, war has been many times convenient to keep regimes in power (see Bush post 9/11 for an obvious example). Putin might want to strengthen his case. See absurd discussions / push for a "Republic of Narva" as an example cause belli.

To latch onto your example: If she is in the office and has nothing to do why would she need to sit at her desk? Completely absurd obligation and I cannot fathom anyone putting up with this. Sure, you can write this in a contract, but such rules are clearly not about productivity but rather about power games by bad management. It adds nothing to the bottom line to take away your staff's humanity.

As we are in a public forum I venture to leave a comment on your two-person convo.

You (NewsaHackO) made a claim, which the other commenter showed was wrong. Then your successive comments change the nature of the claim / qualify your statement to a point it is a different one.

This is just an observation, It is not my place to make a judgment. We all learn by nuancing our understanding, so the thread may have widened everyone's worldview. I learned something and thank you both for this tidbit.

But it is also important to be humble: we are all wrong about many things. Most of those things don't matter to us as a person or to our lives. Thus when there is a (presumably) low-importance opinion as the one discussed here, maybe it is a good moment to take a step back, reflect, and update our worldview.

It helps us grow when we update our beliefs, and it is a sign of a wise man that he can accept that he was wrong and learn from it, rather than to argue about semantics or reframe the debate.