AFAIK Darrow played it, liked the game and then plagiarised it. Parker did buy the rights from Magie after the fact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord’s_Game

After reading that, I’m more confused than ever.

Anti-Monopoly is a variation that maintains the competition good, monopoly bad theme.

I said it’s a start, not the whole answer to the housing problem.

Also, just as examples:

Long-term empty homes To be classed as ‘long-term empty’ a home has to be liable for council tax and to have been unfurnished and not lived in for over 6 months. This figure is increasing all the time, but as at October 2023, it was 261,189.

Holiday lets These are an extension of second homes - homes not used as primary residences but used to make profit for their owners, short-let for several weeks or months of each year, blocking them from becoming anybody’s home. In many cases owners ‘flip’ to business rates which are often cheaper than paying council tax. As at March 2024, there were believed to be at least 85,000 of these such dwellings, flipped to business rates.

https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/facts-and-figures

I’m not against building more homes. We need more council homes for sure. Housing should be seen as a human need, not a commodity to trade.

Being stuck in a traffic jam (that you’re only contributing to) counts as freedom, whereas on a bike, you can just wheel your bike past the jam then be on your merry way.

Who has more freedom again?

It really does surprise me that letting a metal box insulating you from the world is what carbrains consider tough and FREE, whereas a bike, that you power with your OWN LEGS is sissy and WOKE! They have it so backwards!

They could always start with this issue:

https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/why-empty-homes-matter

I’m sure there’s a photo of EPSTEIN tattoo’d onto your knuckles in comic sans out there somewhere. Checkmate.

I wouldn’t recommend it for touchscreens tbh. Having the common letters close to each other just causes problems. And autocorrect doesn’t seem to understand I’m using a Dvorak layout. I’m just used to it now and like to have my keyboards matching. It’s great for physical keyboards though.

Fellow Dvorak. It’s great for typos on touchscreens. Too many times I’ve mistyped whole and all.

I had that problem at first, but it wasn’t too hard to adapt.

I guess I’m just a jammy dodger, I’ve never seen one!

As a Dvorak user, shift+ins, ctrl+del and ctrl+ins are my friends.

I’ve started taking photos of wherever I’ve put something important away for “safety”, because I always end up forgetting otherwise. I have a special folder in my gallery for this.

For some reason I read is as gambling too and didn’t notice till I read your comment. Weird.

I’ve been using em dashes for years. I learnt the alt code for them, because using hyphens for dashes looks awful (before that I’d do the double hyphen for an em dash). Also, like me, I notice you put spaces around the em dashes, which is apparently incorrect, but also according to me is the right way to do it.

We don’t have that brand here, so whenever people would quote that slogan online, I thought it seemed kind of sinister, like a quote from a horror film/game. I was so disappointed to find out it’s just a snack brand :(

I’ve never got one of those! And I’m just using my browser’s built in ad blocker. Are they still doing it?

Here in the UK, I used to read about Americans having free local calls in the computing mags. We had to pay local rate for our dial up. We had to wait till weekends and evenings to get off peak call rates. Freeserve was the first ISP here that gave no subscription charges for dial up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeserve

They later brought in something called Freeserve Hometime, which iirc was freephone dial up during off peak. I renamed the icon to Freeserve Downtime, because we used to get connection issues. No one in my family thought it was funny.

“Sorry, got d/c’d” “Gotta go, my mum wants to use the phone”

Good times. I miss old school Internet.

Like when companies boast about how their clothing range is made from recycled plastic bottles. Yes, congrats, you’ve taken big bits of plastic, and now turned them into microplastic fibres that will make their way into the water system every time you wash them. Bravo.

I wonder if they think of themselves as good Christians?

In the UK, the slogan was “the stronger soaker upper”. Also it got changed to Plenty, maybe because of the chocolate claiming trademark infringement?

Living in London all my life, we grew up in a car-less household and my dad would do nearly all of the food shopping for our family of 6 himself (7 for a while when my uncle lived with us while he was studying), carrying it all home on the bus. I am still car-free and can get my shopping home using the bus or my bike on the way home from work. If you can’t do that in your city, then that’s the fault of your city’s planners. It’s a failure of providing good public transport.