Yip, *returns to whittlin’

I think they're either already operating at a loss, or are about to be. This is such a clearly money driven move that they've eviscerated their market.

People of mummification

Meanwhile. The former pope has more security than visitors.

Completed it once, now I started it again, had a save point in a locker for about ooooh 9 months or so, not brave enough to go back yet.

This is basically already a law in the US, if someone harms your potential profits through some kind of unprovoked action you can sue as anti-competitive behaviour or a slew of other US business legal statutes which would be considered wild in Europe. More or less for the reasons you mentioned too, the dependency on financial instruments means that the mechanics of those financial instruments require protection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership - If this goes through, it will mean that corporations are guaranteed profits and can sue if they don't get them. They'll be attacking using weaker versions of the same laws and they'll probably win because the whole world is corrupt as hell and the EU depends on Exxon now that Russian gas is Evil(tm).

So is this as a result of the increased demand caused by stranger things, or was stranger things just a brand management thing where they threw money at building up a wholesome image before the news broke?

Fuck, that's totally my great uncle... Haven't seen him in YEARS.