@RogerBW it seems definitely like a point being made here:
> She snorted in disgust. “The word I get, it costs more than you’re paying. They charge it off to research and use it to make cassette games.”
> “Oh, that’s—”
> “But let’s just assume they’re taking a thousand percent profit. Then what? Nobody else has what they’re selling. What have you got to whimper about? Pay or don’t pay.”
Seeing a reddit discussion on anagathics in #Traveller and what they look like, and someone suggests a tattoo form w/slow release ink. When it fades, you go back for more treatment.
If you're wondering just how incompetent the police would have to be not to catch someone using a siege weapon, this is a British headline referring to the other sort of catapult. The sort used by Dennis the Menace. No, the other Dennis the Menace.
@BigJackBrass suspect that's a British thing. We call them slingshots or shanghais (though they've mostly disappeared, even Bart Simpson doesn't use one anymore)