No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
4hr ago
That's not a natural law.
It doesn't have to be that way. There are ways of doing it that don't require certain states to endlessly produce debt
No_one
4hr ago
Southern Italy, which is the source area for most Argentinian population isn't really like that.
No_one
4hr ago
Neocon maximalist foreign policy ideas are the water US diplomacy/ related academia live in.
They have no opposition but MAGA and that's new , they have been living in an echo chamber since 2010 and even people who were skeptical earlier fell in line.
No_one
4hr ago
That state capacity got eroded. They can't even staff police properly, or intimidate immigrant crime gangs.
No_one
4hr ago
When they went along with the J6 narrative, or the narrative that US election are organised in a trustworthy manner?
No_one
6hr ago
the intelligent people jab,
We don't live in a just, perfect world.
The world naturally evolved to be perverse and so it's wholly unsurprising that most people who aren't disagreeable assholes or weird autistics naturally gravitate to politics that are emotionally appealing and, on a surface level, sensible.
Look at this chart of donations by profession..
I'm not a believer and never was but I find it very easy to believe in man's fallen nature. Or more precisely man's retarded, perverse nature.
No_one
6hr ago
What % of Americans even follows BBC ? This is example of bullshit coverage abroad, not at all uncommon. If this was e.g. British spooks or government arm-twisting a US media company's domestic coverage to be more hostile to Trump, that'd be an example of British meddling.
I agree that they're hostile and all praying and hoping Republicans live up to their image.
No_one
18hr ago
US blue tribe is something like 75% of your 'intelligent' people. You can't really pin this 'interference' when 50%+ of the plot is your own representatives, and most of the people on the other side come from an environment where in some major countries, the media have been largely controlled by CIA since WW2..
deep state cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy
Mike Benz over on twitter is pretty pissed bc Trump admin didn't axe the NED but is trying to use for its own ends.
No_one
22hr ago
They are not actually obligated to just take this shit. It's a habit.
If NSA is blackmailing US senators to ensure they vote how it prefers them to vote, what makes you think anyone who isn't a reliable dimwit like the current Czech president or doesn't have a handle ( I dunno, a record of attending Belgian child torture parties) even makes it above regional level in Western Europe?
CIA, hand in glove with BND used to basically run German media during the cold war. Allegations that they're still doing so were levelled by Udo Ulfkotte, who spent 17 yrs as a respected journalist in a prominent newspaper, before leaving and eventually writing a book claiming CIA is basically still running German media, vetting journalists and keeping a watchful eye on the coverage of touchy topics.
I don't believe for a second American influence is just the think-tanker /overt Atlanticist circlejerk that is outwardly evident.
No_one
23hr ago
They have incredible trust in their governments.
True maybe of the Swiss today. The Germans used to trust their government, now that it's talking about disenfranchising 30% of the electorate, they don't do so anymore.
Neither do the French - Macron's approval rating is 11%.
No_one
23hr ago
Those Blue-Tribe-analogues interfere directly in our domestic politics in ways that give our Blue Tribe additional considerable advantages.
How is Germany, Britain or France interfering in US politics? They're unable to do so.
Is there a single example of British government operations interfering in a serious manner in US politics since the FDR approved pro-war campaign of 1940-1941?
No_one
2d ago
Huh, that's neat. In Ark there was nothing like that, you had to just know people.
No_one
3d ago
Hmm. That's not that bad, assuming there's no subscription. Think marginal cost works out to about 25 cents per cup using an espresso machine and some of the fancier Arabica beans.
No_one
4d ago
I have been settling for coffee straight from a Keurig.
Have only ever heard of Keurig in the context of it being some sort of scam on Bobos that milks customers through overpriced purchases of consumables. The Starbucks of coffee machines or something like that.
No_one
4d ago
People who have 3AM shifts typically drink energy drinks and because they're poor, they're not even sensible enough to settle for the store brand but instead spend 3x as much on branded ones.
You can hardly compare the caffeine levels.
Not in real life, and especially not in virtual worlds where you can just put on a new face effortlessly.
I played a 'game' that had absolutely no rules (no pve zones, no group size limits, no spawn protection, no base protection etc) except for "don't hack or bribe admins" and ... while there were 'defect bots' they ended up on everyone's shit list, to the point you might get a reward if you found them and reported them to other players. And of course, bribing admins did happen a few times and there was even a touching occurrence when every sworn enemy in the game dropped the war they were fighting and united to keep eradicating a Chinese group of losers who were somehow related to then owners of the game and had an admin help them with cheats and cheated with impunity. The admin gave it up after the fourth time they rolled back a server for the group :D.
Defect bots, the ones who didn't quit the game in the end had a small group of their own, hated by everyone.
Didn't have anything to do with accounts, really. Lot of 'elite' players were perma-banned several times or because large groups were usually using duping exploits (and the biggest offenders got admin nuked) or had some idiot sell their stuff for real money, which often led to the entire group being deleted and permabanned. Which meant they had to spend $12 on serial keys and rebuild for a month with help of friends who escaped the ban.
Unless you were a known quantity (e.g. vouched for by someone trustworthy) only a fool would really trust you. Nobody would trust you with anything but most menial crap if you didn't use voice chat ofc.
No_one
5d ago
It only worked because jobs and incomes for women were scarcer than for young men. Baby Boom wasn't a natural occurrence but deliberate social engineering.
No_one
5d ago
It seems I haven't even gotten to the second half yet, so. I'll let you know, I guess.
No_one
6d ago
Not sure where saw a recommendation for 'Encased' and it can be best described as 'Fallout 2' but with a modern engine and somewhat less memorable writing. Takes place in an alternate past where during the 70s an 200 km wide and probably invisible from outside 'force field' was discovered in a desert somewhere, with a single entrance. Inside are some enigmatic ruins. Borrowing liberally from 'Roadside Picnic', a joint US/Soviet company is established to research what's in there. Game starts a couple years after that.
The rulest is broadly but not too similar to Fallout 2 with abilities themselves gated beyond skill levels (e.g. if your lockpick is too low, you can't pick locks at all etc). It's more complex.
Then there's people who accuse it off knocking off Stalker which is fair, e.g. the anomalies are pretty much ctr+c; ctrl+v and (so far) it seems there aren't many novel anomaly designs, but come on, it's a wholly different genre and apart from the anomalies themselves, the vibe / aesthetics /settings are wholly different.
I've found a fair amount of people hating on it. The writing and quests aren't usually very inspired but they're not that bad usually. At least it's not offensive like most of e.g. Baldur's Gate 3. I suspect a lot of people got filtered by the combat which is absolutely not levelled to the player so you can pick impossible fights.
No_one
6d ago
I find this really odd. I take lots of photographs but I don't remember them specifically well. Every time I look at old photographs I go 'huh', I didn't remember that etc, or 'that guy was there?'.
When you take a photo you step out of the flow of your life into the chair of an observer.
.. ? You guys don't have a part of your mind observing your own life in 3rd person at the same time as you're living it? I recall 'just living in the moment' from age like 5-8 but have always regarded those memories as proof that children aren't fully human or something like that.
I hate cameras, but that's only because I love taking photos.
If people are aware they're being photographed, they start mugging for the camera and the shot is ruined. Not going to lie here, I'll be pretty happy once there are synthetic aperture cameras that can look like anything with a bunch of small holes.
?? If that's the case, why do they have an absolutely gigantic trade surplus despite being the world's largest raw material importér?
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