Surely it’s better than a constitution that promises to be bad, like the USA one? https://youtu.be/2gaZLNvutcE

Just the fact that USA is comfortable attacking them means they don’t have nukes.

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He’s talking about risks for investors. If you’re in control of a lot of money, you get a lot of warnings in the EU, and even if you do some heinous stuff, you’re unlikely to lose much if you’re forced to stop. For big companies and billionaires, operating at the edge of legality, China is more likely to punish you, and less likely to give you advanced warning that they intend to punish you. He’s not appealing to proletariat with this.

The counter point would be that, even in the EU, when handling Russian owned assets, legal ownership wasn’t treated as sacred. So are they really offering much more stability than China or USA?

male only spaces could be a clutch until men get better at talking with women.

You’re not really making a good case for the inclusion of women in those sessions.

non-judgmental, but by women and men alike.

But it’s understood that the men in these spaces are already non-judgemental, or they wouldn’t work. But your comment makes it very clear who you put the blame on. As long as men right now are able to feel safe among other men and not in mixed groups, men’s groups should be encouraged.

Yes, the support group teaching masking is teaching a toxic culture, but if it’s necessary, it’s also teaching survival. It’s okay for any individual man or group of men to want to keep their head down and not be the driver of societal change.

These are kids who are in temporary housing, so they’re not homeless in the strictest sense. But if they were in that situation to begin with, they probably don’t have any way to pay bus fares.

We could stick with cheaper graphics and reusable assets while focusing on stories and designs.

I wish we could. But there isn’t evidence that anyone can make a living doing that. The handful of mega hits that people use as examples of successful cheap games isn’t that evidence, it’s just anecdotes.

Instead my hope is that as AI can automate much of the work and raise the quality floor of the parts that aren’t unique, the parts we actually don’t care about but expect to be there, that it’ll start being possible to spend half a year, a year on something, and then earn the equivalent of half a year or a year’s salary in sales, and have also made something that is actually able to speak for itself, to show the unique part without the jank and missing features dictating the conversation.

My example was a modern B game. AAAA games like Cyberpunk have 4986 people in the credits. Code Vein is at the lower end of what modern audiences will tolerate. I picked it because it came out this week. The top review presented to me by Steam right now complains about: Technical competency, frame rate, and missing high end visual features. These aren’t things you can fix without man-years of engineering time. The review calls the game cheap several times. They also call it rushed. The person praises the story and the characters and the designs. Things that are actually cheap, but get locked in early and then take armies and years to be able to present to audiences to see if they resonate.

A title that had everything it needed to succeed, but was buried under greed, rushed development, and technical incompetence. Final verdict: Do I feel cheated? YES. Do I recommend the game right now? NO. Do I recommend it at this price? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

The user explicitly says they want the game to have cost more to make, and that lower budget games shouldn’t can’t justify full-price. “229 people found this review helpful”.

unlike video games.

AI is extremely needed in video games. Do you know how many people make modern video games? The polish and content demands from customers are ridiculous, and the majority of the work required to meet those demands is technical work. Is it good for Code Vein 2 to cost 300 people 6 years? (1578 people in the credits) With team sizes and project lengths common in the PS2 era, that could’ve been 50 unique games.

That first link is dead.

Murdering civilians is what Russia does.

Which side made a post stamp out of blowing up a family car with kids onboard >_>

You’re adding a zero to the total number dead, and also conflating those killed by Iran with those killed by Daesh and Israel. The larger portion is those killed by Israel/USA/Allies since they’re the ones using terrorism tactics.

You’re definitely the one being rude, come on.

Weren’t you big on freedom of navigation™, USA? Wasn’t that you?

So if Israel just said “Oh yeah no we’re totes not gonna assassinate them. Pinky promise” they would’ve handed over the list?

So the only source is billionaires in the USA and their security firm. I’d like to remind you that they are Epstein’s primary customers, and therefore have motivation to deflect from themselves.

These are the only sources

Citing intelligence sources,

Sources within US and allied intelligence communities.

This is the only corroborating evidence

documents in the Epstein case contain 1,056 references to Russia and Vladimir Putin, and 9,629 references to Moscow.

But you can look through those references and they’re largely of the variety of “Hey it’s me, your friend, USA billionaire, let’s try to deflect all our criticism onto Russia.”

Meanwhile if you instead look for references to USA billionaires, they are both more numerous by orders of magnitude and consistently incriminating. The story should be about the complicity of billionaires in the USA.

https://nitter.net/mikepompeo/status/2007180411638620659

It’s so obviously and unashamedly driven by the empire, so why do you give the empire’s news reporting any weight at all?

No worries at all. I absolutely don’t expect most people to pick up on it. (That’s why it’s a good dog-whistle). Even in Iran they’d just think you’re outdated. But it’s a very common thing in the diaspora who long for the monarchy when there was a hierarchy of peoples and theirs was at the top. VOA/RFA operated Iranian-language media has been very good at pushing this narrative of going ‘back to tradition’, to a time when minorities ‘weren’t stealing resources from the majority’, or ‘demanding affirmative action’, etc.

If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.

In English, the language is called Iranian. Some people use Farsi, which is Iranian for Iranian.

If you see someone insist on Persian, don’t listen to that person. They are a Nazi every single time.

I don’t think you are a Nazi, but I’m convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you’ve heard someone say “Persian, Iranian, it doesn’t matter, they mean the same thing”, and that’s at first a very convincing argument, no reason to keep looking for patterns. But when you look for patterns, it becomes undeniable. It’s like people who insist on saying Burma or Rhodesia or Saigon.

The reason those people prefer the name Persia, is because it implies that the country belongs to one ethnicity and culture. It’s trying to lesser the other peoples of Iran.

“Farsi” is technically Iranian for “Persian”, so when translated it might seem like that’s already happening. But the difference is that people in Iran understand the context and history, and so while they use that name to describe the language, since that’s an accurate description of what the language is and how it came to be the lingua franca, people in Iran wouldn’t use it to mean the country or the broader Iranian identity.

You can’t even criticise the USA government while in other countries without risking being whisked off to heaven.