As a European watching the news, sometimes I have to remind myself that lots of other countries also go to shit from time to time, it just doesn’t get reported on as much. We get a massively disproportionate amount of reporting from the US as a result of how the English-speaking internet works.

In fact even writing this I just noticed the sidebar’s description of the community I’m posting in, guess I should probably just block it (no offence).

Sounds like they are on the tail end of the find out phase.

What, including the 10,000+ children killed so far by Israel? Yeah I’m sure they were asking for it. Definitely a proportional response. GTFO

And this will reduce terrorist recruitment how?

There should be a word for when someone thinks they’re countering a point, when in fact they’re just acting as a demonstration of it.

I was talking about all those downvotes you got by people who got whooshed

Too many users on here don’t know about the old magics

Like maybe a GIMP 3.0?

You posted almost verbatim what I was about to write. It’s a proper “don’t shit on my pie and tell me it’s a blueberry” moment. That’s not what friends are.

That’s an interesting thought, but I don’t think it stands up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.

The frustrating thing working in a big company is wanting to pay for something that costs 0.0000001% of the company’s annual revenue, but not being able to because big companies are always divided up in hundreds of small teams with their own budgets, and your boss is already over-budget for the quarter because the team’s cloud bill was 20% higher than predicted.

This is, of course, working exactly as designed.

Just to put a downer on things, looking at the final results I do worry that Canada may have won the battle but lost the war.

The situation in the US came about because an entrenched two-party system drowns out most viewpoints, and is what allowed Trump to seize control of a party of politicians who almost universally spoke out against him ten years ago. It’s also responsible for the Democrats’ constant and unrelenting shift towards the Right, enabled by the knowledge that most left-leaning voters are still too cowardly to vote third party.

And what did we see this election? All the smaller party seats drifting to the big two “to stop the wrong guy getting in”.

Be very very careful not to continue down this slope. It does not end with the bad guys staying defeated once and for all.

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Is it closer to 100 or closer to 3?

They’re not saying it because they believe it to be true, they’re saying it because they need it to be true in order to justify what they’re doing.

So you think they should just comply in advance?

The detail I enjoyed most about this is that he had fewer than 220 followers at the time of the ban. This suggests that in order for any details on this incident to have got out at all, a decent percentage of his fans in 2025 are actually just journalists waiting for him to do something stupid they can get an article out of.

Good for you. What people from the “a vote for third party is a vote for Trump” camp don’t understand is that the two-party system is exactly how fascism was able to become standard Republican Party policy in the first place.

A decent multi-party democracy would have enabled traditional non-fascist conservatives to break off into their own party whilst still holding seats in Congress, but instead we’ve got a whole party full of people who denounced Trump as a fascist way back in 2014 but have now kissed the ring. Likewise parties like the Greens would be able to enjoy votes from the millions of people who agree with all their policies, and be able to have members speaking and voting in Congress.

But the only way any of this can happen is if people stop being so short-sighted about every single election, and stop trying to whip each other into toeing the line of a demonstrably pisspoor party.

Was looking for this. One of the many many many problems the US has is spineless cowards terrified of trying to fix the underlying problem because every single election they ever have is always “the most important election in history”, that if they can just keep the bad guy out this once they can fix the systemic problems in their democracy later. And yet, the Democrats won in 2008, 2012, and 2020, with a congressional majority accompanying four of those years, and y’all did nothing during that time to fix matters.

I don’t get the hate. If a game is fun to play, then I’d much rather have the option of playing it with better graphics. People ITT are acting like the existence of remasters prevents new games from being made, which I don’t believe is actually the case. The bulk of the work on Oblivion Remastered wasn’t even done by Bethesda developers, but by an external company that specialises in art production.

I wish they’d do a proper remaster of Might & Magic VI in a modern game engine.

It’s definitely a joke or some sort of weird art statement, the only thing that bothers me is that I once got my decade-old account banned from LinkedIn for posting a job that they decided was discriminatory because it had a language requirement, and yet somehow this has passed their filters?