To explain; they think any form of consequences for bad behaviour is cancel culture and cancel culture is a purely left thing and is evil and wrong because freedom of speech and because it's something the left does. So anyone who advocates for consequences for a company's actions must be a leftist. It's a very common thing with American right wing propaganda. I have seen it way too often.
It's still possible that Trump has gotten his wires crossed and thinks it's an American thing. All it takes is one of his Russian handlers to mention that that's how it works in Russian and for him assume it's the same in the US. His brain isn't great with nuance after all. It's not like he understands the hows or whys of preexisting policies anyway.
Have you read his book? If not good because it'll kill some of your brain cells if you do. But there's nothing inherently wrong with writing a bad book. Most writers first book won't be great but shadow of the conquer has more problems than just being bad. In it the main character a former genocidal, mass murdering, serial rapist does nothing to redeem himself but gets forgiven anyhow by all the rape victims who got pregnant from the involuntary intercourse because they're so happy with their kids.
It has some troubling attitudes towards a great many things (mainly women) and those attitudes are presented by the book as self evident and true. I find it very telling of the man who wrote it.
Easily but that won't actually solve the problem. The issue occurs when trying to market and promote the game; if your announcement of your indie game and it's features gains any traction then some POS will whip together a crappy ai vomit stain. Since you probably released some images to drum up interest they can regurgitate something that looks passible like your game in a day by feeding those images to an ai. This means there is an absolutely terrible clone that will come out before your game that will confuse the customers and spoil the market. Honestly the fact that they don't steal code makes them sort of worse. If they did steal code then the quality of the clone would be way better. It would still be bad but it would be better then what the gen ai would come up with based on the description of your game mechanics. And since your game is going to get confused for the clone (since that's their goal) the worse the clone is the harder it will be to market the real game.
The ideas that copyright has been pushed to ludicrous extremes and that people deserve some control over what their creations are used for are not mutually exclusive ideas. AI is not simple piracy though it is something much more repulsive. There are many forms of piracy I can get behind and many pieces of media that now only exist because of piracy. Compare that to ai which mulches down people's creations, steals everything yet makes it unrecognisable enough that casual users won't notice and certainly won't find and become fans of the original sources. It ruins the ability for new artists to be discovered as now they have to fight a sea of slop just to get noticed.
That's not even getting started on the immeasurable stupidity of allowing corporate control over human creativity.
"Looksmaxxing has drawn criticism because some influencers promote dangerous techniques to change their appearance, including striking or damaging their jawbones and other risky practices."-from the article.
The looksmaxxing guys have a thing they call bonesmashing where they will hit their jaws with hammers or other implements in order to break it a little. This is done so they can reshape it as it heals. This is a repeated process. The jaw is broken and reshaped continually until they look a little more like the cartoonish over exagerated jawline of the chads from those chad memes. No I'm not kidding and no this is not done with any kind of medical supervision.
The answer is a combination of corruption and regulatory capture. It started with sports betting. They were able (through extensive lobbing) to convince the government and the regulatory bodies that sports betting should have looser rules than regular gambling. This enabled them to advertise and expand far more aggressively. This caused a massive gold rush of sports betting companies looking to take in some easy money.
There were lawsuits of course but they just set legal precedent that weakened gambling regulations and narrowed what the government could call gambling. Simultaneously a big boom of retail investment apps and sites showed that there was money to be made in the financial speculation markets. Financial speculation is just another form of gambling so those companies empowered by all that new money put a large portion of it to convincing the government that financial speculation is not gambling and cannot legally be considered such.
This resulted in massive gambling loopholes; now you can call any site or app a financial investment app and you don't need to worry about any gambling rules. What we get now is the result of effectively completely deregulation gambling. They want you to bet and gamble on everything.
It's not even legal through some obscure loophole either the; amendment that banned slavery had an explicit exception for prisons and prisoners. Also, it means there is no reason for them to try to reform criminals. It's in their best interests for the convicts that leave their care to quickly get arrested to come right back again. Trying to give them education and opportunities costs money and that's money that can be spent on kickbacks and bribes to get their facilities full. There was one judge who immediately sent any juvenile defendant before him to the same facility. The facility that was sending him kick backs. Now as you mentioned the whole disgusting life destroying thing has been supercharged thanks to the crackdown.
No authoritarian government cares to listens to protestors. Yet they all fear them. The point isn't to make the government comply but to show everyone how many people are on your side. The more people show up the easier it is to motivate people to resist.
The things is that they do have the right to do so. If they were to simply, unilaterally declare which candidates they're going to put forward that too would be perfectly legal. There is no law mandating primaries. The parties are Independent organisations and how they pick their candidates is entirely up to them. If you were to create a brand new party and pick which candidates you're putting forward by drawing straws that would be perfectly legal too. Both parties just choose to hold primaries because for one thing it picks a candidate more likely to win and secondly it obscures how much democracy has been undermined in the US. The systems have been rotting well before Trump.
They don't have a plan. This cut the head of the snake strategy never works. It hasn't worked on stopping organised crime or terrorist groups. When you murder someone they are rarely replaced by someone more moderate.
It's already expanded. It started as going after "rape and incest" but now it's all adult games. But a bunch of lgbtq games have already gotten hit. I am beyond furious.
Being a nice person isn't bad but "nice guy" is a term for someone who presents themselves as nice and polite (but only to people they're attracted to) and expects romantic attention in return for being nice. Basically, they think the fact that they put so much effort into being nice they deserve that romantic attention. They'll often talk about how nice they are.
Of course, anyone who needs to repeatedly tell you they are nice tend not be.
Alcohol is worse for you than weed. But alcohol is far more harmful for you than many people realise. Being not as bad as Alcohol does not make it good or harmless. However, after many years of very overblown propaganda about the threat of weed the pendulum has swung the other way and no many people falsely believe all talk of the damage weed can do to be propaganda. Here's a good video explaining the topic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRaI0ZeAf8&t=661s&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell
Sadly that not going to work; liquid explosives are a lot less reliable and far more unstable than the stuff they use now. All it takes is a little leak or some crack to set those off. This means manufacturing the mines is significantly more hazardous and transporting them is riskier. You wouldn'tbeable to stockpile them because the explosives would be losing potency from the moment the chemicals were made. Worst of all since they can't be used to make shaped charges most of the explosive force would go into the ground instead of being directed up and anti tank mines would be impossible.
This isn't to say self deactivating mines are impossible but every solution I've heard is either impractical or could easily be exploited by the enemy.
Mc Kinsey are the guys who invented and popularised the idea of executive bonuses for short term company performance and the idea of layoffs to temporarily make those companies look like they're doing better. They've also consulted for all of the most evil companies in this thread while they were doing their most evil shit. They constantly do the most courpt stuff imaginable. Often their advice creates massive problems which they will then sell their services to the people cleaning up their mess.
They've consulted for hostile nations while being paid by the US government to give advice on how to deal with those hostile governments.
Kosovo was UN not NATO. Only NATO engagement was Afghanistan and the Taliban had claimed responsibility for an act of war against a NATO member. Now the actual war was fought entirely in Afghanistan but that doesn't mean it wasn't a defensive war. It just doesn't feel like one.
Don't take this to mean I supported the war in Afghanistan or the many horrible things US troops did while there. (nor do I support the Taliban or their practises and tactics). But NATO is by rule and charter very much a defensive alliance. So much so that if Trump attacks Greenland he will have to face the rest of NATO. Which is something I don't think he comprehends, it's obvious that to him the US is the ruler of NATO.
To explain; they think any form of consequences for bad behaviour is cancel culture and cancel culture is a purely left thing and is evil and wrong because freedom of speech and because it's something the left does. So anyone who advocates for consequences for a company's actions must be a leftist. It's a very common thing with American right wing propaganda. I have seen it way too often.
It's still possible that Trump has gotten his wires crossed and thinks it's an American thing. All it takes is one of his Russian handlers to mention that that's how it works in Russian and for him assume it's the same in the US. His brain isn't great with nuance after all. It's not like he understands the hows or whys of preexisting policies anyway.
Have you read his book? If not good because it'll kill some of your brain cells if you do. But there's nothing inherently wrong with writing a bad book. Most writers first book won't be great but shadow of the conquer has more problems than just being bad. In it the main character a former genocidal, mass murdering, serial rapist does nothing to redeem himself but gets forgiven anyhow by all the rape victims who got pregnant from the involuntary intercourse because they're so happy with their kids.
It has some troubling attitudes towards a great many things (mainly women) and those attitudes are presented by the book as self evident and true. I find it very telling of the man who wrote it.
Easily but that won't actually solve the problem. The issue occurs when trying to market and promote the game; if your announcement of your indie game and it's features gains any traction then some POS will whip together a crappy ai vomit stain. Since you probably released some images to drum up interest they can regurgitate something that looks passible like your game in a day by feeding those images to an ai. This means there is an absolutely terrible clone that will come out before your game that will confuse the customers and spoil the market. Honestly the fact that they don't steal code makes them sort of worse. If they did steal code then the quality of the clone would be way better. It would still be bad but it would be better then what the gen ai would come up with based on the description of your game mechanics. And since your game is going to get confused for the clone (since that's their goal) the worse the clone is the harder it will be to market the real game.
The ideas that copyright has been pushed to ludicrous extremes and that people deserve some control over what their creations are used for are not mutually exclusive ideas. AI is not simple piracy though it is something much more repulsive. There are many forms of piracy I can get behind and many pieces of media that now only exist because of piracy. Compare that to ai which mulches down people's creations, steals everything yet makes it unrecognisable enough that casual users won't notice and certainly won't find and become fans of the original sources. It ruins the ability for new artists to be discovered as now they have to fight a sea of slop just to get noticed.
That's not even getting started on the immeasurable stupidity of allowing corporate control over human creativity.
Ai and it's apologists are disgusting.
"Looksmaxxing has drawn criticism because some influencers promote dangerous techniques to change their appearance, including striking or damaging their jawbones and other risky practices."-from the article.
The looksmaxxing guys have a thing they call bonesmashing where they will hit their jaws with hammers or other implements in order to break it a little. This is done so they can reshape it as it heals. This is a repeated process. The jaw is broken and reshaped continually until they look a little more like the cartoonish over exagerated jawline of the chads from those chad memes. No I'm not kidding and no this is not done with any kind of medical supervision.
The answer is a combination of corruption and regulatory capture. It started with sports betting. They were able (through extensive lobbing) to convince the government and the regulatory bodies that sports betting should have looser rules than regular gambling. This enabled them to advertise and expand far more aggressively. This caused a massive gold rush of sports betting companies looking to take in some easy money.
There were lawsuits of course but they just set legal precedent that weakened gambling regulations and narrowed what the government could call gambling. Simultaneously a big boom of retail investment apps and sites showed that there was money to be made in the financial speculation markets. Financial speculation is just another form of gambling so those companies empowered by all that new money put a large portion of it to convincing the government that financial speculation is not gambling and cannot legally be considered such.
This resulted in massive gambling loopholes; now you can call any site or app a financial investment app and you don't need to worry about any gambling rules. What we get now is the result of effectively completely deregulation gambling. They want you to bet and gamble on everything.
It's not even legal through some obscure loophole either the; amendment that banned slavery had an explicit exception for prisons and prisoners. Also, it means there is no reason for them to try to reform criminals. It's in their best interests for the convicts that leave their care to quickly get arrested to come right back again. Trying to give them education and opportunities costs money and that's money that can be spent on kickbacks and bribes to get their facilities full. There was one judge who immediately sent any juvenile defendant before him to the same facility. The facility that was sending him kick backs. Now as you mentioned the whole disgusting life destroying thing has been supercharged thanks to the crackdown.
No authoritarian government cares to listens to protestors. Yet they all fear them. The point isn't to make the government comply but to show everyone how many people are on your side. The more people show up the easier it is to motivate people to resist.
The things is that they do have the right to do so. If they were to simply, unilaterally declare which candidates they're going to put forward that too would be perfectly legal. There is no law mandating primaries. The parties are Independent organisations and how they pick their candidates is entirely up to them. If you were to create a brand new party and pick which candidates you're putting forward by drawing straws that would be perfectly legal too. Both parties just choose to hold primaries because for one thing it picks a candidate more likely to win and secondly it obscures how much democracy has been undermined in the US. The systems have been rotting well before Trump.
They don't have a plan. This cut the head of the snake strategy never works. It hasn't worked on stopping organised crime or terrorist groups. When you murder someone they are rarely replaced by someone more moderate.
It's already expanded. It started as going after "rape and incest" but now it's all adult games. But a bunch of lgbtq games have already gotten hit. I am beyond furious.
Every single human animal hates your guts
Modern civilisation is slowly falling to barbarians, except none of the barbarians are foreigners.
Being a nice person isn't bad but "nice guy" is a term for someone who presents themselves as nice and polite (but only to people they're attracted to) and expects romantic attention in return for being nice. Basically, they think the fact that they put so much effort into being nice they deserve that romantic attention. They'll often talk about how nice they are.
Of course, anyone who needs to repeatedly tell you they are nice tend not be.
Alcohol is worse for you than weed. But alcohol is far more harmful for you than many people realise. Being not as bad as Alcohol does not make it good or harmless. However, after many years of very overblown propaganda about the threat of weed the pendulum has swung the other way and no many people falsely believe all talk of the damage weed can do to be propaganda. Here's a good video explaining the topic; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBRaI0ZeAf8&t=661s&ab_channel=Kurzgesagt%E2%80%93InaNutshell
Wait till we get a flat earther in office who denies the existence of gravity, then it'll be political.
Sadly that not going to work; liquid explosives are a lot less reliable and far more unstable than the stuff they use now. All it takes is a little leak or some crack to set those off. This means manufacturing the mines is significantly more hazardous and transporting them is riskier. You wouldn'tbeable to stockpile them because the explosives would be losing potency from the moment the chemicals were made. Worst of all since they can't be used to make shaped charges most of the explosive force would go into the ground instead of being directed up and anti tank mines would be impossible.
This isn't to say self deactivating mines are impossible but every solution I've heard is either impractical or could easily be exploited by the enemy.
Mc Kinsey are the guys who invented and popularised the idea of executive bonuses for short term company performance and the idea of layoffs to temporarily make those companies look like they're doing better. They've also consulted for all of the most evil companies in this thread while they were doing their most evil shit. They constantly do the most courpt stuff imaginable. Often their advice creates massive problems which they will then sell their services to the people cleaning up their mess.
They've consulted for hostile nations while being paid by the US government to give advice on how to deal with those hostile governments.
Kosovo was UN not NATO. Only NATO engagement was Afghanistan and the Taliban had claimed responsibility for an act of war against a NATO member. Now the actual war was fought entirely in Afghanistan but that doesn't mean it wasn't a defensive war. It just doesn't feel like one.
Don't take this to mean I supported the war in Afghanistan or the many horrible things US troops did while there. (nor do I support the Taliban or their practises and tactics). But NATO is by rule and charter very much a defensive alliance. So much so that if Trump attacks Greenland he will have to face the rest of NATO. Which is something I don't think he comprehends, it's obvious that to him the US is the ruler of NATO.