“I don’t like the butcher of Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria’s vibes” is a bit of an understatement.

I can only attribute the fact that we didn’t go to war with Iran after Iran’s response to blowing up the guy who beat ISIS while he was on a peace mission to historical coincidence, since it definitely wasn’t Trump’s character, but 0% chance Hillary would have called off the attack at the last minute.

If Hillary had won, we’d have started a war with Iran the year Covid was starting. And then maybe had Trump in 2020 instead of 2016

Edit: Anyone downvoting me wanna say why they think the person who was so proud of facilitating the brutal murder of Qaddafi would have pulled back from the brink of war?

The adderal or whatever they were giving him for the 2020 debates would kill him now.

For Final Jeopardy, I want to see each of them try to draw a clock.

Well if you speak Tagalog, they’ll hate you for being Mexican.

So do something else. Or indicate you will pay them when it is legal to do so. Kapersky’s guy recommended Apple donate the bounty to a charity.

You trusted me? You fucking idiot. -Tim Apple

Is that a falsifiable prediction?

When is it gonna hit? If it goes beyond that period, are you gonna revise your model or insist you were only off by a year, and surely it will collapse next year?

I have zero faith in Russia, but every time someone’s told me <enemy of the west> is about to collapse or overthrow the government because of sanctions, and all evidence to the contrary is fabricated, they’ve been wrong. There’s journalists and economists who’ve spent 30+ years saying that about China, Cuba, and Iran, who still somehow have jobs.

Apple could have tried to work with them and said something like “We’ll pay when the embargo ends”, since now Kapersky has every reason to sell their next apple exploit on the black market.

They’ve just turned a department of people successfully working to make apple more secure into a department of people working to make it less secure.

Off by a factor of 1000. That’s why I’m not a nuclear engineer.

having to buy the radioactive materials from dictatorships

Not really, but also kinda. The biggest exporters of ore are Kazakhstan, Namibia, Canada, and Australia.

The only major producers that aren’t American puppets stripping themselves of resources to maintain western hegemony are Russia, Niger, China, and India, who total less than 15%.

I wouldn’t call Russia or India not-dictatorships, but I don’t see them using US weapons and training to put down a restive population and keep the resources and money flowing out like Kazakstan.

all large projects have this level of corruption and grift

Skill issue. I can’t even blame capitalism, since the french manage to get almost 90% of their power from nuclear.

China has 53 GW installed, 25 GW under construction, and another 47 GW planned. Generally they’re pretty clear-eyed when it comes to major projects like this, so I think we can infer the availability of cheap hydro and solar doesn’t favor doing more than ~15% nuclear since they’re only planning to increase it by 150% over the next couple decades.

Maybe that will change when they set up long term storage/reprocessing.

That wasn’t it, Cloudflare didn’t like the way the casino was using Cloudflare’s IPs, since they were getting banned in multiple countries.

Cloudflare only offers byoIP as part of a business package, and that comes with extortionate pricing.

Of course, but you try justifying an increased budget for writing or a bunch of smaller titles to a publisher whose only qualification is that they have a lot of money.

Or you can go the Todd Howard route and promise endless proc-generated gameplay, so that they barely even have to pay writers, the game will write itself!

Or you can just show them a pretty picture, describe an action sequence that a 13 year old boy would love.

Or even better, you can point to another successful release and just go “Yeah, we’re gonna do that again. It’s 99% done already so we can do it really cheaply”

When was this? Even in the 90s, realism chasing was a thing. It’s easier to market graphical fidelity than good writing.

When someone restates the points of your arguments, that’s not dishonesty.

This is useless, nothing I say is going to get around your quibbling.

Oh fuck off with that, I read your post, the point you were making was that the US propaganda operations must not be bigger than other countries because it is “piss poor” if it exists. I gave you evidence of its existence and its effectiveness.

Respond to the core point, or any of the evidence that the US has bigger propaganda operations directed at the US than any other country could possibly manage and quit squirming.

The idea that the US gov’t doesn’t propagandize the US people is just so laughable and observably false.

The most popular non-sports video game series is US propaganda. The most funded Hollywood movies, Marvel et al, has the military literally approve the scripts beforehand.

Reddit’s current Director of Policy worked the Atlantic Council and had no experience in social media before working for Reddit and purging it of popular leftist communities. After October 7th, they put out a message banning war footage or propaganda showing the Palestinian perspective.

Notice how Reddit is overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine, anti-russian, anti-Iranian, anti-chinese, and pro-zionist? Literally zero difference between what the major subreddits support and what the state department would want them to support.

Sure, and I bet you think the NSA only spies on foreigners.

Reminder that almost 10 years ago, Reddit accidentally released that their most “reddit-addicted” city was Eglin Airforce Base, which has multiple Cyberspace units.

If any government is trying to influence you on an american-based english-speaking websites, it’s the American government.

Even if it’s not on the menu, it’s not like you can’t get X neat or on the rocks.