Anarchists notably are ok with a little genocide if it means the capitalist establishment can keep on limping along

Where are all the Democrats saying that Democrats would be anti-genocide after the election?

Guess who is still in power, and guess who just backed out of their ultimatum and refused to reduce military aid to Israel even after they failed to let aid in.

People in power should learn that these social contracts and norms are a peacekeeping measure and violating every single one isn’t a good way to keep the population peaceful.

That contextualizes their motivation to post this in a whole other light if true…

“Look at these people (whose infrastructure we destroyed and who we have made desperate through starvation and inhumane treatment) acting so uncivilized (trying to get to the aid before we have a chance to destroy it)”

I’m also not sure what point you’re trying to make but it’s worth pointing out that “drawing borders” and “European colonization and ethnic cleansing / genocide” are very different degrees of fuckery and you’re conflating both types here.

how has slow progress worked for you in the last hundred years

while you’re busy debating whether these are Nazis or just sparkling fascists you’ll end up in the same spot regardless

that’s just simply not true. if you look at the project lifecycle for a game very little resources are spent in preproduction, the bulk of the time is in production. preproduction usually has all of the core mechanics and ideas implemented by the end, then it’s just about executing on that plan. there’s not a lot of experimentation and iteration once you are in full tilt production mode

much of a game’s development time is spent creating assets, using a new engine doesn’t mean your existing low fidelity assets suddenly look better, just better lit

we just need to use natural gas as a bridge fuel trust me, let’s just build pipelines and special refineries and special cargo ships that can handle these new fossil fuel supply chains. just a bridge fuel though just until solar catches up don’t worry they’re just multi decade leases of course we’re going to hit net zero trust me just use gas it’s clean burning trust me just ship the gas across the world it’s the greenest choice there is just trust me

yes and if human well being was the goal over profit. profit benefits the few, and it’s an amoral driving force. unfortunately it’s been conflated with freedom and fairness.

If your goal is to achieve realistic looking city streets the best way to do that isn’t an expensive online infrastructure and much more advanced simulation.

If the developers had the skills and time to do that they could more easily have more dense NPC crowds and richer local simulation.

The reason the games aren’t already like that is likely just cost, talent, and target performance, which you’d need a lot more of to execute your plan.

there are lots of systemic forces that incentivize being an asshole as well

I am doubting myself now after not being able to quickly find a verified source but I’ve worked with lots of smart TVs and seem to recall Samsung or LG models using this simulated effect. It would have had to have been simulated since there was no signal coming in, and I recall the pattern being noticably pseudo random.

As for why: I have no idea! Maybe just for user familiarity reasons, since a lot of people grew up with that kind of analog feedback that the antenna wasn’t getting a signal.

Take what I said with a grain of salt, though, since like I said I wasn’t able to quickly verify it. It’s a vivid but ambiguous memory, though, since I also thought it was strange

Depending on the TV it’s likely simulated noise at this point

If the only difference between you and them is who is in the in group and the out group, you might not be so different after all.

I don’t think this is likely to work tbh. I’m sure the app has enough device data to link the user with a broader data profile that would easily eliminate data from people that don’t actually have periods.

The data profiles people build on citizens aren’t limited to one data source, and emails/phone numbers/browser fingerprints/device details are all things that can be keyed between data sets to relate identities.

Fascist law enforcement can and would do this kind of thing to chase individuals. This kind of noise seems easy to filter out.

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That’s giving the algorithms too much credit. They don’t encode user desires they encode user engagement bait. Like everything under our capitalist system the motivation is profit: in this case ad revenue. Sometimes positive things or agreeable things drive engagement, sometimes negative or divisive things. As long as users spend time scrolling on the platform they’ll both be given equal weight.

As with anything profit motive driven it’s just about what makes more money not what makes more sense or what makes better outcomes. The core assumption of capitalism (at least how it’s sold) is that profit causing activity correlates with improvements to human well-being. How anyone still believes that, I’m not sure.

The UN is not nor should it be a Western organization. He attended the G7 and it was also correct for him to attend BRICS.

Go ahead: destroy the world order by polarizing the UN. Let’s see what happens. History says world war, but maybe this time the bad guys will feel sorry and apologize.