9point6 @ 9point6 @lemmy.world

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They highlight the arrest of Republic anti-monarchy protesters during King Charles’s coronation, charges and arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators and long sentences for climate protesters as examples of the crackdown on the right to peaceful dissent.

Funny how the flag shaggers get a pass to literally travel across the country to batter police officers when a pensioner wearing a t-shirt gets arrested on sight

Why do these laws disproportionately affect progressive protesters, hm?

Great gameplay, but also a great soundtrack and general world aesthetic too

All neatly packaged in a game that doesn't outstay its welcome

Hard to imagine EA making anything like this today

I think it's a mostly automated voice with me saying my first name at one point

That's if it's still even enabled, I should check that...

o7

Why, it's magnificent, that's what the fuck it is

Halfway down was a quote from the working-class-LARPer fascist, Stephen yaxley-lennon, that he's called for trump to invade the UK.

Unrelated, I'm pretty sure treason is the only thing we still have the death penalty for...

I mean, they do this kind of stuff anyway, just in broader strokes.

Ice cream is a classic example of something that's always on offer in the middle of winter because it's less in demand

Can you yanks do that "well armed militia" thing some of you have been banging on about in defense of mowing down children with automatic weapons?

If you do root cause analysis on most of society's ills, you pretty much always eventually arrive at "the economic and political system we use, is actively harmful to the vast majority of people"

Literally I can't think of a single big problem we're facing where this isn't the case.

I mean the ties between the British far right and Russia are vivid and many.

The political acumen of people in this country is fucking abysmal

I've never seen something so pointless that I've wanted more

I wish I still had time for advent of code...

I think I saw a thing once where someone with ARFID would literally only eat undercooked looking french fries.

I can understand if the restriction is something unhealthy, and nothing stopping quantity, I can see this scenario happening

I wonder if there are any investors in oil companies on Lemmy at all tbh

Like I've got a decent portfolio of investments, but I will never directly invest in oil (or military). Given the demographics here, I wonder if I'm a pretty typical investor or not

Fair observation, but conversely, this particular kind of populism very much started with the 20th century fascists, it's uncanny how similarly it's going now.

Especially in terms of what people would be taught and expected to know about; I think you'd struggle to find anyone in the developed world who doesn't know at least the basics about WW2.

No you're America.

The Germans in 1940 didn't have the lens of history to view the events through, they couldn't necessarily have predicted the path they were on.

America in 2026? Everyone with working senses warned you loud and clear for years that this is exactly what happens if he ended up in the white house again instead of prison.

Most of you didn't listen.

The fascists even published the plan in black and white before the election

It was bafflingly also largely dismissed

America is much worse now because you all know where this train ends and you're all letting the driver get on with it

I think a lot of people have tvs that can't handle darks well, so things like the dark knight, game of thrones, I remember the departed especially, if you have a lot of shadow it won't show at all. So there was already a push from consumers to make things "easier to see" at the expense of good cinematography.

This is the thing that kills me, and it took that game of thrones episode for me to realise. I watched it just fine on a mid-range 4K from about 5 years before it came out. 80% of the people I talked to that week about it said they couldn't see a thing.

People are out there getting scammed into buying the shittest panels available and now the media itself is being compromised because they're the biggest market.

Oh that's cool to hear, I was under the impression in research that whilst a lot of the processing actually happens in FORTRAN-written code, it was nearly always reusing already-written functions and primitives in a higher level language (such as python, via the aforementioned SciPy). And then those libraries being maintained by a handful of wizards on the internet somewhere.

Can you elaborate on the kind of research where people are still actively writing directly in FORTRAN? Did people typically arrive with the skills already or was there training for learning how to write it well?

NK is safe because trump admires it. It's the deluded model for how he wants to reconfigure the US with him at the top

Conversely, venezuela has oil and wasn't giving it to America. They have a left wing government. Trump wants to keep the Epstein stuff out of the news, lest the final few people out there who still don't realise he's a human trafficking pedo, find out.

I don't think nukes prevent this one. Frankly I think he would have done it anyway, despite the risk.

Funny if we weren't working with a capitalist work or die political and economic system, this would be good news

Technology is supposed to free us to pursue happiness