Th4tGuyII

I don’t think appeasement is the right word, as that would imply Trump is actually trying to help Ukraine rather than trying to slowly create a narrative to justify abandoning Ukraine to Russia.

The worst part is I would bet Zelensky is keenly aware of what Trump is up to, but knows any attempt to distance from Trump would only make it easier for Trump to justify abandoning his people to the wolves.

Honestly feel horrible for Zelensky. Imagine having to sit there and be shouted down to by two men so obviously and utterly corrupt that they consider helping your country fight off tyranny to be a favour, as though that isn’t what the Western world should be doing by default.

New Zealand’s a bit small for that isn’t it?

Yeah…

• A game with actual gambling disguised as a loot system - perfectly fine, PEGI 3+

• A game that depicts gambling but has no actual gambling in it - absolutely fucking NOT, PEGI 18+

I can understand why PEGI would be hesitant to give a game depicting gambling a rating of 3+…

But putting it as 18+, on the same level as actual, real money gambling games is ridiculous.

It shows a complete lack of awareness regarding the difference in danger between depiction of gambling vs actual gambling. And perhaps more dangerously means malicious publishers (cough EA cough) are able to get away with slipping disguised real money gambling into their games (and in front of children eyes) unnoticed.

For some reason I get a small feeling that Trump’s interests don’t exactly align with that of the people /s

As @NJSpradlin@lemmy.world said, that address was never meant for the people.

Yeah. With 10 billion people in the world, only 0.0001% of people need to be boat owners for there to be a million boat owners… And I’d be willing to be the actual % is higher than that

Not to downplay the quite frankly astounding achievement of James and his cohort of Anti-D donors, but I’m surprised that nobody has figured out how to make an synthetic anti-D in the 60 years he was donating blood for

I see great minds think alike haha

Wait… Hold on a second… Hooters went bankrupt?

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.

That’s exactly what a journalistic organisation is meant to do Jeff, especially now when the world is increasingly being filled with mouthpieces that regurgitate what their owners want them to.

An organisation that puts out only one opinion, or is only allowed to put out one opinion, is nothing more than a mouthpiece.

Its a shame to see the Post becoming just another mouthpiece.

Unfortunately it’s not that easy to pull people out of the “orange fever”. People underestimate just how effective how right-wing propaganda is at indoctrinating people towards hatred, and against their own best interests.

It’s almost extinct because those with that particular “backbone” keep dying off to curable diseases.

Though I’m more mad about those they’ll take with them as they act as a vector for what were damn near extinct diseases to make a comeback

Exactly. If anyone thinks Russia will stop at Ukraine, they’re a fool

I wouldn’t say it’s just more important, I’d say it’s a moral imperative to support Ukraine’s fight for it’s sovereign land over keeping buddy-buddy with a government running rampant with corruption and Russian puppetry

Terrorism, according to the United Nations General Assembly:

Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.

Luigi certainly didn’t bring the public into a state of terror, if anything quite the opposite - so I suppose the real question is do we class Health Insurance Executives politically as a group of people to incite terror onto?

I’d argue that a group of people who would happily sign away someone’s life if it meant them getting richer don’t deserve that kind of recognition, but I’d bet the courts will say yes because their rich friends want an example made of him.

So not only was this multi-billion dollar, fortune 100 company too stingy to pay for training data, it was too stingy to reseed the data it pirated!

Either seed or don’t torrent. Don’t be a leech.

Even if I were being charitable to say what he meant was not being famous is easier, it’s still such a backhanded remark to make - I’d rather deal with the problems of fame than the looming threat of the poverty line any day of the week.

It’s the tried and tested Elon Musk method of performance evaluation. Fire all the workers, then be shocked when they don’t want their old job back for a lower wage and worse contract terms

Trump Derangement Syndrome… Otherwise known as being rightfully angry/shocked/horrified at the things Trump has been allowed to get away with doing and keep doing - things that would’ve landed the average person in jail for multiple lifetimes.

I mean for fuck’s sake guy literally embezzled a charity, yet we’re crazy for thinking he’s a morally bankrupt person?

Well done to DOGE for absolutely tearing up the place scrounging up the US Government’s metaphorical pennies, whilst ignoring actual budget inefficiencies, such as the infamously overzealous military budget