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I wish whoever said that gets smacked into reality, because that is ridiculously tone-deaf.

Ah yes, the feudalism behind capitalism… reset the copyright system.

Super Smash Bros character finna have a wild ultimate

Is this a great time to remind certain countries that “New public management” is not actually about decentralising power, but to make public prohibitively expensive, so the privatised hospitals can more easily exploit their audience as public hospitals become untenable - largely thanks to “New public management”.

Example: the NHS, which is hanging on by a thread.

I’m on my 3rd play through. It’s still janky and buggy in some regards, but my god the theme, the characterisation, the stories, the plot. It’s how you put together an open world game, where immersion relies on the art of story telling.

Someone tell Todd Howard. Maybe the next Bethesda game won’t be so incredibly bland.

The Sapmi are really taking up the fight here, you guys, not just for them, but for Norwegians as well.

For some context, the windmills in Norway are EXTREMELY disliked. Partly because trusting cost cutting European companies was a mistake (they are proned to error have a tendency to fall apart) and partly because they make the Norwegian landscape look ugly AF.

Fun fact about Norwegians, is that we are suppusedly “national romantics”, in that norwegians supposedly worship the forests , the mountains, the fjords… until the deforestation, wanting to dump coals in the fjords, the fucking cruise liner tourism my fucking GOD the cruise liner tourism…

Suffice to say, our neo-liberal parties are a bunch of toadies. I and many other Norwegians thank the Sapmi for checking the powers that be. But we still gotta protest, we still gotta make sure collective power isn’t trumped by elitism.

Also, the government “gave back” a ton of land to a Baron family, which was acquired by the Norwegian government because all nature belongs to Norwegians. Its now being defrosted as we speak. See how neo-liberalism is also fucking up Norway?

On a brighter note, we’re not that far off from the dinner bell signaling it’s time to eat the rich.

Uhm… question: what’s the plan for the massive brain drain and labour shortages in various industries?

MSN Article to that effect.

I think classifying “hurt children, family dead” as a military metric should be the canary in the coalmine.

But again, we don’t establish intent by catching Netenyahu saying “We’re literally going to genocide the Palestinian people”.

You’ll have to establish intent, or motive, by collecting the many, many hundreds of statements, quotes and accounts regarding the Israeli state, Israeli organisations, Zionist organisation ACROSS THE DECADES, to the Zionist vacation plans, the gathering of settlers and international fund raising, the paper trail of property seized by the Israeli state in one form or another, the messaging, the subtext, and oh my god I’m glad I’m not a lawyer.

Does it matter? Legal housekeeping is something corporations do all the time. In this case, they might want less friction with Nintendo. Mayhaps they also want to go full into protecting emulation, but can’t do that if any ROMs are specifically part and parcel of a game.

It probably needs to be generic, like bro: you can’t prevent the user from reading those files using an application, because those files could have been gained using legal methods. But it becomes harder to defend it in court if there are games in the Valve Steam store that specially target certain IP’s directly.

So forget Mario and Metroid Prime mods, you’ll have to get those working through an emulator that supports modding or add-ons.

In any case, Nintendo is reselling pirated ROM’s because they lost their copy, so yeah. They can’t ever be directly against ROMs, as long as they have been obtained legally ***

…cheering on yanks? I’m Scandinavian. We have a different problem. We’ve got plenty of parties, two of the biggest being neo-liberal (same as your democrats and republicans, no matter how much republicans want to ignore their own economic model), the next to the ones are literal nationalist bating pseudo-liberals (maybe that’s more like the republicans actually), and then we got a whole host of left wing and socialist parties that have to form coalitions all the time.

Personally I’ve voted The Pirate Party (yarr) and also socialist… because fuck capitalism. We actually have some socialist representatives on both local and national level. So even if the two biggest parties are liberals, we still get some concessions and projects done.

Woo! Freedom of choice. Actual representative democracy. Weird, I know.

Yeah, a two party system sucks balls and is stupid. U right.

Say it with me now: local AI, local AI… or fuck off.

That being said, ARM laptops and probably even workstations are the future, and so is RISC-V. I suspect we’ll see more tensor cores or AI related processing built-in to the SoC’s.

If it’s then only a question of hardware enablement and a software companion to go along with it, I’m all for it.

Go Mozilla…! But again: local AI, or fuck off.

They just want you to know they won’t be going soft on you.

They took our jobs!

Just New York and California alone. If the expected turnout is in the millions, one can only hope IBM isn’t behind the cloud infrastructure - word to Obama care.

I also desire, nay; demand a content ID system, whereby my uniquely distinct farts are fingerprinted so that they cannot be used in media without my consent. A fart fingerprint? A fartprint.

The opposite of that would of course be Disney copyrighting and patenting their own fart sounds, which is an added bonus, as we’ve then effectively made fun of intellectual property through intellectual property systems.

You do realise that the elites running South Africa are as white as snow, right? I’m not talking about the mouthpieces that pose as being representative of the people, but those who actually hold the bag, those who are in positions of privelige and power because of apartheid.

This is an issue, where people conflate governments, government bodies, oligarchs and elites in general with the people of a country. People dgaf about common South Africans, or indeed even common Russians or common Palestinians, but the second a branch pipes up like they did something, it’s gold stars and the drawing gets put up on the fridge?

Why? Why does a BRICS country, laden by corruption caused by apartheid, get glorified for opposing apartheid? It makes no goddamn sense. It’s like Putin looking for Nazis in Europe… bro, you didn’t need to cross borders for that.

I’m saying it’s performative, but whatever you say, chief.