Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.
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1·3 hours agoFor shame! Next you’ll be slapping Zeds places they shouldn’t be, or maybe even calling them Zees when you sing the alphabet under your breath to try and remember the order they’re in!
1·3 hours agoCheat in single player all you like, but people who cheat in multiplayer are bad people and should
feel bad about their choices.have been beaten more as children.FTFY
They’re one of the most prolific lemmy.ca posters from the .ml instance. I don’t disagree with all of OP’s takes over all their posts/comments on our instance, but they’re absolutely on the Russia/China simp end of the political spectrum. Like a large portion of the .ml membership.
2·9 hours ago… sounds like a solid strategy! Name really rolls off the tongue too!
Which F-Tier smartphones allow you to load a custom ROM? I ask cause over the years I’ve had to buy “budget” models(sub $100) and they’re usually:
- super locked down, no bootloader access and often no Dev Options access either, and
- also guilty of similar sins as your 1st and 2nd points.
3·12 hours agoAre the subsidies specifically for destroying foreign markets? (😈MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!)
Maybe, maybe not. I’m not a huge fan of the Chinese government, but I don’t think their subsidies program are intended to directly destroy foreign markets so much as put the country at the forefront of development and production… which can be perceived as the above.
In depth study of the Chinese GreenTech subsidy system.
As the study goes into in depth, tax credits are just one part of the system. There’s also direct subsidies(funding) for R&D, which is understandably very expensive, and below market value land sales among other things. In 2019 China put the equivalent of 1.73% of their GDP into industrial support, with below market land sales being a substantial portion of that. Next highest on the graphic is Korea at 0.67% GDP equivalent.
Moving away from the subsidies thing.
China has the battery production technologies and capabilities, the electric motor production, an unbelievable economy of scale, and insane levels of automation in their EV Factories,
(Found this out awhile ago when I was watching a video on how actually ridiculous the whole US - Greenland thing was.)
China has ~90% of the rare earth refinement capacity. Even if Trump wants/wanted Greenland for it’s resources, it would be over a decade to spin up enough refinement infrastructure to process whatever they would hypothetically extract.
China has invested HEAVILY in the entire supply chain from resource extraction to final product for a wide swath of GreenTech. When a lot of the rest of the world has switched from a majority production/export to majority consumption/import economy, or focused on soft products/research/etc of course they would see a country flooding their markets with products as adversarial. Regardless of if those foreign products are superior. Especially if the government of said foreign country is often interfering in political processes, intimidating other countries citizens, setting up extra judicial secret police networks in many countries, economic coercion…etc etc etc.
I’m not entirely convinced that the subsidy system is malicious, but the CCP isn’t above playing dirty. So I can fully understand the common reaction being that it is.
With help from companies and people who have a vested interest in creating a panopticon-esque surveillance state.
First sentence of the last paragraph.
Yeah, piracy is shown to actually boost sales for the most part. Not everyone who pirates refuses to spend money on games/media at all. And with game demos not really being a thing in the AA/AAA/AAAAAAAAAAAAAA game space, often it makes more sense to pirate it, see if you actually like it, and buy it if you enjoy it enough to actually pay.
And it’s the same argument as when the Harry Potter game was free on Epic, I refused to add it to my library at all. Even with people saying “Epic payed them a flat rate, so they get the same amount if no one gets it or everyone does!”… adding it to your library still ticks up their “sales” figures, and I’ll be fucked if I support that heinous waste of air JKR in any way shape or form.
There’s already more dumb phones than you can shake a stick at…
No worries 👍
It’s one of those things I feel like anyone with a young person in their life should be aware of.
This is just the latest one. There’s also the fact that their profit generation format is essentially child labour exploitation. And also the latest one is just an extension of the platform’s longstanding issue with child predators.
Selection of videos below on Roblox and it’s history of being probably the last place you want to let your kid hang out…
The people at the top certainly don’t. There IS absolutely large swaths of the government that definitely do. Even if only subconsciously, all (or most) government workers who use a workplace computer of some kind should understand that sites are able to be blocked. They might think you’d need to be a Grey Beard of the 16th Order to set it up, but I’d wager a fair percentage have tried to go to a site and it’s been blacklisted.
People have been forgetting that home routers come with something called parental controls.
When my wife and I first signed up with Virgin as our ISP there was parental control turned on by default. Had to put in my credit card info to be able to flap.(Edit: Goddamn Autoassume! FAP not FLAP) This was 2021ish? So before the current stupidity.
Also, it’s easy to feel like this is all being pushed by parents who just straight up refuse to properly parent their children…but it’s mostly being championed by Puritan lobby/pressure groups. They think even totally consensual, CIS/HET amateur porn is disgusting and sinful. They don’t want to see, so they’re on a mission to make it so literally no one can see it.
With help from companies and people who have a vested interest in creating a panopticon-esque surveillance state. And the rest of the people involved in passing it are too old or ignorant or paid too well by the other two groups to stand in the way of it, or to have cut out the really egregious shit from these bills before they were passed.
2·15 hours agoOMMMMMMNOMNOMNOMNOM! 🤤
6·17 hours agoDid you mean consistent?
Congruent:
Similar to or in agreement with something, so that two things can both exist or be combined without issues.
And when I googled the AI vomited up all 5673 windshield incidents, etc
The future is now! 🌈
Ehhh…not mutually exclusive.
Israel greases congressional hands, and the American tax payers give Israel a shit tonne of money and weapons. Kinda cyclical.
Calling Nigel milkshake Farage charismatic is…a stretch.
Try looking in settings for font size, scaling or magnification. If you make whichever you find/as many as you find it should make all the text smaller and there by eliminate the need for it to scroll.