It’s Isreal being a dick again so I want to be critical but I get all fuzzy inside when they start talking about bombing oil infrastructure.

Communism can never be shown to be a viable option, especially next to a country that still has private Healthcare.

You might be able to convert to hevc (x265) and trim it down by quite a bit.

You will always lose a bit of quality converting though, even from 1080p to 1080p, but I consider it pretty acceptable for cartoons and things of that nature.

People are social barfers. If you make it too realistic, you end up with your audience gagging.

The last decade has shown that all the fancy stuff is just cheap sweat shop stuff in disguise.

Other companies didn’t pay the arbitration fee so valves system was a bit better than the rest. Realistically, the consumer always gets fucked.

The point is more that Steam is getting praised for this, while it’s just to make class action lawsuits, like the one they were just served with for their anti-competitive and monopolistic behaviors, much costlier for the other party.

I imagine the amount of families that are grieving and how many young men, who had little before and now lost everything and are probably shaking with rage.

They trade one leader for thousands of new members.

So are you willing to give up ownership of the url and have the instance be transfered to someone else’s hardware?

Maybe I misunderstood where you are going with this.

Just coordinate the release of the urls and the transfer of the instance.

I’m skeptical about this since you are squatting on at least 18 urls while trying to get volunteers to create value out of them. Nothing leads me to assume you are being altruistic.

Edit: misattributed something, woops

It seems like you are waiting for the next influx to potentially monetize and trying to hold the most potential instances without putting any work or money into it. It’s just my impression.

I also think instances without users are a terrible idea and I’d rather real instances come about organically instead created by people that actually care about the subject.

It seems kind of slimy.

If you don’t want the communities, stop squatting them. Having no users seems like just a way to keep costs down so you can hold onto more urls and is bad for the general ecosystem anyways.

They literally knew about the attack before it happened. Genocide was always the primary goal.

Someone was probably mean to them but it wasn’t her. She is also not the first to be attacked.

She described finding herself suddenly surrounded by the pack after they “jumped out” from a drain in Perdana Park at about 6am local time.

“At first, I thought it was a cat, but the creature jumped out and bit me while I was running, and there were many of them … I could not even stand up when it happened,” she told local media.

I was thinking small controlled explosives disguised as damage from the storm but your idea is way cooler tbh.

Both him and the guy that helped him commit fraud end up dead. This was definitely a hit and not a water spout. (Maybe)

From wiki:

Lynch and Chamberlain went on trial in San Francisco on 18 March 2024. Lynch was charged with 16 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy, while Chamberlain faced 15 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy. Both pleaded not guilty.[35] The court heard evidence and arguments over the course of 11 weeks, and one count of securities fraud was dropped. The jury retired for deliberation on 4 June.[36] On 6 June, Lynch and Chamberlain were found not guilty of all charges.[37] Chamberlain died after being struck by a car while running in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, on 17 August.[38]

700 000 years is still in viable dna territory. We could bring them back.

It’s a common misconception but that only works with guns, and only if it happened in a 100 km wide abortion free zone.

Ortega government is a repressive authoritarian one and it’s been tightening the screw for a long time. A lot of priests have disappeared in the middle of the night which is crazy when you consider it’s a very religious country. Tourists and expats who have been critical of the government on Facebook in the past are being banned from the country and expulsed mid stay, actual Nicas know not to talk bad of Ortega online. There was a lot of very fucked up things happening during the protests.

There is also essentially no middle class and the water quality and housing is terrible. There’s a lot of kidney problems amongst kids because of the water quality. The one good thing about the country is it’s free healthcare, which is kind of funny seeing the poorest country in central america implement something that is apparently out of reach for the richest country on the continent. The healthcare obviously isn’t great and you still have to pay for your medication but still.

All that to say that the article is skewering things a bit. If it truly cost 400$, the country would be essentially a graveyard. A lot of them don’t even make minimum wage, the country doesn’t have the infrastructure to actually police it’s businesses.

This is really the crux of it:

What you do is adapt: you eat rice, beans, instant soups, cheese when you can afford it, or a cheese substitute like cream because it goes further,

There hasn’t been a time in Nicaragua’s history when this wasn’t the main stable diet. Their national meal is rice and beans pan fried, it’s what they all eat for breakfast. They don’t mention what they consider basic foods in the article but I’m guessing they added meat everyday or ketchup and relish to the list (any kind of name brand sauce or products are brutally expensive). Sadly, a basic “western” diet is essentially out of reach for all average citizens of developing countries. We live in luxury while the rest suffer.

It’s also worth noting that the US is essentially trying to starve the Nicas using sanctions so they revolt. Although the price of beans and rice has gone up, we aren’t there (yet) as the article makes it seem. I don’t think it’s the best solution, it’s definitely the worse for the population, but authoritarian governments are difficult to dislodge and political assassination are a no go these days so idk.

It’s just an innocent bug that happens every update!

The U.S. military’s anti-vax effort began in the spring of 2020 and expanded beyond Southeast Asia before it was terminated in mid-2021, Reuters determined. Tailoring the propaganda campaign to local audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East, the Pentagon used a combination of fake social media accounts on multiple platforms to spread fear of China’s vaccines among Muslims at a time when the virus was killing tens of thousands of people each day. A key part of the strategy: amplify the disputed contention that, because vaccines sometimes contain pork gelatin, China’s shots could be considered forbidden under Islamic law.

It seems it only started in the Philippines but ya it was mainly aimed at the Chinese vaccine and PPE. It’s more cutt throat shady business than anti-vax stupidity.

Imagine if that’s the moment they try to rob you, how do you explain that to your boss.