Proposed foreign aid cuts could WILL lead to millions of HIV deaths.

FTFY

What disagreement? This is literally what Rubio said in his confirmation hearing.

TIL I guess. Weird.

No. Attendee or attendees are the correct terms.

Not really. In my experience it’s that the last authoritarian was the same ethnic group as a legacy group often in power, and so there worst effects didn’t hit most people from that group. It was also a period of respect for the authoritarian, so fear alone wasn’t what drove compliance with laws. So people conflate what amounts to a homoginized ethnocentric power structure to the benefits alone. It’s really not too dissimilar from the MAGA ethos that things were better “back then” and it just so happens that “back then” was before the Civil Rights Movement.

Most, not all.

I would guess that of you polled the average American or European, they would expect the political leanings of most of the developing world to be far more to the left than reality.

Most westerners would be shocked at how common a very similar sentiment can be globally. Especially in low income developing countries, the appeal of a “benevolent dictator” is open topic of conversation. Mostly based on recollection of some leader like that in the 70s or 80s with a sense of societal discipline (and often ignorance of ethic cleansing that didn’t apply to the prison taking).

Eutelsat and Amazon’s Kuiper just got one more pre-order.

Like, have they not been paying attention to anything the last 9 years of the last 6 weeks?

I don’t disagree with the sentiment overall, and of course branding tie-ins were all about the names and not about the game. There’s no reason to build a game from the ground up in terms of gameplay when you’re leveraging IP. MegaMan is the perfect example of this. Six(!) NES games, even one IIRC after MegaMan X for the SNES was released, that were all little more than slight upgrades to the same gameplay of the original. The game was the brand, so you do just enough to give it some variation, and you’re good.

The counterfactual for this is arcade games ported to NES, which were often much more tied to their IP. TMNT 2 is a port of an arcade game released a few weeks after the TMNT 1 NES game, and look at which of those have the same look and feel of the show. The Simpsons games - same thing. Arcade titles needed to be instantly recognizable as a way to throw money at IP. NES titles did not because once you bought the game, you’ve committed to the IP tie in. Disney did a better job with matching NES gameay and IP, but thats because of their own standards.

Personally, I wouldn’t call too much of that innovation or creativity, as it’s cosmetic. Some, absolutely, bit not much. Very few companies went in for unlicensed cart manufacturing because of the capital needed. Wisdom Tree, the first company to work out how to get unlicenced carts to work, only made 13 games intended for a niche religious market, and their only SNES title was a reskin of Wolfenstein 3D. Sports games like RBI Baseball saw some of the best success because the requirements of NES licensing meant an approved UI bottleneck, which is where going from sports to NES had such a wide array of options possible.

This is a whistful nostalgia cherry-picking perspective.

The NES had a metric buttload of games that sucked and were obvious lousy branding tie-ins. Mostly crappy side-scrollers with bad controls and questionable relation to the source material. Back to the Future 2+3, Blues Brothers, the 7up Spot, Yo Noid, and IIRC, California Raisins games are a few I can think of off hand.

There was a lot of clear repurposing of game architecture constantly on the NES - Even Mario 2 was a clone and repackage of another game.

Let’s all be clear, Reddit is part of the surveillance state.

You can’t log in without Google and Apple trackers being allowed. New Reddit has recapcha trackers on every page. Only old.reddit doesn’t track what you see, just what you write.

Your thoughts and content belong to a publicly traded company focused on profits if you use reddit.

That’s the feature! Not a bug.

The new reddit design sucks and always has, other than dark mode.

Not shocked at all.

Source: Check list of ransomware attacks daily.

As much as I hate to say Elon might be right… The problem is that critical parts of the US government run on systems older than his goon squad. There’s actual COBOL in use, right now today, by the US government.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/outdated-and-old-it-systems-slow-government-and-put-taxpayers-risk

If Elon could fix the actual problem without being a dick about it all, no one would have a problem with any of this.

To clarify, nearly all of this food has already left the United States, except for 1 warehouse in Houston. It’s already been paid for, and as it sits, it costs money to store it.

This is like buying 3 dozen eggs from Whole Foods and setting them in the hot sun after you get home because you decided to punch yourself in the face until you passed out before putting them away.

It’s food purchased already from farmers. If it rots or not, it doesn’t affect Americans.

It does affect all the people who were already supposed to get it as food aid.

Y’all, look, the post WWII order has been wobbly since 2012-2014. 9/11 and the Patriot Act changed things in a way that were not compatible with that world. We lasted barely a decade before the wheels fell off.

We can pretty much all agree that things are broken, and these people ran, and won, on a platform of tearing it all down. And so they are.

Things ARE getting ugly for a lot of people already. Hundreds of thousands globally in 2 weeks.

The only way out is through, and it’s a decade+ recovery.

Sept 17 and 19, 2024.

There’s a great Behind the Bastards episode about Curtis Yarvin that really fills this all out.

The Broligarchy is real and Vance is the gateway to the fallback. Elon is just a willing idiot to be the tip of their spear first.