Just lock a bunch of writers into a room and don’t let them out until that baby is in peril.

I think the point was that there were also paid actors intentionally stirring up drama around him.

Eh, everybody does saber rattling from time to time. Most people are happier with harsh words than bombs I suppose.

Though that’s no comfort to Ukraine, who are already embroiled in war.

God, that’s how you end up with Skyrim, but with endless AI generated quests with NO continuity or sense whatsoever.

Shotwell is an amazing person for operating SpaceX to such success, despite all of Elon’s efforts to the contrary, like trying to cancel Falcon Heavy.

Yes, there is a shit ton of dead weight in the government contractor sector, just soaking up that delicious tax money for minimal effort. But I have a feeling these aren’t the employees being targeted right now.

That’s a clever little way to hide the joysticks. And foldables are a smart idea for portable screens that need to be big. I like the concept. Probably won’t like the price.

Fair enough, I wasn’t comparing apples to apples here.

Not only that, but the character in that profile pic often sprouts cat ears when she has strong feelings.

I was under the impression that while streaming was garbage for money that touring was the cash cow. Apparently it’s a loss for these artists. It makes me sad that all the profits get vacuumed up by everybody but the artist.

Indeed, it’s a pre-game forced ad. No other explanation required.

Hey, North Korea is a country too!

Lemmy also doesn’t have a single owner. It would be crazy hard to comply if each instance had to have their own representative in the EU.

Or maybe since most Lemmy instances aren’t corporations it doesn’t matter? I bet only a lawyer could say for sure.

Definitely. He’ll try to get SLS cancelled because he owns its competitor.

The dude basically lives on cocaine and a plethora of other drugs from what I’ve heard.

I think he’d be more likely to fund more NASA projects since they contract it out to SpaceX anyway.

The commission cannot regulate Bluesky directly as it does not yet reach the threshold of more than 45mn monthly users in the EU to be designated a very large online platform.

So it’s a nothing burger and they’re not violating shit.

Sure, people simply don’t like to change their minds. I’ve already conceded several points that I was incorrect about, because learning is part of being a healthy human.

It’s best to make conclusions from the statistics instead of groupthink or gut feelings, and the statistics say that there’s still a lot of good happening in the world right now.

Right, I think they just put an oval mask on the image of the real bricks, because they simply don’t come in those shapes.

Very good point, extreme poverty shows the biggest trend forward, while other thresholds do not show the same progress. That being said, poverty in general seems to be declining according to the graphs you’ve shown.

In no way does a mere positive trend imply “good job team, we fixed the world and we can quit now”. Poverty is still rampant, and we should do what we can to fix it, obviously.