This is what freedom and democracy means: giving away all your natural resources to a foreign power.

I love Sync but I can’t really blame the dev. They obviously wanted an income from this but there just aren’t enough people on lemmy that would use the app, so it’s maintenance mode at best.

To add to what was said: Trump has a negotiation style of coming on with absurd demands then “settling” for less that is actually what he wanted all along.

I mean, Russia is winning. What are people here expecting?

The interesting thing about conscription is that, in a more materialistic analysis, is that if your enemy uses it, then you have to as well. Unless you have an absolutely lopsided war where it wouldn’t matter, the number of people you can get from even a “soft” draft is an order of magnitude higher than volunteers can get you.

There’s a reason the reactionary powers created their own versions of the levée en masse during the Napoleonic wars, and it wasn’t because their kings and emperors liked the idea of putting weapons in the hands of peasants.

Just a little honeypotting

This was not the bit idea to act on hexbearians

Wasn’t the attempted coup going to blame the DPRK? The imperialists probably want to have the war go hot very soon (or at least be ready to do so whenever they attack China).

For some reason being happy by yourself is very offensive to a lot of people.

I always wondered what a FOSS MMO would look like. Maybe something like how persistent adventures worked in Neverwinter Nights?

I never saw the videos. I think they tell the story rather well.

It tends to pressure salaries down and devalue higher education. Just look at what has happened to the US for comparison.

It has data up to June 2024 so it’s likely to have scraped lemmy a lot.

Being poor is expensive.

In a way, not emigrating to the imperial core when I had the chance ended up being a blessing in disguise (so far)

According to Reddit, this is what winning looks like.

I don’t know why but having even a small bookshelf makes the space a lot better.

FFXIV has too little content being released once you actually get through everything they made in the last decade.

This isn’t a useful reading. They very much expect to continue to be the world’s police, they just are cutting back on their tools of “soft change” for more direct means of getting what they want.

This movie is trash and shouldn’t even be nominated for anything