If the Chinese are behind this, which I think is reasonably likely, they’ve played it beautifully. Their hands look pretty clean while they manipulate Putin to run all their campaigns through Russia.

And the only real evidence we have is that nearly everything that happens benefits China.

• Huge damage to America’s soft power
• Damage to America’s military
• Reduced power of the dollar
• Weakening of NATO
• Destruction of the US green energy production, especially EVs.
• US operational security is the weakest it has ever been
• Loss of moral authority to contest imperialism, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan

And it’s doing the best here because so many people have ml blocked. Grats.

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Are you a ginger? Is this like the anesthetic thing?

Omnissa is a registered trademark of VMWare. They’ll be around to collect royalties shortly.

It’s not a very solid point. They said they may become necessary at some point, but right now they’re irresponsible.

They’re not ruling it out in the future, but their focus is on today’s problem.

I mean, yeah. They’re the only ones trying to hold out some reasonable constraints.

You buy 5 bitcoins for $450 each in 2016. It’s what you can afford. You sell them for $10,000 each in 2018, timing it decently just before a bigger drop.

Congrats on your $48k.

Yeah, but it might take years for these slop companies to actually collapse under the weight of their own tech debt. Do you know how many quarters that is!

That site changes the content of the articles. It’s not to be trusted.

It’s perfectly logical. The Sun is loud as shit. Or it would be if there was air to transmit the sound.

People still play this one. http://mud.arctic.org/

Though I didn’t mean it has to necessarily be text-based. More that that ancestral path was more interesting than the WoW one. This is what EverQuest was born from.

One of the bigger differences is that not everything was questing. You just explored, and part of your motivation to level up was the ability to explore places that were previously inaccessible.

Here’s a free one for you.

Discard pretty much anything learned from or after World of Warcraft. That game warped the genre for decades, largely for the worse.

Go back to MUDs. Iterate from there.

Trying to define Jewishness by what Israel and/or Epstein does is antisemitic.

I wouldn’t take a Lemmy comment as evidence either way.

“find an actual progressive” aka 3rd party

lol no. You don’t get to strawman and then be a rude piece of shit about it.

Subservience to the FCC and the administration is the excuse. The real reason is that David Ellison is afraid the dem might win.

The majority owner of CBS is Paramount Global, which itself is controlled by Skydance Media, a company led by David Ellison (son of Larry Ellison), following a significant acquisition of the Redstone family’s stake in mid-2025.

Either that or it’s exactly what it says on the tin. I wonder which is more likely.

Thank you. I was just thinking that someone needs to grab this, and it was going to be a pita if I had to be the one to do it.

(More copies are always welcome.)

And it’s a hell of a brave thing Colbert and crew are doing in speaking out.

They’re patriots at a time when speech isn’t free.