how? do nothing and your inaction has killed more people. Pulling the lever effectively means saving three people, i can’t see an angle from where that is a controversial position to hold

off topic but i never fuken understood this problem. Like literally. your action can save 4 people, what’s the reasoning behind not pulling the lever being a morally valid choice as much as pulling it?

“failed idea that is palestine” israel is such a successful idea that we needed to pump into it billions upon billions in weapons just for it to survive

PLEASE Hezbollah really needs to strike. They are Israel’s kryptonite.

y’all living with someone?

what do you mean by “anti-secular softie”? No hostility, just asking

who would win

• the largest military alliance on earth

• Dragan

Yeah, and it was painfully obvious how the americans were behind it and called it off at the last moment when they realized it was going to fail

It has a reason to exist and it is somewhat functional as an anti-imperialist “outpost”, i think that under a certain lense it’s a good example to showcase the “independence for me but not for thee” western approach to non-western aligned separatism. Highlighting the media treatment of transnistria compared to the one of places like Kosovo is at least somewhat useful in certain debates.

This said, it’s essentially a corporatocracy. The power belongs to industrial conglomerates like Sheriff and the president is whoever them and russia can agree upon. It’s not really a desireable form of government.

Bonus points for the flag tho

speaking as a guy with AVPD and thus with a general difficulty in doing exactly what you describe, i will say that as an adult (read: a person who doesn’t get the chance to socialize in school/uni) your best bet is to join a club or any sort of group activity.

The idea of getting on an app is attractive, but keep in mind that that will bring you to meet other people in your same situation - which doesn’t really help integration, since you are a person out of the local network meeting other people that are out of the local network. So it’s not really the best if your intention is to “integrate” yourself in the new area.

i am into sports so joining a rock climbing course allowed me to meet other somewhat likeminded people. I also got into a group that does experimental archeology (in other words, we study medieval manuscripts about melee combat and we try to recreate what is written there in order to figure out what works and what doesn’t, thus understanding better how people actually fought). That’s the best kind of group activity imo, as it forces the people present to interact and discuss with each other.

In my experience going to bars and whatnot isn’t really effective nowdays, since people go there to meet their friends and not really to get to know new people. But then again i have psychological issues about that so what do i know

tbh Bing can have them, tf are they going to do? be even more irrelevant?

fun fact: there are only 25 of them in the whole planet, most of them used for advertising

“Bakhmut cup” is the new “Speer hoodie”

tbf Thanos’s objective and the means with which he planned to achieve it never made sense regardless of the angle you look at it from

yeah ok “Dead snow” is a fucking masterpiece, thank you very much. You want me to believe a movie about zombie red army soldiers fighting zombie nazis is “schlock?”

i’d say DC has some pretty big misses but can also churn out decent movies every once in a while. The new batman movie is very good imo, far better than anything marvel has produced in the last 15 years - just on the account of it having SOME creativity compared to marvel’s lack thereof

at least this shit has a good implication: it proves that we can still get stuff to fail by good old popular boycott.

The main issue of the metavers is simple: nobody gives a shit. No considerable demographic has any real interest in it.

same with NFT’s, another tech we essentially bullied into collapse. It had tons of issues, but the main one was that it solved a problem no one had. And thus nobody gave a shit.

if you say something as simple as “as a westerner, maybe the US isn’t so great” you qualify for all of these points pretty much

imperialism is when i don’t like you

this is a very smart comment.

I remember a similar panic when photoshop started to become good and usable for mainstream machines, and there was a time when obviously real stuff would be claimed to be “photoshopped” just because people seemed to think that photoshopped images were utterly indistinguishable from real ones.

Then, rather quickly, people figured out that there are softwares that can spot manipulation extremely easily and it all turned out to be not that much of an issue after all.

though now i wonder if i could possibly commit a crime while wearing makeup that makes my face seem ai-generated and then claim in court that the evidence is just a deepfake