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"Aviation". Huh, I wonder what this nationless band of aeronauts is up to politically.

The lemmy.ml devs encouraged Ledditors to go there and a few other places instead.

In popular culture, you might have a point on the "Japan mountain" one

The issue is partly that, over time, private entities are going to price gouge or take similar measures (see: "enshittification") in order to keep growing as profit falls over time. That's just how the profit motive works, it eventually optimizes everything for profit, not just what you are comfortable with having turned into a vehicle aimed solely at making money.

So yes, this and many other important things should be treated as public goods.

So action, but slower action? That's perfectly reasonable and I love DS1. You might like the Demon Souls remake, and there are a metric ton of indie soulslikes that range the gamut in that respect. You can get an impressively large set of reviews of those from the YouTube channel Iron Pineapple (seemingly named after the Conjurors in DS1, whose helmets look a little like iron pineapples)

There was at least one timeloop game based on a murder mystery that got pretty good reviews that came out on Steam a couple years ago and had an isometric perspective. I don't remember the name, but those keywords are probably enough.

Also of course there's 12 Minutes, which could be described is basically identical wording but is actually not the game I was thinking of.

Edit: "The Sexy Brutale" is what I was thinking of. Other titles include The Forgotten City and Elsinore.

How is it a soulslike if it isn't an action game?

I really appreciate this exposition, especially on the PCP

It's still racism to talk about illegal immigrants

I'd probably word this as "it's racism to make a boogeyman out of illegal immigrants" or something. Obviously just referring to them as a group is analytically helpful in a number of situations

It is totally something that a sufficiently wealthy medieval or imperial society would do to kill and revive someone as a form of punishment, or even to kill someone and allow them to be revivified as a way of letting the rich get off easy.

This is disingenuous, there is legislation in place that prevents the government from negotiating the price of medicine, keeping it wildly inflated compared to other countries. The US effectively isn't doing social spending with that margin* but just laundering money to health insurance companies, medicine manufacturers, and patent barons.

*3 to 10 times the cost you see in other countries is the common range, I think, though in individual cases it gets much higher and there are some ~1:1 prices.

As it is it appears you're assuming whatever actions the someone in power in America takes is "American Liberalism", I'm not sure that's something I agree with.

The poles of American ideology are theocracy/Christofascism and liberalism. Virtually all of what the state does that isn't theocratic is liberal.

The Nazis did multiple genocides by almost any definition, though obviously they could never aspire to the body count of America or Britain.

Don't be a useful idiot of the State Department

Some form of vote. And this isn't an argument on which system is better or not, just a definition of democracy compared to other forms of government.

People do vote in China. You know that, right? Xi is not elected directly by popular vote but is essentially voted on by politicians who were voted in, something closer to a parliamentary style organization rather than the US system. If Xi was unpopular, the people could vote out the people supporting him in favor of challengers who support someone else for President.

It's a bunch of Ledditor liberals saying that. Lemmygrad can be a little sectarian, but otherwise it is perfectly fine.

Sorry, are we talking about Chomsky suggesting that Ukrainians being left alive would be a good thing? Because that got him in some headlines but it's still not remotely what he is best known for.

Eye rolling is definitely a culturally-specific thing with the anglosphere, but the emoji is literally called "eye-roll" and does read visually as being that to someone familiar with the gesture.

The added nuance here is that eye-rolling is an expression of derision and not just sarcasm, while culturally /s is used for being facetious (think friendly sarcasm) as well as actual sarcasm.

Eye-rolling is commonly associated with sarcasm (and other forms of derision, but in the context sarcasm makes the most sense)

I'm sincerely wondering if some of the emoji hate is people with ASD or something similar not getting common facial expression associations beyond things like smile = happy