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  • It did draw extra attention, lots of extra attention actually. Navalny's problems in the Russian prison system made the news frequently, regularly reminding everyone what a fucked up state Russia is. Immolating himself on the red square would have been far less effective since that's been done a few times already (there's been a few people who have immolated themselves there already). So as a suicide with a message/martyr for a cause, it was in my perception fairly effective at getting a message across I think. Point in case: we're talking about it again even now ...

  • Here's an complaint thread (not mine) with a screenshot: https://old.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/suurzs/paradox_this_is_unacceptable_in_a_paid_product/

    I personally get more annoyed by in game presentation of features and then getting hit with a "you need to pay extra to use this", that's basically an ad as well and it's constantly there in the main gameplay loop. Bye bye immersion. It's an annoyance every time that you are confronted with it, which in most paradox games is basically all the time. It's like buying a car and then having to pay extra to unlock the seat heating that is already installed.

    I could probably work around it by not auto updating paradox games and installing mods to remove some of the ads, but for 1 campaign every 2 years that's just not worth the hassle for me. So I simply don't play paradox games anymore.

  • Paradox DLC policy is why I don't play Paradox games anymore.

    If I were to only play 1 game ever, then the DLC system might be ok, it's basically a subscription system. But since I'd only play a campaign every other year or so, I'm not going to fork out that much money for 1 campaign. And it's way too annoying to play some game with obvious parts missing + in game ads, so now Paradox gets no more money from me.

  • To add: Twitter under Musk also complies with all government censorship requests since Musk took over. News on Twitter has been hugely influential in the past in protests in authoritarian states, but that's clearly a thing of the past now.

    Full compliance with government censorship was 83% in may last year, up from the 50% it was before Musk.

    And partial + full compliance was at 98.8%, up from 92% before Musk. And the remaining 1.2% were not denied, just status unknown, so it's basically 100%.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfilling-more-government-censorship-requests-under-musk

    I wonder what the current numbers are and how the full/partial takedowns are geographically distributed. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if partial compliance was limited to some western countries and it's full compliance everywhere else.

    Elon Musk, the self declared "free speech absolutist", what a shithead.

  • I thought that you were on to something and did a quick google search: the variation is apparently only 0.5%. And a variation that big is only found when comparing a measurement on the poles (heavier) vs the equator (lighter) and I think it unlikely that this pasta was made on Antarctica. So nope, it's not the reason, they really do owe the op 2 grams of pasta.

  • The gtx 1650 only has 4gb ram, I wouldn't call that similar to a 1060, I call it worse :). It's an entry level + 2 generation older card, it's going to be good enough for many titles still, especially indy ones, but new games that push graphics to new limits are just not going to work. Even when it was new, it was only really suitable for 1k gaming with compromises in the graphic settings.

    Tbh, I don't get why you're so set on getting an Nvidia card. Unless you're into vr or ai, amd and intel really aren't bad choices. And since all current gen consoles are using AMD GPUs, all game engines + fancy games will be optimized for AMD gpus anyhow.

  • The 1060 is a 3 generations older mid tier card, released almost 8 years ago. Is it the 3gb or 6gb version? 3gb will be very gimped by now. If you want to keep playing demanding 3d games, then at some point you have to upgrade. I don't think you need an overpriced current gen Nvidia cards to enjoy any modern title, but 3 generations might be pushing it a bit 😉

    If you want to stick to Nvidia and want a reasonably priced option, then I would look for a second hand rtx 3060-12gb.

  • Are there games for which you need a current GPU for to be able to play it with more than acceptable graphics? If you want to turn on all the fancy dongles to maximum, then there might be a few, but realistically, you don't need that maximum fanciness to be able to enjoy the gameworld.

  • Good people do want to go into policing, but the bad people don't want them in their gang, because decent people are a threat to their way of operating and might land them in prison.

    If a group of people is too rotten, then it just perpetuates itself. People that are too smart or have too many principles, won't even get a chance of joining. People who have started on the job will soon be presented with a moral dilemma, if they make the wrong choice, then the rotten group will start bullying them to force them out.

    If it gets to the point that acab is true, then a clean start is the only fast way. Hire outside mercenaries to temporarily take over police tasks and start a new police force from scratch, with better rules, regulations and indepedent oversight. And without allowing the old cops to rejoin, unless it's in specialized technical roles.

  • It's pretty common still in multiple countries and in some migrant subcultures living in other countries. The consequences over multiple generations are not pretty.

    An article with examples: https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-cousin-marriages-create-high-risk-of-genetic-disorders/a-60687452

    Imo it's still a bad idea to allow it. Even between first cousins of a family without a history of inbreeding, doubling the chance of genetic disorders is not nothing. Scale it up to many people doing it and it becomes a heavy burden on healthcare systems. And in countries with socialized healthcare, it's not really fair that everyone has to contribute more to healthcare because some people want to defy genetics. Imo again.

  • There's a lot of variance.

    My first cat could open doors and the fridge, was a master at hiding when something was up (he really did not like going to the vet) and once found, he would refuse to come out even for ham. Very cunning and smart, but also a poor hunter of mice and moles, he simply had no patience.

    The second cat knew that he could technically open a door with his paw, if it was ajar, but he didn't realize that he should move his head out of the way. He also thought that every exterior exit lead to a different world: if it was raining at the backdoor, then he asked you to open the garage door and so on, each time huffing in disappointment when it turned out to be raining there as well. He also didn't like going to the vet and would start running away when he saw his crate, but when he inevitably encountered a closed door, then he would stay still and ask the nearest human to open it for him. Unlike the smart one, he was a very good mouser when he was young, a very patient and concentrated hunter.

  • I live in Belgium. There are police officers who are racist, which is to be expected since a lot of Belgian non police officers are racist too. But they are not allowed to be openly racist on the job, because that can have consequences for them.

    Are our police fed up with the inner city street youth in Brussels, who mostly have an immigrant background? Definitely, but that doesn't mean they are any more racist than the immigrants who are also fed up with the with thay inner city street youth. The root cause of those persisting problems is also a failing judiciary, not cop culture.

    But the thing is, the conditions, that make it so that "acab" is a thing with many police agencies, are not present in Belgium.

    Our police does not have qualified immunity, there are no no knock raids, there is no "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong", there is no systematic omerta to protect each other when crimes are committed. People aren't even afraid of dying or getting their dog killed when they call the police.

    There are isolated scandals obviously, police people are human after all and there are all kinds of humans and all kinds of circumstances.

    There have been a few police scandals in recent years, but unlike with the USA police we keep reading about, those had consequences for the police officers involved. There is a very recent one of a group of police officers sharing racist memes in a private Whatsapp group and guess what, they got reported by colleagues and after an investigation, several police officers were fired.

    Is the Belgian police perfect? Far from it. But are all Belgian cops bastards? Certainly not. Our cops are not a gang that stands apart from society, they are very much part of it.

  • The policies of politicians and the humanism of police are not the same thing. A new party in power will also not change the culture of the workforce of an established service overnight, such a thing takes time. Time that those politicians usually don't get in a functioning democracy, because in far less than a generation, another coalition of parties will be in the majority.

  • It's not a thing where I live. There's going to be other countries where the police operate like a gang, but it's just not the case in almost all OECD countries. In authoritarian states like Russia and Iran, sure, but in functional democracies, it's just not the case. The USA is a big exception, it must be part of that american exceptionalism thing.

  • Is it really a faux-pas? It probably depends on where you live and the people you live amongst. Where I live, it seems like only the extreme right (the successors of the people who helped the nazi's genocide the Jews) + orthodox Jews support Israel unequivocally. Most others don't see it as black and white and still consider Palestinians as humans who need hope and prospects, which they're obviously not getting under Israeli occupation.

    The majority of Palestinians in Palestine apparently support Hamas, but it's likely that they would not be supporting Hamas if Israel had been acting in good faith and not been slowly (a lot faster now obviously, but they were going slowly for years) ethnically cleansing them from Palestine. It's kinda a chicken and egg situation.

    If Rabin had not been murdered by an extremist israeli in 1995, there might have been peace now in those lands, but instead Israel is now being lead by those extremists and they aren't interested in peace or co-existence.

    Coincidentally, there was a recent media event in my country event where a celebrity publicly displayed support for Palestinians.

    She had this to say: "Raising a Palestinian flag does NOT mean that I support Hamas or that I hate Jews or that I am okay with innocent civilians - wherever they live - being killed. It means that I want all wars and all genocides to end." https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024/01/08/laura-tesoro-palestijnse-vlag/

    Public reactions (in dutch): https://m.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20240107_96484050 The minister Jan Jambon was in his youth a member of the local fascist party and is pretty vocal that he would like his current (more mainstream) party to collaborate in the future with that fascist party. So that he thinks that it is a "faux-pas" to express support for Palestinians, does not surprise me in the least.

    Edited because of grammar.

  • It's always worth repeating, especially so for those people without a brain in their heads. Those people rely on others to do the thinking for them, so if reasonable people were to stop confronting them with facts and completely abandon them to their delusions, then shit would get a whole lot worse very fast.

  • It's reddit though. How can we know how many of those people are real?

    Even before the Reddit app debacle, reddit made very questionable decisions and if you went to look at that discussion at a later date, the answers that were artificially boosted to the top (this depended on how you went to look at the site, it seemed a lot less in old reddit) seemed as fake as a fake Amazon review, as if reddit was astroturfing their own website.

    The change that broke reddit for me was this: https://old.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blocking_updates/?limit=500 I have no way of looking at the thread without using old.reddit, so I don't know if it still looks as astroturfed as it did back then.