Stovetop @ Stovetop @lemmy.world

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What's crazy about this whole thing, is how many people I see insenting this can't be WW3, solely because there have been multiple events happening that people said could lead to WW3...

This. It starts with a cascading series of small, often unrelated events that coalesce over time. They may not seem connected until viewed in retrospect. There might only be just a couple of belligerent nations pushing the boundary to see how much they can get away with at first, until eventually other nations decide to stop being bystanders and intercede in a now global conflict.

I'm not inclined to doomsay and predict that World War 3 is imminent, but I'm not going to rule out the possibility that people in the future might be talking about the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine or Israel/the US and Iran like they do about Germany annexing the Sudetenland and Japan invading China.

And with the threat of nuclear armageddon feeling closer than ever since the Cold War, I'm worried the takeaway from these events is just going to be that not having nuclear weapons is a mistake (Ukraine voluntarily surrendering theirs, Iran supposedly trying to develop some). The best way to not get invaded is to have nukes.

Russian puppetry for sure. She's regurgitated other Russian talking points before.

While I am not the previous poster, that's certainly how I'd describe it. The "I am euphoric" types who care only about the circlejerk.

Looks like brutalism to me. Not sure if there might be some more specific subcategory I'm not familiar with, but generally anything using big geometric slabs of concrete is brutalist.

"My friends, you bow to no one."

Have to fight through the tears during that scene sometimes.

1. Remove the backdoor no ball. It does not benefit the sport but puts a lot of stress on bowlers bodies, knees in particular. The most commonly injured body part for bowlers. They land with 6x the impact of their bodyweight on one knee 6 times an over, like 20 overs a day. No good.

I can get behind any rule that exists to protect the players. Sports are inherently physical but they shouldn't endanger the athletes.

One of the reasons why I have a hard time getting behind boxing/certain martial arts as sports, it just feels like slightly more sanitized gladiatorial combat.

I'm surprised someone actually likes AC3, most takes I see for it are terrible.

AC2 is the one people usually prefer

Almost guaranteed, at least. Consoles are now in the habit of closing their stores after a new generation or two when they stop making enough money, and there are a lot of games today that aren't really playable without a day 1 patch or additional content requirement that are simply not included on the disc.

A lot of games (not even just Nintendo) don't even include the game data on the physical media anymore. The disc/cart acts only as a license and the entire thing is downloaded from the store when first used.

Lemmy is the only platform I participate on. I do occasionally check some niche subs on Reddit for hobbies and games I follow for news/suggestions/ideas/etc., but no idle browsing and no contributing, not even through votes.

I also sometimes pop onto Reddit just to manually edit and delete more of my comment history, because the automated tools are apparently only capable of seeing the past year. Once I finally get through everything, I can delete my account, but it's a slow process with years worth of content to remove going back to 2010.

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We saved Palestine, Reddit Lemmy!

Same here. I try not to nostalgia-hole myself too much, because I don't want to fall out of touch with the state of things and end up like a crotchety old person complaining about how great things used to be.

I found myself caring less and less about newer games, and thought I was just getting over gaming in general. But when going back to replay some old favorites on a whim, I realized I still enjoyed them just as much as I used to. I don't know if it's a style thing or just the difference between physical-only and newer digital release models, but it does feel like they don't make games like they used to.

Makes me wonder though if Bush wouldn't've used more drones if they were cheaper and readily available earlier in his presidency. At the time, they were still incredibly expensive and unreliable.

No one in government cares how many collateral deaths there are when drones are used, as long as it reduces the number of Americans returning home in boxes. Keeping the voters happy is always the priority.

Dragon Ball

The fuck?

Nursing. There is still a stereotype that nursing is a women's profession, while men are supposed to become doctors.

Doctors seem to have much less of a gender divide than before in defiance of the stereotype, but nursing is still a profession dominated by women.

Yeah, the justice system in the US is pretty fucked up. Provably so, with plenty of data made publicly available to back it up.