Tankiedesantski [he/him] @ Tankiedesantski @hexbear.net

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Hahaha I get it. It's funny because the people you don't like are implied to be women.

Crows are self-aware just like humans

"Oh no, is my plumage too dark? Were the other crows laughing with me or at me? Is my crowing too high pitched? Was that raven offended when I mistook him for a crow?"

That's not how jurisdiction or extradition works. Invoking the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to block the death penalty from being applied to the politicians of a State Member that allows and applies the death penalty domestically is also a hilarious thought, even if the UN had any way to intercede to stop the death penalty from being carried out (it does not).

Why should American or Western laws or morality apply to a crime that occured overseas? If Pakistani or Iraqi law allows for the death penalty for mass murder, who is anyone to say that they're not entitled to try and execute an American politician in accordance with their laws?

In fact, who are "we" even in this situation?

America has executed tens or hundreds of thousands of black and brown people all over the world, without trial, for much lesser acts of alleged terrorism than publicly threatening to kidnap US legislators.

Catholics and Christians

The Orthodox:

I have been job hunting for a while and I have felt a great disadvantage in my job search due to my lack of access to high-quality LLMs. Writing cover letters is honestly so bullshit.

Has job hunting gotten so bad that it's just LLMs reading the output of other LLMs?

The Soviet ship was about 4000 tons displacement, the Mv Dali was 150,000 tons displacement. Ships have gotten massive over the last few decades so it's possible that the Baltimore bridge could have remained standing after being hit by an older, smaller, ship like the Soviet one.

I doubt China will intervene militarily in a direct way. Pakistan is a close Chinese ally and it makes more sense to pull on diplomatic and economic levers to get Pakistan to act. Maybe training and joint counter terror ops are on the table, but certainly not a full Iraq scale invasion.

Damn bro, good point. You should go tell the ROC marine corps that they have a map of a foreign country on their official emblem. What a wacky oversight nobody has noticed for half a century!

Lean into it if you want. Have the PCs make friends with a guard NPC. Maybe do some quests for the guards. Then have the captain of the guards get killed (maybe while responding to a call from the NPCs) and then the NPC guard friend asks for the PCs help making sure that the next captain isn't the obviously corrupt asshole/failson nepobaby/stooge of the big bad.

Alternatively, the captain of the guards dies and the replacement is one of the above people and now the guards are suddenly much more hostile to the party, demanding bribes, refusing to act against nobles breaking the law, or trying to arrest the party to help the big bad's plans.

I think of "Thatcher's decade of national renewal" in the same way I think of "Hitler's thousand year Reich".

Well yeah, why wouldn't China block a site full of libs?

Healthcare: $300b

Infrastructure: $150b

School lunches: $15m

War: $69,420b

Someone who's good at the economy help me budget this. My country is dying.

The point is not to balance the budget. The point is cruelty.

Italy kind of tried to join One Belt One Road and pulled out when the Fash got elected. Macron made some noise about BRICS at one point but Macron makes a lot of noise about bullshit.

I think there's also some merit behind the idea that letting G7 states into BRICS is a bad idea because there's nothing stopping them from being obstructive.

Promoting colorism in a lesson about software that can be used to edit colors is... A strategy.

Idk maybe I just need to go meet more Indian people but none of the Indian people I've met to date look anything like Ronit and Sirahi here.

India has too many languages and cannot agree on one in common, which is why English is a "neutral" compromise. I understand that making Hindi the national language is a common Hindu Nationalist point.

Most of those bans are organizations saying that employees can't install TikTok on organization issued phones and computers, which is not at all comparable to an overall ban? My work doesn't allow me to play video games on work computers or drink on work property, but that's not at all the same as a law banning all video games and alcohol.

Look at the Russian propaganda war in e.g. Germany, that shit can have a negative effect on the defensive abilities of a nation.

Yeah one problem with human and civil rights is that they tend to have negative effects on the defensive abilities of a nation. War would be so much easier if you could just arrest all the peace protestors, or hold suspected enemy agents without trial, or force people to work without pay in defence industries, or force women to give birth to more people so you can conscript more soldiers.

So let's just do away with free speech and habeus corpus, reinstitute slave labor and force women to pop out lots of kids. Then Germany can defend itself again, just like the last two times.

Goalpost shifting, your original post said that TikTok is known to be spyware on a much greater level than anything else on this list.

Your statement isn't true even if you prove that Tiktok is the worst offender on the list. You need to prove that Tiktok is worse to a much higher degree than anything else on that list. Your own source straight out says that at least 3 of the other companies on the list engage in similar practices.