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IMO the gambling themes are the selling point of balatro. Hell ignoring the poker half, the dev's themselves basically said the whole scoring theme etc... was made to be slot machine style gameplay.

To be honest I think that's a very large percentage of it's popularity, is just that viewpoint making it accessible to, non gamers and non roguelike fans. I don't think it would be a top seller if done as a "slay the spire", or done with a theme that doesn't have appeal to non-gamers.

Also I would say, balatro is like 2 or 3 very minor changes away from easily being a "suck crazy amount of money from gambling addicts" game. IE if someone took balatro, released it on mobile platforms as f2p. Only differences being to slightly increase the speed of the anti score. and say start each game with 2 optional joker packs (for $1 chose between one of 3 random negative jokers), for $2 chose one of 5 negative jokers). (obviously replacing the dollar amounts with purchasable in game currency). You'd easily get into top mobile apps and make a killing.

My question really, who is buying tesla's these days, and is that even a noteworthy percentage of musks income these days.

Honestly it looks to me like musk is just adapting to leaching off the government anyway. Also throwing in the pivot of basically getting trump to commit to buying (Edit due to incorrect information:) Vehicles from tesla for military use. I mean yes absolutely don't give him the extra stream of income... but, but I can't help but feel this is rather toothless.

I think there's the problem though, so Alice posts it on her page.

Now there's 2 ways people will see it... Either the algorythm is looking. So that's a popularity contest, assuming the algorythm is going based on engagement etc... Which unfortunately I have to say, historically BS tends to gather larger crowds than popular ones.

More importantly if we are talking algorythms they tend to push people towards the type of content they regularly consume. IE the algorythm is going to push people who are suceptible to BS (Some of which may be the ones who are suceptible, but not so far gone as to be immune to truth) to Mallory's page. Meanwhile alice's page will be drawing the skeptics, the ones who would like to push back against it... but can't. I see the mallory page like the /r/conservative subreddit. A fucking cespool, and most importantly very very determined to push out any views that disturb the narrative... yet with about 10x the views as any specifically left subreddits I can find (though admitted only 1/8th of general politics, which is still leftish by US standards.

My god this is an outrage, I was going to eat that mummy! Fry has got to go!

I mean, maybe a de-escalation, but also rife for it's own forms of abuse.

IE... someone wants to spread misinformation... they block anyone fact checking or disproving their nonsense.

Now I fully agree, the misinformation rabbitholes have diminishing returns the longer the thread and arguement goes on.

IE lets say

Misinformer, posts blatent lie.

Person1: Rebuts lie, Includes multiple credible sources for the rebuttle.

Misinformer: Claims all true sources are in a conspiracy or agenda.

Person1: argues back

At this point it's just wasting everyones time... but IMO the initial fact check is important for people approaching.

So in the lemmy method.

Person 1 can debunk the claim. Block the person... leave it up to others if they actually want to bother engaging etc...

Sounds to me like the threads method on the other hand.... Fake claimer can go... and either whack a mole block comments that disagree... or shut off discussion altogether leaving the claim unchecked. To me that seems a bigger problem. Fact is there's a lot of falsehoods that sound convincing to the general public, but are easilly disprovable with a bit of research, and IMO they need to be challanged where the claims are made.

whatever we post is public... you can't stop someone from seeing public things. (Even if it worked the way you would like, they could browse anonymously or on a different account to see it). Blocking makes it convenient for you (so you don't have to look at public things that you don't want to see).

had the native american's been smart enough to build a wall across the ocean... none of this mess would have happened.

I mean unless there's a primary, it's still the better vote. It's the hellhole we live in... We have to go with the guy who says he's going to do good things, then disappoints us and does less than half the good he said, and adds in some bad things.

Or we can go with the guy who says he's going to do horrific things... and then meets and exceeds all his promises.

In short zelensky didn't jump up and down at taking a deal so insanely over the top bad that literally would have been harsher than punishments they normally put on aggressors that lost in wars. (IE if I recall it was deemed even harsher than what was put on germany after WW1, which as we know is what set up germany's economic strife that brought ww2.

Secondly their own admission... Zelensky said he needed parlimentary approval to accept the deal. AKA this guy who's being accused of being a dictator by trumps whitehouse... wasn't going to decide he had the authority to sign a "Ukraine gives half of what we have to the US forever" in exchange the US that is currently lead by a guy who, has a long history of not keeping his half of bargains, will promise to protect them.

I mean isn't that at least some extent technically true to a level.

I mean if we weren't talking a shitty corporation to begin with. If this were say, a 20 year old mcdonnalds worker pirating game of thrones.

IMO the bigger concept is still rather than if they got it... defining whether using that data after the fact is legal. I mean hypothetically speaking lets just say they bought 1 copy of each of the millions of books, or bought used copies, or say had a machine that could scan every book in a library. IMO the issue shouldn't be whether or not anyone managed to download the books in their pure form afterwards. The focus should be the AI trained on their books, is going to be distributing portions of their book to millions of people, and any potential profits of such will be going to meta and uncredited to the original authors. The idea that meta's involvement in torrenting may have let little timmy get a copy of his text book 15 seconds faster... shouldn't be the driving force here.

All basic needs met just for existing!, Being a domesticated animal actually does seem like it beats the hell out of wild life...

Course I suppose it depends on what animal what context. Obviously a workhorse, or any food animals would be pretty horrific. I'd imagine though zoo animals, pets, etc... would be pretty superior lifes than even humans carve out for themselves.

While yeah also an insane horror movie plot if "when they turn 40, they walk into that barn and never come out".

I mean I do have to actually see the video, context etc... Not that I don't find this insanely plausible, but I also know their counter was to show every democrat that's ever done a hand waving gesture and freezing the millisecond that it looked like the Hitler salute.

exactly, she wasn't saying she was a researcher, she was stating she wasn't an arm chair quarterback... Going with the sports analogy she's far closer to a manager or a coach... not a dude on the couch with just the perspective of what's shown on TV.

Honestly can you imagine how weird domestication must be to wild animals... Like just imagine driving down into a back roads area... noting some large ugly creature there... then seeing a small luxury area but still completely foreign to you, and inside it are people. You approach and be "Hey who are you? want to come to society", and they are like "nah long as we do these weird tasks we don't understand for these random other creatures, they feed us and let us sleep on these comfy beds... were cool man".

He knows how to win a knife fight... step 1, bring 300 allies with semi automatic weapons... 2. Don't actually step into the arena.

except that it isn't the government it's enriching...

I don't know, he seems to have pretty positive views for the axis side of WW2. He'd probably be thinking "what if we had smart loyal pilots like the japanese, but with nukes". and would begin pushing for a supprise nuclear kamakazi strike against a nation that wouldn't see it coming. (maybe canada).

Right, but the point is he's realized that he's been around long enough that enough things that affect him personally are coming into focus. Which is why he's stepping down.. so someone who hasn't been effected by polio can take his place, and support the things he can't bring himself to back.

(will note this is the opposite of a compliment, he's a piece of shit, and only stepping down because he realizes that there are limits on how big of a piece of shit he can be, so he's clearing the way for a newer piece of shit to continue the legacy).

So your suggestion is basically families should own an EV just for getting around home.. and a gas guzzler for long distance travel? IMO the ideal should be a slow phase out of the gas cars.

Or you know... instead of needing super heavy batteries... they could have smaller batteries... if charging stations become common enough that people can relatively easily find places to stop and charge on long trips.

It's because he's been lately feeling a strange feeling of... having a smidge of humanity in him... IE he spoke up against a polio denier etc... He realizes that having 1% of normal human empathy, disqualifies him from the current republican party.