laylawashere44 @ laylawashere44 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I personally am not a tankie at all. And I share no delusions about the supposed virtues of the USSR or think China is at all run by decent people. I also think the ethnic cleansing in Xinxiang is happening. But Radio Free Asia is literally an arm of the state department and the original RFA was actually run by the CIA until it was remade by Clinton.

No but a previous history of making shit up and falsifying data along with a failure to replicate?

The guy behind this paper has the exact same issues as Schon. Plagiarism in his PhD thesis, faked data, retracted papers, etc.

Yes, because burning the Quran isn't actually a big deal in Islam and is condoned as a disposal method. Every Muslim knows this.

So if you are an ex-mislim burning a Quran in front of an embassy, what else could be your message? The Quran isn't tied to a country so it can't be a protest against the country. It also can't be a legitimate protest against Islam, since it's condoned by the religion. You cannot protest by complying.

So that really only leaves one thing the Quran burning can mean: a threat to Muslims as a group. 'I'm setting a thing you are associated with and like on fire.'.

It's even more obvious when it's a non-muslim doing it.

Burning the Quran is an acceptable way to dispose of a copy in Islam. The protests really are about the intentions of the individual who are burning it.

I know that Denuvo is at least. It's because the software needs to phone home to work.

In 2016, Crytec, the makers of Crysis had their Denuvo costs leaked. https://imgur.io/a/t2UKOha. 120,000€ for the first year. 2000€ a month after that. Plus fees for each storefront and fees for each sale and fees if the game sells over a half million in a month.

This old Reddit thread has pricing information straight from the horse's mouth. https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackStatus/comments/4mtb46/conversation_with_a_denuvo_employee/

They have a guy convicted of supporting a terrorist organization, and who allegedly had a framed photo of a mass murderer in his living room as defence minister? Incredible optics, wow.

Denuvo is an expensive service so games tend to lose it after a year or two. However some single player games that have more spread out sales windows tend to keep it much much longer. Doom eternal has a relatively short campaign and sales will drop off pretty quick after initial release so it loses Denuvo after a while. However, something like Assassin's Creed has a very long play time and is the type of game people aren't really desperate to play in day one so it Denuvo stays active for basically forever, even after Empress initially cracks it. That's because it'll need to be recracked everytime a dlc drops which large single players tend to have a lot off and tend to be major content updates.

Overblown internet nonsense.

Comment by someone who hasn't used Windows in an age. When was the last time you rebooted because you had installed new software? When was the last time you ran random code from a forum post to make software work? Because this windows user doesn't remember ever doing that.

All the Great Apes (probably, definitely), including us, have an instinct and built in skill at identifying snakes.

Researchers did experiments with both humans and other apes where they were shown progressively less obscured images of different predators and without fault we and our relatives were able to identify the snakes faster than any other creature.

This means that the instinct to find, and kill snakes goes back millions of years. Yet now when I encounter a snake my instinct is to move it to a safer spot so it doesn't get hurt or hurt me.

I think that if we can get over such a deep rooted instinct, we can get over the 'Us Vs Them' instinct too.

Defederating from the porn instance is common sense. It doesn't matter what your stance on porn is, the way Lemmy works, you will be hosting data from that sub and having user submitted pornograhy is a collosal minefield for liability. What if an underage person uploads pictures of themselves, does that instance have strict id requirements? What if it's a fake id? The law does not care. You've still distributed child pornograhy. What if revenge porn is uploaded? Again the liability is immediate.

Inb4 the guy in the blue shirt gets shot.

I'm just imagining the liability of nsfw content. Honestly think it's an excellent idea ada defederated, I don't think they'd want the legal risk. So many laws can be broken just by neglect. Revenge porn laws, depiction of actual SA, underage content slipping through, etc etc.

The more transgender related posts are mostly because 196 a very large queer and especially trans friendly subreddit closed permanently and migrated wholesale to a instance called blahajzone. If you look at r/place right now you can tell the absence of 196 by the fact there are very few queer symbols on r/place compared to last year where 196 and associated subs had coordinated artworks and defense campaigns for their flags. I'm pretty sure last time they managed to take over the American flag and force it to move to another spot on the canvas. Now there are two small flags and nothing else.

False Dichotomy again. The options aren't to ignore or not ignore. OP is simply suggesting that there might be a much simpler less sinister reason.

As someone who read it as a teen back then, it is not a teen book. Anyone who was a teenager when that book came out would understand precisely none of the reference which is really the only apeal of the book because the prose and plot are barely even fan fiction grade.

It's kind of wild reading about turn of the 20th century progressive activists. Everything that they advocated in 1900 is still considered radical today, 100ish year later. The American south was a hotbed for literal communism back then.

It is often argued that Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, was the most influential man in history. The printing press is the root of practically everything that we take for granted today. From republican government to basically all technology ever.

Nah the Arborist subreddit basically was unanimous in thinking the trees were essentially going to die from the severe topping that was done.