Yeah. What’s their game here, basically? They’re hella brutal in most (all?) other ways.

The specific model is rechargeable, unless I’m misunderstanding you.

Has he actually given up on the Metaverse thing at this point?

Oh, the second paragraph of my comment, not the article. Kyiv Independent is questionable as a source, basically.

Sorry for calling you a bot.

Clearly, you can speak English quite well, just not understand it.

I actually can respond to this, for the real people reading. KMT isn’t pro-China, just more confrontation averse with them. These are the guys that fought Mao, right? And, they lost the last election handily to the radical anti-Chinese candidate. Not sure WTF is up with the claim about the president.

But, we were never talking about Taiwan, and definitely not about the Uighur genocide.

Lol. In 2025 your propaganda bot should be able to scan conversations better than this one.

For Lemmings from other areas, it doesn’t read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what the Alberta government literally this minster has been doing it kind of is.

Edit: Didn’t notice this is signed Devin Dreeshen.

This government has blown up one Calgary transport plan already (they’re literally building two halves that don’t enter downtown at all now), so that may or may not be wise. Cities don’t really have constitutional protections in Canada or Alberta.

Without checking the context, Iran and their proxies got hit a bunch and turned the other cheek, so in the game theoretic sense, yes, none of their threats will be credible now.

The conventional smart move would have been to start gradually blowing Isreali and American stuff up the moment Hazbollah was attacked. It sounds they might actually have some kind of twisted, theocratic idealism that got in the way of that.

I’m pretty sure the trend didn’t come from nowhere, although like every other fashion most adherents wouldn’t have necessarily chosen it in a vacuum.

Whether that makes the preference less valid is an interesting question of it’s own.

The second paragraph added some important context, if you skimmed over it.

Yes it would. Looking back I think the time machine wouldn’t buy us more than those few years, though. The things that made it accessible, fun and (sometimes artificially, unnaturally) useful were the exact same things that made it easy to repurpose into the monstrosity it gradually became.

The Wild West period was scattered and had shitty accessibility. Companies like Google inevitably arrived to make the process of browsing smoother, but as of 2010 hadn’t started being evil yet. The alternate timeline that doesn’t suck probably would have involved email growing directly into a version of ActivityPub in the 90’s, and website dominance being bypassed entirely. (Although ISP struggles would have taken on a whole new dimension)

I would put those in a completely separate category, actually. They’re both older and more real than the “engineered compilation of random unscripted moments” type of thing.

I have no recommendations, unfortunately, haha.

Before that, they had to be more moderate to get by. It was terrible! /s

Oh, I definitely see the irony, if you want to call it that. Pwning is far more fun when I control it and it’s just for a laugh.

Maybe.

To be clear this is an outlet for pro-Ukrainian propaganda with stories that have quite often never been verified or repeated. I get it, they’re fighting a war for survival, but I still will take it with a grain of salt especially when it sounds unlikely.

When Canada retaliated to Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, she basically threw us under the bus and said we should have more respect.

I think Jacobin is seeing what they want to here.

As usual with BRICS projects, I’ll believe it when it’s both functioning and of any significant size.

That’s where I’d go too. It was really the calm before the storm.

Security is a lot better in most respects. Used to be most traffic on the Internet wasn’t encrypted.

This is so true, although I kind of wish I had more time to fully explore the prank potential. The shit I could have convinced people of with a spoofed Wikipedia article…