Ok, that is kind of clever.

Though I suppose even the dumbest user will chicken out once the terminal pops out.

Maybe Magneto is worthy. He is trying to save his people from discrimination after all.

The image clearly tries to make see like not a single building is left. It’s the intention of this images.

I’m pretty sure there’s a noble intention behind this, but it is misleading, it is propagandistic.

I will provide you a true comparison, similar lightning, similar time of the year. From september 2023 to september 2024. You’ll clearly see the destruction. It’s nothing shy. There’s a lot of destruction. But my images will not exaggerate reality.

There you don’t have to really look into what buildings are still up or not, as it is quite evident in the images what was destroyed to the ground. Even with far worse resolution the portrayal of reality is, IMO, infinity better. And the fact that in 5 minutes, with public resources and from my phone I can create this image that is less propagandistic that the image of the post, is, again IMHO, another evidence on why the image from the post have a higher propagandistic value that informative value.

I’m not saying area was not bombarded. I’m saying the election of that specific picture, time of day without shadows and just after a sandstorm, is made on purpose to exaggerate.

Without supporting any kind of violence. And without denying anything.

I feel obligated to say that this is purposely manipulated. As pictures taken in very different times of day and year make for a faulty comparison that does not portrait reallity.

Specially the time of day (that make shadows disappear on the right picture) and the sandy surfaces make it seems like the image on the right it’s all flat and that buildings are leveled to the ground. And that’s simply not true. It’s just optical illusions.

This does not mean that the areas was not subjected to heavy bombardment, and that all people on that area may have been killed by bombs. But the images presented are just manipulative and I’m against media manipulation no matter how good intentions are behind the manipulative attempt.

His first term was the best term, everyone is saying how it was the best term they ever seen, and that it was the smartest term, very smart. It was the best term in the history of terms.

That’s why a second term is not needed. There’s no reason for it.

Public Health and citizen security is 14% for my city.

This department includes local police, firefighters, garbage recollection, air quality, pest control etc…

Police by itself should be between 5 and 10% I’ll guess.

Also I’m not American. And here anyway local police is kind of small, most of our police force is National.

Colonize is not the same as terraform.

Mars could be colonized without terraforming it. Closed habitats could be permanent thus providing a way of colonization.

Terraforming is a trouble without magnetosphere that’s true. But not impossible. As there are tech concepts on how it could be possible to shield mars atmosphere. And doesn’t seem imposible, just expensive and complex.

I don’t see the lemmy model failing. So, as others, I think is more of a solution in search for a problem.

In general I don’t see any reason to leave Lemmy right now.

Also I don’t think things will keep simple with that model. I see a lot of underlying complexities that the current formula does not have.

Maybe it would be a better to try that model on a fediverse area with less success than lemmy.

Peertube is really struggling for instance. Not really on the developer side of things but on the content creators. Maybe a coop of content creators for peertube could me something that is needed on the fediverse.

Full price Stellaris is 322€… Let that sink in.

I agree with all those points.

I don’t know if adding exceptional cases to de equation adds to the argument or not. But there are many instances where the ones selling the product are not the ones that made it, and the ones that made it will never see a penny of what you paid for. This is true in old games/media, where rights were bought long ago by corporations and creators see nothing. Also true in any big production made by a big corporation with many workers. The workers who actually create the IP were paid by hour, while corporations and investors get to keep milking the product after creators had been paid.

This will invalidate any argument about creators getting compensated for their work. For those cases at least.

I’ve got the feeling that drift is an issue that is becoming more prevalent more and more.

I have controllers from ps1 and ps2 that work flawlessly nowadays. But the more current the controller the more probable it has stick drift.

I’m not all for conspiracies. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a lightning bulbs type of pact to introduce programmed obsolescence on a product that otherwise would just last forever without need to buy replacements.

As seen with Tumblr decay, and then Twitter, I think proprietary platforms will never be a safe haven por LGBT communities.

Why would you stay in that platform you are aware of who owns it and what is he doing with it?

You should trust information that has verificable independent source.

It’s not like in order not to like CIA you have to become a Taliban sympathizer.

Anyone still using twitter should be considered far right, there’s no excuse to stay in that platform.

As said by Taliban minister.

Take its veracity with a grain of salt.

I’m physically unable to make 8 in binary with my fingers.

My finger just refuses to go up by itself, it will just go up with its friends.

Not really.

Firstly they never said that they would turn him to the US. They said that they would turn him to a third country. And only if irrefutable evidence of his guilt were to be provided. And they said that the only would turn Bin Laden, not any other AlQaeda members.

Algo this happened after they US started the bombings. Before the US attacked the Talibans refused to even talk about it. And they would probably just tried to make time to start a truce until Bin Laden left the country.

So it was actually a fake proposal and only after their previous refusal started the bombings on Afghanistan.

I’m operating on the not so ignorant notion than the Taliban supported Al-Qaeda and its ways for decades, becoming a safe haven for Bin Laden and other terrorists.

They had no issues with terrorism and supported the use of terrorism against the infidels.

Being also targeted by other islamist terrorists doesn’t clean their history with support of international terrorism.