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2013 was just before the start of Russia’s invasion and illegal annexation of a part of Ukraine. Things were very different.

Also, it was before massive social media, Trump and the woke thing, so USA resembled a sane place.

In practice, what would stop me from taking the money and not doing what they want? Assassination risk?

Take 1000 million in bribes and distribute it to poor people, lol.

I stood my ground against the asshole second founder of the company. Not only was he a horrible person, but he also made bad decisions that could not be criticized.

Oh my no.

Other than Russia’s actions, things have been becoming better. Even though that war makes lots of things worse, it has done much to get the world make larger steps towards getting rid of fossil fuels.

I’m generally optimistic. The economic curves go up and down, but the overall trend is up.

I have managed to stay off the hype train quite a bit, so honest question: Is the game good? I’ve possibly perhaps all the 80s and 90s AD&D crpgs, and both Baldur’s Gates, and I mostly liked them.

I haven’t heard of any such exemptions, but I guess it will be really tested only if we have to go to war. It has been almost 80 years since the last time.

I fully think that every euro spent on defense is a horrible waste of resources in global sense, but it’s necessary to prevent every place on this planet being ruled by who are essentially barbarians.

It’s not ridiculous when the most probable enemy has a significantly worse governance.

In Finland, (male) children of the elite serve in the conacription army just like everyone else. But of course if that doesn’t apply, it’s not great.

I don’t claim to know what is causing this, but definitely we’re quite a lot beyond what used to be normal statistics.

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I might tell them just as I might tell them I used google to find out something. Doesn’t really pop up in conversation that often, but I wouldn’t hide the fact. It’s just almost totally irrelevant.

Of course it does. There’s nothing about Lemmy that would prevent that.

A lot of the brightest minds of our generation were employed to make us endlessly click things. Even though things like Lemmy and Mastodon didn’t come up with those techniques and are not beneficiaries of them, these services also uphold the addictive qualities.

Not because of what Lemmy has but what it does not have:

• spez
• Conde Nast
• ragebaiting algo

I hope they bring back the good old “face full of bullet holes, I think I heard a noise, oh well must have been a space rat again”

There are games where challenge is a significant part of the game. In others, “challenge” is just that they tune a number to be slightly higher. That’s usually pretty boring after going through the same for the nth time.

I mean… you made lots of good points and then you end with this:

lol

Don’t do that. It invalidates your message.