Sapporo Ichiban are made in Japan by Sanyo Foods, (yes that Sanyo) is widely available in Canada and much better than Mr. Noodles, but not vegan, and I don’t know what ingredients being “clean” or “sketchy” means to you. They’re definitely a more authentic Japanese recipe though and taste better. I can’t ever go back to Mr. Noodles after trying them.
The next escalation will be from expanding the protests until they can be organized into a general strike.
People need to stop going to work. Together. All at once. A lot of people. Enough that they can’t be replaced and that important things that the government and billionaires rely on, stop happening, potentially for a long time. The country needs to shut down, like COVID. This is going to have consequences. But it has to have consequences. That’s the point. Consequences for both sides, and more consequences until the situation gets resolved, one way or another. People have to come to terms with the fact that they’re going to lose their jobs anyway. This is really just accelerating the inevitable. People are losing their jobs right now, when they are deported. People are losing their jobs when they’re imprisoned. People need to realize that no one is safe, and in the longer term the way things are going with AI and robotics and utopian techbro billionaires owning everything and being handed whatever they want by the government it seems clear you’re ALL going to lose your jobs at some point, so why not now? Do it early, in a coordinated fashion, for a cause. Accept the inevitable consequences, and turn them to your advantage by doing them with intention, on your own terms.
Everyone thinks they have a great job when they have to confront the possibility of losing it, but that’s the scam. You have a shitty job, working for someone else who is much, much richer than you and your shitty job and its “benefits” are the reason you are not rich despite living in the richest country in the world. There will be new, better jobs to get when you win. If you win. The need for these jobs to be done isn’t going away. It’s time for people to start creating some intentional artificial scarcity to drive up wages while there are still things that can’t be easily or effectively automated.
People have to organize, and do it quickly, while there is still time. A lot of people are still trying to “prepare” for what’s coming but that’s not a luxury you have anymore. They’ve been preparing for this a lot longer than you will be able to. The clock is ticking, the administration is working furiously to remove the people it considers most dangerous to its goals and remove the systems and supports that could be used against it. The more you delay, the worse it’s going to be. Time wasted “preparing” is time wasted, period. The time for action is now. The rebellion is forming. Be part of it.
They should have a separate severity rating for “is this actually likely to impact admins who aren’t complete idiots”.
They do see them as people, but specifically bad people. A non-person would be beneath their notice. A bad person on the other hand, becomes the target of their wrath and cruelty and it is justified to do this to them because they are bad.
They are freely expressing their fear of dangerous western ideas which must be censored to protect the motherland /s
You need to work on your reading comprehension then, because as I said:
OP’s comment is clearly saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation. That’s why they said “BUT I’m not stupid”. They are agreeing that it would be stupid to go there now, that’s why their statement of wanting to go there is made conditional on a “but” that is false.
Like saying, “I love spicy food and I wish I could eat a whole ghost pepper at once, BUT I’m not stupid [implied: so I WON’T eat a whole ghost pepper at once]”
KSP1 is the bees knees and the modding community is still going as strong as ever. Still worthwhile even at full price.
We don’t absolutely know what the future holds for our own planet much less the universe, so it’s impossible to answer this with any conviction, but based on my current understanding or the general scientific consensus, and the fact that the universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating, no, by placing them at the edge of the observable universe and the effects of relativity, their hypothetical signals will never reach Earth and almost certainly not the Earth that we know of that’s orbiting Sol and full of humans patiently observing the universe for signs of their lost ancestors.
But we don’t know with any certainty that the universe’s expansion or acceleration is going to continue indefinitely, we don’t even fully understand why it is happening. So maybe their signals will eventually reach us. Maybe the universe will start contracting eventually and in a few trillion years they’ll swing right by Earth on their own, waving as they go by as we mutually go careening down towards the big crunch. Besides, if the universe is infinite, and is going to last an infinite amount of time, well “infinity” is a very long time and you can’t rule out the fact that another wormhole could open and bring them (or their signals) home at some point now that you’ve proven such a wormhole can exist. So when you put all the things we do know and the things we don’t know together, I’d give them about 50/50 chances, with a margin of error of plus or minus 50%.
That’s why we call them flavors. People like certain flavors. It doesn’t mean the nutrition is any different or that you need to always use only whatever flavor is somebody else’s favourite. The lovely thing about Linux is the freedom to choose and to try different things to find what works best for you personally. There’s no organization trying to shove certain tools and principles down your throat for profit. It’s literally just personal preferences and they’re all equally valid choices. We try to make recommendations on things that might be easier to grasp or might suit a person’s situation better but really they’re all just flavors and they’re all good for the people who like those flavors.
Pika OS is a gaming distro based on Debian which in my experience one of the most stable and reliable upstream distros that I trust, Pika adds all the gaming stuff you could possibly want and all the library and driver updates that you need to stay current and basically fixes what I consider Debian’s only flaw (that its stability can make non-security update and driver updates slow and unsuitable for the latest and greatest games and technologies). Overall I’m really enjoying it, I’m daily driving it and have it installed on several laptops with no hardware issues at all. Just be careful that you need to use the NVIDIA-specific install ISO if you have a recent NVIDIA card.
I’ve also heard good things about CachyOS, personally it would take a lot to drag me over to the Arch ecosystem but if you already have a Steam Deck anyway it might be a great place to be.
I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and respond to your 4-word insult comment, because I think it’s important and I’m assuming you either didn’t realize that OP is saying they currently won’t go there because of the political situation, or you’re saying that the existence of the current political situation completely erases any potential historical or cultural value the people and the country may have or have ever had or ever will have and that’s a really awful thing to say and I can’t imagine how someone could have that attitude without intentional hyperbole unless they’re being a disgustingly intolerant bigot.
Iran is a beautiful country, in most of its history it was Persia. They were fierce warriors yes but also academics and scholars. They provided the foundation of modern astronomy and mathematics and were a beacon of civilization and education. We literally use “arabic” numbers today because of them. There is beautiful architecture, beautiful geography, beautiful wildlife in Iran and none of that had any choice about the government. There are wonderful people there, including ones who protest the regime and fight for democracy and human rights.
The modern tyrannical islamofascist government sucks and of course nobody should go there now or at any foreseeable point in the future, but it’s not stupid to want to go there, and if they had a safe, friendly democratic nation (which it should be pointed out many of the people in Iran and who have fled Iran’s current regime would also like) I absolutely would love to visit too. I’m less interested in North Korea, personally, but I can understand that it might appeal to others and there might be interesting places and things and people there too that I’m just not interested in or don’t know about. I would also love to go to Russia too. Again, I would only do that without the government or the bad parts of their culture, but I still love many of the parts of their history and culture. I don’t hate the people or the land. I hate the evil governments and the shitty cultural attitudes.
Try not to have shitty cultural attitudes yourself, appreciate and avoid invalidating the good parts of other people’s cultures, and it will help the world to be a better place where we can all get along.
wasn’t the League of Nations largely the brainchild of Woodrow Wilson, US president during WW1?
Yes it was, quite ironic that the US never became a part of it right? But they’ve always been like that. I can’t figure out why anyone would rely on an agreement with them when every 4 years they switch from Jekyll to Hyde, do an about face and throw you to the wolves. They’re useful allies when they want to be useful, but I wouldn’t rely on them or trust any agreement with them any further than I can throw it. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Most game media/advertising/reviewing is garbage and cannot be trusted. I play games that look fun. I have a particular definition of fun specific to me alone. I’ll watch actual gameplay to decide if it looks fun to me. I might watch technical reviews and benchmarks that tell me if my hardware will be able to play it. IDGAF what culture war moralizing poop that some idiots want to headline it with and babble about to get views on their articles and channels.
I don’t think Stellar Blade looks like the kind of fun I personally enjoy so I’m going to pass, but I’m not going to judge or shame anyone who’s enjoying the fuck out of it because there’s nothing to shame. It’s a game. It’s made to be played and be fun for people to play. Have fun. Don’t worry about the drama storms. They’re pointless and devoid of meaning.
I’ve always been partial to restarting the League of Nations, which notably never had the United States anyway… sounds familiar.
Yup, exactly! Sorry if anything I wrote sounded like criticism, I was agreeing and elaborating with my own experiences, that’s all.
Invade Brazil, install puppet regime, attend summit.
So apparently Canada got something they were asking for for a long time, and NATO is willing to recognize our resource projects for “critical minerals” as part of our defense budget. The 5% is still a huge target, but it seems we do have some more options in how we actually reach it now, that don’t involve just sending money to other countries to buy their military equipment. So hopefully these investments in critical minerals will actually be able to benefit our economy directly and limit the need for significant cuts elsewhere.
“I don’t know, that’s just how we’ve always done it.”
In my experience there often is a reason for it, it’s just that the person who knew the reason for it left the company and it was never properly documented, so now it’s just cargo-cult-policy without any understanding behind it. So you’re right, there’s no way to figure out why it’s done that way or if it should continue to be done that way without thorough reexamination and a pretty analytical approach, and when those reasons are old they can certainly turn out to be badly outdated, but I’d also caution against just blanket assuming that it probably isn’t necessary simply because it’s “the way we’ve always done it” and no one seems to know why. The erosion of institutional knowledge is relentless, but that doesn’t mean it was never known or never for a good reason either. It’s not braindead to follow a policy you don’t understand the reason for, it might be lazy and it might be putting too much trust in the people who made the policies, but it’s not always wrong. Sometimes the policies are written in blood, and you not knowing that doesn’t mean it’s not a good policy.
My favourite AI project was the one where some guy proudly posted that he made this thing entirely with AI with no coding experience, and then proceeded to get hacked. Again, and again, and again, using AI to fix it each time until he gave up and blamed people for being “mean”. AI projects are full of endless bugs and security holes that people with no coding experience don’t notice or know how to fix? Who would’ve guessed? The future of coding is here, and hackers are going to have a fun time. As a professional software developer, I can’t wait because I’m going to charge (at least) double to fix it.