I think Germany and Japan are going to have to re-militarize and conquer everyone back into a civil democracy.

No one wants this war, or wishes it on anyone,” said Tal Beeri of the Alma Research and Education Center

Bit naive imo. Netanyahu is a bit of a strongman that catastrophically failed to keep his people safe, which betrays the most foundational appeal of such a figure. His approval rating demonstrates this, and he’s facing criminal charges to boot.

He has one route forward for personal preservation–more war.

Or we could just let people have the freedom to express their actual sexual feelings.

Somebody has to fill this place with content…

My favorite workhorse is just a large, enameled piece of lodge logic in that exact same color. Absolutely love it.

Problem is he’s backed into a corner now. He mobilized. How will it look to his supporters if he starts to de-escalate? Reserve troops were pulled from their families, jobs and lives, and for what, political posturing? Yea I don’t think so.

edit: I cannot definitively verify that reserves were mobilized.

We will never be able to compete with them for as long as they remain federated with us. We will simply have no unique value any longer. All of our development–open source. All of our content–available to the federation. He will have rightful possession of it all, everything we are.

However, he does not have to share his development with us. He does not have to share his hardware resources with us. He does not have to limit himself to only the capabilities that we want to be added.

He can, if absolutely necessary, buy us. One big Instance at a time.

Our only path forward with any independence is to defederate immediately and ruthlessly. This way, we keep our content. We keep that unique contribution, that we can use as a competitor to eventually demonstrate our value to the rest of the world. That’s the only way possible for us to have any chance of eventually toppling him, instead. We must retain our unique value. We must protect our content. If he wants it, make him scrape it and repost it with bots or something.

Yeah, he’s a big fan of access. May as well just make an extra category marked “everything”.

People are weird and like collecting things.

Peaked? No, not unless another production run happens. They will fluctuate, but you should have every expectation that 500 years from now, an original cartridge of Mario/Duck Hunt will be pretty damn valuable. Much less the actually rarer ones that will have stopped existing outside of digital and pirated physicals.