Imaginary insults.

Cool, so stop whining about it.

You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, but I’m afraid you aren’t shaking the “immature” label.

What part of their comment are you taking as an insult?

If you think argument is inherently bad, then yeah, you are definitely immature.

If you are going to watch a game, Fifa would rather you pirate their game than someone else’s. It’s still free advertising when you discuss the game with friends or online.

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The levels of disinformation coming out of Russia and China are very different than in the west. In the west, governments tend to try and justify their atrocities, not hide the fact that they ever happened. Even when Western governments do try to deny that something happened, it never seems to work very well. Either journalists get a hold of it, or an opposing faction takes control and releases the information.

Americans who are ignorant of American atrocities have actively chosen ignorance. That’s not true in China or Russia, and it’s definitely not true in North Korea. There is certainly a movement to try and make America that way though.

Read more theory!

I just tell them that the only reason they aren’t raging capitalists is that they haven’t read enough Milton Friedman or Adam Smith. Read more theory! Not that way! (No, I’m not a believer in the Chicago School of economics.)

Veni, Vidi, Versace

Also, at the societal level, the high lethality of the virus makes it far less likely to be able to spread broadly.

I don’t disagree on the current state. However, it’s not hard to foresee that attack tools will be developed that can maintain “attention” on an attack for days or weeks at a time with privately run agents. I’m sure they are out there already to some degree.

Cyber security in general is going to get interesting. Breaking into protected systems often requires more patience than expertise. Attackers often get detected when they take short cuts because of laziness and overconfidence. AI agents have unfathomable patience and attention to detail.l

The network effect is a pretty significant barrier. If a game comes out and it isn’t on Steam, the odds are pretty good that most gamers would never bother looking at it. It’s hardly Steam’s fault that the only attempts at competition for decades have been enshitified from launch though.

Why on earth would they not want death to the west? It’s not like we haven’t deserved it. Israel is way more extreme than either Hamas or Hezbollah. That’s what happens when you create an ethnostate, arm them to the teeth, and back them unconditionally for generations.

No country lasts generations in a static form. That’s not a thing.

I’m not sure if you are being sarcastic, but democracy and capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. “Equal capitalism” is an oxymoron.

Well, it’s kind of damned if you do damned if you don’t.

Nope, I live in a wealthy first world country with the capacity to not be damned either way. I will almost certainly be inconvenienced, but realistically I’ll be fine.

Lots of people will be “damned” though, and there are far better solutions to climate change than letting them starve because of Zionist warmongers.

It takes a bit of time for fertilizer to return into food. Over a third of global fertilizer, and half the sulfur used to manufacture fertilizer pass through the straight. Fertilizer prices have already spiked, and we are entering planting season. This is on top of what was lining up to be a horrible year for crops because of climate change and a transition from La Niña to El Niño. It’s going to be bad.

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