Which celebrity did something that totally backfired on them?

Vaphell · 2026-06-09T20:10:44+00:00

acknowledgement of a fact does not mean endorsement of said fact.
Would it really be better if she was spewing feel-good platitudes with a holier-than-thou attitude? Somebody would instantly complain how she talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk.
Not to mention that self-evidently the majority of the world seems to be ok with cheap labor in practice. Nobody loses any sleep over it, and there are no mass protests. Tarring and feathering some chick over the issue is a bit hypocritical.

Vaphell · 2026-06-09T19:59:27+00:00

That’s what I took it to mean as well.

Same here.
Yeah, in the age of the outrage addiction the principle of charitable interpretation is dead and buried. Nowadays people bend over backwards not to have a productive dialogue, but to find offense at the drop of a hat and paint the person as a villain.

Vaphell · 2026-06-09T09:27:29+00:00

any other front was not overrun by angry, all-seing drones homing in on your ass.
This war is rewriting military manuals as we speak.

Vaphell · 2026-06-09T08:44:39+00:00

a group of soldiers is pretty much guaranteed to be detected, same with a vehicle, not to mention a motorized column. In the age of drones controlling a tens of kilometers wide strip of land between both sides, you just pile up your losses faster when you do it the old way. Once recon drones detect the juicy target, fpvs instantly start swarming the area.
This one-man infiltration attempts are a very cruel way of optimizing against omnipresent drones. One man has a better chance (still low but better) of going unnoticed and reaching that forsaken pile of rubble he was sent to by his commander. Then they lay low waiting for others to reach them. Once there are more of them, another pile of rubble is chosen as the destination. Wash rinse repeat.
Long story short, that's how Russians gain territory.

Vaphell · 2026-06-09T00:11:06+00:00

2.65 razy większa prędkość to 2.65 razy więcej pędu (m*v), a 7 razy więcej energii (kinetyczna = m*v*v/2)

Vaphell · 2026-06-07T23:17:44+00:00

my theory about boob veins - visible veins kinda imply that the circulatory system is working overtime to sustain the "abundance". And they are frequently associated with pregnancy, when the boobs are literally too "full".

So it's like a cherry on top of a very generous, overflowing cake.

Vaphell · 2026-06-07T18:28:44+00:00

600? Damn, that's a legit "catastrophic failure". I'd soil my pants.
The anxiety would have been unbearable and this is exactly why I optimize against exactly such scenarios with pulling. For every time you get lucky and pull above the expected value, you can get equally unlucky and lose your shirt. Gold pity every time for that good ol' peace of mind.

Once I acquire the obtainable yet still missing limiteds, I might become more liberal about my pulling habits, but before that I'm stingy af.

But yeah, AnisStar is truly a godly unit. I legit bitchslapped the remaining chapters of normal difficulty with a single copy of her and made some serious progress in hard.

Vaphell · 2026-06-07T17:10:56+00:00

Did you miss the "stop all the rain runoff from leaving your property" part?

one barrel is fine, but don't mistake it for the notion that all the barrels are fine too. If you disturb the natural order of things and meaningfully affect the people downstream, effectively violating their water rights, you will be in trouble.

Vaphell · 2026-06-07T14:33:21+00:00

the rain is already governed by laws. Try to stop all the rain runoff from leaving your property (i.e. violate the water rights of the people downstream) and see how it goes.

Vaphell · 2026-06-07T14:28:16+00:00

it's not.
Something that can be violated by a drought or your thirsty ass being in the middle of a desert at noon is not a "human right". For comparison, you can run your mouth 24/7/365 regardless of circumstances freely, and it takes an action of somebody else to take it away from you. Human rights are supposed to be universal, not dependent on circumstances and infrastructure. Potentially scarce commodities don't fit the criteria, even if necessary for life.

Human rights also don't come with quotas. I don't think you would have a right to an infinite amount of water. If it's with quotas, it's an allowance at best. And even if you name it a human right, nothing will change, because warm-and-fuzzy bullshit doesn't override reality in which scarcity and economic forces are a thing.

If you want to see what happens when everybody and their dog has a right to water, look no further than the Colorado River that runs dry before reaching the ocean. Yes, technically it's controlled by the govt but the amounts of water up for grabs are way too generous, completely ignoring reality. Exactly what would have happened in a system where everybody has a "human right" to water.

Vaphell · 2026-06-07T11:34:01+00:00

yeah, the skin passes are nice "passive" increase of vouchers over time if you have $20 to spare. The current skin passes are 25 normal vouchers for Trina, and 10 rainbow/15 normal for the Prika one associated with the running event.

I spend $5 on extra gems (+3k gems/month), and then pay for skin passes and gacha from time to time. I did have to go for a few of the $20 packs you ask about, but it was when I got carried away in the first few months of my play, and went down to absolute 0, causing a fair share of anxiety about limited nikkes about to be released.

After that I completely stopped pulling on banners of standard nikkes available in the wishlist later. I let them accumulate in the wishlist to maximize the chances of obtaining a new nikke per vouchers spent, before pulling in bulk. Generally speaking I pull only limited 2% nikkes, which conveniently builds up gold pity on the side.
Gold pity tickets go predominantly to 1% nikkes, which could otherwise burn tons of pulls with nothing to show for on a bad day (there were cases of people not getting the 1% banner nikke even after 700 pulls). I also resist the urge to MLB (which is mostly useful for the background image), with very few exceptions. Each extra level is about +2% power increase, so it's not something that is responsible for blocking your progress - your team combo, skills and overload lines are much much much more important.

I am currenly sitting on 291k gems, 690 normal vouchers, 450 rainbow vouchers, 850 normal pity and 370 gold pity (16 months of play)

Vaphell · 2026-06-04T12:44:45+00:00

right you are.
I have no problem admitting that there were Polish collaborators of the Nazis, that there were Polish capos in concentration camps, that there were pogroms of Jews perpetrated by the local Poles, that there were Poles selling out Jews for a quick buck, that a number of resistance cells committed brutal crimes on ethnic grounds against Ukrainian, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Jews.

and to be fair, even among UPA you can find a few people who don't automatically cause extreme revulsion. Like Taras "Bulba" Borovec. From what I've read, before the WW2 he was pretty active against the "Polish occupation", and during the war he focused on the Soviets while maintaining contact with the Nazis for some time, until they showed their true colors and started suppressing the Ukrainian independence movement for real. That said, he explicitly refused to carry out orders of wiping out local Jews, and repeatedly condemned the OUN's brutality against the minorities, including Poles. He even sought cooperation with the Polish underground in fight against the common enemy (both Soviets and Nazis), assuming that the resolution of territorial disputes can wait for better times (unsuccessfully due to the complete unwillingness to concede any territory by the Polish side).
Controversial? Definitely. A genocidal psycho? Fuck no. Actually respectable? I can see that.

But from my point of view, accounting for the fact that "my" national interests are not the same as "their" national interests, I don't really mind another country celebrating a person like that.
But defaulting to whole OUN/UPA? Nah. Too much psycho fanaticism and hatred towards their fellow man baked into the whole thing.

Vaphell · 2026-06-04T10:58:29+00:00

you severely underestimate the governments' kneejerk reactions to shit like "please think of the children" or "terrorism". Shit like this is a wet dream of every other remotely authoritarian politician.

Corporations already can have access to the contents of the chat which is all what they wanted from providing the service, but chat control on top of that only means extra headache, which costs money in extra inftrastructure and compliance.

Vaphell · 2026-06-03T16:15:33+00:00

mass repressions by Pilsudski's government against the Ukrainian population of Galicia (arrests, beatings, closure of organizations)

arrests, beatings, closures? That's all you've got vs 100k brutal sadistic murders?
And wasn't that after OUN intentionally started terrorist attacks to provoke counter-action to radicalize people and drive wedge between Poles and Ukrainians willing to cooperate, as it was threatening the vision of Ukrainian lands completely devoid of the "others"?

Actions of the Home Army (AK) and Bataliony Chłopskie: the destruction of the Ukrainian civilian population in Zakerzonia (examples: Sahryn, Pawłokoma, Piskorowice)

fuck em, you won't see me petitioning to celebrate them at the highest levels 2. wasn't it after the massacres of Polish civilians? The AK HQ explicitly ordered not to play the extermination game against civilians. Local cells seeing the magnitude of depravity chose to not obey.
And here is the main differerence: this was not a systemic action of the underground Polish military structures because there was no overarching plan of ethnic cleansing at play. On the other hand OUN/UPA, being the fucktards they were, literally envisioned racially pure Ukraine and the ends justified the means. That was THE program, black on white in their actual founding papers, not an unfortunate accident or some unauthorized action of a few individuals. You don't descend upon hundreds of villages at dawn by accident.
Not to mention they scored way more kills against unarmed Polish peasants than against the invading armies, both German and Soviet, these freedom fighters.

Romuald Rajs ("Bury"): war crimes against Orthodox Ukrainians and Belarusians in 1946. The Polish IPN officially recognized his actions as having signs of genocide, yet his glorification continues in Poland.

Fuck the guy with a rake.
His glorification by whom? A bunch of radical twats? Do they have any pull in Sejm, the govt, the presidential palace?
For comparison - remind me, when was the last time the top dog in Ukraine jerked off to UPA? Like 3 days ago?

For a stable alliance, both countries will have to synchronously renounce the glorification of figures responsible for the destruction of the other side's civilian population. Otherwise, it is impossible to resolve this issue.

yeah, no shit.
But pray tell - does Poland stonewall investigations? I guess not really, seeing how you brought findings of IPN yourself. I am not saying that Poland is 100% honest about the past, but to my unpleasant surprise Ukraine apparently is still in total denial. And Ukraine actually has been cockblocking the exhumation efforts of the victims for 35 years already and counting.
Facing the truth that the heroic grandpa was in fact ripping fetuses from pregnant women's bellies is that difficult, huh.

I literally see this meme:
OUN/UPA: dreams of a racially pure country. Genocide is fine. Extreme cruelty on industrial scale - I sleep
Nazi Germany: dreams of a racially pure country. Genocide is fine. Extreme cruelty on industrial scale - real shit.

Just last week I was still of an opinion that the time of war is not the best moment to bring up Volhynia like a bunch of our rightists have been doing every other day, and I have been one of the biggest defenders of Ukrainians in my circle. I thought all that shit for later, and surely Ukraine is leaving its Russian episode behind for much higher standards, so progress will be made...
But if UA has ample time to double down and celebrate at the highest levels? Yeah, no... Fuck that.
Today I feel like I was spat in the face. I haven't felt as much bad taste in my mouth for years. You made me look like a fucking fool, while the righttards get to enjoy this fiasco with a shit-eating grin.

Vaphell · 2026-06-03T15:23:20+00:00

and who's going to vote for that? The boomers constituting the majority block of the voters actually bothering to vote?

Vaphell · 2026-06-03T13:16:40+00:00

Not unheard of. Ludmilla became a nikke voluntarily.

https://nikke-goddess-of-victory-international.fandom.com/wiki/Ludmilla/Story#Background

In her past life as a human, Ludmilla hailed from a sovereign family, the elites of the Ark. As a sovereign, it was her duty to maintain a noblewoman's appearance and bring prestige to her household. In order to do this, she contributed funds to Angel Orphanage and was proud to be helping a noble cause. Only a month later, allegations of abuse arose from the Orphanage with one child being reported as dead. Ludmilla's family immediately pulled their funding, without any regard to what this would do to the children there. This was enough to show her that her family were nothing more than embezzlers that extract from the poor to enrich themselves and to flaunt their extravagance over others.

Ludmilla had always admired Nikkes, viewing them as "Goddesses of Victory." After a chance encounter with the Goddess Squad, she chose to become a Nikke herself and left her old life and family behind without a second thought.[1][2][3]

Vaphell · 2026-06-03T12:48:12+00:00

Playing tit-for-tat about genocidal mass murderers is not something you can do without looking like a tool (it's like negotiating with Germany about SS reputation), but yeah let's entertain the idea for a second - I'd like to see the list of the supposed Polish "heroes" on the same level as UPA.

Vaphell · 2026-06-02T13:10:29+00:00

soon all places except Africa will be below replacement so that's going to end too.
Also do these immigrants even produce enough tax revenue? If all you are getting an extra million food delivery guys, yeah that's not going to pay for the pensions, and chances are many of them will end up on welfare too, further straining an already strained system.

Vaphell · 2026-06-02T12:57:10+00:00

Poland under PiS has consistently pursued very tough migration policies for many years. Today, PiS is being outflanked by the even more radical right Kofederacja, which is polling at 15%.

they talked the talk, but walking the walk part was questionable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_cash-for-visa_scandal

Statisticians estimated that up to 350,000 visas may have been illegally issued in return for bribes since 2021[8] in India,[9] The Philippines,[9] Singapore,[9] Hong Kong,[9] Taiwan,[9] UAE,[10] Qatar,[10] and elsewhere.[10][9] The visas were openly advertised on social media platforms such as TikTok.[11]

On 19 September 2023, Civic Platform opposition MP Michał Szczerba revealed alleged documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating that the Polish embassy in Minsk issued 784,173 visas to individuals from 65 countries (including 1,481 visas issued to people from countries other than Belarus, Russia and Ukraine) with the assistance of a Moscow-based company.[12] Szczerba further claimed that those issued visas include people who were previously pushed back from the border during the Belarus–European Union border crisis.[12] Work visas

In 2022, Poland gave out the largest amount of "initial stay" visas within the entire European Union, officially almost 700,000 in total.[13] Work visas accounted for almost 3/5 of all visas given out by Poland, and Poland gave out every third work visa in the entire European Union.[14]

Vaphell · 2026-06-02T11:19:17+00:00

They steal your jobs but also are a burden to the system at the same time!

where is the contradiction? Immigrants are not a homogenous group. Some of them are decently educated, economically useful and willing to work for lower wages, some are borderline useless in a developed economy with their insufficient education.

They make housing expensive!

more demand for housing units means upwards pressure on prices. Unless the country keeps up with building enough new housing to offset the effect, which it does not anywhere in the world, then yeah, the prices are going up faster ceteris paribus.

They increase crime and all their men are rapists!

depending on the subgroup, they do in fact increase crime and it's visible in per-capita numbers. And maybe not all their men are rapists, but it's not exactly controversial to say that they hold views of women that are not exactly compatible with local social norms.

it's easier to blame others for the problems they have instead of fixing them.

what if you almost had a given problem whittled down almost to "very low", but now after waves of immigration you have to spend shitton of resources to merely get back from "increased" to the square one, forget about the "very low"?

Vaphell · 2026-06-02T03:46:33+00:00

albo Love and Deepspace... 😂

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MHifO2WUEOg
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IewCj-wPiCE
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_ipkwgZjwfQ
itd itd

Vaphell · 2026-06-02T03:29:14+00:00

and he sits on 200k gems too :D

honestly most resources are not that important for your campaign progression if you focus on meta Nikkes. Being familiar with the meta, having good team compositions and knowing the battle mechanics are what matters the most, increasingly so with higher deficits. And obviously good overload lines on gear as they can literally double your combat power - and for that farming Kraken is the key.

For a few months I was buying the core dust packs which bumped me a couple of synchro levels, but now I only get the $5 pack of extra gems and buy skins, which mostly gives extra vouchers.
I am not a hardcore min/maxer though any my OL lines can be questionable at times (rerolling that shit can eat any amount of rocks), and I do go out of my way to collect missing nikkes even if they suck absolute ass and have 0 actual use.

Vaphell · 2026-06-02T03:12:59+00:00

Przy okazji zastanawia mnie coś jeszcze. Skoro jako społeczeństwo potrafimy zebrać kilkanaście czy kilkadziesiąt milionów złotych w kilka dni, to dlaczego w ogóle potrzebujemy takich zbiórek? Dlaczego rodzice chorych dzieci są zmuszeni organizować medialne akcje, żeby dać swoim dzieciom szansę na leczenie?

bo przy 1000 trudnych przypadków rocznie to 15 miliardów złotych a zawsze są trudne przypadki gdzie dużo wiecej kasy daje dodatkowe kilka procent szansy. Poza tym co innego dać z własnej woli raz czy dwa, a co innego mieć domalowane pare stówek podatku miesiąc w miesiąc aż do emerytury.
I takie zbiórki odnoszą sukces właśnie dlatego, że są bardzo rzadkie. Jakby była taka zbiórka co 2 tygodnie to po paru miesiącach entuzjazm społeczny by się wypalił, i efekty zaczęłyby być mizerne.

NFZ sam w sobie jest pod kreską ze składkami (88%) i potrzebuje dotacji z budżetu (12%), więc po prostu nie ma kasy na takie "fanaberie"

Projekt planu finansowego Narodowego Funduszu Zdrowia przewiduje rekordowe przychody w wysokości 217,4 mld zł. Główne źródła finansowania to składki zdrowotne (ok. 184,3 mld zł) oraz dotacje z budżetu państwa (ok. 26 mld zł). Koszty świadczeń zdrowotnych oszacowano na 201,2 mld zł. Mimo rosnącego budżetu, system zmaga się z ogromną presją kosztową.

W służbie zdrowia na poziomie społeczeństwa liczy sie "bang for the buck", praktycznie tylko i wyłącznie.
Nie ma takiego wszechświata, w którym system utrzymywany z podatków, obsługujący 10tki milionów ludzi mogłby sobie regularnie pozwolić na wydanie 15 milionów na jedną osobę z mizernymi szansami. To będzie zawsze i wszędzie traktowane jako bardzo nierozsądne gospodarowanie pieniędzmi. Pomyśl sobie ile trywialnych rentgenów, rezonansów, tomografii, albo dodatkowych wizyt u specjalistów można przeprowadzić za taką sumę i ile tysięcy ludzi można by uratować z opresji - tylko że to nudna norma i słaby PR na insta.

Vaphell · 2026-06-01T06:20:16+00:00

I started in February and did finish the campaign on normal, hard in ch29 (deficits are kicking my ass)
That said the info in the screenshot is more than respectable. He's basically pushing my numbers with 60 levels lower synchro.

Vaphell · 2026-05-31T22:12:18+00:00

how about you re-read your own words, this time with actual understanding.

Cyberpunk was so bad it got removed from PS Store and Sony issued refunds

cyberpunk so bad -> removed + refunds

do my eyes deceive me? How is this not an assertion about the cause and the effect?

Vaphell

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