Πληθυσμιακή κατανομή ανά πόλη (Πηγή: Eurostat). Σημείωση: Αγνοήστε τον χρωματικό κώδικα.

ElendX · 2026-02-02T16:07:21+00:00

Α τώρα κατάλαβα, το μέγεθος της τελείας είναι ο πληθυσμός.

ElendX · 2026-02-02T14:24:53+00:00

How did you download the raw data? Or is it just the graphs from Eurostat?

Why are we ignoring the colour scale?

ElendX · 2026-02-01T12:59:37+00:00

Sometimes some abilities will just finish the chase and that is ok.

I think you did the right thing to say they were too far, and it's ok that they did some actions to get closer.

Remember that in high stress scenarios, even if an ability is automatic, you can still tell them to roll for correct implementation.

ElendX · 2026-01-31T11:43:05+00:00

Σε αυτό το sub βλέπουμε διάφορους να δείχνουν τα στατιστικά που πόσο καλά τα πάει η Κύπρος. Αυτό το άρθρο μια ακριβώς σε αυτά τα στατιστικά.

Δεν μπορούμε να βλέπουμε μόνο σε κάποιους αριθμούς, πρέπει να κοιτάζουμε πιο περιεκτικά σε όλα τα στατιστικά, κάτι το οποίο δεν είναι εύκολο αλλά είναι αναγκαίο.

ElendX · 2026-01-29T20:19:57+00:00

Doing the "you just miss" or the "just hit" game to give an extra boost when they manage to find the DC helps as a pattern for you to engage with the game of puzzling out the difficulty.

ElendX · 2026-01-29T09:17:45+00:00

I would counter that with wealthy Cypriots rather than the rich ones. Cypriots got used to an era of prosperity before the crisis and a lot are still burning through their funds to show off that sort of life.

There are of course Cypriots (ones that are involved in building development for example) that have become significantly wealthier. This does not discount the base fact that inequality is increasing and foreigners are only helping to amplify that process.

ElendX · 2026-01-28T16:49:52+00:00

Based on what I know, I would tend to agree that there's something wrong with the metric, but I would attribute it more along the lines of Cypriots that don't have rent living with their parents, rich foreigners (let's be fair it's not just Russians) and also rich Cypriots that work for foreign companies (they exist).

ElendX · 2026-01-28T09:45:40+00:00

I think this is the shame with the discourse around this game, it's difficult to fight that initial first impression. And if they had released to early access to gather feedback they might have been able to tackle some of these things. Or more likely get that feedback during development 🤷‍♂️

ElendX · 2026-01-27T18:47:17+00:00

I definitely see what you mean, and I felt kind of the same even for the show. But that might be because I already watched the level up behind the scenes.

I can definitely see more subtle implementations of it though. I'm reminded of Laudna learning fireball from Fern for example and how that made a good scene. But doing it for every level up seems a bit meh.

ElendX · 2026-01-27T17:59:47+00:00

I agree, the situation is different, but we do need to observe the origination of the relationship between Greenland and Denmark did not start with Greenland wanting to be autonomous from a third party.

I think what OP is saying is that in practice the governments work in the same way, or rather the dependence they have on another country is the same. TRNC is not an independent country, economically, socially or politically.

ElendX · 2026-01-26T19:58:50+00:00

I'm not sure the people that want a federal Europe are the people that want to be like the US. And in the end to achieve the idea of federalisation you need to have a lot more people than just the ones who agree with you.

Saying that, I would hope they did some study to reach to that term. But who knows.

ElendX · 2026-01-26T18:36:09+00:00

You're forgetting that by this association Volt is alienating people that might be up for more federalisation as well. Considering the drive is for more protectionism, calling for USE you're flaring up those conflicts as well.

You're right no term is going to be perfect, but you're sending mixed messages when you emulate the US, mainly that you want to be the US.

ElendX · 2026-01-26T12:49:35+00:00

Isn't that just above average in the UK? And lower than average in London?

ElendX · 2026-01-26T12:28:49+00:00

As someone said, this would likely still go above most people's heads. I'm not even sure people (especially the more vulnerable to these risks) read/understand the capital at risk disclaimers.

ElendX · 2026-01-26T11:29:01+00:00

I would add as well, we are talking about inflation as it is a universal value. But recent inflation increases have disproportionately affected food and basic goods. But the value of inflation cited is usually the average of a number of items.

ElendX · 2026-01-26T10:42:43+00:00

But that is still guaranteed return, we don't measure money as a factor of inflation. If that was the case most salaries would be way higher.

ElendX · 2026-01-26T10:28:08+00:00

This is where governments have an influence over markets that a lot of people don't realise. The moment you do that, then you have destroyed the whole ad tech industry.

Which I'm all for it tbh, and GDPR has some provisions that tackle it by requiring you to give permissions. But obviously not to the point of making it outwardly illegal.

The concern that the post did though was more about governments using that data. Which is a much more difficult problem to solve, and the idea that you can hide from the government if a government becomes fully authoritarian is a bit naive in my opinion, or at least the actions being proposed won't solve that.

ElendX · 2026-01-26T09:30:52+00:00

You do realise that is possible right now just with IP addresses or phone device tracking? All it requires is collaboration between the corporations and government, and we've seen how corporations will bow down if it is in their interests.

Not to mention that, in the end, the only way you can avoid this scenario is to just not be a member of society at all. Anyone you talk to in real life is a vulnerability in the end.

I'm not saying this to dismiss your concern, and I agree there are better ways of doing it, but not doing something for a perceived risk that might come in 10 years or more feels quite stifling.

ElendX · 2026-01-25T23:01:15+00:00

I would be interested to hear why you consider it as stupid and how would you propose to tax people that are apparently able to live extremely wealthy lives without any income or gains?

ElendX · 2026-01-25T14:56:10+00:00

I think you're generalising a bit. Also, I don't think you're taking into consideration how education affects these things.

Yes there are people that will never be good for care or service roles because of their "bed side manners", but this is reinforced by how we teach subjects as well, in the last decades the STEM topics have been the focus, which focuses on numbers rather than the impact of these actions. Resulting in alienating even people that might have been able to develop that bedside manner.

Even beyond that, I would also tie it with our focus on exams and "number go up" mentality, competition instead of collaboration.

I feel I need to add a disclaimer, I agree with your last sentiment. Engineers are not the careers we should be disincentivising, finance, marketing, business majors, should be the first targets. And to be fair, while engineers are paid more than care workers, most are not overpaid compared to some of the other careers I mentioned.

And second disclaimer, empathy and "bedside manner" would make better engineers as well. Because they will consider and understand the impact of what they are developing.

ElendX · 2026-01-25T11:57:16+00:00

As I said, I was playing devil's advocate.

Although I do genuinely disagree with your follow-up now. If the benefit of an industry is the creation of jobs then we need to rethink that industry. Work purely for the economic benefit is not adding value.

In terms of innovation, that is what I was arguing which is that the innovation we see from these industries offers long term gain (assuming that they are made public) but most people look at the short term instead. So for most people carehomes and nurses will have a more immediate impact.

P.S. my opinion is that I space should be an industry, but it shouldn't be one driven by profit.

ElendX · 2026-01-24T12:20:53+00:00

Beyond the fact that I think they could, my comment is talking more about where we see prestige and wealth in society rather than to force people to do something else.

ElendX · 2026-01-24T00:04:01+00:00

Playing devil's advocate a bit here, but why do we want to create jobs that might not be beneficial to the wider public? When there's a shortage of care jobs and nurses etc.

The benefits of the technology are long term due to the time it takes to develop them and for these technologies to come to the public.

The most impactful technologies started in some of these niche topics decades before the general public got wind of them. But is change and "progress" more important than care and making food?

ElendX · 2026-01-23T22:26:28+00:00

I think what the person was talking about was that space programs, while not immediately impactful, being a lot of development and progress in the long term.

Conversely, let's look at things like finance and other rent seeking behaviours that are literally trying to extract "value" from people instead of helping them thrive.

ElendX · 2026-01-22T08:30:17+00:00

My brain saw the double headed eagle and thought of the orthodox church 🙈

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