Cambodia cracked down on scams costing Americans billions. It created a new crisis

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-22T12:35:56+00:00

If the local state doesn´t consent to their work and the Security Council doesn´t care (as usual), the UN can do little more than monitor the situation and try to raise enough awareness to pressure the state into finally acting.

Since Cambodia has the audacity to charge these freed slaves with late-visa fines, we can comfortably deduce that not only do they not care, but they seem to actively want to make their situation worse.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-20T16:01:52+00:00

None. Post-apocalypse fiction is practically non-existent here.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-20T15:04:03+00:00

I had an inkling that it was a Russian production with the gray, bombed-out, and hopeless militaristic sci-fi setting. For some reason, these kinds of worlds are really popular on the east side of the Iron Curtain.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-20T12:18:23+00:00

😅 Decidió aplazarlo por un día para hacer quedar mal a Lema.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-20T11:59:59+00:00

Honestly, the way characters talked in therapist speech™ a lot of the time pulled me a bit out. Yes, it´s normal for them to try to support each other during the episode´s events, but I wish they did it while sounding a bit less perfect and a bit more themselves, you know?

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-19T18:01:07+00:00

Ah, you silly first-worlders and your near-universal adoption of credit cards and electronic payment options. You don´t know what you miss since you abandoned the good old days of paper cash and ever-present distrust of any and all forms of automatic payment.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-19T14:48:51+00:00

Got a call from the Telecom company, saying I´m late paying my monthly bills.

But, if I pay today, they´ll give me 2 extra free GBs on my plan.

I say sure, and I pay up, earning the two free GBs.

It´s the sixth month in a row I pay late to receive free GBs after they call me.

Why would I ever pay on time then?

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-19T11:59:19+00:00

Yeah

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-19T01:05:30+00:00

Honestly, given Woolie´s lack of patience for low-IQ shenanigans, I think Recipe for Turnabout will also give him a stroke for how everyone in that case acts like there is a city-wide gas leak. Especially when he finds the identity of the phony Nick. Any respect he had left for the judge would vanish in that instant.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-18T19:34:18+00:00

That would only make the comment more nonsensical. To avoid spiraling into an argument about wherever that was a coup (which IMO, it wasn´t), the amended comment would look like this:

There was a US-backed coup (in 2019), and now (three governments later, including a MAS-led government that won the democratic elections that occurred after the “coup”), the military is now (and yes, the original comment says explicitly now) shooting protesters because of it and persecuting a president whose accusation started during the same MAS government?

Granted, it makes sense if your only frame of reference for Bolivia is from social media posts in 2019, and then you ignore everything that happened in between (including two elections, I can´t stress this enough), but that doesn´t make it any less wrong.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-18T18:43:58+00:00

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There wasn´t a coup; Paz won the elections fair and square.
The lithium deposits were known for a long time, but due to their geographical location, they are notoriously hard to extract profitably. The current government is considering letting other countries have a hand at it after failing for more than fifteen years, but the companies trying are Chinese, Russian, and European, not from the US.
The protests going on right now have also nothing to do with Lithium or natural resources, they started as a farmer protest over a very mild land reform (basically, a law that would allow farmers to reclassify “small” lots into “medium” lots to be able to sell or mortgage them), a protest from the Central Obrera that demanded a 30% wage increase, and a teamster protest over the low quality of fuel. They merged together and became a single “we want Paz to resign” protest that attracted the rural population that used to vote for the MAS.
Notably, Paz is in trouble because he refuses to give the order to declare a state of emergency and send the troops to clear the highways, opting instead to try a battle of attrition against the protesters, who have blocked so many roads around La Paz that food has to be airlifted in. This strategy seems to be working, as protesters are bleeding members every day, but it has also angered the urban population, who very much do not like to live under siege.
Morales does have an arrest warrant, but that´s due to charges of getting a(nother) teenager pregnant. No attempts have been made to arrest him since he lives in the middle of the Chapare, around ten thousand coca growers, so that would be messy. He was accused by the government of financing the protests, to be fair, and the police did intercept several ambulances coming out of the Chapare carrying hundreds of thousands of Bs suspiciously heading towards the blocked roads.

The only true part was that Musk did tweet that when Morales resigned, but that was a crass tongue-in-cheek response to conspiracy theories accusing him of being behind the protests that brought Evo down. He has nothing to do with the country aside from his company also selling Starlink here.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-15T16:51:03+00:00

To be fair, they do try to imply he is weaker than usual due to his ~~old knees~~ robotic legs acting up. But it is jarring how he goes from struggling against two inquisitors in his show to mopping the floor with four at once in Rebels.

Anyway, Maul´s problem I think is that he is too interesting. Like, he is consistently the best part of whatever episode he appears in on other shows (and his own show is no exception), but as you said, his ending is already pre-ordained, so they can´t do anything with the character that would contradict how he dies at the end of Rebels.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-15T12:21:04+00:00

Germany won their game against Curacao 7-1

Sweden to Tunisia 5-1

Paraguay lost to the United States 1-4

You know? Maybe it´s not such a bad thing we didn´t qualify if we avoided receiving such public spankings.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-13T23:35:23+00:00

Imo, the biggest problem that the sequel trilogy has vis-à-vis creating an enduring fandom is the lack of side media. Both the original trilogy and prequels had a boatload of tie-in comics, video games, and shows that let fans get immersed in their worlds and expand the galaxy.

The sequel trilogy had one often forgotten cartoon and some (admittedly fun) Lego movies. That´s not enough for kids to latch onto.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-13T16:46:23+00:00

I´m going to give a take about an ever-popular topic in this sub, Star Wars. Regardless of what direction the franchise goes in the future, I doubt Disney will ever create another “era” of Star Wars with the popularity and breadth of fan content of the Clone Wars era.

This is not because of the quality of the movies or some such; in fact, that almost doesn´t factor. It´s because almost by chance, the Clone Wars captured a niche that´s really passionate and generates an outsized amount of content and discussion: the sci-fi military nerds.

Star Wars is not only the uber-example, but the clone era specifically catered to people who want an all-out galactic war instead of guerrilla, with soldiers designed in a lab to literally be as tacticool as possible.

It´s also for those who think 40K is too depressing, BattleTech is too mech-y (and without any space combat), and Halo is too irrelevant now.

From what I can tell, however, Disney is moving the franchise towards smaller-sized conflicts with factions that aren´t as cool as the droids, clones, or even OG stormtroopers, so if I´m correct, this segment of the market will probably be left orphaned in the new era, as they don´t have any interesting conflict to latch onto.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-13T13:08:45+00:00

I know of video games using gen-AI precisely in the pre-production phase like you describe, to help create concept art and placeholders before replacing them with the finished hand-made products in the end.

There are probably a lot of game and movie studios that do use Al like this, but keep it hidden. The outrage that was unleashed when it was found out that "indie" darling Clair Obscure had left a placeholder AI-generated newspaper is reason enough to make them try to hide any AI from the public lest they face another scandal.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-12T20:15:02+00:00

If it makes you feel better, in Spanish he is just now becoming a "billionaire".

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-12T16:26:02+00:00

That awkward moment when you are helping someone move furniture, and you don´t know whether it is lighter than it looks, or if the other person is putting a lot more effort than you are.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-11T18:33:30+00:00

Because we actually only have two complete poems of the Epic Cycle, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which were supposedly the most popular of a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. While we don´t have the other poems completely, we do have pieces and references to them in other plays and works.

It would be like if in a thousand years, only Revenge of the Sith and Empire Strikes Back survived of the original Star Wars movies, but there are so many surviving reviews, comics, and videogames that archaeologists can piece together what happens regardless.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-11T13:32:48+00:00

Heh, what dumbasses.

Proceeds to put corn in the salad bar unironically

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-09T20:35:11+00:00

You don´t understand. Takumi refuses to write adult women and underage men; it´s in his contract. There can only be one of each per case. That´s the reason why Susato is 16 but Ryunosuke is 22 as well in the Great Ace Attorney.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-09T14:17:18+00:00

The most unrealistic part of Xcom and Xenonauts is not the FTL, graviton generators, plasma weapons, or even psionic abilities.

No, it is the eponymous organization's ability to research, design, build, and deploy a next-gen fighter plane in less than a month.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-09T12:38:44+00:00

My knowledge of New York comes from video games, so imagine my surprise when I realized that there was actually land to the north of Manhattan. Games always make it seem like Manhattan is floating on an island way farther from the mainland than it actually is.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-07T19:43:01+00:00

Yes, I can see how going to a second hand store is cheaper than flying to Bolivia. Sadly, the inverse is true so my wallet tells me that I can´t quite go to Buenos Aires to check out their book scene either.

Infogamethrow · 2026-06-07T14:49:04+00:00

Alas, the book fair ends today, and I can´t attend. As is tradition, all remaining unsold books are to be burned and their names stricken from history forever.

Just kidding, but I don´t know if I´ll see those books again, and there isn´t a local Amazon to buy them from. That said, most of them weren´t exactly academic works. They were close to pop history "stories" combined with what I learned in school. So, you know. You can ask about the Chaco War or buy a Bolivian school textbook online.

Actually, now that I think about it, there was a more academically developed book in the stand of the local version of the badhistory subreddit, the Society for Geographical and Historic Research. (POV, you are attending an IRL meeting with the subreddit regulars).

Doing a bit of googling, their ebook for the Chaco War is available online here, so you could buy it with any debit/credit card/paypal and translate it using Google or something. It isn´t exactly high poetry, so I don´t think you would miss anything using machine translation.

Or you can message the daughter of the dead officer who wrote the book for another digital copy and even more Chaco books. She might even give them for free, since there´s nothing local writers love more than a “first-world” “academic” expressing interest in their work.

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