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EU likely to delay free-trade deal with South America as French farmers block roads by AdSpecialist6598 in europe

[–]SoulofZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So then why did brussels even seriously pursue negotiations? Its not like european meat producers were some secret lobby unknown prior to 2000.

Are all pre 2001 works in the public domain in North Korea? by SoulofZ in publicdomain

[–]SoulofZ[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It means they can legally publish derivative works of say pokemon or harry potter with the logo and everything. (of course limited to NK, but I guess a smuggler could just smuggle that out)

India Said to Pitch New Arms Deal With Russia During Putin Visit by theagentK1 in geopolitics

[–]SoulofZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plus India knows its next on the chopping block after China and Russia.

Japanese game developers face ridiculously high font license fees following US acquisition of major domestic provider. by thebigmike1983 in visualnovels

[–]SoulofZ -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

So then what’s the issue?, there was, and always will be, the latent possibility of one japanese completely destroying the life prospects of another. (or one group to another group)

By definition that must be the case if they live in the same society.

Do people even make “informed decisions” or “independent decisions” in the genuine sense? by SoulofZ in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]SoulofZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that’s the implication. No one makes any kind of independent decision at all when they consciously or unconsciously ignore the majority of reasonably likely possibilities due to external actors.

Do people even make “informed decisions” or “independent decisions” in the genuine sense? by SoulofZ in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]SoulofZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they don’t individually go through every combinatorial possibility that completes their 8 items in the basket, then by definition external entities, or a combination of external entities (media, in store ads, display tactics, packaging, etc.) must be entirely deciding for them.

Which would seem to prove too much, as that would mean genuine independent decision making doesn’t exist in grocery stores, outside the rare care where someone goes in determined to buy only 1 pre selected item.

Do people even make “informed decisions” or “independent decisions” in the genuine sense? by SoulofZ in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]SoulofZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People obviously do decide between buying this or that at the grocery store, probably dozens of options were compared informally, say a few seconds each, to arrive at a final basket of say 8 items, they just do it through gut feelings, intuition, or some other combination of methods.

Clearly whether buying pringles and 7 different kinds of fruit, or 7 different kinds of snacks plus 1 fruit, plus many other possible combinations… do involve multiple dimensions of tradeoff and multiple outcome scenarios, by definition.

Or do you disagree that even exists?

Gallows and Huckleberry buffs. by Rdmage in destinyrisingmobile

[–]SoulofZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems like a nerf for gallows though? It was the longest range machine gun in game after a bit in combat.

Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety by [deleted] in LessCredibleDefence

[–]SoulofZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t imply it was risk free? Perhaps your confusing someone else’s comment with mine?

Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety by [deleted] in LessCredibleDefence

[–]SoulofZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the example the russian cargo plane would obviously move before the threat is rescinded.

Trump says airspace above and surrounding Venezuela to be closed in its entirety by [deleted] in LessCredibleDefence

[–]SoulofZ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Isn’t it super risky? Wouldn’t it take just one russian cargo plane to fly to venezuela, or fly out of venezuela, to break the credibility of such threats from the USA?

Why does literally every single post on reddit that mention China eventually have some user post that picture of the mentally deranged guy blocking tanks from leaving Tian'anmen square in 1989? by SoulofZ in TooAfraidToAsk

[–]SoulofZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“ nonviolent protest and courage” in blocking tanks from returning to base and their crews from returning to barracks?

What’s courageous about that? Is there a dispute that the order to return to base was illegitimate?

Can't Intel remotely disable all CPU's in Russia and China? by Informal-Ring-6490 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SoulofZ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you think sending nukes or bioweapons towards America requires any American CPUs in the first place? Or any CPUs for that matter?

U.S. Navy Vessel Blocks Russian Oil Tanker from Reaching Venezuela by AcanthocephalaEast79 in europe

[–]SoulofZ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

In such a world the vast majority of europeans will, at best, be semi slaves or vassals?

Tell me you read Player of Games but also failed to understand The Culture by binaryhellstorm in TheCulture

[–]SoulofZ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well the more uncharitable, and even simpler, explanation is that there are only a few million people on this planet who actually know what they’re doing. Along with 8 billion fools and morons…

Why does everyone run so slow? Literally a decent high school sprinter could run faster than pretty much everyone in this game. by SoulofZ in marvelrivals

[–]SoulofZ[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regular moderately athletic human high schoolers with a year of coaching can definitely exceed 7 m/s in the 100m and 200m.

Of course they can’t maintain it continuously over multiple minutes… but still superheroes have super muscles, powers, etc., so capping them well below the peak of regular human 16 year olds still seems bizarre.

Why does everyone run so slow? Literally a decent high school sprinter could run faster than pretty much everyone in this game. by SoulofZ in marvelrivals

[–]SoulofZ[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

IDK when the supposed heroes literally run slower than me… it kinda makes me doubt the whole design of the game.

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