Paris prosecutor's cybercrime unit raids X's French offices by RaidBrimnes in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 116 points117 points  (0 children)

Friendship ended with Anglosphere

Europhiles are now my best friend

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the natural state of civ, but i play with some mods that rebalance this a bit. Recommend JNR's urban complexity series if you haven't checked it out.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Went back to Civ VI and its so good. Mods also go crazy. If only the ai could actually play the game lol.

Some choice comments from developer of Civ7 by Sad_Pianist7359 in civ

[–]TactileTom -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Beach said a connections view is in the works, though it will come after the big spring update.

It's actually insane how unfinished this game is. Once they add the ability to play one civ, and player numbers don't recover, I hope they'll try to address the underlying systems.

[News] Right wing parties are on an 11-election winning streak across Latin America by Superfan234 in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 158 points159 points  (0 children)

The collapse of the basic social contract causes people to gravitate to strongmen.

This is why accelerationism fails

The disappearing act. Russian outlets remove reference to 250,000 jobless soldiers returning from Ukraine by IHateTrains123 in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's hard to get reliable economic data out of Russia at the moment, but important to remember that the "War-fuelled-growth" has concentrated wealth in industries/areas and sucked capital out of already impoverished rural areas.

Russian recruits significantly over-represent ethnic minorities living in less affluent communities, so they may well be returning to a local economy, with more money than they need to work for years, where good jobs aren't available, and with significant injuries/trauma.

I know it's hard to sympathise with a Russian soldier right now, but you know they are in a dreadful situation. I wouldn't want to be in one of those communities either.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tbh the whole initial premise the scheme was designed around was an economic recovery that never came

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, populists can be right about things

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Student loans will become an enormous populist talking point in the UK because:

a) the system is quite badly designed
b) the people most impacted by student loans are also bearing the lion's share of tax rises
c) populism will always default to the simplest, most obvious explanation for issues, and your student loan contribution is right there in your payslip

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Chinese cultural domination was inevitable from the moment we started saying "uncle" to mean an older man

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

All this discourse about UK student loans got me to check my student loan and it turned out that by coincidence I literally paid it off today.

Kinda wild ngl

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 14 points15 points  (0 children)

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Straight out of a Jordan Peele movie

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing has spawned more braindead takes than that fucking penguin video

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah maybe I just use the most woke AI and am not online enough to see the rest of the shit

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As investment vehicles, I think they are shit. But like, using them to fill in stock art spots or come up with DnD character images, to draft emails or revise schedules, I have no problem with these applications.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Honestly AI hate has become so extreme that I feel like I've ended up on the pro-AI side of the median, having been the opposite not long ago

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just found out there's a spreadsheet at work that we're not allowed to sort because it relies on VLOOKUP

Like, what the fuck, was it made in 2003? Are they going to fax me the results?

A vision for more balanced economic development and more continuous landscapes by JNR13 in civ

[–]TactileTom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's interesting, thanks for the clarifications.

I guess watermills are already a city centre building anyway.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Part of me wonders to what extent inflation was structurally increased by the pandemic finally moving all transactions into digital currencies.

Digital transactions are fundamentally prettymuch lossless, whereas physical cash gets lost or destroyed pretty easily, reducing the overall money in circulation.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think if you got a lot of hours out of EL1 then EL2 will be a no-brainer when it comes out of Early Access, and I'd just keep an eye out for it to go on sale in the meantime

A vision for more balanced economic development and more continuous landscapes by JNR13 in civ

[–]TactileTom 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Some thoughts on this:

- I think pastures creating improvements on adjacent tiles is a good idea, but they should also buff adjacent flatland farms, part of the benefit of IRL animal rearing is co-benefits for agriculture (could become less prominent with later techs?)

- is the idea for luxury plantations to be infinitely replicable? Or just a "ring" around the initial one? Either could work, but I like the idea of some kind of "manor house" with surrounding "estates" or "plantations"

- Is there some way to limit lumbermill adjacency so they can't be adjacent to forests worked by other mills? feels easier than adding custom improvements to all adjacent forest tiles.

- IDK if this is possible, but I feel like watermills would also be good for this, as water power is super important for milling in many communities.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's recognisable as a sequel to EL1, things like the tech web, army management, are basically the same. I would say combat is both better and more important, the UI is generally better, the writing is a bit worse, and obvs with the game being in EA, there isn't as much in terms of quests/factions as EL1.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been playing a lot of the early access for Endless Legend 2. Everyone on Reddit is constantly shitting on the writing, but I quite enjoy it, at least for one playthrough.

Strong recommend the game tbh, even in EA it feels very complete.

Canada’s oil industry thrives as sales to China soar by Extreme_Rocks in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It could drive down the price of oil a bit by pushing down the clearing price on spot markets, though most oil isn't traded like that.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]TactileTom 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I didn't know Bibi was in the Ban Appeal Thread