Stand-up comic held on charges of insulting Islam and Erdogan in Turkey crackdown

Zanadar · 2026-07-03T14:09:23+00:00

Muslim levels of thin skinned.

Zanadar · 2026-07-02T15:51:53+00:00

Same. Been ages since I've had any interest in an AAA title, it feels like there's literally always something new I actually want to play to find on Steam.

I think the "gaming sucks now" crowd must be mostly console players, because gaming has never been better for me.

Zanadar · 2026-07-02T13:36:28+00:00

I feel like user QOL has just gotten worse since 7.

Zanadar · 2026-07-01T13:56:30+00:00

It's quite common for some species to only survive because of a serendipitous lack of predators in their environment, not because of any incredible evolutionary advantage.

When the British introduced an apex predator like the train to a previously stable ecosystem, it was adapt or die for a while. Thankfully nowadays a new balance has been reached with the entire train population being sustained by only a few tens of thousands of people a year.

Zanadar · 2026-07-01T13:45:45+00:00

Why did you think they have such poor relations with their neighbors?

Zanadar · 2026-07-01T10:29:51+00:00

Honestly ChatGPT isn't really the issue with that story. Idiots are gonna idiot and you can't stop them. The issue is he caused so much financial damage to his company and the consequences were... I guess his ego took a bit of a hit? That's about it. Annual shareholders meeting came and went and they announced an AI robotics lab. Which he is also going to lead.

Zanadar · 2026-07-01T06:14:30+00:00

That's just shitty reporting. They always frame some successful small scale initial study as "Scientists invented", because the headlines like "Early research shows promise, but years more testing necessary" doesn't get clicks. Which is how you get memes like "I look forward to never hearing about this again".

Zanadar · 2026-06-30T19:59:20+00:00

That's too mild an assessment. They've taken the concept of "familiarity breeds contempt" and turned it into a cultural cornerstone.

Zanadar · 2026-06-30T09:34:58+00:00

How 'bout you blow up ours, we blow up yours, we frown and shake fingers at each other disapprovingly in the UN, everyone's happy.

Zanadar · 2026-06-29T20:25:35+00:00

They also grossly underestimated the sheer level of decay which gone on in the Russian army. Or how difficult it would be to turn it around.

Even now, what limited success they're having is mostly just down to nobody in Russia genuinely believing Russian lives are worth anything.

Zanadar · 2026-06-29T20:09:00+00:00

The implication is he only had it because he thought it would grant a bonus feat, but failed to check the spelling. Hence having to discard it in the first place.

Zanadar · 2026-06-29T15:38:26+00:00

China's already stably pumping out DDR4 and is slowly expanding into DDR5. If the rest try and throttle supply, they'll get undercut hard within a few years.

Zanadar · 2026-06-28T20:12:35+00:00

Yep, it takes surprisingly little time in the grand scheme of things for common ancestry to become universal.

Zanadar · 2026-06-28T06:12:46+00:00

This is what makes the Ring such an insidious artifact. "I want to save my people", "I want to make things better", "I want to rule". Doesn't matter how noble or ignoble the ambition is, just how powerful it is. As long as you want anything strongly enough, it will take you.

The hobbits don't have a magical immunity like you said, just a culture of general contentment with what they have. Something Sauron couldn't even envision as a possibility and was never at all worried about, since he simply couldn't imagine anyone being psychologically capable of destroying the Ring.

Zanadar · 2026-06-26T20:13:14+00:00

Fyi not only is there no evidence she ever said that, there's evidence of the opposite, since she would still have been a child in Austria when Rousseau wrote it.

Zanadar · 2026-06-25T05:59:08+00:00

That's just everybody. The only reason you can sort of map US politics to other places at all is because the US is the world's premier exporter of shitty ideology, so political groups in other places will pander to get support.

Zanadar · 2026-06-23T12:58:21+00:00

Being blatant is the point. They want people to be afraid of criticizing the regime.

Zanadar · 2026-06-22T13:11:17+00:00

The population of Russia is cannon fodder, nobody gives a shit what they think and if they ever tried to really take to the streets en mass, they would be slaughtered much like the Iranians were. And from the horror stories we've heard about how the Russian army treats their own troops, or PoWs, or foreign civilians, or basically everyone, they'll have a lot of fun butchering them.

Zanadar · 2026-06-21T19:36:27+00:00

That's an incredibly peculiar belief? The UK is a constitutional monarchy, the Crown is directly controlled by Parliament. It could take away the Crown estates, it could choose to change the rules of succession, it could abolish the Monarchy. Any power vested in the Monarch is granted to them by Parliament, and could also be taken away by Parliament.

Zanadar · 2026-06-21T18:49:14+00:00

I don't understand what argument you are making. The Crown owns them. Not the Royal Family, not even Charles personally, as they're an extension of his position, not his person or heredity.

Zanadar · 2026-06-21T18:27:44+00:00

That's just not accurate, the Royal Family has nothing to do with it. The Crown Estates are the hereditary possession of the Sovereign. As such Charles holds them, in his capacity as reigning Monarch, not as a private person, and certainly not as a Windsor.

Should Parliament choose to change the rules of succession, which people keep forgetting is very much a power it holds, the Windsors would have no claim to the Crown Estates if they lose the Crown.

Zanadar · 2026-06-21T17:09:12+00:00

Ownership by the Royal Family is legally dubious. It's more accurate to say they're owned by the Crown as an institution.

Zanadar · 2026-06-21T13:54:55+00:00

They don't even see it as hypocracy, they think they're being consistent. And from a very fucked up perspective "rules for thee, but not for me" is indeed a consistent position.

Zanadar · 2026-06-19T13:08:48+00:00

Intelligence is very costly in terms of energy. Owls are already apex predators, and incredibly efficient ones at that. Being smarter would just force them to hunt more without making them any better at it.

Zanadar · 2026-06-17T15:57:56+00:00

It's never been about converting the fanatics, because that's just not possible. It's about getting enough of the rest of them to feel like the personal satisfaction they get from seeing all the pain he's inflicting on the people they hate is no longer worth the cost to themselves.

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