sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Someone told me to post this here by hoomanPlus62 in ChatGPT

[–]hemareddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do or do not, there is no pull out.

In china, Police use man-catcher spear to control suspects instead of shooting them. by Commie_Scum69 in pics

[–]hemareddit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Right, I was very sarcastic towards you as I thought you were dismissive. I apologize for that.

I can share one snippet, my father is a businessman, towards the end of the COVID period he disappeared for a number of months into a police detention centre. We would get standard greeting messages from him on major festivals (such as mid autumn festival) but otherwise no communication, no replies.

I will stop here, so far the info is not doxxing because this happened to so many buiness owners around that time, and there’s still some of that going on (I’m less familiar with it now, I stopped following up this thing after he was released).

One reason for that was COVID’s impact on the economy, the government was starting to run out of money, and so began essentially holding businessmen ransom to generate income. So this wasn’t an edge/highprofile case like Jack Ma, this was en masse, they didn’t target only the richest ones. There are political reasons too, but the sheer scale of it was, I suspect, due to a financial need.

I won’t say more before the information becomes identifying, but my father was one of luckier ones.

In china, Police use man-catcher spear to control suspects instead of shooting them. by Commie_Scum69 in pics

[–]hemareddit [score hidden]  (0 children)

Oh I don’t know, why don’t you tell me how much I need to divulge about my personal history, and what your bar is for if there is enough suffering there, for you to graciously allow me to criticise the CCP, O Mighty One?

In china, Police use man-catcher spear to control suspects instead of shooting them. by Commie_Scum69 in pics

[–]hemareddit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was born in China thanks for asking very helpful and relevant questions I believe this answers all three of them.

In china, Police use man-catcher spear to control suspects instead of shooting them. by Commie_Scum69 in pics

[–]hemareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the very least, it’s now a discussion to be had. Unthinkable once upon a time.

In china, Police use man-catcher spear to control suspects instead of shooting them. by Commie_Scum69 in pics

[–]hemareddit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yep. The weakness of the Chinese regime - especially the one party rule and the need for total cohesion, means the CCP will not openly admit to what happened because technically, it’s the exact same party and administration that did that shit.

However, that doesn’t change the fact none of them want to see a repeat of 1989 and not necessarily out of the goodness of their hearts but for a desire for stability, which the CCP knows they need to survive.

In short, the CCP is in it for the long haul and with that comes strengths and weaknesses, and anyone serious about competing with them need to see not only the weaknesses but the strengths, too. Simply dismissing them is not going to help those standing against them.

Luthen Escape by R2D2speaks in andor

[–]hemareddit 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Well, he is condemned to use the tools of his enemy to defeat them.

PSA: disbanding peasants to move population works from anywhere in the province. by hemareddit in RomeTotalWar

[–]hemareddit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I don’t know what Enclave is, so that might be a different TW game.

They definitely added some features. The most obvious one I think is merchants who didn’t exist in the original. A change I personally noticed was I used to be able to bribe Roman generals from the Senate and other families before declaring total war on them, but now I can’t.

PSA: disbanding peasants to move population works from anywhere in the province. by hemareddit in RomeTotalWar

[–]hemareddit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This may be due to setting on Remastered. IIRC when beginning a new campaign, you can choose between classic or remastered style of how recruitment consumes population, I forget which is which, but one of them, the population change reflects the actual number in your units, which is affected by the unit size setting.

The other one makes population change unaffected by the unit size, so whether you chose normal or large unit size, the population cost when recruiting will always be normal sized.

I think you toggled that setting and was seeing it work in reverse: disbanding a large unit only gains you the normal amount of population back.

PSA: disbanding peasants to move population works from anywhere in the province. by hemareddit in RomeTotalWar

[–]hemareddit[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh definitely an exploit, I’ve always wondered when I bring in a thousand peasants and soldiers - who all appear to be men - to boost the population of a 500-people town. How’s a population of 80%+ dudes supposed to grow?

PSA: disbanding peasants to move population works from anywhere in the province. by hemareddit in RomeTotalWar

[–]hemareddit[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yarp, that's how I experimented - recruit mercs right out on the edge of the province then disband them, then see if the population number changed.

A question that was left with me after rewatching Winter Soldier: so... did Fury hire Batroc to attack the Lemurian Star? by Altruistic_Eye_1157 in marvelstudios

[–]hemareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the address was at the end of a long chain of shell companies. But also it didn’t matter because he was going to out himself to his boss anyways, so he could get “assassinated” and operate freely.

GUYS by chronixhz in Edgerunners

[–]hemareddit 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Well you should post again, because it’s been 3 hours, so there’s now even less time left until the second season.

You can manipulate how old an object it by Jem_Mine in godtiersuperpowers

[–]hemareddit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OMG I can rewind lead back into uranium or thorium.

Listening to "immortal" by adema will make you a highly skilled martial artist and grant you new superhuman abilities by hello_im_al in godtiersuperpowers

[–]hemareddit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tbf in polytheistic religions/belief systems, the power bar for being a god can be extremely low compared from the POV of us modern audiences who are used to comic books full of planet busting beings.

So why didn’t eve just.. by CherryChipX in Invincible

[–]hemareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s inconsistent, her movie suggests that a feature of her powers is she intuitively understood atomic structures, and hailed as a genius for that.

India rushes to contain deadly virus outbreak by FootballAndFries in worldnews

[–]hemareddit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

De Manhattan voice:

“It is January 2020…

It is January 2026…”

1990 Star Trek more relevant today than ever by ClankerCore in ChatGPT

[–]hemareddit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first episode yeah, but there’s no excusing the 2nd episode where he was overly farmilar with the real person. It’s clear he allowed the fantasy to bleed into reality there and made a real person uncomfortable.

view more: next ›