Hell I’d imagine the war would be over pretty darn fast if the ukranians wanted it. White flags, surrender, get captured to protect themselves if their government is making them fight by intimidation.

Your comment is pretty reasonable if you do a quick fact check with the resources that Google or DDG gives you. But you should be careful to separate “Ukraine” with the specific people within Ukraine who live in the Donbas. Some quick factors to consider with your polling article. And I don’t blame you for not knowing to pay attention to this if you haven’t followed this conflict closely.

The poll is from before the civil war. The people in the Donbas were happy with their autonomy (They had some autonomy from the rest of Ukraine) and national status in 2014 and prior, because the sources of grievances weren’t yet fully established. After this they had to endure shelling and terror attacks from openly Nazi militias with de facto support from the new government. That changes your mind.

In your link, you can see that among the ethnic Russians (the majority of those living in the Donbass), and those in the east, support for joining the Russian Federation, and other types of pro-Russia sentiments are higher. Again, this was before the coup and suppression. 31% wishing to merge with another country with no incentive is in my opinion very significant. Can you imagine how this poll would look in your country asked about your neighbour?

But even after years of shelling, the people of the Donbass didn’t want to become Russian citizens, they wanted their own state, and that’s what the breakaway republics fought for.

Now after even more years of fighting, it’s obvious that isn’t an option, and so the question they have to weigh is if they want to be governed by Ukraine or Russia. Ukraine has stood by, and even aided the worst people terrorising them. Ukraine has spread extremely strong anti-Russian (not the state, but the ethnicity and language and culture and traditions and history) rhetoric and laws, and anti-Soviet rhetoric and laws. Meanwhile Russia has, from the view of many everyday people currently living in the occupied territories, treated them fairly, protected them and died for them. Russia listened to them diplomatically when they accused the Ukrainian government of genocide, and promised to recognise the breakaway republics as sovereign nations. The fact that this is in Russia’s benefit, or if they made promises they knew they wouldn’t have to keep isn’t that important.

Hell I’d imagine the war would be over pretty darn fast if the ukranians wanted it. White flags, surrender, get captured to protect themselves if their government is making them fight by intimidation.

All of this to say, the soldiers fighting aren’t from the cities they’re fighting over.

This is written as if you’re trying to imply the other party is offering to dismantle ICE.

Surely it’s better than a constitution that promises to be bad, like the USA one? https://youtu.be/2gaZLNvutcE

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We could stick with cheaper graphics and reusable assets while focusing on stories and designs.

I wish we could. But there isn’t evidence that anyone can make a living doing that. The handful of mega hits that people use as examples of successful cheap games isn’t that evidence, it’s just anecdotes.

Instead my hope is that as AI can automate much of the work and raise the quality floor of the parts that aren’t unique, the parts we actually don’t care about but expect to be there, that it’ll start being possible to spend half a year, a year on something, and then earn the equivalent of half a year or a year’s salary in sales, and have also made something that is actually able to speak for itself, to show the unique part without the jank and missing features dictating the conversation.

My example was a modern B game. AAAA games like Cyberpunk have 4986 people in the credits. Code Vein is at the lower end of what modern audiences will tolerate. I picked it because it came out this week. The top review presented to me by Steam right now complains about: Technical competency, frame rate, and missing high end visual features. These aren’t things you can fix without man-years of engineering time. The review calls the game cheap several times. They also call it rushed. The person praises the story and the characters and the designs. Things that are actually cheap, but get locked in early and then take armies and years to be able to present to audiences to see if they resonate.

A title that had everything it needed to succeed, but was buried under greed, rushed development, and technical incompetence. Final verdict: Do I feel cheated? YES. Do I recommend the game right now? NO. Do I recommend it at this price? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

The user explicitly says they want the game to have cost more to make, and that lower budget games shouldn’t can’t justify full-price. “229 people found this review helpful”.

unlike video games.

AI is extremely needed in video games. Do you know how many people make modern video games? The polish and content demands from customers are ridiculous, and the majority of the work required to meet those demands is technical work. Is it good for Code Vein 2 to cost 300 people 6 years? (1578 people in the credits) With team sizes and project lengths common in the PS2 era, that could’ve been 50 unique games.

That first link is dead.

Murdering civilians is what Russia does.

Which side made a post stamp out of blowing up a family car with kids onboard >_>

You’re adding a zero to the total number dead, and also conflating those killed by Iran with those killed by Daesh and Israel. The larger portion is those killed by Israel/USA/Allies since they’re the ones using terrorism tactics.

No worries at all. I absolutely don’t expect most people to pick up on it. (That’s why it’s a good dog-whistle). Even in Iran they’d just think you’re outdated. But it’s a very common thing in the diaspora who long for the monarchy when there was a hierarchy of peoples and theirs was at the top. VOA/RFA operated Iranian-language media has been very good at pushing this narrative of going ‘back to tradition’, to a time when minorities ‘weren’t stealing resources from the majority’, or ‘demanding affirmative action’, etc.

If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.

In English, the language is called Iranian. Some people use Farsi, which is Iranian for Iranian.

If you see someone insist on Persian, don’t listen to that person. They are a Nazi every single time.

I don’t think you are a Nazi, but I’m convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you’ve heard someone say “Persian, Iranian, it doesn’t matter, they mean the same thing”, and that’s at first a very convincing argument, no reason to keep looking for patterns. But when you look for patterns, it becomes undeniable. It’s like people who insist on saying Burma or Rhodesia or Saigon.

The reason those people prefer the name Persia, is because it implies that the country belongs to one ethnicity and culture. It’s trying to lesser the other peoples of Iran.

“Farsi” is technically Iranian for “Persian”, so when translated it might seem like that’s already happening. But the difference is that people in Iran understand the context and history, and so while they use that name to describe the language, since that’s an accurate description of what the language is and how it came to be the lingua franca, people in Iran wouldn’t use it to mean the country or the broader Iranian identity.

Trump and Putin sure, but also everyone whose ever had a leadership role in the USA military. Obama is still alive. Bush is still alive. And ideally to a more trustworthy court.

If you have an open browser tab, it can pull info from it.

Please elaborate on what you mean here.

I feel the same way about smartphones but it’s now completely normalised. Glasses are less paranoia-inducing since you can clearly see where it’s pointed and it’s at eye-level. I’d rather discourage smartphone use than smart-glasses use.

“Oh don’t worry, ChatGPT can just type that text in for you when you need it”. /s

If you’re referring to touch screen users, then I don’t see how not having copy/pasting work when you plug in a mouse benefits them normally when they don’t have mice plugged in.

Nah he’s saying he’ll order terrorist attacks against frustraters.

Someone else already pointed out that you confused different women for the same person, but the man is different too. The top picture in OP’s post is Donald Trump, the USA guy. In a closer photo he looks completely different to Putin.

Discord is private social media, and most users think their messages aren’t shared with government without a warrant. Of course it’s possible in this case Discord didn’t even provide the messages to “police”, but that the police just subscribe to their commercial data-sharing and enjoy the same real-time access that way.