Does knowingly causing an ecological catastrophe qualify as an act of war? To me, that seems worse than blockading these specific ships.

Nun war Scholz aber in China, und deswegen geht’s in diesem Post eben auch um China. Das China sich als Hegemonialmacht etablieren möchte und mehr und mehr auf Konfrontation mit seinen Nachbarn geht, ist schwer zu leugnen.

“China verfolgt […] eine hegemoniale Strategie.” ist für dich keine Kritik an China? Für mich ist “hegemonial” eindeutig negativ konnotiert.

I don’t think you’re missing anything. Just maybe you’re taking his tweet more serious or literal than he intended. To me, it’s just an interesting perspective to consider tweets that are meant to influence your opinion as malware. Sure, somebody aware of the types of “bad input” in the form of misinformation campaigns, propaganda or advertisement might not be (as) susceptible to that - but considering the average Twitter user, comparing this type of content to malware seems appropriate to me.

I see where you’re coming from, but if you look up Karpathy, you’ll probably come to a different conclusion.

Doing a thorough job risks the sensational headlines though.

Let me prefix this with saying that I’m sympathetic towards Varoufakis. I’ve been following him somewhat since his time at Valve.

He claims he is now subject to a “Betätigungsverbot” which is very different from being “banned from the country”. I tried to find any sort of official confirmation that he actually has “Betätigungsverbot” but I couldn’t, feel free to post a link if you can find it. I personally believe that what he wrote in this post doesn’t even come close to warranting a Betätigungsverbot - however, even assuming the Verbot is actually in place, claiming this means “Germany is going full fascism” is dishonest, exaggerated, and void of any nuance, which is my original point.

Reading the first sentence of the definition of fascism on Wikipedia should show you how ridiculous that statement is. Words have a meaning, and throwing around the word “fascism” for any measure you (potentially rightfully) don’t agree with just hurts your credibility and devalues the meaning of the word when it’s actually appropriate.

I’m fine with you attributing actions like this to historically motivated, misguided sense of “loyalty” (or however you want to call it) to Israel, or the Israeli government. Just keep the word fascist for actual fascists please.

Nuance exists, the world isn’t just black and white.

That can go both ways through. To some people, criticizing Hamas or saying that their attack warranted a reaction (which doesn’t mean I’m condoning what’s happening now in any way) means you’re actively calling for genocide.

Nuance is hard, people tend to prefer simple categorization into black and white, good and evil. The statement “Germany is going full fascist” is a perfect example of this.

Hyperbole much?

L + Ratio

You need to try way harder.

Bad troll.

That’s the charitable explanation. The less charitable one is astroturfing in an effort to demobilize Democrat-leaning voters.

Machine Learning

Black, blue, and purple. It’s not even close.

Voting for a sandwich without peanut butter will result in other people deciding what sandwich you get, and the only realistic options are those with peanut butter.

Also, you’ll have to eat the sandwich.

That’s a meaningless comparison.

They’re way ahead of us in many areas, such as suppressing their citizens, forced labour camps, nationalism, and bullying their neighbors.

Und deine Lösung gegen Mangel an Arbeitskräften ist es, verbesserte Arbeitsbedingungen zu verhindern und den Beruf noch weniger attraktiv zu machen?

GGG has been actively developing and supporting PoE for more than a decade post launch. Other studios develop 3-4 full scale games during that time frame. If they wanted to price all of this into a one time cost, PoE would have cost 150-200€ at release, a price no one would be willing to pay for a new game of a new studio with no track record. The game just wouldn’t exist.

And yet you’re claiming that them financing development primarily via optional cosmetic micro transactions is abuse. People have spent thousands of hours in this game without spending more than like 50 bucks on quality of life stuff. Your comment tells me you know nothing about PoE or GGG. That’s why I’m calling it a trash take.

Trash take