As opposed to the countless people currently being killed?

Putin Xi in the same category as trump, musk, and putin is crazy work

Collapse of the us. Genuinely hope it happens this time instead of people just accepting having fewer rights again.

You’re not wrong but you’re on the wrong instance if your solution isn’t just ‘hold hands and vote for black trump with a d next to their name next election’.

It is when the play store is not the only store allowed on devices. Their play services, with this change, are again acting as a monopoly, and again will be again be sued by the eu for violating anti trust laws.

…hence the context in the graph that points out it’s on exact same hardware…

More people are food insecure in America than in Ethiopia in current year. More people are imprisoned and enslaved in the US per capita than the population of uighurs internationally or in xinjiang, while having incomprably worse prison conditions. Swat kills more kids than the average army at war.

And that’s the official statistics that the government openly publishes, not including the tens of millions of undocumented people and cases of violence and imprisonment which fall through the laughably, arguably purposefully large cracks in us internal data collection.

People that correctly recognize the state of the world are naturally antinatalist, if not misanthropic.

We took a world that produced practically infinite food for free and somehow invented credit scores while causing the single fastest mass extinction event in earth’s history.

Yeah well the dwemer thought too hard one day and just fucking erased themselves from the godhead. Can’t do that if you don’t even question how shouting dragon words changes reality or why only those with dragon blood even attempt to say dragon words or what happened between talos and a cat to produce a khajit dragonborn several centuries later.

Except, you know, most of human history. Can’t overthrow an evil regime if there isn’t one.

Well yeah you finally have the knowledge that this earth isn’t worth living in and finally overcame your body’s built in instinct to not die, and some assholes literally force you to stay alive by grabbing onto you like nearly every depiction of hell or hades that has ever existed including tying you to the bridge with ropes.

Because that’s stupid, the point of a slot machine from the players perspective isn’t colors moving, which is the only common theme between the two.

It’s like saying a horse is a tree because they’re both brown.

All video games contain a random element, and a lot of video games since Diablo have random reward elements, and fucking happy meals aren’t considered gambling so lootboxes aren’t gambling, so your allusion fails.

“You should really try to seek out other viewpoints” suggests I haven’t… what is an echo chamber, young one?

You literally said I wasn’t correct because a majority of people hold a different viewpoint, and that I should get out of a non-existent echo chamber so I conform to the majority viewpoint.

If you don’t understand why your last paragraph is stupid, I don’t think you should have kids or care about what happens to kids.

“You’re not part of the hivemind so go seek out more people that agree with me until you are” is a wild statement.

By that logic all games with any random component is gambling… which would include pretty much every game ever published. If Diablo isn’t gambling, then neither is genshin.

You’re explicity suggesting the thing is not suitable for kids, while also explicity calling something that isn’t gambling, gambling. That’s the point Cosmetic lootboxes are suitable for kids. Unlike porn or gambling.

The analogy only works if you believe gambling does the same relative harm as porn.

That is the problem I have with their terrible attempt at an analogy. Not only does it imply it’s comparable, it has to be for the analogy to work as intended.

India literally, present tense, supports the taliban.

Still India. India is currently aiding in the destruction of too many industries in western economies to be treated as anything other than an ally; in short if the west treats India as hostile the companies that own the governments in the west start changing those governments.