The average Swede emits less CO2 than the average Thai. If Sweden wants to halt reforms while waiting for the USA, China, and the rest of the world to catch up that seems fine to me.

Ok, macht auch Sinn.

Wohnste in Nordrhein-Westfalen?

That’s fair, honestly. Fuck Orban and everyone voting for him.

To be fair, there’s a lot of “art” in video games that no other industry would recognize as such. Brick textures. That kind of thing. I’m perfectly okay with using AI for these necessary but unimportant tasks. Same with using stock assets. These assets just have to be good enough for nobody to notice they’re there.

Desktop OSes are not suited to running untrusted code, unfortunately, so you want to run as much as possible of your closed source megaco software in the browser

Nicht unbedingt falsch: Wenn unproduktive leuten Wohnungen in der nähe von Arbeitsplätzen vom Markt hält, schädet dass der Produktivität. Ob dass so wichtig ist, dass wir Leuten rauswerfen sollte, ist einer andere Frage.

So eine art Sozialismus, aber National. Deutschland zuerst, aber mit Sozialleistungen für echte Deutsche… Ah, uhm, es riecht ein bisschen… Kacke.

Die Alternativen zu Atomkraft sind nicht wind un PV, sondern Gas und Kohle.

Pretty much. Maybe someone at the 8bitdo HQ got an SD and discovered that the controllers all worked great?

Corrupt government does what corrupt governments do? Shocking.

Don’t you pay income tax in the country where you are resident, regardless of where you work? I don’t understand this. Sounds like a badly thought out deal.

If his shows aren’t entertaining why are so many people entertained by them? Makes no sense. People may have no taste, but that’s a different issue.

Yes, but if you have a bit of critical thinking ability you realize there’s a bit more underneath.

The EU? Acting decisively? That’s hopeful.

Eh. Flattery works particularly well on Trump, I believe. So I think Rutte is doing a good job here. It’s sad that it’s necessary and that it works, but I don’t blame Rutte for the election of Trump.

Xbox seems like it may be toast. It’s being rolled into Windows somehow, it seems. The odds are decent that it’s a face-saving exercise and the whole thing is being shut down slowly. Or Microsoft pulls something incredible out of the bag. The Xbox management has to be desperate at this point. We’ll see whether whatever Winbox thing comes out of it sticks to the wall or not.

I applaud your optimism, and I think in theory you’re right. I just don’t think the odds are in the favor of anyone taking your advice.

Is it democracy that has a problem, or is it humans? Take the housing crisis, for example. We want low rents without lotteries, except we also want beautiful cities without commieblocks or even high-rises, and the significant proportion of voters who own their own homes want home values to always increase. And god forbid property taxes forces a retired old person out of a home that’s far larger than what they need. There is just no solution that satisfies all constraints. So we muddle through, mumbling something about “damn foreigners” and “eat the rich”. If we all actually agreed the housing crisis is a problem we’re willing to make sacrifices to solve, then we’d solve it in an instant. But no. Only mimimi.

The left runs on vibes and the right doesn’t want to fix anything. That’s not the fault of political parties, but just how different kinds of people think and operate. I don’t have a solution, really. The best I can come up with is: If you don’t like the laws where you live, see if anywhere else has a system you like. If you find something, consider moving there. If you don’t find what you’re dreaming of anywhere in the world then it is probably not (politically?) possible and you’ll just have to cope.