As somebody who fell into the deep end of a pool when I was younger of my own accord and took a decade or so to learn how to swim after that, I can say that's the sort of thing that's gonna fuck that kid up badly. Even today, I'm not entirely comfortable in the water.
being as thorough and then some as I could ever hope to be
That's not the flex you think it is.
Can we get LLMs to design the engine?
I'm guessing there is also some schadenfreude, at least among some people, at seeing a European country getting colonised by a semi-Asian one.
All this tells me is that Indians' objection to colonisation is that they weren't the ones doing it.
I wonder if they're counting on nobody in the mainstream press paying attention or even understanding how that stuff is embarrassing and just going for the zinger.
Yeah, whataboutism is essentially telling on one's self; an implicit recognition that one has no better arguments than to try to distract.
The vast majority of people who have any experience with crypto… will be people who were victims of rug-pulls
Don't forget ransomware!
That moment when you pretend to fight against imperialism - by implicitly supporting imperialists in the PRC.
AfD is prime "Do it again, Bomber Harris" material.
Sometimes, it's about the perception of power, but these people tend to make the worst sorts of moderators. Sometimes, it's about wanting to steer a community in a certain direction or to stabilise a community in the direction it's already going in. As for me, I've gone through the first two, plus had a third path - I was effectively deputised as a moderator twice as a spam-catcher.
Actually used to be a member of a forum focusing on the Golden Sun games. I was very impressed with them back in the day; they felt like a prime SNES-era JRPG designed for the GBA. I especially liked how the Psynergy system was used for puzzles outside of combat; non-combat uses of magic is something I've considered to be lacking in JRPGs generally, so it was a nice curiosity.
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"Berenstein Bear", but not "Mandala Effect"?