let them sponsor terrorism across the region

My dude, America just handed the keys to Syria over to rebranded Al Qaeda.

When was this magical era when the country was “united”? Because I certainly don’t remember that ever happening during my lifetime.

Getting a Slav to play the Arabic mob boss, classic. Also, apparently said Slav is directing Steven Seagal’s upcoming return to “acting.”

More like a diuretic

Because no one with a college degree ends up being in a union, very big-brained take.

A billionaire

I don’t think it’s so much that it’s killed the AAA auteur developer, so much as not all the auteurs of the prior era being able to handle the new paradigm shift. The big budget, massive production nature of modern AAA means the game directors are acting more as project managers/organizers. Roberts is not built for that.

Anyone have any recommendations for mobile games? Burnt out on Balatro, would rather not slough aimlessly through the microtransactions/ad-slop games to find something decent. Don’t mind shelling out some money to buy the game if it means avoiding that.

Yeah if anything, The Office wouldn’t work these days because we’re burned out on the last ~15 years of sitcoms using practically nothing but the “documentary” style.

Not to mention the only way to get a bus up to that speed consistently is if it had its own dedicated lane with limited entrances with very gradual curves. And if you’ve bothered building out the infrastructure for all that, you might as well have just built out the infrastructure for HSR.

Methinks the idea here is they’ll add “just one more lane” with the pinky promise for it to be for the high-tech bullet buses. A shit-ton of money will be thrown at startups and consultants to “innovate” the bus lane design, in the end they’ll produce butkis, and it’ll end up just being an overpriced highway widening.

I want either a Lovecraftian horror beyond comprehension, or something absurdly squee cute, nothing inbetween

It’s why libs get themselves so worked up about “what will future historians say about this era!?” They want a world where everything revolves around the grade some hypothetical professor would give them.

Yes, Chinese spies target only the most high-value intelligence asset in the West: Lemmy.world

I feel like that one depends on the context. It’s okay if it’s saying that complex things/events have multiple causes.

CCP carries an implication that the party practices a communism/socialism that is “Chinese” in ideology. It presents “Chinese Communism” as being a school of communism, a la Marxist-Leninism or Trotskyite, rather than a Communist party of a particular country.

My brother used it to describe Jeremy Corbyn

Isn’t that moreso Alternate History fiction?

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