Their games are notably expensive, and they are overly defensive about their IPs, but they haven't forgotten that the goal is to make fun games first and foremost.

China, consistantly expanding it's influence into sovereign states and claiming those states we're never soverign. "They're not imperialist, they're just leftist!" He's deserving of a "fell for it again" award, but the MAGA crowd has forced us into a supply shortage.

Brother, put down the kool-aid for a second. I know America fucking sucks, but the answer is not ANOTHER Imperialist nation with a fascist dictator for a leader, whose economy is built entirely on slave labour of marginalized racial groups.

I feel like Cowbee's opinions only work if you strictly refuse to view reality. It's very "the sky is purple because alien's wear silly hats." Lots of confident, fancy pandering while completely disregarding simply reality.

This sarcasm is completely unwarranted.

People recognized that random answers on the internet were inclined to be from questionable sources. AI answers provide a sense of authority to what is being said, and then backs up that sense of authority with speech patterns and confidence which we are trained to trust in.

Web searches were naturally met with a sense of scrutiny, but LLMs lean into habits and patterns that convince us it is right, often subtly.

I can't believe that the man is a convicted rapist, but it's gas prices rising that causes him to lose support.

Don't worry, the accelerationists have been promising that letting everything get way worse will lead to genuine change. I'm sure they'll be starting that socialist uprising any day now!

Aaaaany day now...

Tangential, but what's the go-to mobile app for Piefed? I've long made an account, but I just log into Lemmy still because when I am at my PC, I have better things to do than laugh at tankies, and on mobile, there's a button on my device that brings me to Lemmy. I'm not sure what shiny new button to replace it with, and realistically the sooner I can stop using tools created by fascists in socialist clothing, the better.

I'm currently using Jerboa for Lemmy, though I am not married to any of its features.

You're looking for Against the Storm.

It's a rogue-like city-builder with goals that you meet and complete in order to move on to the next set of unique challenges. You'll be faced with unique sets of challenges per biome, unique race-based sets of needs, and times events that need to be dealt with or their consequences will have to be mitigated.

As someone in the school system, this is both true and heartbreaking. We simply do not have the correct supports in place to provide a safe environment for all students when studentswith complex needs are present, and it always comes down to the same thing: money. The personel isn't there, the supervision isn't there, the training isn't there and the policy isn't there. We need specialists. We need people attending to the complex needs. They cannot be a time-sink for classroom teachers, untrained in dealing with students with complex needs, who already have students fighting, stealing each others stuff and otherwise misbehaving. And when someone calls out, there needs to be a plan in place other than "call mom and tell them to come pick up their kid."

Smaller class sizes, having specialists available and in place, and clear policy are all required to give the students the inclusive environment they need without actively detreacting from, and in some cases even endangering, all children in the classroom. When one of the less well-behaved kids takes advantage of the classroom teachers attention being placed on the student with complex needs whose support staff called out sick and does something stupid resulting in harm to themselves, or others in the class, who do you think winds up with blame? Spoiler: it's not the district, and it's not the government.

The whole issue breaks my heart, because the only winning move is "please stop under funding schools and passing the blame," which falls on deaf ears, or worse, becomes a part of the "starve the beast" strategy pushing towards privatization.

Just like the far-right of the west, they believe in rule by perceived merit. They just have a different idea of what merit looks like.

Unfortunately, rule by a small privileged class is oligarchy at best, fascism at worst, regardless of what system of merit you use to define who should rule. Not that they'll ever grasp that.

.mk lives rent free in their heads.

9/10 times it's someone from .ca

You don't even need to work to find the projection. He just offers it up.

Canada has in fact deeply fucked up with it's indigenous population, though the specifics of just how deeply the graves left by the residential schools go is something that seems to shift every time I dig into it. There's no debate that the Canadian state killed a lot of indigenous people's though.

However, that doesn't have anything to do with correctly identifying the Russian disminformation machine. Even in some kind of "whataboutism" argument, Canada has legally taken blame for those deaths and created the entire Truth and Reconciliation movement to start trying to set things right. Comparing Canada saying aloud "we have fucked up and we want to fix it" to any state-run media in Russia is just laughable, at best.

Nothing says "free speech" like banning protest.