CloutAtlas

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Man I hate what EA did to the PvZ franchise after the initial success. Such potential

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

.world pre-emptively blocked them (twice) because ~~they're nerds~~ they're hosted in the EU and they thought they'd get in trouble by association for being federated with instances that promotes discussion of something illegal in their physical server's jurisdiction. They had a lot of traffic. The db0 comm is still alive.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

太丢脸了。

Like this is deeply embarrassing. Nancy Pelosi kneeling while wearing Kente Cloth levels of embarrassing. It shows OP doesn't have any close Chinese friends and also demonstrates a reddit headline level of understanding of China; Hong Kong is not behind the firewall, HKers can (and often do) post this picture.

As a Chinese person, the mental image of OP smugly posting this to "own the tankies" in the same way MAGA dipshits post "Let's Go Brandon" hoping to own the liberals has given me a near lethal amount of second hand cringe.

Please, for the love of god, never approach a Chinese person with this attitude irl. This is on par with ordering an "Irish Car Bomb" in an Irish pub on St. Patricks day, or saying "grassy-ass" to your Hispanic server instead of "thank you", or trying to use anime Japanese around Japanese people, or code switching to AAVE around black people.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

.world pre-emptively blocked the piracy comms because they are ostensibly based in Germany and have to abide by EU rules re: promotion/discussion of copyright infringement.

Despite the fact that they were never even issued a warning for such an obscure internet forum, and plausible deniability because the content wasn't even theirs, they thought it's better be ~~paranoid~~ safe than sorry.

ETA: so now .world has a stricter and more draconian policy regarding the discussion of piracy than Reddit, a publically traded entity based in the US, which has even harsher copyright infringement laws.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

.world has one disadvantage: It has to follow the laws of the Netherlands, Finland AND Germany.

So theoretically, if something's legal for the Dutch and Finns but illegal in Germany, it's not ok on .world. I believe it used to be smaller but I think they expanded admin teams? Idk how a single non profit website is somehow beholden to the laws of 3 separate countries.

It would be hilarious if they expanded this further. They add a country where alcohol sale is illegal? Recommendations for cocktails are now against TOS. For all. Add Singapore? Oops, discussing procurement of chewing gum is now against TOS. USA? Kinder Surprise is against TOS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

It's Spez's Lemmy account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Good news, the Chinese artificial sun has reached 403 seconds of stability. Up from 100 seconds 7 years ago. Once it reaches 1000 seconds at 50,000,000 Kelvin, it would mean it produces more energy than igniting the "sun" would cost.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The fate of this planet is going to based entirely on the artificial sun being completed, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Look, if your personal opinion of the moon is that it's a hologram, it's definitely worth less than, say, Buzz Aldrin's opinion of the moon being made of rock.

I don't know who told you a personal opinion is worth exactly as much as someone else's, but they were wrong.

Giving value to bad opinions like "Oh Trump won we gotta storm the capitol" or "Vaccines cause autism" or "Nuclear is worse than coal" and refusing to engage with all evidence of the contrary and just leaving the conversation by saying "Mine are just not common" is an extremely unhealthy way to be a part of society. I live in Australia and the bush fires are getting worse. There's a noticeable cost of lives and livelihoods. You're not saving millions of lives from a nuclear meltdown by tearing down nuclear plants. You're putting millions of lives in danger from climate disasters by tearing down nuclear plants.

I hope you change for the better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google "Stargazy pie"

Google "Jellied eels"

Google "mushy peas over chips"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Counterpoint: aligning with the west/the US is bad.

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