TankovayaDiviziya

@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petrichor⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The North African region was a lush verdant region 11,000 years ago, which is not so long ago considering humans already spread far and wide around that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any truth to this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are exceptions of course but IMHO, you shouldn’t block toxic contents, you call them out instead. Doing so basically puts a red flag to any would-be readers that this person and the associated content is harmful and dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this response all the time “create your own if you want to see niche communities and Reddit communities migrate here.” Well, if I have the bloody time to moderate, or even if I do, will there be many people? And if there are many people, do I have the time to moderate? What if there are mod bickering and drama?

  The question is time. Does anyone else have the time to moderate and put up with BS inevitable with most communities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally everyone else: “It’s bad to arbitrarily arrest someone for criticising corruption and send them and their family to labour camps.”

  Tankies: “That’s just, your opinion, man.” ^mark ^^this ^^^person ^^^^for ^^^^^seven ^^^^^^years ^^^^^^^^in ^^^^^^^^^Siberian ^^^^^^^^^^gulag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t think Australia would still be religious enough to have considered this. They’re generally more liberal than the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d cheer on if Elon Musk becomes a pauper. $9 billion is still worth a lot. It’s still, as the article says, billions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Still worth billions though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Adele isn’t that good looking as well, but she is well loved as a singer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨c o e x i s t⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I read somewhere that in order for the Romans to abnegate their role in killing Jesus, as they transitioned to Christianity, they scapegoated the Jews. Although, it was the people who demanded to crucify Jesus. But of course, anti-semites focused on the ethnicity, instead just ascribing the mob justice to just-- on people.

  My guess is that because Jews reject the divinity of Jesus, the Christians found it fair to oppress the Jews. It is not different though to the crusading missions of later Christians in the medieval Europe. The non-Christians refuse to recognise Jesus Christ as both the son of God and god himself, the either they convert, or else be killed or ostracised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic writing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Academia is being esoteric” or in other words “academia is a pompous twat”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Platypuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The alpha/beta wolf notion doesn’t even make much of a sense, considering wolves tend to be loners but only make packs when they need to hunt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"what happened??"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine it would be for older games though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"what happened??"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a huge fan of Ubisoft. I basically stopped playing any of their games after Assassins Creed 3. With the exception of AC: Black Flag, which I got from the high seas, ironically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, I totally forgot about Epic until articles are popping recently that it’s not going well even after all these years.

  Also, what’s wrong about discussing this? Epic is a good example of a business venture not doing well for failing to do one of the most basic business philosophy: set yourself apart from the competitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m far from being a business savvy person, but honestly, from business perspective what exactly is Epic offering that sets them apart from other competitors? Even if Epic fixed their launcher issues, how would they be different to Steam that is already well established for 20 years? That’s why I like GOG as Steam’s competitor. GOG focuses on selling DRM-free and retro games. If a game is also happens to be available in GOG, I would prefer to buy it from there than Steam. Moreover, GOG keep old games well maintained and updated to run in modern computers, something that Steam is very poor at doing. What does Epic even do differently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Curse of Knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually try to folks to the level of their knowledge. I had a debate with some coworkers about vaccines. I explained to them that it’s safe, thousands of studies proved they are, I also mentioned vaccines are produced just like any medicine. And yet people take paracetamol willy nilly without question but somehow treat vaccines differently; even though overusing paracetamol could lead to hearing loss as happened to my dad.

  However, I admit that what got me is the mRNA vaccine technology when a colleague said there has been no human trial of it before. The technology has actually been developed for over 40 years but with strong proof of concept. But I find it hard to explain that to laypeople.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average game chat censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Hay’s code is coming back in the 21st century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Times 1924, Hitler leaves prison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Propaganda even in a democratic and liberal country exist then and still to this day. I just remembered that the character of Charles Foster Kane from “Citizen Kane” film, is himself a commentary on the power and influence that the media has on the minds of the people.

  “People will think what I tell them to think!”

  The quote is relevant then and just as relevant now.

  That being said, I definitely notice from the conditioning on the public particularly when it comes to immigration and class issues. In my country, the far-right reared its ugly head. A lot of it has been fueled by resentment with competition with migrants from the lack of housing, as the result of decade long apprehension to building social housing and ideological austerity. However, the mainstream media shies away from outright mentioning the root cause. Social media and news outlets still relegate those who became attracted to the far-right as “fringe”, “loud minority”, “uneducated”, “scumbags” or “riff raffs”. Those terms have underlying classism and is thinly-veiled insult to the working class. But even if some folks try to acknowledge the real root cause, even they still stop short of clearly saying that housing shortage is the major problem but rather use the manicured phrase “those with genuine concerns”. And politicians in my country tend to say that phrase rather than admitting “housing crisis is the root cause”, because many politicians are landlords themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed AGAIN — This Time to the First Half of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it is already out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So it begins...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It turns out that the haircut was in 2021! How could I have missed the news??!! But now that I think about it, it was the pandemic and the those two years of lockdown was bizarre and surreal in terms of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ireland has attracted many tech companies including Twitter, and the latter has a massive employment footprint here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *cosmic dread intensifies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In other countries, malls are still alive and well. In Philippines, that is where people literally chill in a hot tropical climate because of 24/7 air conditioning!

  Malls are also seen as a sign of progress and modernity for many developing countries, so there is some cultural expectations to building and maintaining malls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 10 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AC: Black Flag is such a gem after the hot mess that is Assassin’s Creed 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh jeez⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The person you replied to said “subsidized”, which implies what you just explained. The US military provides support to movies and TVs. However, it would be naive to think that the military still doesn’t try to influence the production. It’s been a long time since I have listened to it but there was a podcast mentioning “Zero Dark Thirty” having influence from the CIA; and the movie is about justifying torture to get results for “the greater good”. This is in spite of the report commissioned during the Obama era that torture never yielded any significant results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Discuss what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hes alive so this meme is OK right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some still survive injury to the head so if you want to kill someone instantly, try to aim for the heart. Security services know this that’s why persons of interest are advised to wear bulletproof vests. I am guessing Trump is wearing one so had the shooter tried to aim for the torso, that would have been more embarrassing than near-missing Trump to the head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hes alive so this meme is OK right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is that Tetesuya was able to kill the PM because he did it at point blank range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why it’s so mainstream to equate Palestine with Hamas.

  Because the mainstream is unironically ignorant of the true political and social state of Palestinian society. They don’t realise that Hamas is an extremist Palestinian political party, while the actual moderate Palestinian faction worthy of support is the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Show them this Wikipedia page of the ongoing civil war among Palestinians and you’d get cricket noises from the average perpetually online mainstream.

  Gaza is controlled by the Hamas, while the West Bank is controlled by PLO/Fatah. But no one in the mainstream in the Twiterrati, Facebook and other social media will know that, because they get junk food information from fake news and propaganda or their own bubble in those social platforms.