Merva
@Merva@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Italian style pizza 4 weeks ago:
Ragu just means a meat sauce. Bolognese would be ragu alla bolognese, but there are other ragus which aren’t bolognese.
- Comment on 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-scale rollout in March 2025 4 weeks ago:
Noone has claimed that.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You are arguing from ignorance. The terms republic and democracy and so on have rather solid definitions in political science. Republic is not a very informative descriptor of the poltical system of a country, it just means that the role of head of state in’t heritable, ie. that it isn’t a monarchy. The actual political system of a republic can be basically anything except a monarchy.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
A republic just means that a country doesn’t have a heritable head of state. All of those countries are in actual fact republics. It says next to nothing about the actual political system of a country besides the role of the head of state. Lots and lots of dictatorships are republics. Many democracies are republics as well, but as you can see it is the dictatorship/democracy part which describes the important part of those countries political systems, not republic.
Many Americans are confused about this, because they have been indoctrinated into thinking that republic is the main descriptor of their system. Mainly because it was an important descriptor back in the 18th century, when most countries were monarchies, but much less so in later times when most existing countries are republics.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There are lots of republics where the president does serve as a literal figurehead without any consequential powers, so a republic does not necessarily turn up with a Trump. In fact the US is rather unique in how it has combined republic with absolute monarchy in the office of the president, probably very much a sign of how antiquated the constitution is.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
OP says they are from Eastern Europe. They have no reach there.
- Comment on Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development 1 month ago:
Of course we can’t really know what goes on behind the scenes. But obviously these kinds of games are designed by committee (namely board members). So every single detail is going to be dictated from above, and as new games are released by other publishers with new succesful features these dictates changes mid-production. I can’t but imagine that the development of live service games are a complete shitshow from start to finish.
So perhaps at some point they decide to get rid of the entire mess and start afresh, only for the process to beging again of course.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
They know they can do that sort of shit because they hold the power. They can blatantly and unconvincingly lie, their followers will regurgitate those lies, but neither of them really believe them. They are just posturing and having fun with words, just like fascists always have done.
Never believe that [fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [fascists] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
You are the one being all sensitive and whiney about people calling out Musk. You need to grow up and learn people aren’t beholden to your disingenous bullshit.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
Yes, you are indeed a real spectacle.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
No, that is not how words works. But it is unsurprising that a fascist like you wouldn’t know that, considering you don’t really care about words.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
It is funny how the video clearly disproves your lying claim.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
That must be specific to whatever app you are using. It isn’t in the default ones.
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
You: Defending nazis.
You: Gets whiney when accused of being a nazi.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 month ago:
Where on Earth have you gotten that bizarre idea? It is in their interest to promote engagement, human or not, by any means necessary.
- Comment on Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development 1 month ago:
As long as there continues to be succesful live service games, they will never stop attempting to make new ones, because the succesful ones are the most profitable forms of entertainment ever devised.
Of course there is only room for a limited amount of live service games on the market (since gamers only have one life to waste on them), so most of them will fail, and many of them even before leaving the drawing board it seems.