ViatorOmnium

The thing with Lukashenko is that no one can trust him.

He has no loyalties except to himself, and no principles besides wanting to remain in power at all costs. Before 2020, he was flip flopping between Russia and Europe on a monthly basis and that only changed because most European countries had enough after the 2020 elections.

These statements will only remain true if Putin doesn’t find the right leverage to change his calculations.

Ignoring human rights is par for the course for an oligarch run organisation. Messing with the gambling’s integrity is the surprising part.

They used to draw the line at open cheating. I guess they just figured out there’s no point on keeping any kind of public appearance of propriety.

Fifa is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications

They are responsible for not having changed venues as soon as it was clear the US was not going to make the world cup a safe event for anyone, from fans, to players, to referees.

They are also responsible for not having dequalified the US when they abused their status as an host country to exclude referees or putting undue hardships on other national teams (especially Iran, but plenty of countries had trouble getting their teams in the US). They are opening the precedent that host countries can tip the scale how much they want without consequences.

Lovecraftian is an adjective for a narrative style, so it’s tied to the author itself.

Orwellian describes the actions of political regimes in just two of his books. When applied to cautionary narratives allegorising or extrapolating existing authoritanism it fulfils the same role as Lovecraftian. When it applies to real world governments using 1984 as an instruction manual, it’s much broader.

They are not ignored, you can use them to put multiple statements in one line

Market leader wants to freeze the market.

While I’m strongly opposed to the “move fast break things” mindset, this is not an altruistic or even benevolent move by Anthropic.

I’m a backend engineer that only does minor frontend tasks once in a blue moon, and on the top of my head I know two ways to center a div horizontally (well 3 with the obvious <center>) and one to center it vertically. When I hear frontend developers saying it’s hard, I always start questioning their competence at a basic level.

They could move the story forward with Atreus as the main character, that would still be familiar enough. Prequels are very hard to do right.

Terminator is a special case, because time travel limits the interesting time span for the story if you don’t keep erasing the previous movies plot.

It depends if the shareholder is really investing in a company they believe can reliably generate profit or playing a game of poker with people’s lives as tokens.

In an healthy company with a long term outlook, increased productivity is used to increase revenue, not to cash in by reducing short term expenses.

While I’m pretty sure I would find some methods they used distasteful, in terms of outcome I find what the Chinese did with Puyi very poetic.

With the current state of the entertainment industry I’m surprised they still didn’t do a LOTR movie explaining Tom Bombadil.

There isn’t a single exec that understands why it’s important for big narratives to have mysteries.

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You would need to be extremely racist to think the good guys won the Opium War or the wars of European conquest in the Americas or Africa, and even centuries of propaganda spin don’t change that. And there are cases like the Siege of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade that was rightfully vilified even at the time.

No, in this system 3 + 3 = 33 or 66 or 12 or 11, etc. Basically any digit is equivalent 1 in normal base 1.

EDIT: I blame lack of coffee for misreading Serinus@lemmy.world comment

In this case it depends on having base 1 with all digits being equivalent (i.e. 123 = 456 = 000).

Amid the French fry furore, Rimm has since clarified that he was merely suggesting restaurants offer smaller plates of fries.

Smaller, not literally 6 small fries.

Targeting number of fries instead of weight would also be unscientific, 6 needle thickness and 6 quarter edges fries are not equivalent.

It was an hyperbole that flew over the journalists’ heads: https://www.sciencealert.com/you-should-only-be-eating-six-fries-per-serving-advises-harvard-nutritionist

The US Vice-president is not in the chain of command.