That’s curious! I haven’t seen this before. It’s still talking about and showing a picture of Danish European Affairs Minister Marie Bjerre for me.

Must be a Lemmy glitch of some sort. Lemmy glitch of some sort. glitch of some sort. glitch of some sort. (:P)

Did you comment in the wrong thread? Am I missing a parallel?

We should ask the Kremlin.

Meh. He only had $23.50 in his account.

You guys get to wank off at all? You’re wank billionaires, you ingrates! I never get any time for it with my girlfriend always demanding sex.

Don’t be ridiculous. Now back to those dog-powered props,…

I’m all for the “SLEEP 8 HOURS” bit though. I need more of that in my life.

There’s a region around the handle where you can grab it to slide left-right but also be scrolling the page up and down, defeating the attempt to move the finger out of the way.

The first time I tried it I kept hitting that region, but I see now that with a bit more precision you can avoid the up-down segment.

Also, having the handle on the middle of the picture instead of underneath is awful on mobile where you can’t see anything because of your own finger.

You had one job.

Yes. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad strategy.

This is not a one-round game. Elections happen repeatedly. If you show someone you will punish them for bad behavior even at cost to yourself, it might teach them to change their ways. On the other hand, always minimizing your losses in the current round (i.e. having no memory or vision) makes you a perfectly predictable and exploitable player.

What we’re talking about is a game between two players: democrats and their potential voters. It is totally a valid strategy in game theory to punish the other player when they’re not cooperating. If you’re always cooperating even when your opponent (i.e. your preferred political party) isn’t, you’re just encouraging them to continue to not cooperate.

Try out this interactive page.

That’s not how it works. Using that logic voting for Himmler would be the right thing to do because at least they’re one step less awful than Hitler. Fucking demand that Himmler change his ways or a better candidate is allowed to run.

A lot of countries have political theater instead of actual politics, but the US is really deep into it.

That is just right-wing disinformation:

The right-wing opposition has questioned the Socialist-led coalition government’s phase-out of nuclear energy and reliance on renewables, saying they made Spain more vulnerable to blackouts.

But the government says there is no evidence to suggest “an excess of renewables or the lack of nuclear power plants” caused the crisis.

Two percent of the population is actually pretty huge. Historically, 3.5% has been the threshold after which change has almost always happened.

Aside from the actual effect of the resumption of rare earth exports, Trump’s apparent priority given to the issue signals to Beijing just how reliant the U.S. is on China in this regard — something that would not have gone unnoticed by Xi.

Xi never came calling

Just one day before the June 5 call, Trump wrote on social media: “I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!”

His conversation with the Chinese leader would have further reinforced Xi’s tough image — not just for a Chinese audience, but for international observers as well.

This was certainly encouraged by how China described the call. According to China’s official statement, Xi “took a phone call from U.S. President Donald J. Trump” – the subtle implication being that it was Trump who initiated the call.

This framing promotes the idea that Xi holds the upper hand. The Chinese statement also highlighted that the Geneva talks were “at the suggestion of the U.S. side,” implying that China did not back down in the face of Trump’s trade pressure — and that it was Trump who ultimately blinked first.

It goes on with lots of interesting details. Worth the read.

Hey, I think I’ve seen you before! Didn’t you play in the “look at all those chickens” movie? Love your work.

Since I didn’t know:

“Parasocial” refers to a relationship or connection felt by a person towards someone they do not know personally, typically a celebrity, character in a media, or public figure. This relationship is one-sided, meaning the other person is unaware of the connection.

If the F-35 was made solely out of aluminium, like an equal-mass paperweight, the price of the raw material would be about 0.013 million USD per aircraft. In reality it sells for about 80 million. I doubt it’s price will soar because of the cost of aluminum.

We just let them do it.