I recently learned about all the progress the two Koreas were making with one another, which all coincidentally fell apart after Kim and Trump met a few times.
Sucks how years of progress was likely thrown out because of our petulant cunt of a president didn’t know how to do diplomacy.
Yeah, just live in poverty instead. They’re practically forced to because nobody can turn down that money. You going to let your extended family starve?
These tourists pay huge sums of money; do you think it’s fairly distributed? Do you think the rich assholes treat these highly skilled mountaineers well? Despite all that, and the danger, they still do it because it’s good money. There’s not many high paying jobs in Tibet.
I still feel bad for the exploited sherpas. They’re in a shitty situation. This isn’t just as easy as “it’s a personal decision”, which is a fucked up perspective imo.
I’m not talking about the Sherpa people, but rather the profession of Sherpa which is a subset of these people. There aren’t even 600k Sherpa (people) globally. A few hundred Sherpa (profession) handle Everest.
And yes, that’s what I’m saying. Tibet is a poor country. What industry aside from Everest tourism do they have?
If you’re going to feel bad for them then you should also feel bad for the climbers, and vice versa.
I don’t think so. This is an asymmetric relationship. It’s been documented time and time again the tourists treat the sherpas like shit. There’s also plenty of evidence they treat the mountain like shit, a mountain which is sacred to the Sherpa people. No, I don’t think I’ll feel bad for those who litter in what should be a pristine location and treat the locals poorly.
(Side note, I don’t even know what to call that extra vice versa. It’s like a vice versa double negative. You were already in vice versa mode by suggesting I should also feel bad for the tourists.)
DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....
You get 0% back when you move out of an apartment. It is much more expensive to rent than own considering this, even if you sell at a loss. Only a portion of your mortgage payment (interest) won’t be able to be recouped, whereas all of the rent is gone forever.
I gave up on Rockstar once they canceled GTA:V expansions for all the shark card GTA Online bullshit. Could have been awesome, but they gated so much content behind that shitty online mode.
It’s the best immersive sim ever made, and the predictions it made way back in 99 are pretty amazing. There’s a sick conversation with an AI in a side room in the last level that is one of the best video game dialogues IMO.
Tap for spoiler> * JC Denton: I don’t see anything amusing about spying on people. > > * AI: Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are. > > * JC Denton: Some people just don’t understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance. > > * AI: The need to be ovserved and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms. > > * JC Denton: Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence. > > * AI: God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary. > > * JC Denton: No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera. > > * AI: The human organism always worships. First it was the gods then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment. > > * JC Denton: You underestimate humankind’s love of freedom. > > * AI: The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your god, and you will make it with your own hands.
There’s a ton of fun games out there. The number of great 5-10 hour indie/small studio games I’ve played via gamepass is huge. There’s even more fun games today than in the past, IMO, you just have to look a bit deeper.
I do feel the age of lots of great AAA games is behind us, so many of these are design by committee due to how much money is involved. There are still some great ones every few years, but it’s the exception, not the norm.
Via ferrata in Italy is so much better. First off, I don’t even think it’s safe to have more than one person on a segment at a time - when you fall, you slide down to the previous anchor into the wall. You also get fucked up, worse than regular mountain climbing, because the fall factor can go way over 2 and you can hit whatever metal stuff is on the wall.
I’m certain this travel was “unofficial” and not cleared with the correct people. I had to go talk to the security officer for an interview / safety brief and a signature when I was stationed in Italy and wanted to visit a friend in Budapest. No fucking way they’d let someone go to Russia right now.
No. I fundamentally disagree with the idea of changing the TOS after sale. That’s some grade A bullshit, and if we had decent consumer protection laws doing that would be illegal without an opportunity for a full refund. It blows my mind how many people seem to be okay with this in general. It’s not the Sony account that’s the issue for me, it’s Sony changing the terms when it clearly was not a requirement at release. Sony isn’t the only one guilty of this, but they are the most recent example.
They do get into some wild border clashes without guns though, some of my favorite modern war videos. Bunch of dudes shoving and whacking each other with axe handles.
Shit like this is why I’m in favor of legalizing everything, paired with actual education on what drugs do. Not that DARE bullshit that lumps weed and heroin in the same “don’t do it” category.
There also needs to be significantly better mental health care because many of these people are self medicating. I speak from experience with a terrible benzo addiction fueled by my anxiety and enabled by cheap, extremely strong clearnet research chemical benzos. I’m very lucky to have gotten out of that habit with not much more than a few wasted years and slightly worse memory.
I feel for those people in the depths of opiate/opioid addiction. It’s a dark place.
Education is the proactive part of it. I agree treatment needs to be fixed as well, but that’s after the damage has been done. If we had honest education about the effects of drugs, both positive and negative, I think this would reduce the number of people getting addicted in the first place.
We need a fundamentally different relationship with mind altering substances. It’s part of human nature, and found in every culture. It’s not an inherently bad thing, but we’ve painted it as such, and the current addiction crisis is the result.
I’m not referring to legality, but rather the impact it has on one’s life. There wasn’t any nuance to the discussion; it simply was “don’t do these substances”. This does not prepare one for real life encounters with drugs.
Just to be clear, this was an elderly Palestinian man cowering under a bed who came out with his hands up and was murdered by an Israeli soldier who brags about it after.
I don’t see where it’s debunked in that article, but I’d absolutely like to check out any other sources you have. I only found a Vox article that said he failed to disclose the first experiment and linked to that same page you did. To me, it seems more “scientifically unsound” due to ethical issues rather than “debunked”.
“I wouldn’t describe him as a charlatan … every journal article, every textbook is written to convince, persuade and to provide evidence for a point of view. So I don’t think Sherif is unusual in that way.”
Even that author thinks he’s just like every researcher. I dunno. I’m not seeing the debunked angle. Ethical issues, sure.
Regardless, I still think it’s quite relevant even if they were manipulating the boys somehow; do you not feel we’re potentially being manipulated by other parties to feud with one another?
It is one of the better executed anti-war message in games.
I felt it was ham fisted. You don’t even get a choice in the most impactful scene of the game, you’re railroaded the whole time. Only choice I can remember was at the bridge and the game returns to normal after 5 seconds.
The graphics are were not good even for the time; contemporary reviews point this out. It looks like a 2007 game but was released in 2012. The guns aren’t good and the cover system is clunky.
I dunno, maybe it was hyped too much for me. I found it forgettable and not worth the 5 hours it took to beat.
If I played this in 2012 at release I think I’d feel just the same. What do you find is important about this game? I’m curious as I see it mentioned all over the place, but I really don’t see what’s the big deal. Releasing a game where you shoot US soldiers, in the middle of hyper patriotism in the US, seems edgy for the time but that’s about it. The moral choices were few and only had impact in terms of a bit of flavor. No serious consequences.
I did enjoy the music and especially like the detail of the characters getting progressively dirtier as the game went on.
Gameplay is 90% of time spent in the game, which is why it colored my experience so much. Regardless; what do you feel the game does well? Specific examples, please.
I read a ton of positive comments before playing it, and avoided spoilers for years. Turns out there’s much to spoil, IMO. There’s the white phosphorus scene, but you can’t even choose to not do that. It was very disappointing when I sat there and it railroaded me into using WP when my squad mate was telling me not to. I don’t feel it was a pioneer in any way, and feels quite dated even against games many years it’s senior. Bioshock came out five years earlier and has deeper social commentary, more engaging gameplay, and much better graphics.
If you have specific examples I’d love to hear them. It’s entirely possible I’m just not getting it, but I feel this game seemed epic for some console gaming teenagers in 2012 and it’s mostly nostalgia. I don’t feel the game did anything that special.
You’ve got a solid recollection of the events. I think my expectations were set too high from what I read online. It was decent, but I was expecting S tier.
I did really enjoy how “degraded” the characters got as they went through everything like you mention. Very nice little touch.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of inmates have fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight. At least three people were dead Sunday....
US officials say North Korea may be planning military action to create chaos ahead of US election, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
US officials fear North Korean military action ahead of the US election, NBC News reported....
Microsoft is not buying Valve and Counter-Strike for £12 billion (metro.co.uk)
[Rumor] Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16 Billion Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam (www.guru3d.com)
4 climbers dead Mount Everest, 1 missing; ice collapse among factors cited (www.usatoday.com)
Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes, search under way (www.reuters.com)
DUBAI, May 19 (Reuters) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister crashed on Sunday as it was crossing mountain terrain in heavy fog, an Iranian official told Reuters, and rescuers were struggling to reach the site of the incident....
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Chinese climbers stuck on cliff for more than an hour due to overcrowding (www.cnn.com)
Denuvo Outage Makes Hit Single-Player Game Unplayable [Persona 5] (gamerant.com)
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U.S. soldier detained in Russia, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)
Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries (steamdb.info)
It’s crazy to see Sony kill their golden goose.
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'Turn around immediately': Taiwan warns off Chinese coast guard boats again as tensions simmer (www.reuters.com)
The drastic drop in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has opened a gap for fentanyl in Europe (english.elpais.com)
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My favorite flavor was blueberry pie. Until it made me stab out my eyes with knitting needles.
'I saw one terrorist standing by a bed pleading 'no, no,' I killed him with four bullets' (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
Just to be clear, this was an elderly Palestinian man cowering under a bed who came out with his hands up and was murdered by an Israeli soldier who brags about it after.
Palestinian town of Jericho names street after US soldier who set himself on fire (www.theguardian.com)
Aaron Bushnell, who died last month, ‘sacrificed everything’ for Palestinians, says mayor of Jericho...
What are some good games with *zero* replayability?
I want to try and play some more games. That feels more fulfilling if you play games that you can finish and be done with....
Hundreds of inmates flee after armed gangs storm Haiti’s main prison, leaving bodies behind (apnews.com)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of inmates have fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight. At least three people were dead Sunday....
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