I guess nobody’s heard of anarchy

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This assumes that everyone is equally politically informed and engaged, and that everyone has given governance as much thought as one another.

The sad reality is a huge portion of people sleepwalk through life and they’d get by the same in a democracy vs. feudalism vs. socialism.

that’s liberals for ya

damn I wonder which white guy discovered those features in the Mongol population, crazy that they all missed them

Fact: most fictional media takes place on earth. They clearly mean the lore will be shared.

Sorry I’ve been imprecise again, I meant the root comment that’s from Lung.

Fair enough, I’m not going to do a background check on every poster but I see that I was lumping your response in with the originator of the thread and could have given yours a more charitable interpretation.

It’s not for “asking a question”

1. I suspect the professionals looking into this potential fraud are going to think of these things.
2. when and how hard you choose to play devil’s advocate says something about you.
3. whether well intentioned or not this is Musk apologia at best, and excuses/misinformation at worst. I think our Transport Minister does basic diligence before asking for an investigation and having the story in the media.

We’re all used to these “centrist” / “just asking questions” types and how they only crawl out of their holes to play devil’s advocate for fascists, it’s tired.

how many iterations until you get a minute of video you’re happy with?

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In the off chance that domestic producers can make those goods at a price cheaper than overseas_cost+25% guess what they’ll charge? The same high price.

Israel already illegally developed nuclear weapons on their own

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You’re on lemmy.ml now, the worst part of it is the militant liberals from world coming here trying to feel smug. That’s about the worst I’ve seen at least.

In addition to what others said it sparks discussion when some asshole in the friend group complains about it and hopefully gets torn into or excommunicated or otherwise corrected by their peers

Songs of Conquest is a spiritual successor you might be interested in checking out. I agree HoMM3 is still great to revisit and SoC doesn’t quite scratch the exact same itch but it’s a good way to get more of the same but with some variety keeping it fresh

Ah TIL! I didn’t know it originated elsewhere.

So while it’s true Apple and Microsoft got the idea from Xerox, Xerox didn’t originate it.

yeah xerox invented the GUI and mouse

lol did you miss the numerous stories of copyrighted materials and watermarks being spit out by early generative AI?