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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly. Which is why framing this as layoffs is incredibly disingenuous. And it seems most games media is framing it as such despite it simply being a pre-production decision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here's a question. Is it better for the industry to have studios layoff employees when they finish a project and their other project is in Pre-Production which only requires a small team? Or is it better to assign the people who aren't needed yet, since the Pre-production team is small, to help other teams in a larger parent company? I'd argue the second option is far better. And the second option is what's happening here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I definitely agree they should be consistent, in other countries the drinking age is 18 like voting. Of course I think banning this shit is BS still though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Procedures" to them includes literally all gender affirming care. Therapy? Procedure. Puberty Blockers? Procedure. HRT? Procedure. Social Transition? Procedure. This will only ban federal support but won't actually ban gender affirming care entirely, mainly because that would take an act of congress. This is still bad and hurts all gender specialist doctors that get federal grants, which I have no idea how many of them there are.

The next step is congress banning it for everyone. They did 19 because that's them saying that even when you are old enough to vote and join the military you can't make a decision about your own body. Just a matter of time.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It would have been better for it to just have been banned and be done with it. Move on. Now, we will have the same issue we have with Twitter. People refuse to move on despite how terrible the platform is because they are addicted to it.

If it had been banned, it would have, likely, opened the door for a new social media landscape to take shape. Sure, banning isn't good, but turning into what it's becoming is, arguably, worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ah I misread a bit of what you said. Thanks for the clarification.

Edit: Fixed the dates in the original post

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I said almost 2000 years. It lasted from, officially, 476 BCE to 1453 CE, that's 1929 years. Which is almost 2000 years, like I said.

When it comes to the West, the empire officially was made in 27 BCE with the first Emperor. I don't think the republic really counted because all historical articles I can find say it lasted 503 years, not 1000. From 27 BCE to 476 CE.

Also, 753 BCE isn't the Roman empire. It was the founding of Rome itself, meaning the city.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Interesting, so instead of them stealing the actual Roman salute, they stole what they thought the Roman salute was. Sure the Italian fascists used it too, but the Nazis compared what they wanted, a 1000 year Reich, to what Rome had created when they had a massive empire that lasted 500 years for the western empire and almost 1500 for the Eastern years if they include the West and almost 1000 by itself. So they didnt just take it from the Italian Fascists just cause, they did it because they thought it was Roman as well, and associated it with their desire to replicate the Romans.

Thanks for the info!

Edited the years for the Roman empire after being called out for being wrong.

[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 week ago (13 children)

As social media exploded with condemnation of what some were calling a “Sieg Heil,” with some others applauding the world’s richest man’s gesture, there was also some speculation that Musk’s movement was more like that of an Imperial Roman general in the Gladiator mode.

Do people think the Nazis invented their salute? They took it from the Romans. To say it was actually a Roman salute is to also say it was a Nazi salute because they are basically one and the same.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And that was all laid out in project 2025. But people kept insisting that saying they would do that was just fear mongering. Like how saying they'd overturn Roe v Wade was. This shit is what they're planning and people need to finally fucking acknowledge that it's not fear mongering when you're talking about they're literal plan.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I once did that at Meijer for a switch pro controller, waited 30 minutes only for the person, who was supposed to have the key, just come over and rip the cardboard to get it off the locked hook. We only stayed because we had a Meijer gift card. Insane how long this kind of thing takes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Harris wanted to raise taxes on those making 400,000 just like biden, it didn't disappear at all. She also talked about introducing an unrealized gains tax on those with gains worth more than 100 million. You can't say she didn't want to increase taxes on the rich unless you ignore her policy proposals.

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