The best satire reframes real life in a way that you suddenly see just how insane reality is. The Barbie movie does this very well and it presents real things that still happen every day all over the world in the course of the movie

Freedom of speech should only ever mean that a government cannot retaliate against or stifile someone's view on politics. It should never equate to freedom from consequences for hate speech, by anyone.

What does blue washed mean?

Albon crossed the line directly behind Perez and was 0.5 seconds faster, you can't blame the conditions.

Unregulated capitalism places all of the power in the hands of the wealthy. Even with the amount of regulation in place, the last 4 decades has irrefutably proven that. The transfer of wealth from the bottom 95% to the top 5% has has been insane.

The only reason we need so much regulation is because people are garbage and if they can gain something for nothing, they will. You cannot consider the pure idea of capitalism without also considering the reality of human nature, that it is inherently going to create a pyramid scheme like situation where the top transfer power and wealth to themselves in the largest quantities they can, in spite of pesky things like laws and taxes.

I too am a refugee and hope that the communities I enjoyed before grow & thrive here too

Pretty much the same, having reached a certain age before the internet was a thing, all my shit is out there already. I genuinely don't care if Google has all my info from decades of Gmail, YouTube, googling, Android phones etc etc because they make it convenient for me to use all their products. What I'm not happy to roll with is massively sub par experience due to adds or rage bait curated feeds. So I'm not on Twitter, Insta, FB or anything just because the experience of using it would suck. If they want to track me that's fine, just don't be gross about it and don't get hacked (hoping I don't jynx myself)

I came here to say "none of them" because they all suck gigantic balls and I just use a NUC instead. I also just use unified remote on my phone to control it with a track pad keyboard as a back up.

Lemmy will need to hit a critical mass of regular users before all the niche non-Programmer orientated communities will start to properly populate, hopefully it doesn't drop off before then

The vast majority of people live in or around major cities. Those aren't going to evaporate. The kinds of towns that exist only to support a single resource like you mentioned are so few and have so small a population that you could close and relocate half of them to other towns and cities across the country without them even noticing the increase.

I think it's very tricky to assign this level of real world specific equivalence, because the making you hit/wound/save as a sequence is mostly there to let you roll more dice and interact with more mechanics.

They could replace everything with a formula that results in a single number you need to beat on a single dice fairly easily, and go even more in depth with it, but that's not very interesting.

Having the roll sequence allows for a lot more "oooooooohhhhhhh" moments without up setting the rhythm of the game and means that each player gets more interaction with abilities and leader buffs etc. And it's fun to roll lots of dice.

IMO it would make more sense to say that the combination of stats represents the general resilience and armour of a model, but that assigning each step of the sequence this level of specific equivalence is reading to much into it.

I screamed when Max pulled out that lap. I really wanted Alonso to have poll, and I'm not a huge Max fan, but he earned it. No one can ever say Max just "had a good car" because it is clear as day he's a generational talent and extremely hard working at racing and doesn't rest on his laurels for a moment, every GP.

What does blue washed mean?

Gotcha, so it's IBM's own brand of enshittification lol

Albon was directly behind Perez, like crossed the line within a couple seconds at most, and was .5 of a second faster. Half a second. I'm sorry for Perez fans because he has shown before that he can do ok at qualy, enough to keep up, and he's shown he can defend like a lion. But there's no excuse here. He got beaten by Sergeant in a Williams FFS, who was right behind Albon. They all drove the track in the same conditions.

I thought they have grid place penalties for an unsafe release like that?

Just my opinion but that undersells how much Perez is bottling it. If he hadn't failed so badly at qualy he wouldn't be fighting for podiums he would be taking a gentle Sunday stroll, somewhere between Max and P3. He's shown he is capable of it, but he's objectively performing way below his capability across more than half the season so far

Ok I think I understand, thank you for taking the time to write it out for me 🙂

By the same token though, doesn't socialism exactly mean basic welfare? Doesn't socialism just boil down to looking after every member of society equally, such as with basic welfare if they aren't working or universal healthcare to make sure anyone can access it regardless of station or wealth?

My point is that we can't say "but what about the 1%!?" and end a discussion about the value of investing in buying the place you live based on that 1 counter argument. That's how you get republicans and rampant unregulated capitalism destroying the lives of the many to benefit the few.