It's astonishing to me how even right here on Lemmy so many people still misunderstand what this is about with comments saying that piracy fixes it or that downloading the game installer solves the issue. The games where those things are options aren't what this effort is about, this is about games like Darkspore, Defiance, Tabula Rasa, and our prototypical example The Crew, where there is no one who can play them no matter where, how, or when, they acquired the game, it is impossible to play for anyone, the whole piece of art has been destroyed.

Honestly if we can't even communicate what the movement is about to those who aught to be our base it really does not bode well for gaining any kind of wider traction.

That's seems pretty damn ballsy of them since unless they are extremely confident in the jury selection it's practically guaranteed to result in a hung jury if they know that finding him guilty will result in the most severe verdict.

Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable

Straight fucking lie, the ones liable are the uploader and the host, which after official support ends is no longer the rights holders.

In any other country this would result in rapid SWAT equivalent or even military deployment.

The problem they're faced with is a drug epidemic and the solution they come up with is mass murder.

Obviously very sane and rational.

Not having any form of national ID really does lead to some goofy shit when you need to positivly identify people.

By Wikipedias count there are presently 51 on-going national emergencies in USA, 19 of them have been declared by Trump.

The oldest still active one was made by Carter in 1979, it's a sanction on Iran.

Not necessarily no, the calls for a no fly zone are mostly asking for it over western Ukraine. Russian manned planes don't fly that deep into Ukraine, much too dangerous, so a no fly zone over that area would only shoot down unmanned objects, drones and missiles.

Piracy is irrelevant in this case since games that can be pirated aren't games that have the kind of server reliance kill switch that SKG seeks to eliminate.

While ideally you'd want a column for serving size, package size, and per 100g, if you're only gonna have one it should definitely be the per 100g since that's the only one that allows you to easily compare between different brands and products.

The last round of conscription was meet with uncharacteristically loud pushback from the russian public so pushing ahead with even more is interesting. Is the kremlin that confident in the effect of it's propaganda? or is it just that desperate?

Any US company that wants to could setup mining operations in greenland today, Denmark/Greenland would happily welcome the development.

The reason the USA wants to seize greenland is because it foresees a future where it is no longer allied with Europe, so in order to secure the resources and military access in the long term they are annexing it now since Europe is entirely incapable of stopping them at present, both politically and militarily.

The type of verification depends on the country and some don't have any verification at signing. I'm Swedish and when I signed I just filled out a form, no checks of any kind.

You're damn right I don't like it, I especially don't like how it destroys art history, which is why I'm part of this campaign to make that practice illegal.

Okay sure I'm not gonna say he's wrong because sure given that arresting the head of state of a powerful nation would carry immense consequences I can believe that most countries would just rather not do it, no matter the severity of the crimes, as he said that's just realpolitik.

But to freely admit that you would ignore your legal obligations when you didn't have to is just so fucking stupid!

My point of view on this is that the ICC is an arm of the rules based global order, which was constructed by and in the interest of "the west". Which means this statement delegitimizes the ICC therefore degrading western interests, so it real damn idiotic for the leader of Belgium to say this since it's essentially the capital of "the west"! Politicians may have a reputation for doublespeak but that's because there are a great many truths you simply can't say if you want to further your political interests.

Refrigerating bananas pretty much stops them ripening, so if you have some fully yellow bananas you can pop then in the fridge and it will stop them from over ripening for a few days. The peel will still go brown but the flesh remains as it was when you put them in. You definitely shouldn't put green bananas in the fridge, but with yellows it buys you some time.

Since it's oil based it probably doesn't wash off without using soap or at least hot water, wouldn't be effective it it did anyway. It's meant to be eaten along with the produce, given that the coating is very thin and made of only rapeseed oil and oat oil I doubt it will add any perceptible taste.

My dude you are Dutch, if the russians make it to the Netherlands for you to shoot at then the west will already be ashes.

It does and the actual wording is in my opinion a bit stronger in the EU guarantee, but I believe politically it's viewed as much weaker since the EU is fundamentally a economic/trade union and not a military one like NATO. That is to say, the EU could still exist without such a clause, but for NATO it's the entire reason for the organization to be.

That's a rather odd change of tone since the statement not only definitively states that Ukraine is a sovereign nation but it also outright encourages EU membership for Ukraine which comes with a similar military defense guaranty to NATO, though importantly it of course does not come with US backing. At a guess I would say that they are trying to preemptively position themselves as the "reasonable" party in the upcoming (on-going?) negotiations.