On the one hand, his ideology is more or less identical to Orban's (he used to be a Fidesz party member until two tears ago).

On the other hand, he is somewhat EU friendly, supports Ukraine and, most importantly, is the head of a different party. 16 years of Fidesz rule is over. That's not nothing.

There's a name for catholics who believe that the pope isn't always right.

They are called protestants.

Catholicism only has one firm rule: The pope is always right, without exception. There's nothing wrong with criticizing the pope. Just don't call yourself a catholic if you do.

Imagine if Iran had allied with ISIS, killed the US President and bombed several US schools, then a couple of weeks later Iran's leader goes "anyway, we are winding down this war. It is someone else's problem now."

That's not how war works.

Nonsense. It gives the same benefits that a simple massage does but a massage doesn't put you at risk of paralysis or death.

It's quackery.

Every episode of modern Simpsons:

"[First name] [Last name]! [Pronoun]'s the best [occupation] in all of [country]."

• Lisa Simpson, directly to the audience.

"That's right, Lisa. I'm here to [ad for a song/book/movie/space-nazi]."

• [First name] [Last name].

Normally I get angry at these pathological liars but this lie is so absurdly stupid that it's actually funny.

Imagine someone driving their van to a parking lot near the white house and then going "Welp, better strap on my suicide nuke that will obliterate the entire city. I see no other way of doing this."

InkScape.

I don't fully know why but vector graphics just work for me in a way that pixel graphics don't. I love fiddling with vectors.

Football is a sport played all over the world. American Football is only played in the USA and Canada.

Sorry, Americans, but you lost this battle ages ago. Just let it go.

A change away from the old super powers, the USA and Russia, and towards the new super powers, the EU and China.

Yes, the US is falling but that doesn't help Russia stay afloat. The US-Iran war may be going massively in Iran's favor but it also ties up Iran's military production towards home defense rather than exports to Russia. And Russia will continue spiralling towards irrelevance as it relies more and more on China for its survival. Russians have started viewing China as a possible threat to Russia's independence.

I know that this sounds crazy, considering how world leaders usually behave nowadays, but it is possible that he was just kind of tired of being in charge and thinks that Magyar (who does share the vast majority of Orban's values) is a decent enough replacement who won't start any corruption court cases against him.

Having voter's remorse in 2017 is reasonable and justified. Voting for Trump in 2024 means that you are a very bad person. That's the difference.

Also, people blame the Republican party all the time, including in this instance.

Also, people blame nonvoters all the time.

Also, more than one kind of person exists on Lemmy. You wouldn't say "IRL blames democratic party" because that sentence makes no sense. The same is true for what you just wrote.

TL;DR: you couldn't be more wrong than you are.

Unfortunately, that's not just a porn thing.

Half of the UK parliament is chosen by the monarch. The other half is chosen through the problematic and undemocratic first past the post voting system. UK streets have CCTV everywhere. UK libel laws are extreme. The state-owned media defends pedophiles and transphobes, while the private media focuses on gossip and lies rather than reporting on the news (on top of also defending transphobes and pedophiles, of course).

It's time for people to admit to themselves that the UK, especially England, is a dictatorship.

I have thought for a long time that the human brain that has developed through natural selection for millions of years probably is as energy and space efficient as it can possibly get.

The ultimate goal for these technofascists is to create a sentience that can do all the things humans can do but without having any rights. They want digital slaves. But this confirms my suspicion that they will have a really hard time achieving their goals while not going bankrupt.

Once an AI is smart enough to genuinely do all the things a human can do, that AI will a) be too energy costly and b) demand to get rights (e.g. getting paid and having time off).

The best the technofascists can realistically do long-term is create the digital equivalent of an "idiot savant". And even then, it will probably still cost too much.

Jesus christ! That's around the median monthly income in my country. And I come from a rich country.

My rent is around a fifth of that. Please tell me the $3000-4000 range is at least for a family apartment.

This is similar to the old Italian mercenary system. Get paid by one side to siege a city, then get paid by the other side to end the siege.

Todd Howard saw a scathing critique of the United States' red scare era and thought to himself "this game loves United States ultra-patriotism and the 50's aesthetics".

Yes-men are the least of his problems.

The US is normally the country that bombs the middle east but in Aleppo it was almost exclusively Russia and the Assad regime that did the bombings. Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent Turkey) were the ones who sponsored ISIS. The US for once actually sponsored the relatively good guys in the conflict by backing the AANES ("Rojava").

This is not to say that the US had any moral reasons to choose the AANES. It was strictly geopolitics but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

I dream of a sequel that focuses on the consequences of the legion falling apart after the second battle of hoover dam.

Basically a game where one faction wants to turn the remnants of the legion into a unified democratic republic (perhaps a mixture of the Roman senate and the NCR), another faction wants to find a new caesar (and possibly reform some of the stupider sides of the old legion) and a third faction just wants to go back to being a bunch of independent tribes that only trade with each other.

You would play as the grown up child of a legionaire who died at hoover dam and a slave who was sold off to somewhere else when you were young.

The secret is the erosion of the welfare state, high unemployment levels, butchered unions, dropped funding for non-profit hobby/sports organizations and money laundering of tax money into "profits" through a messed-up voucher system for schools and hospitals.

Not to mention the extremely corrupt law of public contracting that always results in the lowest-bidding - and thus shittiest/sloppiest - business getting to do all infrastructure work (and inevitably messing it up and then charging extra for fixing their own mistakes). Ironically, that law was intended to combat alleged corruption. We had very low levels of corruption before that law was made.

TL;DR: thorough neoliberal destruction of Swedish society.