It wasn’t a shadow drop, but it was relatively light on PR. They had one big trailer six months before launch some gameplay videos, and of course the store page available.

Here is the article this article is using for its source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/world/europe/russia-finland-border.html

Edit: Yes, the article isn’t great, and clearly has a Russian bias. I was just linking it becuase its the original, and more complete source.

Do you have a source for that graph? I’m interested in the study, but couldn’t find it with a web search.

Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.

Yes, its ableist. Excluding, insulting or discriminating against people for disability is basically the definition, reguardless of what they claim. Saying they’re not ableist doesn’t change it, any more than saying something like, “I’m not racist, but…”

I’m having similar issues with my cat, and this sounds like a genius solution. No issues pooping in litterbox, but perfers books or bedding to pee on. According to the vet(s), he’s in perfect health, and he has multiple litterboxs in different locations, so I guess he’s just a weirdo. Dog pads in a litterbox seems like the perfect solution.

According to Wikipedia, citing the 2022 US census, median annual personal income is $48k, meaning the average american is right on that line.

I’ve never seen it described or practiced anything like that. If anything, I’ve seen it having almost the opposite reputation.

Edit: Ironicly had to look up some stats on sexuality for something unrelated, and the general consensus seems to be that Catholics have sex sooner and more often than even more non-religious people.

I’m increasingly put off by broadcasters that use body language like sighs and eye rolls, satire, and impersonations in their presentations.

How is this mindless? Its just standard human communican.

Three options come to mind.

A virus that adjusts your mouse sensitivity by like 5% every time you unlock your computer. Just enough that existing muscle memory is off, so you either have to adjust to the change or change it back every time.

A virus that installs and/or sets a similar but not quite right keyboard layout, and swaps to it randomly few boots. For example, setting the keyboard to Canadian Multilingual Standard instead of US English, where its only some of the punctuation keys that are changed.

A virus that randomly pops up a terminal window and outputs suspicious-looking text, and closes itself before the user has time to read it.

Yes. Sometimes I get random unrelated stuff instead of 404s.

Eh the smaller parties didn’t resonate with people so much this time around and we were closer to a 2-party state in the past. I mean we had the unionist party supplant the conservatives and liberals during ww1.

I mean, a World War and the resulting turmoil probably would be enough to dislodge the conservatives today. Thats exactly the sort of “MUCH worse” I was talking about.

Being negative is cheap and doesn’t inspire anyone. That’s what the powerful few want. I want to hear solutions not complaining.

No, but neither does lying. Saying “Just support the small parties more” isn’t a realistic fix in our current system, nor does any other, “sit at home and hope things improve strategy.” Large scale organization is needed, and letting people think it’ll get better with their inaction only helps the established parties too.

The only way it’ll get better is if people get angry and force the government to listen - look at any rights movement ever. Lying to people won’t get them off their asses. What might, is the realization that things will keep getting worse unless they actually step-up and start organizing.

You’re missing my point. Under FPTP, small parties are rapidly shrinking and losing power. Outside the two party system, only 30 seats are held currently (down from 59), and this will continue to shrink.

The only directly political way this will change is if BQ and NDP form an alliance to force election reform through. How likely do you really think that is, given their lack of action in the past?

Indirectly, you need en-masse, organized voting for small parties and or a massive, enconomy threatening strike. Neither is going to happen unless things get MUCH worse.

My point is that neither of these methods work, because they require simultaneous support from large portions of the country. Canada is too complacent for that.

Even when it came to trying to prevent a Trump brown-noser from become Prime-Minister by putting an X on a peice of paper, we couldn’t get 70% participation. Do you really think we can get even 10% of people to strike? Or like 50% of people to vote for small parties simultaneously?

Thats obviously not to say it isn’t worth trying, but its absurd to expect results at this point. No one cares enough to force change.

You do realize the block lost a third of their seats? The whole problem with the current system is that unless you can get the entirely country to simultaneously change who they back, you just further entrench whichever party is worse. Your solution boils down to, “Get people to support smaller parties instead.” That doesn’t work in a two party system, as evidenced by the current condition of our voting system, and by every other FPTP country out there.

The only way the current system changes is an organized, country-wide show of resistance that actually hurts the rich and powerful. This probably means a general strike. Unfortunately, people aren’t going to be willing to rock the boat until things start to get unlivable, and by that point extremists and grifters will be firmly entrenched and will seize power instead.

I didn’t say you said to only vote. I said voting out the current two parties is unrealistic.

So what do you propose we do that will convince the government to give up their power, short of voting them out or a general strike?

Pressure as it “voting for other people” and “nationwide general strike” or pressure as in “Thoughts and prayers” online?

Because the first isn’t going to happen, as evident by this election, and the second hasn’t achieved anything so far, and will continue to achive nothing because it isn’t actually pressure.

If I remember right, Fan Fiction is a sort-of copyright grey area. The characters are owned by the original company, but the remaining working is owned by the fan. Neither side has full ownership, and technically, publishing or sharing it (without both side’s permission) is copyright infringement.

Now, for use of existing intellectual property, the rules are the same. The difference is that anything generated by AI isn’t made by anyone, and thus can’t be owned. As such any IP owned by the company is owned by them, but anything unique from the AI is public domain.

Because you jumped into a conversation comparing the current actions Russia and the US by criticizing US history, acting as if this disproved my point. Now you’re sealioning and pretending that context didn’t exist.