look, alls i'm saying is that if you vote for the 'face eating leopards' guy, it's kinda on you if you get your face eaten by leopards, even if your vote was really motivated by his simultaneous campaign promise to catch a greased hog on live tv.
i don't think he has to specifically say 'i wanted leopards to eat peoples faces.' i reckon its sufficient that he said 'i voted for the guy who publicly wanted leopards to eat peoples faces, and even now that my face has been eaten, i'd do it again.'if this wasn't something that trump regularly harped on about prior to getting elected, if the tariffs and their consequences were a surprise, you might have a point.
lol i feel like i've been suddenly cast into an argument i didn't realize was gonna happen, nor do i understand why i've been roped into it. i did not say, nor mean to imply that i thought you were denying the famine happened. you very clearly stated that you thought no one believes that it didn't happen. i was just pointing out that in fact, some do. my first comment was in response to bubblybubbles, trying to figure out their take. you may think no one would deny that the famine happened, but it seemed like bubbles might think we're both gullible rubes for thinking it did.
i also rather object to your 'very narrow frame of view' comment. that was just uncalled for. and for what? because i'm trying to learn about stuff and am willing to admit i don't know everything?
it seems like the arguments that it was a genocide hinge on more than just the famine itself. a lot of people consider genocide to encompass more than just murdering people, but also the targeted destruction of a people's culture.
from what i've read, if the famine wasn't deliberately engineered, then it was certainly a world-class bungle, where stalin et al made consistently stupid decisions that made the situation worse. they didn't need to enact and enforce laws preventing people from gathering leftover grain left in the fields. they didn't need to prevent starving people from leaving their home towns in search of better conditions. they didn't need to focus on exporting food while their own people resorted to cannibalism. they didn't need to demand so much tribute, even going door to door taking food from people's cupboards, and taking from the seeds set aside for next years planting.
i can totally get suspecting malice, rather than accepting that that level of incompetence was genuine. while i haven't personally studied the subject enough to have any concrete conclusions, the genocide question seems less cut and dry than you make it out to be.
i know this is a thing, but i really don't understand the why. like, is it an aesthetics thing? is it something done as a sort quiet protest against the practice of circumcision as a whole? something else?
honestly, i think linux is there. like, at this point, i don't think it's linux's own lack of merits holding it back, but solely the lack of support from software companies.
my experience is that pbta games work quite well with noobies. pbta/fitd still has quite a following, but it's more of a stable current of the ttrpg landscape now, rather than the new hotness. a couple of well known urban fantast games in that space that come to mind would be Monsterhearts, Monster of the Week, or Urban Shadows, though i haven't read or played any of those, as it isn't a genre i usually care for.
these days, 5e is still the one big game, and most of the new games that i've seen get a lot of hype are essentially variants of 5e. Shadowdark, Tales of the Valiant, Level-Up, stuff like that.
i haven't seen much a use yet for the stuff being hawked as AI these days. i tried once or twice recently, but the results were pretty dogshit. obviously i do interact with ai every time i play a video game, or use my phone to scan a qr code, navigate to a new location with a gps app, or do basically anything with a computer. but i suspect these humdrum uses of ai that have been normalized for decades aren't what you were asking about.
i hate when someone asks a question, but qualifies it to only want answers from some specific subset of people, when that limitation isn't really relevant, and other types of folks are likely to have answers too.
a made up example: "Truck drivers of lemmy, what's your favourite platformer video game?"
depends on the festival, and whether or not the girl you're looking for is at that festival, i suppose.
story from me, an introvert: a while back i went to a slosh (like a munch, but with booze) at this bar in SF that was also an arcade, and it was in a big ass old theater. i made two friends that night, and they and I and my partner played 4 player pac-man, and mario kart, and DDR, and bunches of other games, and several years later our group of now like seven people with shared interests all meet up regularly to play board games and watch cartoons together. anyways, the lesson here is that arcade-bars are sick and this one had 25¢ plays of DDR and alcoholic slushies.
not really anymore, but only for usually drifting apart from old friends reasons. it is hard (for me) to maintain friendships when the other party lives thousands of kilometers away, and everyone is too poor and busy to travel.
look, alls i'm saying is that if you vote for the 'face eating leopards' guy, it's kinda on you if you get your face eaten by leopards, even if your vote was really motivated by his simultaneous campaign promise to catch a greased hog on live tv.