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I have a friend who is a project lead there and...yeah, this is basically 100% the case. It is practically documented policy honestly, because the US workers won't deal with the hours that the Taiwan staff is willing to put up with. Execs have complained to him on a few occassions as to why they can't seem to hire/retain enough staff, which I think is why they just started bringing in Taiwanese workers.

While it would be obvious if you followed closely that Democrats never cared about Palestinians, they had some plausible deniability. They could pretend to care about innocents without really adopting any kind of policy. After 2023 they had to actually take a position one way or the other and everyone could see which side they supported. They didn't even try to feign neutrality anymore, they were full-genocide.

Space Age? Yeah, though priced at the same as the base game. Arguably bigger than the base game quite honestly. I imagine I will be over 200 hours by the time I finish it, assuming Gleba doesn't break me.

The Paradox published factory builder is Foundry, which is more of a satisfactory style first person joint. Wube makes Factorio I believe.

I always come back to Warframe in spurts, I would like to play it again but just got so much on my list.
Soulframe NDAs are lifted now, so can say I enjoyed the time I put into that. It is a really visually striking game, but way slower paced than warframe.

Just rolled credits on Satisfactory after 100 hours, and been playing the hell out of the Factorio: Space Age DLC (at about 120 hours right now). I like factory games a lot.
Generally having a really good time on Factorio, but Gleba is absolutely not my thing. Everything up to that point I have loved, but I kind of dread continuing on from here.

I have Persona 3 Reload on the backburner, for when I clear my plate a bit. About 10 hours into that.

Biggest game I am looking forward to for 2025 is probably Monster Hunter Wilds right now.

I have seen people trying to organise boycotts against Muslim owned businesses in retaliation for maybe not voting for Harris.

And they want us to believe they are totally the caring non-racist side.

"I'm not at liberty to go into much detail, but I know Canadians would understand when you're saying the government of Canada is taking measures to protect national security, that's serious."

Read: We made shit up and everyone knows it.

So what it sounds like is they are shutting down their offices in Canada. So basically ruining people's ability to get support or raise any issues. Are they just trying to make the experience so shitty that people naturally leave it?

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has warned Canadians, including teenagers, against using TikTok.

Teenagers, that demographic famous for listening to authority figures, will absolutely follow the CSIS guidelines.

There's plenty of it. I have seen people praying for another hurricane to hit Florida too. Good thing we got those compassionate Democrats!

Some part indoctrination with some part apathy, wrapped in self-aggrandisement.

People are raised into the propaganda obviously, and that plays a role but I think it is exacerbated by the fact that people often have no real desire to look into if it's true or not. That is the more insidious element. Anyone who actually put two minutes of thought into the claim that Koreans push trains to work everyday would realise it can't possibly be true, but they don't put those two minutes in. If they think about it at all, they just go "Oh, North Korea is so crazy, look at them. lol". They'd much rather have a crazy mystery country to meme about AND to consider themselves better than. They get to feel superior while pretending to be empathetic to an oppressed people.

A lot of liberals are very eager to feel superior to a marginalized people while simultaneously pretending like they care. Propaganda that feeds into that is unlikely to be questioned because they actively want it to be true.

Lots of pro-genocide, anti-immigrant and pro-natural disaster tweets suddenly coming out the woodwork from the supposed compassionate dems.

I had the same feeling. I am not going to bat for Trump now or even, man is a piece of shit, but he's still a known quantity. They have had a Trump presidency before. It sucked sure, but I don't know why people are acting like he is going to declare himself emperor day 1. He has been in office, we know exactly the type of policies he would be pursuing. A couple of which I could honestly see as being good things, albeit for the wrong reasons (like if Trump actually withdrew the US from NATO, not that I expect that to ever happen).

Yet I see people seriously believing that he is going to round up all dissenters day 1 and declare martial law. ICE has been doing that already, for both flavours of administration.