Without a doubt, that's the healthier, better option.

Still tho

They were just doing a drive to try to get people to mod for that comm. As we know they settled for a fascist, which makes them no better. I'm sure they wouldn't have allowed any communist (read: "aUtHoRiTaRiAn") Pole into the position. But if you made an .ml account and most importantly, hid your power levels, they might let you onto the small mod team, especially if they were having as hard a time as they claimed finding any takers. Your fluency would probably go a long ways with winning them over. Obviously you'd have to actually want to take on the hassle of doing it, and playing a part for a while, but I don't know, some people would find that fun and amusing. If you made it on, just playing the "fair and balanced" card, I'd bet you could help ensure some actual reality makes it through rather than every single good comment getting removed. Just a thought.

Exactly! A country should belong to the people who live in in and not to neighboring empires who call dibs on someone else’s home.

Then you should be supporting the people of Donbas in their anti-imperialist struggle against the neo-nazi Ukrainian regime that had been trying to ethnically cleanse them and seize control of all their resources to sell off to western private interests. Just as you should be cheering on the Russians who came to their aid and prevented them from being wiped out by said nazis. But instead you've confused anti-imperialists for imperialists and mixed up the nazis with the victims because you have swallowed the western narrative.

That was a piece of the whole pegging the entire planet to the dollar and ensuring global dollar hegemony, but it was just another effect of that and not the cause of what's seen in the graph, right? Either way the ditching the gold standard is not what conspiracy-chuds and many libertarians think it is.

So weird how under the leadership of the CPC and Mao in particular, the known cycle in China of recurring severe famines that had plagued the country for centuries just, well, ended. Another one of those weird coincidences that happened in spite of their stated efforts to end hunger ig. So weird that food insecurity is vastly worse right now in the US than in China, where it barely even exists.

The industrial revolution had already long since happened, dipshit. I wonder why at that very specific fucking time, China was finally able to industrialize the way that countries exploiting it already had. HMMM. Why might that come about then? Better put on my big thinking cap about that one.

"and modern medicine made its way into China."

HUH? Wow, I wonder why it made it's way into China right then? What a WACKY coincidence!

This trend could be in spite of Mao and not because of him.

Mao was following (and building upon) Marxism-Leninism which among other things is a science that predicts how industrialization occurs and can be used as a roadmap for how to achieve it. The fact that Mao followed and forged this roadmap with the stated intent to do so and that expected result happened is not a "trend in spite of" literally the policies you can look up that he (and the CPC) implemented with the purpose of achieving that very thing. (I'm facepalming so hard rn).

Correlation does not equal causation.

No, but you know what? Causation does equal causation, like when someone says "I'm going to throw this ball" and you watch them throw a ball, you can be pretty confident that the ball is moving through the air because their throwing it, which they said they were going to do and you saw them do, caused that to happen. Nah, it must be some other hidden corollary that is the reason the ball suddenly left their hand and moved through the air. Frankly it's embarrassing to see someone trying to come up with excuses to hand wave away the obvious fucking truth that is right there and plain for anyone and everyone to see, at least anyone who isn't frantically putting up blinders to try to protect their bullshit worldview.

None of the vaccines I've had in the past, which I think were mostly pfizer, were too bad as far as how I reacted to them. I'm not too concerned about how hard each hits, so long as it's temporary. I just want the one that is most effective right now for the variants that are out now. I should have paid closer attention when I saw it, but I remember in a thread here someone was talking about making sure which one you were getting, and even asking the nurse or whoever was doing the shot to show you the label on the container to make sure.

I'll have to check to see, but I would really hope my clinic would be able to get it for me for less than $202 or $140 if I do have to pay since I'm on the state healthcare plan, but I don't know. Even $140 sounds absurd to me. I'm not a veteran but thanks for the information.

tests of skill and ability are inherently ableist. There are plenty of games that allow pausing, they’re the majority, even. Let people have some that don’t for artistic or ludic purposes.

"Let us have a little ableism, as a treat."

The thing is, it doesn't need to be either/or.

I could try to get those to stop being made or i can go play any of the thousands of other games that aren’t like that

Or devs could do the same thing they've been doing for decades with difficulty levels. Before the start of a game, let users choose the difficulty levels and that could include whether or not they can pause the game. Users who wish to can then pause. This can be locked into the entirety of that playthrough. Problem solved.

Games almost never have to actually choose between ableism and the dev's vision for difficulty or pacing or whatever the fuck. Just give people the option. Hell, it would encourage people like me who struggle with difficult games to experience the game the way I am able, then try it again with higher difficulty (without being able to pause) rather than simply never being able to experience the game in the first place.

Given the reasons you listed why you can't play certain games, wouldn't you appreciate it if devs made the game in such a way where you could still choose to play it in the way you can, and let others play it as is? Obviously this isn't possible in all cases, and some while possible might require such a huge revamp of the game that it would effectively be a different game. This is not the case for simply being able to pause the game.

This isn't a lot to ask of devs for large masses of people who live lives where they will have to step away from a game without notice but would also like to not be punished by the game for doing so or outright unable to play it because of that life.

Weird bit.

wrongshway erB

Is that some kind of pig-latin or code that we're supposed to "read into"? or is one of us having a stroke?

Any person who thinks China is imperialist either A) Doesn't know what imperialism is, B) Believes silly lies about China that are easily and readily proven false, or C) Are themselves the ones spreading those lies for ideological reasons.