I think what they’re trying to say in thr meme is that the building is government funded. In the US, we also a made some government funded buildings, “projects” but it did not go very well (combination of bad optics, and supposedly bad funding) . So the US basically said fuck public funding for housing, the free market will fix everything. And instead of the “ugly” buildings that Russia has (the idea pushed onto Americans) , we ended up with a large number of unhoused people because of spiraling out of control housing costs
The US uses vouchers, but they are underfunded (years long wait lists) and not accepted in many places. Some of the places that do accept them have similar issues to housing projects.
Depending on how one defines homelessness, China has either a very tiny homeless population or an extremely large one. Compared to other countries, there very few vagrants: people living on the streets of China’s cities without means of support. But if one counts the people who migrated to cities without a legal permit (hukou), work as day laborers without job security or a company dormitory, and live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on the edge of cities, there are nearly 300 million homeless
Same here, haha, between my early days of game collecting and then Steam sales fever, I have so many more games than I’m realistically going to be able to beat. Plus I’m a bit of a datahoarder, so I have everything either on physical media, and the respective console to play it, or backed up on drives, and I plan to further improve my storage in the near future, so even if Steam or the entire internet goes down, as long as there’s electricity, I’m good
Assuming Steam survives, or your console manufacturer keeps releasing updates, or whatever.
In the cartridge days all you needed was the console and the cartridge. As the years go by, you rely more and more on online services, software updates, and so-on. Even for supposedly offline single-player games, many of them stop working eventually.
Well, Valve did say if they ever close shop they’d offer all your purchased games as downloads without DRM. Not that it will ever go that far.
Even in the cartridge days if you played on PC you had to download patches from the developer website… which as you can guess nowadays is no longer available. There was also SecuROM which bricked several games as the activation server no longer exists.
But sure, if we go all the way back to Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 then those games will survive the apocalypse. Many PC games even from that time wouldn’t (at least not fully patched and you might scratch a disk).
The “cartridge days” is a very loose term. Nintendo 64 used cartridges and came out in 1996.
And lol, “there were no PCs”, Atari came out in 1977. PCs have been around a lot longer than cartridge game consoles (NES was 1985). The internet also went live around 1983, so even that happened before the NES. Though public domain only happened in 1993.
Wasn’t the trouble some people had with the drag queen shows the dances? I don’t know the situation in the US(?), but that’s what some people disliked about some of the shows in Germany.
It’s dishonest to leave it out of the discussion when people didn’t have a problem with the clothing in the first place.
I am no pro in pedagogy or whatever. Not sure if that’s super harmful or whatever tale the alt right tried to spin. But it’s definitely not just some people with a cleavage or other types of sexy clothes.
Glad you said "one of" the biggest downgrades... because I'd argue your Monarchy and your geopolitical situation got heftier downgrades. Not much heftier than the telephones... but still.
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