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Tankies are Red Fascists. They're essentially communism-flavored authoritarians. I would contend they do not qualify as "left", "leftists", etc but far-right. They support and defend Soviet Russia and the CCP, specifically defending their atrocities and oppression.

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From wikipedia:

Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole[1][2][3][4] or certain social hierarchies.[5]

According to emeritus professor of economics Barry Clark, supporters of left-wing politics "claim that human development flourishes when individuals engage in cooperative, mutually respectful relations that can thrive only when excessive differences in status, power, and wealth are eliminated."[6]

So maybe? If you had a truly benevolent dictator that promoted equality, freedom (limited to everything except changing nature of government) and prosperity for all then that might fit? But in the real world, not effectively.

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Is H&M still bad quality? What the OP describes is truly epically bad quality. I've never had clothes break or a zipper fail after 1 use. I've never shopped at H&M but I did notice they were fairly cheap.

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Are they an actual leftist podcast? Not tankies in disguise?

Also looking into it, it's a true crime podcast? Seems an odd name choice if it isn't somewhat related to politics. Unless I've 100% misunderstood the naming convention.

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This is one of the only opportunities to see film that was not digitally modified.

Nolan's films have 0 CGI or digital special effects?

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How do you find a film-IMAX theatre these days? Is this link accurate?

https://www.imax.com/news/oppenheimer-in-imax-70mm

Because if so, almost all of us are shit out of luck. I live in DC and I'd have to drive 2hr or so.

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But then they couldn't easily kill it in 1-2 years when it doesn't reap as much valuable user data as they expected.

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He probably thought it'd humanize him to be so quirky and silly!

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Probably,

  1. Supply Side Jesus and
  2. Buff Jesus
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This is a loss for consumers. Massive consolidation, lack of competition. Get ready for them to pull games from PlayStation as soon as they are contractually allowed to. Get ready for everything to be on Game Pass and possibly not on Steam. Worst case: they disable purchasing some games on Game Pass so you always need a subscription.

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so if we had to pick one,

Did we, though? Or maybe FTC could prevent further consolidation that will eventually result (and is already) in anticompetitive practices?

I can only see this as better for competition than Sony running away with the high-end console market, because then there's realistically only one console to buy.

So now your choices will be: 1) pick the console that has more of your favorite games, or 2) now you have to buy BOTH consoles.

Fucking brilliant.

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If they are truly a pile of shit, then they should fail. MS just wants 2 things: 1) big name games to drive purchase of their console, 2) that sweeeeet MTX money from CoD and King.

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They could grow by making more games that sell well. More offshoot studios so they can have more parallel production.

If the ONLY way they can grow is to consolidate, then they are as big as they are going to get then. Tough titties. They have a minor duty to shareholders to turn a profit, not to grow at all costs. That's the problem with current capitalism and will lead to effective monopolies.

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Nintendo is not a competitor for MS or Sony. They operate in different spheres of gaming and Nintendo has no intention of competing with them.

Is Halo on Playstation? Of course not. MS has already said future Bethesda games (not Starfield, it has a contract) will NOT be coming to PlayStation. MS has even "lamented" that exclusivity is how you compete in current console markets.

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Competition means there's choice. Segregating titles that were once across multiple platforms (choice) into individual platforms (no choice) is anti-competitive.

I can't really break it down more than that and I thought this was obvious...

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Yes. But the duty is to put the best interests of the company first. This is ambiguous because it can mean long-term health and stability, or as is more common lately, companies have decided that short-term profits over all else.

So there is no duty to "grow at any cost". They can be profitable and stable and define that as the best interests of the company.

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It's better for competition but worse for the consumer.

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Oh you're right. I thought I read it has a contract with Sony. Must've been something else.

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Maybe he should have invested in more AI instead of buying Twitter to ban people.

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It's this. I'll do search terms and append "reddit" or "youtube" if the current list doesn't get me what I need. I'll do "site:" if it's really fucking stubborn.

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I just feel bad for people like that. They don't understand what they're missing.

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I started noticing them today and they are 80% if the troll posts I see. Surprised they aren't banned yet.

Deleting my Reddit comments was a strange experience. (kbin.social)

It wasn't the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my...

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The dozen or more subs I had on Reddit is what I miss most of leaving. I found so many map makers, item crafters, homebrew writers, and so much interesting rule debating that I lost overnight.

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Thanks! I forgot to search for battlemaps when subscribing. I hope more content gets posted on these instances. Do need to figure out why dnd content never hits my subscribed feed when I'm a member of life 2 dozen dnd channels.

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Wouldn't Apple just tell France to go fuck itself?

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I spend my work downtime the 1 day I have to be in office writing dnd campaign material to save my prep time at home.

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Nobody wants to change. It's hard and expensive. Until they have to because conditions have required it. Then they change as fast as possible to a new state that works in the new conditions so they can survive.

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Why would they do this? Debit charges can fail if got enough funds. Cc almost always goes through. The only risk is a charge back.

I would NEVER do this. CC in the US have actual consumer protection laws. Debit does not.

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Agreed. Not doing the least bit of research and choosing an edgy name makes this seem extremely amateurish.

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Didn't realize pokemmo had a mobile app.

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It still uses your paid account but with a different front end? Neat.

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The world's most powerful and largest religion has such fragile defendants.

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Isn't there already an app called kbin? It advertises itself at the bottom of kbin.social in mobile.

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