Piracy is irrelevant in this case since games that can be pirated aren’t games that have the kind of server reliance kill switch that SKG seeks to eliminate.

By Wikipedias count there are presently 51 on-going national emergencies in USA, 19 of them have been declared by Trump.

The oldest still active one was made by Carter in 1979, it’s a sanction on Iran.

Not having any form of national ID really does lead to some goofy shit when you need to positivly identify people.

Any US company that wants to could setup mining operations in greenland today, Denmark/Greenland would happily welcome the development.

The reason the USA wants to seize greenland is because it foresees a future where it is no longer allied with Europe, so in order to secure the resources and military access in the long term they are annexing it now since Europe is entirely incapable of stopping them at present, both politically and militarily.

People are gonna start falling out of windows in the US real soon.

Why have all these “x-point plan” been so horrifically poorly written?

14 A is a sentence fragment that has no meaning.

5 B, Does not restrict Ukraine from continuing the war to reclaim it’s territory since the occupied areas are not “Russian territory” and it simultaneously states that if Russia militarily opposes that recapture it would trigger the security guarantees and enter NATO into war with Russia.

18, “as soon as possible” is such a cliche contract trap, just write 6 months and there wont be any arguing.

It’s like a child wrote it, but this is being presented in a serious international forum. The original one from Russia and Europe’s modification thereof were also just absolute garbage.

Seems they did bring a poet.

The overwhelming majority of consumers will never install an OS on a system.

They will only ever use the OS that came pre-installed.

GoG does actually explicitly state that you own the games bought on the platform, though who knows how well that holds in a strictly legal sense.

At first this map seemed perfectly fine to me, but the more I look the weirder it gets.

• The projection used (Mollweide?) distorts the hell out of Europe, Iceland is practically a smear.
• Thailand is gone.
• Crimea seems missing.
• Is Japan a bit shrunk?
• They must have screwed up mounting Africa because the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are WAY too big

Supporting a harmful entity just because they are in a conflict with someone worse is not a responsible thing to do.

Why would you support either?

Worked pretty well for turkey, they shot down 2 russian fighter jets, resulting in the death of 1 pilot. Russia did not violate their airspace again.

The problem they’re faced with is a drug epidemic and the solution they come up with is mass murder.

Obviously very sane and rational.

NO, there has to be a good guy who only does good things and a bad guy who only does bad things!

–Lemmy

The thretened tariffs arent on Russia, since as you point out there is little trade between USA and Russia it would be innefective in swaying the kremlin. These tariffs are instead being put on countries that trade with Russia like China, India, Brazil etc, with the hope that those countries will put pressure on Russia by proxy.

You’re gonna need to come up with a better example, when covid hit a and fewer people where buying plane tickets there where a lot fewer planes in the air. Companies usually want to be as cost effective as possible, meaning they will do the least amount of work needed to still get their customers money.

One big problem that regulation can tackle is that corporations seek to externalize as much of their costs as they can, which means the corporation won’t have to pay for the externalized cost, so they can sell their good/service cheaper, so consumption of the product increases, leading to an outsized environmental/societal cost compared to the cost of the product.

Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable

Straight fucking lie, the ones liable are the uploader and the host, which after official support ends is no longer the rights holders.

The type of verification depends on the country and some don’t have any verification at signing. I’m Swedish and when I signed I just filled out a form, no checks of any kind.

That this is how the us gets a national registry is so hilariously fitting.