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A high-profile British judge who resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court last week has warned the city is “slowly becoming a totalitarian state”

Slowly becoming my ass…

HK is already totalitarian af.

Not that my opinion matters any more than the next person’s, but I also can’t recommend Celeste enough.

It does so many things so very right.
The pure gameplay is crisp and responsive platforming.
Like any good platfmorer it has some specific mechanics that make it unique, but every one is intuitive enough to pick up easily enough. I have heard it called something like “the hardest platformer that everyone can finish.”

And it is true. I could never finish some of the harder SMB levels but I never got too frustrated with Celeste.
And if I were, there would have been accessibility options to make the game more approachable.

But it also caters to the hardcore crowd with completely optional collectibles that are organically included into the gorgeous level design.

It is speedrunnable for those folks.

And as if that wasn’t enough to make a good platformer it also tells a heartwarming story supported by a beautiful soundtrack.

Sorry I am rambling, but Celeste is fucking awesome.

I mean wouldn’t you also much rather be bribed than blackmailed?

Ah danke, habs geändert.

As a non native speaker the honest question, why?

Whoever decided this can shove a cactus up somewhere.

Fuck you for hurting the most vulnerable;
disgusting decision by disgusting people.

That’s just wrong for the simple reason that NATO is vastly superior in any form of conventional warfare.

NATO against russia would be nothing like WW2.
It would be a one sided beating.

And russia would lose and lose fast.

But russia would still have no incentive to be the first to launch nukes, because that would change the situation from bad to total annihilation.

Like I don’t know that, like anyone doesn’t know that.

Still noone, not the winning side, and especially not the losing side has any real incentive to launch them first.
It’s basic game theory, you never choose the option that has you lose absolutely everything, even if the alternative has you lose something big (like a war, or even your life).

Even crazed dictators like Putin know this.
And not even Putin can launch a nuke on his own. Even he needs generals and engineers that all know that not only they themselves will die if they obey, also their families will die, everyone they know will die if they obey.

We will never see full scale nuclear war, because noone at all could ever want that.

But Putin benefits from rubes just letting him bully everyone around him because, boo hoo he is so crazy and scary and after so many crossed red lines the next one surely is the one that makes him suicide himself, his wife, his daughter, his country, his place in history and anyone or anything he ever valued or cared about.

Good job repeating russian propaganda.

Edit: Not that I care about internet points.
But the thought that opposing russia would lead to nuclear war is exactly what Putin wants people in the west to think to keep bullying and suppressing everyone around him.

He is bluffing though and he knows it.

He said delivering supplies to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.

He said delivering arms to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.

He said delivering tanks to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.

He said delivering planes to Ukraine was the red line.
He didn’t react when we did.

Because he can’t. He knows he would lose everything.

No steps forward…

It’s crazy how german media is only reporting on its economy being super bad rn.

It is past time for both EU and NATO to get rid of him.

It is clear that he is not an ally.

Same reason, to penalize those they want penalized.

Death threats are never nice. Never.

But dude, what did he expect?
He represents a government that openly supports the invasion of their home country and the killing, the raping and torture of their citizens by actively blockading the EU from helping Ukraine out more.
Did he really think he was a welcome guest there?

Your family must be so proud how you defend their history of fighting Nazis by defending the AfD.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Nazis committed a literal assassination of a conservative (!) politician because he was not an anti immigration Hardliner and AfD politicians visit secret meetings with said Nazis.

Get a grip, Nazi apologist loser.

Yeah all in good fun, I didn’t mean anything bad with my post.

Barely fend off?

They wouldn’t have a snowballs chance in hell against California.

Concerning the current dictator “president”, less alive would work for me as well.

Not one more € from EU funds should go to Hungary.

It is completely obvious that Orban is not an ally.

If meta joined, the users that make most fediverse content now will see their engagement drop.

That’s where you lose me again.
Why would the engagement drop if a ton more users could consume your content.

It’s not like the ratio of content creators to lurkers is any better on meta apps than here.

Btw thank you for the good faith discussion, I don’t think that would have happened at the old place.