You’ve gone really deep into the politics of hate if you want the people you claim to support to continue suffering so they’ll useful tools to be used against the people you hate.
It is good to help Palestinians, and I hope they can rebuild. But apparently the “pro-Palestinian” crowd doesn’t want that.
I wasn’t aware that they had a ball throwing mechanic in the game. Considering the context they put a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover, yeah they were just copying someone else’s shit.
No, it’s just a monster capture and battling game.
Do you really believe the similarities are coincidental? Like if Pokeman didn’t exist, they would’ve had the character on the cover look like that and would’ve had players collecting creatures with balls?
They’re obviously just ripping off someone else’s ideas.
That’s not how the law works. It’s not a thing where this company sued another company for patents and won, therefore all future lawsuits on patents automatically win. There may be some precedent about specific details in the case, but there’s no reason to assume a future judge in a future case wouldn’t rule in the same way even if this case never existed. Seems to me precedence paranoia is just some internet lawyer thing.
The strangest thing about this case is that Nintendo didn’t sue for trademark infringement or copyright. I assume Pikachu is trademarked and this company had a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover of their game. Looks like an easy win for trademark infringement, given everyone referred to it as Pokeman with guns.
I like how you think of wealth solely in terms of money. That’s just a number in a database.
There’s a lot of houses owned by boomers and the housing market is insanely expensive. When all of those houses go on the market, people might be able to afford to buy a house again. Owning a house is wealth.
Anthropic is probably just late on paying Trump the “protection money.”
Something a lot of people seemingly haven’t come to terms with is the fact that the US is a mafia state. Fraud has been decriminalized for any company that pays the vig. You have to do a lot more due diligence on any US company because they can just straight up lie to get investment. There’s no longer any consequences for lying to sucker people into investing in their companies. There wasn’t all that much before, but now there’s none.
Anthropic will pay some bribes and do as Trump wants then they will be allowed to do business with other countries again. But it’s obviously a bad idea to do business with them even after that happens.
Could you imagine finding out in 2010 from a memo that looked like this:
Sorry, we need to let go half of workforce because we’ve decided we’re not going to continue to do business with a country. There’s no reason to do so at this moment, but we just get the vibe that this country will make a real estate grifter their leader because they saw him on a reality show and mostly out of spite for half of the population of their own country.
Hindsight is 20/20. Yeah it’s super obvious now doing business with the US is a bad idea, but most of the things that are happening now would’ve been too unrealistic to put into a fictional story. Even a comedy couldn’t credibly go this far. The Colbert Report wouldn’t even suggest anything on the level of insanity we see out of the US every day. It wouldn’t get any laughs it would’ve just confused the audience.
The US is beyond a joke now, nobody could’ve saw this coming.
The two biggest famines in human history weren’t caused by droughts or natural disasters. They were caused by socialism.
Socialism was a failure. The economic policies of 1930s capitalism was also a failure.
Fortunately those aren’t the only two options. We don’t have to follow the failed systems of the past. There were successful economic policies used after WWII up until Ronald Reagan which were very successful.
Trust-busting, taxing the wealthy, and Keynesian economic policies were what led to the peak of human prosperity.
Socialism from the perspective of the working class was starvation followed by building lots of shitty tanks, followed by economic collapse. You should read history from that perspective a little more instead just reading the writings by the elites in those societies.
I live in a country where we have laws that are determined by the people we vote for. If they pass laws we don’t like we vote in someone else. Works quite well, you should try it in your country.
Right, so I wouldn’t be able to see it if I met you in person? Did you have a ring in it in the past?
There’s a saying in Jamaica: If you throw a stone at a group of pigs, the one that squeals is the one you hit.
I mention antisemitism and now you’re doing a whole lot of squealing about it.
It’s the same thing on Lemmy. Being a mod involves dealing with a bunch of bullshit that pretty much no sane person wants to do. So that role usually defaults to being done by petty weirdos that like having power over other people.
“I would like to fight you, but my hands are registered as lethal weapons…”
This is basically the plot of The Boys, except instead smashing cars they splatter people.
Where I live I think you can get these kinds of piercings at 16. And I’ve never met anyone that still have these that over age 25.
When I see these I automatically think the person is a teenager.
I understand the statement “Jews secretly control X” fits the pattern of how antisemites talk. I see many people on this site fitting that same pattern.
If it walk like a duck, and talks like a duck…
I also note there’s a broad movement to discredit any claim of antisemitism before it even happens. What’s the goal of this?
Things are often withheld from the jury. Do you have no familiarity with the legal system.
Their intent was to influence government through property damage which escalated to violence.
Do you think Israel’s intent of saving lives by destroying Hezbollah and Hamas is justified?. These organizations have weapons and kill people. Israel is destroying their weapons. Some people might get hurt or killed while they do this, but by your logic everything is justified if your intent is to destroy weapons to save lives.
If these criminal’s acts are justified because their intent was to “save lives” then the above paragraph is equally valid since it follows the same logic.
You can’t have it both ways. Either both Israel’s and this group’s acts of violence are justified or neither are justified. Which is it?
In civilized countries we vote.
I don’t want to live under the political system that you propose.
This is a property destruction was premeditated crime, and apparently while planning this crime they didn’t consider what they’d do when the cops showed up?
Come on, you have to be smarter than this. When you get to the point when you feel the need to put so much effort in defending the actions of a monster that broke a woman’s back with a sledgehammer, how do you convince yourself that you’re still on the side that cares about people’s lives?
To make matters worse this woman has been harassed because she while doing her job she had her back broken. How does this make any sense in terms of basic human decency? Because you see some imagery from a war you’re allowed to do horrible things to other people?
Kids copying a funny idea poorly. The original version was this site that tracks whether Abe Vigoda is dead:
http://isabevigodadead.com/