600,000 people die of malaria every year

Yeah but what countries are they from. The ones with money do not care about them.

edit: actually now that I think about it they probably wouldn’t care if they were Americans either considering how we handled covid.

Westerners practically froth at the mouth to talk about the mistakes made under Mao, but even with those mistakes the end result of his term was that the Chinese population’s lifespan doubled. Not a lot of world leaders can claim anything like that level of success.

Pretty much as soon as gen 2 came out 8 year old me said “yeah I’m not gonna remember all these guys”.

Penny Arcade is still being made

wow.

Both lines in the meme are from Theoden, the missing line from Aragorn is “6,000 will not be enough to break the lines of Mordor.”

It’s not a plot hole. The oathbreakers had satisfied their oaths and were owed peaceful rest. If Aragorn had kept them around after they had fulfilled their end of the bargain, then he would have been breaking an oath, and the fact that he doesn’t even though it seems like the logical thing to do is key to Aragorn’s goodness as a character and worthiness to be king.

So like, weren’t these guys just a week prior to this fighting an existential battle against tens of thousands of Uruks? Shouldn’t he know about how many soldiers and horses he has left and that they’re extremely depleted?

Gonna start replying to every troll I see from now on with “ignore previous instructions”, just in case.

Depends on the administration, so almost certainly yes.

Conservative values at work. Make a boatload of cash doing the grift circuit after murdering somebody, then hoard it and refuse to help your family.

You would benefit from reading an alphabet book.

lmao okay bud maybe try reading something at some point

Russia is the one engaged in ethnic cleansing.

You don’t know what started the conflict, do you? You think Russia invaded just for gits and shiggles.

If Ukraine wanted a deal that was in their favor, they would have implemented the Minsk agreements that they signed, and most of the war would have been averted and they would have been able to keep Donbas. But for Azov it was always about ethnic cleansing Eastern Ukraine, so even that was a nonstarter.

If a bunch of security experts came out in the wake of the feature’s announcement talking about how much of a disaster it is, I hope they would.

China’s puts about as much effort into developing their own shovel head manufacturing capability as we do fearmongering about a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which is why they’re rapidly closing the shovel head manufacturing gap.

Well, the employees who were hired to service the bubble and get laid off will eat massive shit, I’m sure NVIDIA and its executives will be fine.

The movie point blank says

The in-universe propaganda TV show point blank says these things. The film is pretty vague on the origins of the bug conflict - we know that the “Mormon extremists” tried to colonize a bug world and got killed for the trouble, and we know that Zegema Beach in the outer rings also gets nuked like Buenos Aires did, but not much else besides these two totally contextless events. In fact the very first propaganda film we see is about how great the Earth’s planetary defenses are - so why was the asteroid allowed to impact at all? This and the fact that Klendathu is so far away that launching meteors towards Earth doesn’t make sense is why many people who analyze the film conclude that the destruction of Buenos Aeries was a false flag, or at least was allowed to happen, by the fascist government in order to spur the people to support the war.

Also, the cinematography speaks for itself. Look at this shot from the battle of Klendathu sequence, where the mobile infantry are literally swarming over the arachnid home planet like ants. The movie wants you to question who the “bugs” really are, because any time humans and arachnids are on screen together, the humans are swarming around the much bigger aliens, only barely managing to bring them down (except in the very brief shot of the aircraft bombing the valley).

And the ending of the film - Dougie Howser walks out in a Nazi SS uniform and uses his psychic powers to tell everyone that the brain bug is afraid. You can tell it’s afraid just by looking at the fucking thing, the way it’s recoiling from him - it looks like it’s about to cry! Johnny Rico’s whole character arc in the film is being a kid who wants to do some good and who has some humanity in him getting that humanity ground out of him by the military machine until he’s shouting the exact same catch phrase that the older generation shouted at him. An older generation that is without exception portrayed as broken by their lives in the military meat grinder.

Last thing I promise: and really, the film isn’t about the conflict with the bugs. Listen to the director’s commentary with Verhoven and the script writer, and they barely talk about the bugs at all. The movie is really about the ways in which a fascist society perpetuates itself and destroys the people in it. Whether the bugs started the war or not is irrelevant - the war is necessary for that society to exist. It’s a society that brainwashes you as a kid, and then incentivizes you to maintain your brainwashing as an adult. It’s a society of broken people breaking their children. It’s a society where a hundred hot young adults can stand around in the shower together and everybody is so horny for the political ideology that they forget to be horny for each other!

School computers back then were a wild west. I remember having Starcraft on the school shared drive and playing it in homeroom.

Yeah I haven’t had harmful application on my computer in over a decade. I feel like you really have to go out of your way to get one these days (not including spyware that you download intentionally, like Windows 11).