A friend of mine should be landing in LA today. He’s a cis white man though, and I think should be fine. Hopefully.
However, for anyone not cis male, white and speaks English, I wouldn’t recommend at all. There seems to be a common denominator for anyone who doesn’t fit that profile… I’m glad I visited least year before all this shit went down. I would’ve been detained for sure.
Hmmmm. I’m sure you’d also say that slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength etc.?
Humble beginnings! I hope he continues to make many more soundtracks. I loved all the music in the game. It felt so right.
Hmmmm… I prefer cold fusion and astrum.
Hey now… I’d totally take the extra 5cm. Maybe 15cm.
Particularly about the misunderstandings section.
politics and macroeconomics are not zero-sum games, however, because they do not constitute conserved systems
Or if you don’t like Wikipedia, here’s an economics website:
In a non-zero-sum game, it is possible for two parties to both benefit from a decision.
It also lists examples for each.
Zero sum games are often misunderstood and used as a vehicle of misinformation to perpetuate the lie that if you do one desirable thing, you lose the status quo.
Therefore, looking after the young and looking after the old is a non-zero sum game because you can literally do both. My best example is Australia; we have aged care and child care, with plenty of room for subsidising mining corporations.
Nah… Maybe the vast majority of what you watch but there’s so many out there spanning decades.
Astro Boy. Samurai Pizza Cats. Ergo Proxy. Ninja Scroll. Akira. Ghost in the Shell. Cowboy Bebop. Battle Angel Alita. Yowamushi Pedal.
On and on it goes…
Maybe in America, but in most other places homelessness isn’t demonised nearly as much (also America is probably the only place that will make you homeless if you get seriously ill).
I think somewhere in the Nordic states, they’ve trialled UBI in an area and I think with success.
Edit: So the results are a mixed bag, as you would expect, but generally people were much happier with UBI.
Mate, it’s not a zero sum game. You can do both.
Hmmmm. Sounds like something UBI could solve.
Yeah… Nah…
Aww… He’s like a grey Garfield
Um… I’m Australian and we just kicked out all the pro-Trump candidates. We also get to pick from a really long list of parties and even get to pick exactly who in the party we want. Voting is compulsory and because of that, voting has to be made accessible: it’s on a Saturday, you can vote early and polling stations are set up literally everywhere, even in the most remote locations.
America has more agency than a dictatorship. That’s a very low bar.
Edit: also Trump vs Xi.
One has no goal for the country except to line his own pockets and the other has very strong goals for the country (involving actually making their country an economic powerhouse).
One sees himself as a strict father of his country and the other sees himself as king.
If it was a decision between Trump and Xi, I’d pick Xi any day of the week. It’s a shit choice but I’d rather a leader than a puppet.
Yep, I’m not doubting that.
I have to say, though, my most favourite American accent is the Minnesota one. Fargo helped make it all sound very endearing. Unsure how they pronounce mirror. Perhaps it’s ‘meer’.
Because voting is not compulsory in your country so there’s no incentive to provide accessibility for people to vote.
Face it, you need a different system. Not going to happen without violence though… It’s a very sad state of affairs.
Well, transwomen are women.
Ok, ok I may have a solution that will make everyone happy: let’s all speak Esperanto! One flag for all!
https://literacytrust.org.uk/parents-and-families/adult-literacy/
https://www.prosperityforamerica.org/literacy-statistics/
These are what I found after searching literacy statistics for both nations. I haven’t gone and checked through the data but it seems that the UK has a lower illiteracy rate than the US.
Hmmmm yes but the average American reads at a grade 6 level, so I daresay UK beats USA there.
Can’t they just write an ‘AI’ to ask an artist for permission then? I’ll bet they can. It’s just that most artists will say no unless they get paid. So, their business model, based on theft, is not sustainable. Got it.