Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

I would agree no country is perfect with regards to being completely anti-imperialist. All nation-states have an interest in building empire.

Having said that just because we live in a world that incentives competition between nation-states, that does not mean the world as is, is inevitable or eternal. Just because an ideal doesn’t exist, doesn’t mean it’s not an ideal worth striving for. Things can change and it is worth striving towards a world with better human relations.

Having said that, some examples of more positive relations do exist.

One could point to the international healthcare initiatives from Cuba as a positive example of non-imperialist relations to aspire towards.

While China is far from perfect, they have made small positive steps with the Belt and Road Initiative by offering better terms to developing countries than historical international investments initiatives such as the IMF and the World Bank. If leaders in western liberal democracies want to compete with China and offer developing countries terms with even better environmental and labor standards for mining operations or otherwise; I view that as an unmitigated win for human relations.

Unfortunately, from where I’m sitting, it seems like leaders in western liberal democracies are more interested in competing with China in military terms rather than in labor or environmental terms.

The secret is you gotta get ‘em in the freezer before they go soggy.

YSK: This is a community not a subreddit.

Counter-counter-point: Greta is a story of violence against a pretty white girl which all else being equal would normally mean big media attention in western media. But it isn’t getting much attention because it doesn’t play into the interests of the western corpo-state.

Contrast the coverage of what happened to Greta to the recent shooting of the Israeli diplomats.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=F7-V9ImpGJE

Just you wait, 11 more of those and it will be a sternly worded letter. 16 of those and they’ll receive a demerit, then they’ll really be regretting their choices. You don’t even want to know what happens if they receive 7 demerits.

The Weimar Republic was the most educated place in the world before WWII. Education certainly can help but its not a panacea.

Nintendo DMCA this project in 3… 2… [/s]

Pleonexia

2 economist walking in the woods.

Economist 1 says to economists 2: I’ll give you $100 if you let me kick you in the balls.

Economist 2 says “sure”

Then economist 1 kicks economists 2 in the balls and gives him $100.

They continue walking and see a big pile of shit.

Economist 2 says to economist 1: I’ll give you $100 if you eat that pile of shit.

Economist 1 says “sure”, eats the pile of shit and economists 2 gives economists 1 his $100 back.

They continue walking, eventually economist 2 asks “What was the point of what we just did?”

Economist 1 responds “We just increased GDP by $200.”

If you’re hot he’s hot. Let him stay.

I’m surprised no one ever tried to compile all the hacks into a single open source plugin or emulator. There are only around 400 retail games for the N64 which seems pretty manageable to have some sort of game detection ruleset for various hacks.

It seems like in recent years N64 emulation is finally improving somewhat with lower level emulation like the parallel64 core in retroarch.

Long term decompilation is the better solution regardless but it’s going to take a good amount of time to decompile all the games of significance for the N64.

I highly recommend you watch this video.

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=n3dFAK3Owtg

This is a good documentary on the “miniature garden” concept Mr. Miyamoto is referring to in the interview.

If you’re managing fleets of windows installs you should already be using some kind of autounattend.xml script for settings like Automated Winstall. More info in this video. You can also use older Windows 11 ISOs and update after setup if you’re uncomfortable with that.

Not defending the decision by Microsoft, just pointing out some workarounds that should continue to work.

As soon as the download notification is gone, the file doesn’t exist anymore.

That seems to be how Android literally works though.

Both the default network mounting options in Gnome and KDE won’t let applications access the network drive. You have to mount using SMB4k or cifutils if you want application access. I’ve not used MacOS in over a decade but that functionality works seamlessly in windows for SMB shares. It’s honestly a minor reason (among others) I went back to windows.

This is a pretty decent overview of the ideas in that book for anyone who is interested.

I’m like MAGA yet you’re the one defending a position which MAGA and the democrats agree on. Yes you’re misunderstanding the situation. History will judge us indeed.

Bye

It’s astonishing that you’d let your country burn down just to make a point. America truly doesn’t deserve Bernie.

By saying I’m just trying to “make a point” you’re only demonstrating you do not grasp the gravity of the situation. I’m willing to do what it takes to stop a genocide. After the holocaust the slogan was “never again” not “only again if its politically convenient for liberals.”

You’re willing to uncritically support your leaders because you think they’re on your side.

Just so you know, to the rest of the world, you and MAGA supporters seem identical, just repeating diferent talking points.

Well, I guess you guys need to work on your political science education over there, liberals are much closer to the far-right than leftists.