It’s not specified but I’m pretty sure that not many Americans actually care about Thailand as an expat location, they would probably dream of something in central or South America.
Now British on the other hand… you can just vaguely point at any country that ever so happened to touch the British empire lol.
I would much rather deal with the typical American tourist than a British tourist. There’s a difference between ignorance and arrogance.
Guys its finally the year of the linux desktop
And it should be anything but GNOME
This jackass thinks he accomplished the impossible by offering up PAF as a security service and inviting people to a hotel for negotiations which everyone already knew would fail.
He also spent his entire career shanking Pakistan and pummleing it into the ground in literally every aspect which includes hundreds of assasinations, hundreds of thousands of arrests, and Infinite torture to anyone who dares to speak the truth.
Oh and he promoted himself to the lifetime FM position for hiding in a bunker while the PAF did his job for him in 2025 with the skirmish with India.
Most ludicrous crap were their comments and cries of being “neutral” while hundreds of aircraft were actively taking off and landing from their US bases lol. Someone on lemmy was even claiming that Iran shouldn’t have attacked the GCC because they were “nominally neutral” lol.
Iran did what no country has effectively done before; they kicked the American empire in the nuts.
Every country and their mom that bought into the US hegemony is suddenly facing the sharp consequences of an adversary whose original “mistake” was overthrowing its own US backed regime.
Half the UN is calling Iran daily to put on a permanent ceasfire, but now they have zero reason to after crippling the petroleum supply line for only like four and a half weeks.
The temp ceasfire expires in 2 days, and I fully expect the strait to close again for a long time as the fighting resumes.
Yeah I’ve said it many times that NTFS’s allocation algorithm is total ass, and the only reason Microsoft never bothered to make a successor FS is because SSDs eliminated the need for avoiding fragmentation.
ext4, ufs, and apple’s FSs all do a vastly superior job on HDDs, with ext4 not even beginning to fragment until you hit like 95% drive capacity.
EDIT: By far not the most, but I thought it was worth sharing
I’ll have to dig it up again but it was a video with voiceover showing how a stray dog was burying her dead pup using her only her snout.
She dug out a spot gently using her front legs without kicking the dirt back, carefully placed the dead pup gently into the hole, and then slowly buried it by pushing dirt with her snout repeatedly until the hole was filled.
The voiceover was just explaining that dogs typically dig by kicking their front legs to launch the dirt behind them, and vice versa for filling holes by turning around and kicking in the opposite direction. But for the dead pup, the dog intentionally chose to use her snout to cover the hole.
It could have been any other cheesy social media forward, but it was pretty interesting to see how a mother dog treats her dead pup with respect and visual sadness in her facial expression.
I regret opening this thread and this completly validates me using anything but my bare hands to grab door handles.
My old comment somewhere in my history was something like:
Macroeconomics on its way to ruin Microeconomics in literally every aspect
Also hilariously the first thing you learn in marketing is that having the impossible better, cheaper, and indestructible product will not guarantee you successfully sell said product.
It’s a TikTok trend, Batman
I’m too lazy to find my 3 year old comment but it went something like “AAA games are about as AAA as the mortgage bonds were in 2007”.
The era of the AAA gold standard is long gone. You no longer need a million dollar studio bankrolled by a big name publisher/console to make a groundbreaking AAA game.
Most if not all of those studios have been cost cutting for the past decade to maximize profit which is how we reached the current market of UE5 slop and DoA live service games.
There’s even an entire YouTube channel dedicated to showing how many current “AAA” titles have regressed in graphical optimization and quality from older game engines due to the lack of proper development, despite the advancement in consumer hardware.
They made it into in A button simulator lol.
I only ever played DPP and BW/2 a long time ago, but I then happend to jump to SwSh when it came out and it literally became a live joke between my sibling watching me play to see how far we could go through the battles by only mashing the A button.
I think we made it to like between the 7th and 8th gym before I had to actually change my attack/pokemon using the c-stick.
Literally what is the point of this besides inducing users into expanding their future userbase? This is like the Simpsons spoof where the army gets elementary school kids to pre-enlist.
My first ever email is my first name that I lucked out on a very big domain and aside from the showoff of looking cool, it has been utterly destroyed by spam and people with the same name putting in a dummy email for whatever form they fill out.
So unless you want your kid to have some oddly specific and famous email address, there is zero difference in just making one when you need to.
Also:
Stronger legal protection
Your data is safeguarded under Switzerland’s strict privacy laws, some of the strongest in the world.
What a joke bruh. Piratebay had better OPSEC than these fed sucking morons, and they had their servers constantly seized after the USA got involved.
Proton folds under zero pressure when they so much as so get a hint of a warrant. Don’t even jump in here with a “Privacy is not Anonymity” and “muh Swiss laws” response. They specifically advertised such capability until the government came after them, and then only changed their policy after assisting them in providing access logs and fingerprint data for that french climate activist.
They know their marketing material makes it sound much better than it really is, and they know that no one reads the fine print. Metadata not being protected is a critical difference, and it’s how a solid chunk of the NSA’s data collection schemes function.
Imagine for a moment that you started an Anti-Google campaign and happened to have a protonmail account. They could just lobby the US government to go smack Switzerland’s face, and next thing you know you’re being detained in a 5 eyes country for exercising free speech, despite them claiming to only provide such metadata to police under “criminal activity”.
Wouldn’t that just be a scaled up version of Saw?
Hey at least its not Windows lol
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Anyways, the human trafficking flow is the opposite for South Asia. The oil rich nations like KSA and UAE are notorious for enslaved labor by trapping poor people trying to find work abroad with promises of a living wage and foreign national status.
Which is why their foreign abused labor is mostly Pakistani, Indian, and Sri Lankan.
Pakistan is also so ridiculously starved of international tourism that foreigners have trouble trying to pay for stuff because the locals offer too much.
Some examples:
I thought the point of using AI placeholder graphics was for mock up purposes so the level designers, writers, animators, etc. have an idea of the intended look the artist wants before the artist gets to that section and actually fills it in with their talent, or finalizes their nth edit to where they are satisfied to merge their additions.
Otherwise, why doesn’t everyone just use the purple/black missing texture map everywhere?
I’d even go so far as to assume the artist threw his scratch sketches at an AI and told it to make the mockups so the rest of the dev team doesn’t miss the general idea.
I have no idea if this is actually the case, but why would anyone go out of their way to get an AI to generate a reusable texture otherwise? It would literally be faster to just select a pre-existing option from the game engine library or even just make your own with a quick image tile + save.
That branded B52 meme but instead of blowing up Iran with an oil powered war machine, its blowing up Iran with a nuclear powered war machine.