Pixel art is just a stylistic choice. Development of such textures is usually more accessible, but not necessarily easier. There’s a real art to making pixel art look good.

Like, does this look bad or lazy to you?

If so I strongly recommend trying to make some pixel art yourself, you’ll quickly find it’s not all that easy.

He doesn’t want to strategically brake so he can go faster elsewhere, he just wants to go as fast as possible regardless.

Yes.

It’s okay to be wrong.

Poor Olympian was the only one not invited to the orgy apparently.

Not sure what point you’re making exactly? The Umayyads colonised/conquered Iberia and drove the christian Visigoths out, and after some centuries the christian kingdoms reconquered/colonised the land and drove the muslims of Al-Andalus out.

Not sure I’d really call either colonialism rather than conquest tbh.

That’s certainly a more accurate way of putting it, yes.

That’s not what they’re referring to, they’re saying TPU wasn’t founded to peddle covid conspiracies because the pandemic wouldn’t start for another 8 years.

The WERO app is optional, you can also pay through your own banks app. If that supports a degoogled phone, then you should be good either way.

And they’re never going to correctly identify the problem if they’re analysing it as a national issue, rather than a bunch of local issues in a trenchcoat.

It’s clear that there must be a supply issue, as there is an observed reduced availability in homes, driving up prices. But it’s hard to spot in nationally averaged data, as these are local shortages, not national ones. The capitalisation of the economy demands a centralisation of labour, meaning people move from rural to urban areas. Similarly, there are some urban areas facing population flight due to the closure of key industries, meaning people move out to where their income is. And then there’s the matter of immigrants, who tend to stick around in progressive cities where they are both welcome and can get a job.

This is also why Covid had such a high impact on housing prices: mostly rural businesses went under, whereas urban businesses in high-density areas were more easily able to keep sufficient customers, or could rely on subsidies provided by richer cities. This too shifts the demand for labour from rural areas to denser urban areas.

The availability of credit is an accelerator of rising prices, not a direct cause. In a buyer’s market, supply is plenty so there’s no need to overbid as you can easily buy a similarly priced (or even cheaper) home nearby. But as anyone who’s looking for a home will tell you: that’s not available at the moment. So they have to overbid to get anywhere, and prices rise faster because that credit is available to do so.

In a nutshell, available houses aren’t where the demand needs them to be, ergo there are local supply issues. Building more homes in economically attractive areas would cool off prices.

Let’s get Clinton back. It’s her turn!

IIRC they found that even with balanced training data facial recognition models just do worse on darker-skinned people. Something about cameras picking up less contrast on the skin, meaning there are fewer easily-identifiable facial features it can pick up from an image.

If they’re incompetent it’s just going to be a humiliation in the courtroom. They’d have to replace judges as well.

That would make more sense if we also counted in base 12 in general, which we don’t.

Sure, but it’s a bit of a jump to “he tried to secretly dose Melinda with antibiotics to treat the STDs he gave her from screwing underage Russian girls”.

Doubt, sure. Those files should definitely be investigated further. But I don’t think we’ve seen very concrete evidence yet, have we?

This article doesn’t seem to claim that, do you have a link?

This is a draft email from Epstein to himself. We don’t have the actual emails that prove any of this.

If you look at just about any country anywhere, you’ll find that party membership does not really correlate with election success, but rather with more radical beliefs or activism. The national election results of the CPRF had been on a downward trend well before the war broke out as well. Their membership may have increased, but electorally they lost about 70% support. Even in wartime that’s hard to ignore.

I also don’t think you’ve been paying attention to what the propaganda efforts of the Kremlin have been putting out. As a result, you have cause and effect reversed. They’ve been boosting national pride through the “great history of Russia”, which inevitably means highlighting the Soviet Union and the great patriotic war. But the Soviet sympathies created through it are a side-effect of this.

This also explains why polling suggests that sympathies for the Soviet Union mostly (not fully) consist of cultural and military pride. Yet sympathies for the Soviet economic system is low in comparison. It’s also heavily influenced by current geopolitics. Ukraine used to be the most pro-communist member state, but these days the majority no longer regrets its dissolution. In East-Germany, there’s a significant chunk of people who believe life was better in the GDR, yet that effectively translates into nationalist support for parties like the AfD (who of course are fascist, not communist). In Hungary, a large majority believe they were better off under communism than they are now, yet a large majority of 70% supports the move to a market economy. Uzbeks believe the Soviet government better responded to their needs, yet only a tiny minority believe life was actually better in the USSR.

But this is all largely besides the original point, which is that the graphic showing the Soviet referendum results is used in a misleading narrative that suggests people did not want the Soviet Union to dissolve, as that wasn’t on the ballot and subsequent referendum results showed overwhelming support for independence and dissolution. And as election results in former Soviet states prove, support for a return to communism or a more socialist system is fairly low, despite a complicated nostalgia for the Soviet Union in some member states.

Party membership is a bad indicator for national popularity, as evidenced by the historically bad election result that followed the first article you linked.

The second article does not have anything to do with the popularity of the party.

The third article contradicts the sentiment you express in your own paragraph; you suggest the Russian government is taking advantage of rising Soviet sympathies, as if it’s “just happening”. But as your article explains, those Soviet sympathies are being expressly fuelled and created by the Russian government, as part of their propaganda efforts to promote the great patriotic war (which Putin now claims they’re in another one of course, fighting the west). It’s artificial, not natural.