I fear for the near future. Hell I fear for the present.

Yep because in the end you‘ll believe in something regardless and that something is whatever sits right with you more often than not.

Italy is the host and she represents Italy. I guess she‘ll also aid her colleague when things get uncomfortable. Her colleague being Vance of course.

No. Not necessarily but the internet will become worse nonetheless.

I read it more carefully and you are right. The title is actually wrong as I have mentioned in the edit. Thank you anyway.

Not being able to criticize leaders that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against is bonkers and simple censorship.

EDIT: After reading the official announcement thoroughly, I have to say the title seems… wrong? There are very specific things that are not allowed, some of which I can agree with. Others however, I do not.

Of course it’s not just Japan but this is about Anime. It’s the best 2D animation the world has to offer right now so the loss in quality will be felt. It’s also not just about AI. The corporate space simply does not value creative work other than finding creative ways to raise quarterly profits and that has become increasingly obvious in Japan were many of us thought things would be at least a little different. Nope. Same shit as Disney, just delayed slightly.

Saudi Arabia is humanities dumbest prank.

Japan is speedrunning destroying a world renowned industry. The scandals about corporations mistreating artists are piling up at this point. A true shame but what else do we expect from late stage capitalism?

I hate to be the bearer of unpopular takes but it’s likely a sign of a shrinking economy. That‘s something that won‘t convince any voters at the moment.

Japanese patent law is so bonkers I am almost surprised there isn‘t far more patent trolling going on. I say almost because it‘s also a monopolistic dystopia and huge companies would ruin your life with an army of lawyers and the full support of the public if you annoy them.

Being the president of the EU commission is a direct consequence of being caught the last time. This time they might promote her to empress or something.

Absolutely. Someone will always disagree and that‘s a good thing, actually. Bubbles are just as if not more problematic than the disagreeing „troll“. Sometimes there are reasons to play devil‘s advocate and sometimes you just bring up concerns that you‘d like to be eliminated.

I remember when I was part of a tiny minority bringing up concerns over Elon Musk and let me tell you the pushback and ridicule I received IRL was even worse than discourse online at the time. It took a long time until someone came up to me and actually admitted that I was right about Musk the entire time. I just failed to bring my point across earlier because they were better at debating but I like to think I sped up their process of becoming disillusioned about tech billionaires a little bit.

There‘s also a case where I got temporarily banned from a community I was very active in and labelled as a „right wing troll“ when almost every comment I made on Lemmy pointed to the opposite. A moderator probably had a bad day, read a comment they disagreed with and let the hammer fall down before even doing as little as to check my post history. Not much harm done I guess but man we should learn to embrace other opinions a little more.

They are useful when someone works late shifts and wants something proper at like 12pm when every kitchen worker has long gone home. They usually offer a more limited menu but it‘s honestly a neat idea.

These have been in use in German cantinas for a while as well. Usually inside hospitals or larger office spaces.

Corruption is how she got this position in the first place. Merkel literally promoted her out of German politics for this kind of misbehavior. That in mind I for one welcome our new galactic empress! /s

I don‘t think it even should be a choice. If Ukraine falls we‘ll have a lot more problems on the continent and have to prepare for further Russian expansion as well as Chinese aggression. It‘s just not worth to give up Ukraine because we‘ll get nothing in return in the long run. Evil is evil and what they‘re doing to Ukraine, they‘d to to everyone else.

The North Sea is possibly the most profitable place on the globe to run a windfarm. Everyone wants a piece of that so think very carefully before considering any offer from anyone. Especially when it‘s an authoritarian regime that seeks to expand it’s borders with military force. If you need investors I am sure there are plenty options to choose from that won‘t put you in a pickle.

Their original plan was to have eternal peace after world domination and genociding away all other cultures. Many wars was really never the plan although in reality that would‘ve looked very different of course. You can‘t force a world order under one fascist regime for very long. People would have revolted constantly and the Nazis would‘ve tried to answer in the only way they knew how until the whole thing collapsed. It was doomed to fail but the plan really was long lasting peace after the one war, not endless wars.

Bridges, roads and even schools (offering shelter and food for masses) are essential for defense though. It‘s part of the so called „erweiterter Sicherheitsbegriff“.