They’re a direct competitor to one of microsoft’s products, and a better one at that.

Only for the us in this case. The us isn’t even the money maker for tiktok.

There was a shitty f2p MMO called GunZ online once upon a time. It was so badly programmed that glitches literally became the primary gameplay loop.

I loved it. For those few that could get into it, it was a unique heaven of fps and fighting game that filled a void an over caffeinated teen with nothing but hyper focus and time didn’t know they had.

Also just ridiculously horny people.

What do you think the US has been doing in yemen for the last twenty years?

There hasn’t been a week in the last twenty years where US bombs haven’t killed yemeni civilians.

The US wastes a few hundred million shooting down a few hundred dollars worth of missiles and drones, the us then wastes a few hundred million bombing yemeni civilians, increasing the number of houthis and encouraging monetary support to be given to the houthis.

They’ve been playing the US for over a decade and have learned from all the dozens of other people that have militarily beat the US how exactly to do it.

So just another day?

If you’re in a civilized part of the world, see a doctor.

If you’re in the US or other failed state without medical facilities: is the area cyanotic or discoloured in any way? If not and you still have some sensation is there any obvious things still pinching the area, like a poorly fitting belt? If not and it’s really been two days but you still have full function (i.e. you can fully extend toes, your ankle range of motion isn’t reduced, you can walk pretty much at all) then you have a pinched nerve and it’s fine but you need to find a solution to sleeping to restore full sensation eventually.

If your foots discoloured and/or you’ve lost function for two days, congrats. You get to go find medical help or take a hacksaw to your foot in a week when it really starts rotting.

In the US, at least, nearly all corporations digitized around the late nineties while buying into personality test nonsense.

At this time the screening was more simple than it was today, keyword searches and yes/no personality decisions that eliminated over 90% of applicants.

Now with LLMs they can eliminate nearly all applicants, giving them more legal justification to request visas or outsource.

Given every report has been corrected lower for the last 8 years, this might mean we’re reaching a true net negative.

Global depression is a way to fight climate change I guess.

We’ve been in a recession.

That’s aquamarine.

It matters to pirates. China isn’t worried about a war with the US. Let’s face it the US is gone in a decade at most.

China is worried about transporting goods over sea from their belt and road allies using routes that pass by nations famous for naval piracy… Something currently kept in check by us patrols. If the US does start divesting one way or another from its navy, nations will need to guard their own ships from piracy, and that’s China’s clear goal with their entire naval forces.

That’s great and all, but your criticism needs to be redirected at yourself. Gay people aren’t gods. Neither are Jews. Neither are disabled people.

They are not ubermensch to which we should sacrifice our children to unwillingly.

They are not special. No one is.

If your cause is great you’ll have no problem finding volunteers for your war. If not the cause wasn’t that great. You don’t get to tell others how they should die or what they should fight for. The right of life and death over themselves is the only true right that humans have, and violating that right is the most evil thing; whether it is murder, genocide, or conscription ending in either.

Nazis are awful, they deserve to die. I’ll probably die fighting them based on my class and characteristics. But forcing someone in front of their bullets for my life would make me as evil as they are.

No, I value freedom over something as stupid as a country. If the country is worth defending, people will volunteer.

Kidnapping them and sending them to their death is pure evil regardless of the reason. There is no justification. If your country does that, it deserves and needs to be wiped off the face of the planet.

It’s not naive to value human life over a nation.

Ripping apart a baby to bring the rain is a bad thing regardless of whether or not it rains. Kidnapping kids under threat of decades of torture and telling them to kill or be killed is bad regardless of whether or not it stops the Nazis.

Forced conscription is a crime on the level of genocide, because often that’s what results.

And they were still bad for doing that.

He’s the president and it was an official act. That’s the end of any lawsuit against him; the movant isn’t even legally allowed to question the motive of the president, so if the president says it was an act of office and uses the tools of the office, he’s completely immune.

It’s the same reason Biden can’t be sued or criminally charged for anything done during his time as president by anyone.

It did for a few hundred years before they became a vassal state of the US … and wouldn’t you know it the US is also in a birth rate crisis.

Isolationist culture is fine, you just can’t mix it with the crushing reality of capitalism and it’s negative effects on the ability of people to raise families.

And they think they’re the untouchable good guys.

If he’s taking less than minimum wage or is volunteering, or he’s working part time at minimum wage, sure. For California he has to be working less than 101hours a month at minimum wage. Which realistically an ex cop used to a six figure salary isn’t doing.