It is tragic Vietnam fell to communism, past Vietnamese would be heartbroken to see their country undermined from the inside by electric vehicles.
Will someone care about the profits of fossil fuel companies in Vietnam enough to protect them from cheap affordable EVs? It looks doubtful.
Yeah you genuinely do have to treat us like we are in a cult.
The difference between USians is at any one point how much do we realize we are trapped in a cult?
Most of the time I am self aware, most.
I mean forge is really awesome, Bungie didn’t have to give a shit like that but they did.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water
Nothing about this problem is local.
In addition, we must work to create a European Big Tech industry.
yes, but also facepalm this is still missing the point
Big Tech industry
^ taps the sign above my head
THAT is the problem, yes the US version is one of the more aggressive cancers but recognize that the US is a product of the US mindset that worships big tech.
People are running out of water for their families because a category of techbro running my country consider the power hungry datacenters powering this AI “techboom” more important than human lives.
points at the sign
It isn’t chocolate if you didn’t add a nearly lethal amount of high fructose corn syrup to it, the rest of the world are such fools lol
Why not go for a walk then friend?
If you will not listen to reason, nothing binds you here.
Halo 1 and 2 are great, but hands down along every metric Halo 3 is better!
I get it, I LOVED Halo 1 too, I just think Bungie pulled out all of the stops for Halo 3.
Definitely Halo 1 had incredible vibe to it to, it is a gorgeous game in every meaning of the word.
So now, I’m actively stepping away from the online and want you encourage you to do it too! I’ve started to read a physical book, ask more people questions forget my phone more often, and take a better look at the world around me, and things are so much more quieter!n
Good for you, take care of yourself but do not waste my time implying this space is hollow simply because it is digital, that is nonsense.
We’re actually becoming a world of isolated people falling into particular funnels that shape us. Break free now and do something afk that scares you. Put your phone down, leave it at home when you go out, ask a stranger for directions.
Ok, having an intellectual conversation here about a difficult topic I care about scares me. I must cite my sources and respond honestly to genuine criticism in a way I don’t have to elsewhere especially in person.
Go for more walks in the woods, sure, but don’t categorically bash digital communities fighting back against the brutality of the day in the process, it is intellectually lazy.
No, spend more time here, find a way to levitate your discussions here so they are heartfelt and meaningful, let an initial mindless scroll give way to a genuine sense of an online community of good (hilariously funny btw) people we are trying to foster together, add your fuel to the fire.
I for one keep finding my way back to the fediverse because the precision of thought I leave quality conversations here with I can’t get anywhere else in the world consistently enough, ESPECIALLY in physical analog socialization. That isn’t hyperbole, it is a simple near daily observation I make like the observation that coffee smells amazing or mornings are peaceful.
Halo 3 is hands down one of the best games ever made.
Unquestionably the best console shooter ever made, indisputably the best splitcreen co-op and multiplayer game ever made.
I understand pc gamers or people who didn’t grow up with an xbox might find those statements in their expansiveness hard to accept, no halo 3 was fun but it wasn’t that good though… to which the only correct answer is yes it is.
This machine resulted in the unnecessary deaths of countless Ukrainians, the businesses and more importantly the people responsible should be criminally charged or punished through economic sanctions to the highest degree possible full stop.
Historians will write about a willfully indulged fantasy that howitzers were obsolete during this war that resulted in a stalemate occurring where Russia could not win despite its massive artillery advantage at the outset and up until recently Ukraine was specifically not being supplied anywhere enough artillery ammunition for some reason…
This needs to be investigated from many different angles and this isn’t some Russian conspiracy, I am sure there is that involved don’t get me wrong but no this was a much more base desire to profit off of war while holding the means to decisively stop said war at bay from a country of people trying to defend themselves. Also throw in a heap of techbro idiots who represent a long tradition of fools who are smart at things that aren’t war (or even logistics?) believing they have found the secret to fundamentally change the basics of armored combined arms warfare that has been shown to be brutally effective over and over again throughout the 20th and 21st century… and you get a very disturbing picture.
155mm howitizers are not a new technology, but the west seems to have magically remembered all of a sudden how important they are… after Ukraine already figured out how to produce it themselves with a minimal amount of help from a country or two like Denmark (thank goodness they did!).
Hold the people that enabled this accountable, it is vitally important to the security of your homes and to an internationally shared desire (clearly not by the leaders in power, but decisively by the obvious expressed desire of normal people all over the planet) for peace rather than war.
Wow protestors these days will stoop to the level of wisely putting pressure on major companies supporting genocide?!?
First property damage and now this??
clutches plastic pearls
This photo is about wealth inequality too.
Wait I thought stock buybacks and hollowing out all our dedicated talent didn’t have consequences?
Yes, I am sorry but as someone who knows geomorphology I struggle to see this as manslaughter and not as outright mass murder caused by a passion of extreme willful ignorance.