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Indeed, they just added two greek letters and cancelled them out so it looks more sophisticated than what they actually did. Trump and his voters will look at the formula and go "Woah, this is complicatid stuff. Liek nucular science! Covfefe!", while in reality it just expresses the trade deficit in relation to the imports. Take times 100 for the percentage value and fiddle a little to the numbers to make them look nice (the trade deficit between the US and the EU was more like 37% in 2024, but who knows which year they took their numbers from) and put them on the giant tariff sheet Trump read from to show how mean everyone else is to the United States, and you're done. I'm somewhat surprised that the more fringe MAGA elements (the conspiracy kind) is so cool with a Jew running US commerce. Weren't they the ones behind the forest fires with their space lasers and trying to the establish the New World Order? Or is Lutnick a good Jew fighting the good fight against his people? Questions, questions...

Observe, if you will, the reason why Alfred Nobel ignored economics when founding the Nobel prize: it is voodoo and crystal ball gazing. It also doesn't explain why there's a 10% minimum tariff on nations with balanced trade - or no trade at all, due to being populated by penguins. Although that's probably becuase they look better in a suit than Trump.

So, is he, like, trying to get stuffed in a box by his tech-bro handlers? 32% tariff on Taiwan. Woof.

Yeah, no, it's real. Split into several parts though, so maybe the joke will be that he'll release one part per year, for a decade.

Hey. Surprise of the decade. If you ever wondered if the world's really going to end, here's proof that it will: I don't even...

I've found something new for @bugarup:

I thought about posting this in the funny thread, but it's probably only funny to a maximum of three people in this one.

Have you tried watching the above video and looking at the animations? That just makes it so much worse. Killing it with fire might not be enough.

Woke up, checked my mail, Amazon tells me I am now subscribed to Luna+'s free trial. I certainly did not sign up, I also did not get any notifications that a new login happened or a new device was registered, which Amazon normally sends my way, plus I have 2FA active. Killed the subscription, deleted the app from my catalogue, checked my device list (everything in order) and changed my password, just to make sure. Did read that it is possible to sub to Luna+ even when you have a security PIN set up, so I guess it's technically possible that my wife clicked something on the Fire TV stick. Would be strange, but not impossible. Nothing else was ordered, so that speaks against a hacked account. I mean, out of all things, why'd anyone hijack an Amazon account just to sub to the cloud gaming service, not change the e-mail address or buy stuff that cannot be returned or cancelled (like Microsoft licence keys)? Bizarre.

There's two ways Strange New Worlds can go for someone: either you're like me and end up hating every character except Pike, that by default makes the episodes bad, and you start nitpicking, or you don't, and can enjoy the series for what it probably is, the best of the nuTrek shows. Personally, I'd rather be forced to watch A Night in Sickbay on a loop than subjecting myself to any more nuTrek TV or film dreck.

No, they're talking about the manga.

I have very fond memories of playing Raptor: Call of the Shadows, but it's been 30 years, how has the gameplay nodaways? Guess there's not overly much you can do with shoot-em-ups, controls-wise, so it probably still plays well enough. Not sure I want to replay it, it was pretty tough to beat even before 30 years of reflex and response time degredation.

Korean apparently. Anyway, dunno, what's like, your problem, man? Look at these characters, they're great.

I like coming back from making coffee or the lunchbreak to a plethora of Teams calls. If only the software would give people an indicator when someone is AFK... dunno, it could set the status to away or something. That would be something.

Eh, they also killed the G, I mean, why else would the Enola Gay entries have disappeared.

Hey, look everyone, it's the other AI bot's lost sibling. Guess they learned writing game names in italics in the meantime.

Uh, nah, never mind. No point.

Fake news!

Oh, and by the way, before anyone remarks on it: I meant no value judgement of Kingdom Come: Deliverance with my post. As I said, I never played it, and I probably never will, because everything that made the game stand out are things that I am glad modern games left behind*, and any sort of realism is not what I am looking for in a combat system. It is probably a good game that deserved its success in the same way Pretty Woman was great (presumably, at least) and wildly successful romantic comedy. I just don't like romantic comedies. *Hilariously enough, you just need to look at @Sven_'s posts about what he likes in games (sue me, I just assumed gender based on the user name being male ) to find out what I don't enjoy at all. There are things made to make a game more immersive that are dealbreakers for me. Like not having a map that properly helps with navigation. In real life, ever since the advent of affordable GPS navigation systems, I have never once thought back to the good old days of having to buy ginormous maps to plan routes well ahead of leaving home and thought: "Man, that used to be great, I should do that again." Finding places in the game world based on descriptions by characters is just something I don't care for, and in the worst case, is frustrating. The first thing I installed when playing World of Warcraft Classic was a UI mod to tell me where to go for questing. There's enough in this game to waste my time, avoiding them whenever possible is good for the experience. There's a whole bunch more that I don't like, that many players consider good game design, like NPC schedules and timed quests - basically anything that makes a game feel less like a game, and more like a simulation. I already deal with NPC schedules and timed quests almost every day in my life: it's called work. Somehow, I don't care for it in my break from reality, and I cannot understand why people would want that in their games. But that's okay. I don't really have to. De gustibus non disputandum est, after all.

I am confused. Since when is Sky News a globalist media mouthpiece? Since Murdoch stepped back at Fox News? I thought the globalist elites are the leftists. Can someone please tell me who I am supposed to dislike now. If Sky News is party of the libruhl woke agenda now, do I also need to stop watching Fox News? I... A little help? Anyone?

So, like, Waltzhisface from Groper Cleveland's entourage said that he thought Jeffrey Goldberg would be someone else when he added him. Do you guys think that might really be the case? Maybe he wanted to add Jonah and simply picked the wrong Goldberg. All them joo names be so confusingly similar. Also, Trigger warning: completely dumb, even by MTG's low standards.

So, I, like, never having played Kingdom Come: Unwoked Incline, just went and looked up Theresa, because @BruceVC has kept mentioning her for a while now. I had certain expectations going into this image search, mostly because the aforementioned poster said that Veilguard did not cater enough to the horny incel core audience of these games. Now, to make this comparison properly, here's one of these character models from Veilguard that doesn't cater to the horny incel core audience. Probably because of her rack size, but that I do not know for sure, because said poster refused to actually tell what it was about that game that made it unappealing for horny incels. This is Neve in her civilian attire, i.e. in non-combat locations. Take not of the lack of anime style giant boobies. Now, before looking up Theresa, here's what I thought I would get: That's how Neve should look, I guess, to make the incels happy? And this is Theresa, apparently. At least according to a quick googling. Imagine my surprise when Theresa turned out to be a plain country bumpkin, completely unremarkable. Normal, one might say. Certainly less catered to horny incels than Neve was. This is so confusing.

Having had some spare time at my hands I re-watched parts of the MCU and ventured bravely forth into the multiverse era, which I so far have avoided. To put it bluntly, I probably should have continued avoiding it. Alas. Films I have rewatched: The Avengers Captain America: The Winter Soldier The Avengers: Age of Ultron Captain America: Civil War Doctor Strange Avengers: Infinity War Avengers: Endgame Rewatching the films did not really change my opinions much, with two exceptions: Doctor Strange I didn't dislike as much as I did when watching it at the theater. The CGI's still terrible and the ending was and always will be utterly predictable and boring, both of which drag the film down immensely. Still, I guess not having to watch all of it at once helps with some films, right? I also disliked Endgame a lot less the second time around, but it is still so much worse than Infinity War. Still not a very enjoyable experience, but being able to ignore the extended CGI battle bonanza at the end because I already watched it once helped. Almost all of the films after The Avengers (except the Doctor Strange origin story, obviously) suffer from a lack of proper setup (watching them back to back makes this even more noticable), with Age of Ultron more or less taking the cake, being a completely incoherent mess of ideas and concepts thrown into a blender, basically the Star Trek: Into Darkness of the MCU. Civil War will always be dreck, but the film cannot really help being based on the comic storyline. Things I watched from the Multiverse: Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness Thor: Love and Thunder Plus some bits of WandaVision and Loki, but I am not finished with the series. I am somewhat willing to ignore the complete lack of sense that the Doctor Strange movie made and simply hope that the ending of WandaVision will explain what the hell happened with Wanda. If it doesn't, then that is another negative. It speaks volumes of what I think of WandaVision that I so far have not managed to finish a nine episode series. That sitcom gimmick became so old so fast that even I stopped watching and moved on (and I sat through all of Rings of Power so far). Eh. Loki's first season was fine, but it left me with no real desire to continue with season two - I'll watch that eventually though, of course, just like WandaVision. Looks like they brought Short Round to Loki, which... I guess could be a plus. Thor: Love and Thunder though, yikes. What the hell. I love surrealist reinterpretations of a series as much as the next guy (the Darin Morgan episodes of X-Files were top notch entertainment), but that just fell completely flat. The goats were fun. Everyting else? Uhm. Nope.

We have always been at war with Eastasia. Incidentially, Natalie Wynn just released a video essay on the abject state of US politics. Sort of.