My general impression is that India are really good at scientific innovation and so on but only because the incredible inequality allows India to channel its resources so that it can be on par with other countries a fraction it’s size.

If they did the work required to lift the poor regions out of poverty, and sometimes just straight up feudalism, the country would become a proper superpower with far reaching cultural impact but right now India seem to slide further into Hindu nationalism so now it’s more of a worry for everyone else if India became another dictatorship like china.

It feels like one of those where the people that have expertise enough to name new things are not experts in naming things.

It’s nice to know that the media learned nothing from 2016 and are going to spend all their time and money fact checking the 10000 little lies trump tells every day that ultimately doesn’t matter.

Of course she doesn’t. Her voters didn’t particularly like that she killed a dog but they really hate weakness and changing her mind or regretting actions is a sign of weakness in their mind

I stand corrected. If it indexed more services it would have been the best option.

Lemmy really is just reddit with more tedious people.

This seems to be the best solution. It lets you select country and it even has all the local apps indexed.

Searching by language was locked behind a subscription which infuriated me but I guess subscribing to a service so that you can know what service you should subscribe to seems about right for 2024.

Very light weight solution but doesn’t seem to allow for selecting country so it’s probably america-centric.

Unfortunately they only seem to service English speaking countries and I am not in any of those. I guess they did smaller scope for better accuracy.

Thats what I do when I know what I want to watch but I don’t always know what I want, especially when trying to agree with a bunch of other people with different taste.

Losing your brand and website is being deplattfomed. People act like it’s a binary thing where deplattforming either needs to wipe you off the face of the earth or it was pointless. The disruption will cost him viewers because while he sets up a new base his viewers will get bored and go to watch other things.

Not everyone will get bored, but enough people will move on for it to be a real concern for Alex Jones.

Ask any creator on the internet how bad a disruption in viewership is.

People keep saying that but every time a chud gets deplatformed their numbers gets decimated. A lot follows you but not everyone and growth takes a massive hit because all the boomers finding the show on Facebook will try to go to infowars because that’s where the 2 year old video is telling you to go.

Video backlog is fucked, SEO is fucked. They can go ahead and search for Alex Jones but you only get results of him getting fucked but not where to go because the new website doesn’t have good standing yet with Google because nobody is linking to your new page.

That is always going to happen but losing the infowars brand is really bad and the cost of reestablishing a recognizable brand from basically scratch is very expensive and difficult. I would argue that losing the brand is worse for him than any other asset he has.

The families are not super money motivated. They could just accept the company in the same way OJ Simpson lost his book rights.

Accept the company as payment and put up a youtube video of the set getting burned in the parking lot. After all infowars become a wikipage debunking every single lie told on the program.

The main advantage lies have over truth is that lies does not need to mesh with other lies.

Smallsword is apparently a separate weapon from rapier and 5e listed is as a 1d6. The reason I didn’t add anything apart from crit is because most people have NPC/villager stats so there wouldn’t be any stat bonuses.

1d6 in piercing damage but hit to the guts is probably a crit so 2d6. If you are lucky you will just be very injured. If you are unlucky you will go down and start doing death saving throws.

Now they are both lifeless husks strung up in the office of an investment firm that is collecting their decomposition juices in a rusty bucket.

Holy shit, no wonder the empire is fucking dying.

So is dictatorships.