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  • Well, but that’s impossible. In China, he won’t have any freedom. He needs to stay in the United States where he can pursue research into biology and medic- door bang

    shouts of military police

    repeated gunfire

    screams of terrified research assistants

    confused orders from multiple officers at once

    more gunfire

    moaning from injured civilians

    more gunfire

    radio chatter from officers

    “Yeah, they were armed. Looks like syringes and a bunson burner. Yes. All illegal. Yes, we’re cleaning up now. No need to report this up the chain, they already know. Signing out.”





  • Because it increased by over 3%?

    Part of the jump at least appears to be explained by Valve correcting again the Steam China numbers. Month over month they report a 31.85% drop to the Simplified Chinese language use and English use increasing by 16.82% to 39.09%. Other languages also showed gains amid the massive decline in Simplified Chinese use.

    So it wasn’t a major jump in usage, just a re-weighting of accounts by real active usage.

    That’s still much better than several years ago in the pre-Steam-Deck days when Steam on Linux was at around 1%.

    And a heavy amount of Linux use is just Steam Deck console adoption. So, not nearly as much a cut-over from Windows to Linux as a cutover from XBox/PS5 to Steam Deck.






  • I struggle to imagine JK Rowling resisting the rise of the Nazis if she was a prominent figure during that time

    Very easy to imagine Rowling as a British Nationalist who would say we need to kill all the Nazis and then say we need to kill all the Russians and Kenyans and Indian nationalists and anyone else who crosses the UK.

    I could see her doing the “Hilter and Gandhi both need to die” speech.

    She’s a British supremacist. The only people who get to do fascism are the ones working out of an office in London.



  • I can oppose both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the US/Israel war on Iran.

    Two enormous armies in a proxy war on foreign soil is nightmarish for the people forced to endure. All so that the Pentagon and the Russian MOD can have a dick swinging contest without touching tips.

    But there’s this insane Westoid reasoning that says Total War is fine when we do it. It only becomes a crime when anyone else cribs from our notebooks.







  • Japan, one of the world’s largest gas importers, on Friday said it would expand the use of less-efficient coal power plants, as it tries to diversify its generation capabilities. In Bangladesh and India, coal plants are already shouldering the burden of shortfalls elsewhere.

    Even in Europe, where plenty of dirty power has been phased out, the Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic could all see more coal use if gas prices remain high. Germany is considering reactivating mothballed coal-fired plants as a way to curb electricity prices.

    Coal is one of the most expensive per-kwh sources of energy in the modern day. It’s primary appeals are density and reliability - you can generate an enormous amount of electricity for a relatively small geographic footprint and regulate it based on fossil fuel inputs more easily than solar/wind.

    Even then, we’ve phased out a lot of the old coal mining operations, thanks to the post-COVID price crash. This is a distressing turn as a stopgap measure, but it is also an economic shock that’s going to force people away from fossil fuels in the aggregate that much sooner over the long term.

    After all, the Straight of Hormuz isn’t the only international energy choke point. And coal supply trains can run as long as their LNG/petroleum peers.