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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
It's wild that you got downvoted for this reasonable take. Right next door, Ireland had a little problem with potatoes and a massive famine resulted from it. Had the island had a more diverse mix of crops, things probably would've
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Pretty much everyone on earth is proud of their home area. I've never really been to a place where people didn't describe their home as one of the most beautiful places on earth. Earth has a lot of nice places. The flatness of Ind
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
People here on HN complain about tech companies losing their charm and they're giving up and switching to another OS/phone/whatever, and get very upset because (company) is losing their character and everything that made them
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
People are beyond sick of the corporate soulless overhauls of things people like. Millennials and zoomers talk pretty often about McDonald's and other chains losing the "fun" atmosphere they had decades ago and looking like s
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
A lot of those countries with water scarcity are oil rich. A lot of those countries that don't have water scarcity are oil poor. Seems one forward step would be for countries that have an abundant source of alternative fuel to go for i
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
> CEO won’t go to jail, but they’ll spend the rest of their lives fighting shareholder lawsuits. One important lesson to be learned from the past 20 years: if you're sued, don't go to court. If you're dragged to court, say
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
There are countries that let people do fentanyl out in the middle of the road because they're unable to enforce basic laws. Then there are countries that give people the death penalty for having a few grams of a common herb. Whether la
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
We're at a point where people would be glad to starve if they think it pissed someone else off.
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
I can understand stripping them of the right temporarily while in prison. That's the time in which they pay their debt to society for the harm they're convicted of. Some rights are restricted during that period. But once it's
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
I very much expect companies to make 10 million dollar "campaign donations" to avoid the visa processing fees. Impossible for small companies to afford, but if you have 1000+ H1Bs in your company, it's a bargain.
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Yep. It's the same reason those tiny oil countries in the Arab Gulf are popular. You can work a few years to save big and go home. There's a underclass of slaves below you that keep the country running, but if you're not a sl
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Yep. Historically, some of the hardest stuff to find are the things that were common and people assumed would always be available and known.
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
I had a similar experience. I tried Blender for 10 minutes and the UI was unintuitive and just awful. Completely backwards from everything else. A few years later, someone said I should try it again. It's finally good. And they were ri
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Sure. Let's ignore the country with the biggest source of immigrants to the US and largest modern cultural and demographic influence. We can move the goalpost and go with those examples. When was the last time 250 representatives visit
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Korea, Japan, UK, Mexico, Canada, etc all are tightly entwined with the US and its culture. The first 3 had major roles in opposing the USSR. Politicians aren't taking trips to any of those countries en masse. Nobody is having their vi
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Still a strangely high number. Imagine 250 representatives all going to a country with a similar population. It'd be mighty strange if 250 representatives from across the US went to Kyrgyzstan. Frankly, I'd find it strange if 250
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
I'm an American who's been living outside the US for a very long time. I always check where food is from at the grocery store before I buy it. Whenever possible, the US is one of a few countries where I avoid almost all ingredient
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
In the 2020s, subscriptions don't preclude showing ads. Companies will milk money in as many ways as they can
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
American mindset. In some countries it's just provided to everyone equally. And no, we don't have the wait times Americans are afraid of. I can visit a doctor the same day and get treatment. My friends back in the US are desperate
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
And then you visit nearly any museum in Europe, and walls are absolutely covered in paintings with almost none of the wall itself visible and most of the paintings not even behind any sort of glass. It's kind of funny.
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
With movies, I feel like that's a bit of return to form. I know lots of older greats were around 2-3 hours in length, and I feel like things moved to 90 minutes basically overnight around the 2000s. Though I feel like a lot of long rec
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
> Well... given you're comparing to China... regulations and approvals have a point. China just openly sharts on nature, the environment These ones aren't really accurate in this century. China is making massive gains in clean
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Most of the time aspect comes from excessive regulations and approvals and always, always giving jobs to the lowest bidding contractor. The lowest bidder is always the most expensive, and they always waste time far beyond schedule to burn m
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Most planes and trains in Asia don't have chargers. Maybe your country does. Your country is not the norm. Places that do have chargers are swarmed by people with tiny batteries desperately trying to charge up. And those charging spots
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
I travel internationally pretty often. I also use my phone as a GPS when driving. Both cases have resulted in me having my battery at under 10% and desperately hoping I have enough power to get to where I need to go. And always having a ch
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
I don't think people fear what the media will do to them. People have rational fears about what some governments can do to them, and some governments are very eager to show their willingness to ruin people's lives. People became a
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
It's pretty strange how the floodgates opened in 2025 and seemingly every government decided to try this to some extent in unison. I wonder what their real reason is for this and how much governments discussed this together.
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Nearly every authoritarian country starts with people promising good things. A lot also start with rebels fighting against a group that led a massacre. They're underdog groups with popular support. Then those underdogs take over. They
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
I'm working with a friend on a project and desperately trying to sway him away from Unreal. His reason for wanting to use it is because he can build the engine from source and modify it any way he wants (and he intends to attempt just
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by forgotoldacc 1y ago
Whether he wins or loses is irrelevant. This administration has a track record of ignoring judgements they don't like and facing zero consequences.

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