j_maffe

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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Great victim blaming
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Well recently Mexico and Venezuela. The rest are forced through the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, the U.S. can penalize any foreign company that does business in Cuba.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
It is effectively an oil blockade, and it's illegal under international law. Being this pedantic about how the US justifies its actions shows zero understanding for how these things tend to be done. The purpose of a system is what it
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
As I said in my other reply to you, if it looks like a duck and act like a duck, it's a duck. Call it a de-facto blockade if you have to. Being this pedantic only serves to protect the image of a heinous crime.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Do you also not realize that starving people of life-saving resources is also illegal? https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/02/un-experts-c...
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
They can beat around the bush to pretend what is effectively a blockade to be anything but a blockade. Call it a de-facto blockade if you have to. You're using technicality as a crutch. Edit: corrected it to blockade
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
You're straight-up lying. Very shameful thing to do in defence of a heinous act. UN experts condemn US executive order imposing fuel blockade on Cuba https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/02/u
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Yeah well I hope those other parts improve as well in their conduct. We live in a non-zero sum game, after all.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
That's very funny because up until very recently there was very little competition because one nation was dominating research using talents from other countries. Consider it as a weakening of a monopoly
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
When an aggressor loses their weapons, everyone else is a winner, yes.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
I wouldn't either. But the world is a better place with I would cheer the of an academic institution to lose its lead when it has deep ties with a military that terrorizes the world.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
> America is part of the world A belligerent part of the world. I hope the US gets better in that regard.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Yes but the trajectory is in free fall. With rise of research in China we'll have a more even playing field.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
I think it's easy to blame foreign nations for issues in the local population. Would be great if Europeans take responsibility for once in their life.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Then don't reply.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Those are all great reasons. What's the need to push for yet-to-be-subtantiated fears of microplastics? What is OP fighting for? Idk, an unbiased view of reality, maybe?
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
probably also to not make feel Trump too isolated in fears he does something unfixable.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Well Airbus is doing much better than Boeing so I'm not sure what's the problem.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
> Russia has been trying to export their nationalistic totalitarianism to the EU Let's not pretend that nationalism doesn't have deep roots in Europe.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Well they did put in their contracts with the Israeli government that their services can't be used for mass surveilance which makes them slightly less evil than Google/Amazon.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Do you wanna discuss what is the reason is for like 50% of those countries being dictatorships? https://mondoweiss.net/2012/01/carter-us-backed-egyptian-dic...
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
When you're doing mass surveilance, including storing every single phone call, of a population of 6 million people, storage needs tend to pile up quite fast.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
But it's simply an economic fact that EoS will be more efficient with a task that's so easy to offload somewhere else.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
> unless a country is affected by US sanctions A list that's growing by the day lol
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
But they're only limited to 5000 keys. beyond that requires special approval, which is not given if the game is being sold more outside Steam than inside.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/valves-new-steam-revenue-shari...
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
> Valve is seeking a balance. They're demonstrably not. I'd advise you to read up on the concept of a monopoly. > They made 17 Billion in rev last year, so nearly 25 Billion went to game makers / publishers. This is 2-3
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
> Considering Steam is the launcher most people use for most games, that's a totally reasonable tack. That's exactly how you create a walled garden. You build a garden. Get people in. Then wall it up.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
> bigger organizations get more bargaining power and get better deals This is exactly how it's setup right now.
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by j_maffe 5mo ago
Of course 30% seems reasonble to you, you're not the creator of the games. It's quite confusing to me that you're endorsing the side that has an insane ROI instead of the side that is sufferring greatly to make ends meet.

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