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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a well written piece full of astute observations. I have a problem with one point, though:

The new civilizational struggle is between hard and soft*.* Don’t overthink this. Trump is not playing four-dimensional chess and trying to pry Russia from its alliance with China. American foreign policy is now oriented to whatever gets Trump’s hormones surging. He has a lifelong thing for manly virility. In the MAGA mind, Vladimir Putin codes as hard; Western Europe codes as soft. Elon Musk codes as hard; U.S.A.I.D. codes as soft. WWE is hard; universities are soft. Struggles for dominance are hard; alliances are soft.

It's not the difference between "hard" and "soft" that matters here, it's the difference between "simple" and "complex". Trump, in every conceivable way, is a simple man, and his followers find that one of his most attractive traits. He, like them, neither understands nor accepts complexity and that informs his world-view and actions.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I see trash like Fortnite not being available on Linux as an absolute win.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wenn das gelingt bin ich ehrlich überrascht. Ein kleiner Hoffnungsschimmer am Horizont.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 5 months ago

Voyager on android, im perfectly happy with it.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 5 months ago

It's getting so tiresome. Improve products? Improve service? Improve quality? Improve efficiency? Improve literally anything? Nahh, let's slap an LLM on it and see whether we can fire some people.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This will start off very slowly and become huge over time. When the EU starts construction of single markets, expect long lasting results.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

This is fantastic! I played the multilayer mod back in the day and it was always a blast.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As usual I wonder if this exchange is real. But it probably is, so... ow!

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Paywall and deleted article. I'd love to read it, but I can't.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Boohoo, their concerns are all about much stricter moderation, not exactly the direction I would like lemmy to move into. Also, they would rather write a new software instead of fixing the existing stack because they think that's easier, always a sign of software development amateurs.

So long, close the door on the way out.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

Please, build these cities! They will provide horrifying entertainment for years to come!

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