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  • Intellectual Debate

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  • But right would also be wrong, because the torso is elongated instead of the neck.

    I suppose a giraffe centaur would be considerably shorter than either of these images suggest.

  • Viktor Orbán concedes defeat as Hungary's Tisza Party heads for election win

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  • If he was supposed to be Orban's successor, they wouldn't have had him start a new party or run a heavily pro-EU campaign. That makes no sense. You'd just have Orban step down and have the new guy take over in the next election cycle. Keeps momentum for the main party and all the installed cronies, no expectation of change from the population, no need to stir the hive. If Magyar backtracks on his promises now, you'll end up with a lot of unrest among the people, exactly what you want to avoid when planning your succession.

    Magyar's been communicating very effectively with the people for years. Opposition rallying behind the best chance at unseating an autocrat who threatens to establish indefinite single-party rule only makes sense.

  • 3 is enough. You don't need a fourth. Rotate using all 3 equally instead of spending 99% of the time on just one of them

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  • It's not entirely wrong, when your nose is clogged the clogged side does on occasion "switch" to the other nostril. When you breathe out with your nose clogged the air oftentimes does come out of only a single nostril.

  • Orban has conceded

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  • He just kicked the fascist out, try and keep up.

  • Resident Evil Requiem Denuvo DRM Fully Cracked, Making It the First 2026 Game to Have Its Copy Protection Bypassed

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  • Yes, apparently a custom hypervisor has been built that essentially allows you to bypass Denuvo on all games, but it appears that there's been good progress on removing Denuvo altogether again as well (like a more traditional crack).

  • Denuvo Games Cracked in last 30 Days (Hypervisor Bypass)

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  • ... No, Denuvo is "anti-tamper" software, meaning DRM primarily with anti-cheat as a bonus.

  • Space Honey

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  • Probably also helps with eating while lying down.

  • Rutte says some NATO allies failed US test

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  • Rutte was a terrible PM. But he's a pretty good diplomat. Which I suppose is what NATO needs atm, a diplomat to keep Trump on board, even if it means licking copious amounts of orange ass. There's no low he won't go to in order to achieve that goal. He's doing everything he can to keep Trump from dragging the US out of NATO, which I suppose kind of fits his job description.

  • A forgotten victim of OnePlus' woes is some of the best tie-in earbuds I've ever used

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  • Too bad, I own the Buds 4 and they're genuinely very nice.

  • Socially acceptable Canadian provinces & territories to name your child after

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  • Quebecky

  • Someone's cutting onions

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  • He fucked off further than anyone has ever fucked off before.

  • Valid crashout

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  • Do they taste... fowl?

  • NSFW

    What's it like to have bed games with girls in cosplay?

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  • As if these are the only two options lmao

  • China Launches New Wave of Uyghur Cultural Erasure After “Ethnic Unity Law”

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  • The law does NOT have any requirements that schools STOP educating in their ethnic language.

    That's literally the requirement in the law. You have no idea what you're talking about. There's no point in discussing the law if you don't even understand what it says.

  • China Launches New Wave of Uyghur Cultural Erasure After “Ethnic Unity Law”

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  • Bilingual education is a far cry from what the West does

    It's not bilingual education, it's Mandarin only:

    Article 15: The state is to fully promote the spread of the nation’s common language and script. Citizens’ learning and use of the nation’s common language and script must not be obstructed by any organization or individual.

    Schools and other educational institutions are to use the nation’s common language and script as the basic language and script for education and teaching. The state is to promote preschool students’ learning of Mandarin, so that youth who have completed compulsory education have a basic understanding of the nation’s common language and script.

    But you don't see Chinese newspapers in 1964/65 writing articles that say "The Civil Rights Act / Voting Rights Act is a law designed to assimilate ethnic minorities into white supremacy and eradicate them entirely", like we see here.

    The CRA doesn't include similar provisions that are being criticized in the new Chinese law.

    You don't see a right wing movement in China screaming about the poor and the browns and the islamists.

    China is not a democracy, the CPC doesn't allow any other movements to scream about anything.

    You don't see politicians running local or national narratives on the basis of fear of the other.

    They don't have to, it's an election tactic used everywhere in the world but the CPC doesn't really have to worry about elections.

    You seem to be under the strange delusion that there's zero racism, discrimination or xenophobia in China. If you want to believe that, fine, but it also tells me you never actually visited and properly spoke to the locals.

  • Huge fires at Russian oil facilities following Ukraine strikes, satellite images show

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  • Yeah but he already clarified it had to be a limp-dicked one.

  • China Launches New Wave of Uyghur Cultural Erasure After “Ethnic Unity Law”

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  • You've completely missed their point. They're saying that the words of the law are meaningless and not actual evidence. The Civil Rights Act also didn't end racism, discrimination and cultural oppression in the US.

    Who's to say that the Chinese government actually enforces this as written?

    On paper it says it promotes integration among the recognized ethnic groups, but some of the wording is much more dubious. For example, children won't receive their education in their native language anymore; they must now learn Mandarin (which is the classic tactic to erode other languages, inspired directly from the west). There's also text in there that may be used to justify breaking up certain ethnic/minority neighbourhoods.

  • italian job remake is going well

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  • It is.

  • Nazi Europe is starving two babies because their father reported on genocide

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  • Okay, you should be aware that that study you're referring to the numbers of, was done by iirc a scientist linked to a Venezuelan thinktank whose stated purpose is sanctions relief. The study itself also has some questionable methods, for example: if a country previously provided aid in some form, but then stopped, this is counted as a "sanction" and any loss of life is thus included in the figure. So suppose country A supports country B with some aid program, but then B has a violent military coup. A now stops the aid, as there are clear signs that the junta in B is seizing the resources for themselves. The potential deaths the aid could have prevented when the aid was effectively being administered are included in the calculation for a period when that aid more than likely couldn't be effectively administered. Aid programs with a limited duration are also included as "sanctions" once the programs end.

    This inflates the numbers in quite a big way. Of course it's still horrid that thousands die due to sanctions, but those numbers don't paint an accurate image (this is not to discount the entire study btw, but it's important to be aware of the nuance here).

    Then there's the question of: what is the alternative? Doing nothing at all? Declaring war? Sanctions do have an effect after all. Take apartheid South-Africa, eventually apartheid fell due to the severe economic pressure from international sanctions, spearheaded by India at the time. You'll also have to ask yourself how many more people in SA would have suffered and died if no sanctions had been instated and apartheid had been allowed to fester unopposed internationally. And this effect was never taken into account into the study either.

    Of course you could also hypothetically attribute the deaths to whatever triggered the instatement of the sanctions in the first place. If country A declares a war and gets sanctioned because of it, are the extra deaths in country A on the hands of A's government or on the international community applying sanctions?

    There's plenty of ideologically motivated sanctions, especially levied by the US, that are total bullshit and just harmful (see: Cuba). I'll always oppose those.