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  • The difference can be pretty staggering between games even released a short time apart. I recently got back into AC games, and while downloading them I noticed Origins is less than 25 Gb, while Odyssey is over 75 Gb. They were only released one year apart.

    I havent started Odyssey, so I cant make a comparison, but Origins is a beautiful and well running game at less than 25 Gb of data. I cant imagine Odyssey is significantly more impressive to a point where demanding 3x the data is justified, considering it runs on the same hardware. But I guess I will see soon enough








  • it doesnt mean that democratic socialists like Mamdani dont contribute anything to left-wing movements

    Yeah, thats because they are definitively left wing movements in and of themselves. Someone doesnt have to be an ML communist to be left wing, and the small tent idea that the only true leftward movement is to be ML is plain stupid. Anything that is not a conservative political movement is a left/progressive movement. ML’s nor anybody else are the arbiters of what is or is not a progressive movement. The defining feature of what is progressive is being in favor of change, which can look like many different things. It’s about being proactionary vs reactionary.

    That said, conservative political movements often change things drastically. Just look at the federal government right now. The difference is that those political movements’ arguments are rooted in conservatism, either to keep things the same or return to some imaginary point in the past. Donald Trump can do all kinds of crazy shit to fuck up the country, but he is still politically arguing in a conservative fashion, I.E. MAGA.

    That is the defining feature of what is or is not a left wing movement. Failure to understand that, and failure to not see everyone who isnt ML as some kind of enemy is why nobody wants to work with MLs. Even if MLs claim they are open to working with anyone whos goals lean in a left direction, like in this video, they cant go two sentences further without making it clear that they arent interested in compromise or further learning. “Communist or bust, and if you dont agree then youre not a real progressive” is shit-tier political messaging to 99% of people. While it may not be literally said, everyone but MLs seem to realize that is exactly who MLs are. Its baked in to just about everything the way MLs communicate

    The vast majority of people in this country dont want radical ML societal change, and it is unlikely to ever be palatable to even most progressive voters. The majority of progressives want the US to be like Sweden or Norway, not some idealization of communism that has never found fruition in the history of the world thus far. The closest anyone has gotten is China, only by virtue of not being pure ML and instead being market Leninists or whatever you want to call it. They certainly arent tossing capitalism out the window. And even with that, their economy is crashing out as we speak.

    Its fair to say that none have found real success because the global system is a ruthless capitalist system more than its the fault of the merits of ML. But, I think most people intuitively understand that any ML society is doomed to fail in the wider global system, and the wider global system isnt going to change because there is no effective means of changing it, nor is every country ever going to be on board with changing it at once (as would be necessary to contribute to the success of any individual ML countries)


  • Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is at “a 1939 moment” of “mounting urgency” in which “enemies gather, threats grow,” adding, “We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing.”

    Everything’s getting darker and creepier in the shadow of the empire.

    Nate Bear has a report out on his newsletter titled “The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities” about a new company called Skydio which “in the last few years has gone from relative obscurity to quietly become a multi-billion dollar company and the largest drone manufacturer in the US.” Bear reports that Skydio now has contracts with police departments in almost every large US city to use these Gaza-tested drones for surveillance of American civilians

    So were pivoting to “wartime footing” where the enemy is America’s own fucking citizenry. Great







  • This could also not be a serial killer thing at all, and moreso be that the nurse was drugging patients to put them out. Which is still terrible, but not the same thing as intending to kill people even if some people died by malpractice of drugging them.

    I would think if a nurse really wanted to be a serial killer and was a sole on-duty nurse there are probably slicker ways to have done so than using painkillers and sedatives that would turn up on an autopsy. Not to mention painkillers and sedatives arent really a surefire way to intentionally kill anybody, even if they can. But giving them in doses that are sure to stop someones breathing would also make them show up upon investigation quite clearly.

    Sounds like this person was not a serial killer and was just drugging people to knock them out, which isnt necessarily intentionally lethal even if it can also kill. Realistically, as a palliative care nurse (even with him drugging people) some of them probably died more generally whether he happened to have drugged them or not. When dealing with people already dying I imagine it would be harder to concretely say he killed them without having massively overdosed them

    Either way though, its certainly malpractice and people certainly died. So the verdict seems fair. He knew he was rolling the dice with their lives even if not trying to kill them