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  • One of the cornerstones of evil. It's funny how they keep yapping about Animal farm and 1984 when the books keep reflecting their own behavior. 'Newspeak' and ‘Some animals are more equal than others’.

  • Seeing a lot of this lately...
  • In a system where all the non-winning votes are lost in a step and not counted at the end, like the USA form of weak democracy, this becomes a valid tactic.

    It's not only the presidential vote that's like this, but ALL fucking votes. It's astonishing how weak the US system is.

  • Thoughts on AI music?

    With Suno AI making some passable music, is it welcome here?

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    Israel recalls its ambassadors from Ireland and Norway over their recognition of a Palestinian state
  • According to Norwegian news the ambassador compared it to calling the Earth flat.

    *And the Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the disputed area of ​​the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on Wednesday and called this a response to European countries' recognition of Palestine.

    • We will not even allow a statement about a Palestinian state, said Ben-Gvir.
  • What's the most complicated/complex situation you've ever been in?
  • Not me, but my friend. Had a relationship with a girl he met in an MMORPG.The girl was still living with her ex-husband and had not divorced yet. And she lived in another country across the ocean. The couple were doing therapy. My friend had hopes this would be his chance at love. How could I be a downer when he was in love.

  • Moose on the roof of a supermarket

    Three moose was seen on the roof of a supermarket. One calf is suspected fleeing the scene while the mother died jumping down, as did the last calf seen on the video.

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    nature is fucking lit @lemmy.world positiveWHAT @lemmy.world
    Mountain is fucking with motorcyclists
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    VOLA - Inside Your Fur
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    Gender information and perceived quality: An experiment with professional soccer performance

    >Whether one looks at revenue, investment or coverage, men’s sports do better than women’s. Many assume that absolute differences in quality of athletic performance are the driving force. However, the existence of stereotypes should alert us to another possibility: gender information might influence perceived quality. We perform an experiment in which 613 participants viewed clips of elite female and male soccer players. In the control group, participants evaluated unmodified videos where the gender of the players is clear to see. In the treatment group, participants evaluated the same videos but with gender obscured by blurring. Using a regression analysis, we find that participants rate men’s videos higher – but only when they know they are watching men. When blurring obscures the gender, ratings for female and male athletes do not differ. We discuss implications for research and the sports industry.

    *Full abstract

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    RED HANDED DENIAL – Father Said
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    [Critique] Skyrim is a great open world game, but what could be done differently?

    I have some points to make myself:

    Immersion

    • The map, which is a satellite/god view, rips you out of character. Paper maps keep more mystery.
    • The quest icons that it relies on should be changed for better quest directions.
    • Seeing enemies' exact health (and name) is also not great for immersion. More visual/audible damaged states is better.

    RP

    • Very few choices are made in the quests, instead one has to be in character by choosing what quests one embark on. It would be great to have some conversational options with consequences. Relations are important in RP.
    • Few people acknowledge you, to the degree you don't actually feel that you are saving anyone unlike in Oblivion. IDK if it's the voice actors or characters or that I haven't got to actively save anyone, except DLC Serana. There's that guy in the web that dies. In Oblivion there are monks fleeing towards you for help and more noticeably the knight in the Oblivion gate. I miss such moments.
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    [Reminder] Lemmy.world is defederated from Beehaw.org

    When we post to Beehaw communties the posts will become hosted exclusively on our lemmy.world instance and not interact with other instances.

    Further info: https://lemmy.world/comment/205763 https://beehaw.org/post/567170

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    microthoughts @lemmy.world positiveWHAT @lemmy.world
    So we're getting some of that denial of reality onto Lemmy

    People denying realities like anthropogenic climate change. I can respect opinions, like applying full human value to an undeveloped fetus, but the straight up denial of what is verified truth I can't even tolerate. It's false. It's lies. It's brainwashed tribalism. And they are gonna dig their tribal community hole and stew in reactionary rage and fear with their incoherent arguments whilst following their strong leaders, because gods forbid they are wrong on anything. No, truth itself is gonna bend around the word of dear leader.

    The hateful cult newspeak is also rubbing me, but the denial of reality is the killer. And the mindnumbing memes that try to outwit with one-two sentences on comprehensive subjects. Political memes are a blight upon humanity and should be banned. Thanks for reading my sour micro(?)thought!

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