angstylittlecatboy

How do you know someone prefers Winter over Summer? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

I guess I'll backpedal on "comparable," but still bigger than you have.

My instinct is to be in favor of increased European military spending because in a saner world this would reduce US military spending, but I doubt it.

Your choices are to not decouple from the US or have a comparable MIC as a collective. You don't have a comparable MIC because the US does it for you. But if you're against the Trump administration, you have to support getting one.

I won't go as far to say Europe "can't survive" without the US, but Europeans seem to think the transition away won't significantly change things and that's not realistic.

Politics, tech, and Star Trek are the only three topics on Lemmy in any significant numbers, and even tech is politics half the time. The gaming communities are mostly politics about gaming, the porn communities are mostly dead, and forget anything more specific (other than Trek of course.)

The other commenters seem to have not realized OP said "deaths" not "killings," and "public figures" not "politicians."

I don't think there's anything unique that explains the increase in celebrity deaths though. 20th century celebs be old.

But unknowingly, gently, they keep getting pulled towards a trodden path and if this goes on long enough we'll have like 10 genres to choose from and that's it.

Usually when people think in genres instead of artists, genres get more granular, so we end up with hundreds of more new words that describe minute differences. Like, look at EDM, a genre that has never really cared about individual artists. They'll consider a 5BPM difference to be a different genre.

Given all the different "microgenres" that are popping up now, usually by younger artists, I think that tracks with music today.

I guarantee you that most people who are registered as independent don't know that party exists.

Given that "independent" is supposed to mean "not registered to ANY political party," it's more fair to suggest the Independent Party change their name.

this shit was a bad tactic when the communists were doing it with Gaza and it's still bad when the liberals are doing it with Epstein.

Multiple issues matter. I don't think dismissing people's concerns about fucking school shootings helps your cause.

As someone who isn't necessarily big on the notion streamlining is "objectively" good game design... That more or less began to be disposed of the minute we had the technology, minus a few now-niche genres that rely on it. It was gradual, but mass market games as early as Zork in 1981, had save schemes.

Literally any suggestion of a type of guy who isn't a basic bro will be followed by a suggestion that they're performative within days if not hours

Thank you! This type of post reeks of the "we should dumb down our fiction for the lowest common denominator because anything else is dangerous" mindset way too common in media criticism today.

As someone who sees no problem with the image...

There is no way people would be as tolerant if this were about like, Argentina, despite the country haven fallen victim to similar politicians. Or even Japan, another rich but declining nation with dominant Conservatism. Or Italy even, which is like Japan in those aspects but mostly white.