If you are actually asking;

Because most people generally agree that a more equitable society is good, people being beholden to their employers in a relationship with an extremely lopsided power dynamic is bad etc.

But because if even filthy shitlibs agree with things like that there is no value to espousing them; you get no good-leftists points for a statement which costs you nothing to make.

But if you say the US deserved 9/11 due to it’s support for Israel, or that North Korea is actually a model state and all the reports of human rights violations are just propaganda etc. well you are clearly willing to burn all your political credibility with normies and so you must be an ardent communist and therefore worthy of respect.

In real life this effect is diminished because you are usually forced into interacting with people who sadly aren’t a fan totalitarian regimes or quite like the US and you see these people often enough that you maybe respect them and care about their opinions. So you naturally moderate your opinions so you can perceive yourself as someone they would respect in turn.

But if you live in an echo chamber, the statements which would otherwise carry a personal cost suddenly become free and still ingratiate you with you peers. And then it becomes a conception to see who can pick the position juuust within the echo chamber’s overton window but as far as possible outside the general public’s overton window.

See also: the young republicans mask off support for literal Nazism in their group chat.

I maintain that salad cream is almost the perfect condiment and can work as a substitute for either ketchup (due to it’s acidity) or mayonnaise (due to everything else in it).

(Probably not a good idea to substitute either of them when used as ingredients though)

I think the name and the original intent was for it to work as a vinegarette equivalent since it is primarily oil and vinegar, and while it does certainly work there, I will pick vinegarette over sald cream if given the option. But for anything else where you would have ketchup or mayo salad cream wins.

Valid, I got 15-20 from a Google search, but further research puts your numbers as more reasonable, I will edit the patent post.

I think it’s hard to definitely call something a bubble until it pops.

The definition of a bubble goes something along the lines of market prices exceeding the intrinsic value of the investment they represent, which may be true here?

If you want to read more about this the rough name for these companies was “the magnificent seven” a year or so ago when I last looked at this. A quick Google suggests represent about a third of the SNP 500’s value now and have a cape ratio (cyclicly adjusted price to earnings) of ~37 compared to 15-20 being normal.

Edit: the above baseline is incorrect; see sugar_in_tea’s comment for a more accurate baseline and some interesting counterpoints

I can’t find a good numerical source for the correlated risk within this group, and I suspect analyzing it is very difficult. Given they all used to be a lot more diversified in the past but now a large % of their valuation is predicated on AI historical correlation analysis probably fails. But the diagram linked here suggests it’s probably bad to put all your money in these companies. (Or even a 3rd if you are in an s&p 500 index tracker 😶)

Like, none of this definitively says this is a bubble, since if it were possible to divine that the bubble would immediately pop, but it does suggest there is a strong likelihood we are seeing a bubble.

I think they remind me a little of fox capture plan or mouse on keys, both of whom I adored a few years back.

Listening through elephant gym’s discography now, will do cover after.

Oh, and thank you for the personal recommendation; very appreciated 🙂

Love this, somehow scratches an itch I never knew I had.

Probably Vulcanus, it’s the simplest, very easy to scale up and gives you tools to make the other two near planets easier.

Very minor spoilers about what helps and why:

::: spoiler Big mining drills make fulgora easier since you deplete scrap patches at half speed, which is good because medium islands have limited scrap on them.

Artillery makes gleba easier since you can keep pentapod nests from existing in your spore cloud. :::

Imo fulgora is more interesting and I actually did it first, but I do think Vulcanus -> Fulgora -> Gleba is probably the “optimal” order for regular playthroughs.

Challenging, new boss battles for late-game players to overcome

Was Simon not enough 😨 I swear I am still getting the phase 2/3 music popping into my head randomly months later.

Jokes aside, definitely playing this on release.

I don’t even know if they do, this is possibly/probably just the government repeatedly and gleefully shooting itself in the foot.

Palestine protests themselves aren’t criminalised (despite the title), what is however is criminalised is support of the Palestine Action group.

This is because they are a proscribed as a terrorist organisation, after a couple of their members snuck onto a military base and spray painted aircraft.

This is stupid in almost every way you can look at it, it criminalises people who are innocent of everything but carrying a sign or wearing a t-shirt, it makes the government look both cruel and inept and it has (as far as I can tell) been a huge boon to the credibility of Palestine Action resulting in more people joining or at least supporting them. And finally it (makes the government appear to/reveals the government does) support a nation enacting a genocide.

As for why; the aircraft were refusing tankers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330_MRTT I assume this was done because of rumors that the RAF were refueling IDF planes bombing civilians but last I heard they use incompatible in flight fueling systems.

Various news articles suggest 7m of damage which seems a bit high for spray paint, my guess is that knowing that people with unknown intentions had unsupervised access to military aircraft they demanded the planes on be stripped and re built to check for other sabotage.

The UK terrorism laws are unfortunately defined very broadly and can apply in the case of serious damage to property, not just intent to cause death and injury https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/uk-palestine-action-ban-disturbing-misuse-uk-counter-terrorism-legislation

There was also some controversy in that PA were grouped in with organisations which meet the more common definition of terrorism https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/2/uk-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-palestine-action-as-terror-group

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I was going to say you have a static sense of what orientation you are in, e.g. you can tell standing up Vs lying on your front/back/side without relying on other senses and that feels different to the sensation of moving…

But thinking about it I guess the orientation sense is just detecting acceleration due to gravity?

More compelling than the edit, thank you for posting this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67582813

^ an article describing some of the reason Kissinger was such a vile person, including how he shares some of the responsibility for the rise of the Khmer Rouge

Apparently this was not the first serial he tried to write in this universe, which is why so many of the side characters are so fleshed out.

I remember enjoying the interlude with battery a lot.

Did you find anything else that you enjoyed in a similar way?

Exactly! find it so hard to describe though, over the course of reading the thing Taylor changes so much, the world changes so much and your understanding of the world gets so much deeper.

This makes it very hard to explain the later acts or why they were good though.

Have you read anything else that hooked you in a similar way?

I have this a lot, but the most it has happend was about 10 years ago with the webserial worm ( https://parahumans.wordpress.com/ ), I read it so much. I read it before work, I read it during lunch, I read it when I got home, I went to sleep late etc. etc.

When it was done I had forgotten what to do with my time, I wound up re-reading it again but slower at a few chapters a day rather than turning myself into a gremlin for maximal reading efficiency.

If you want a summary, it’s a superhero story, which usually really isn’t for me, but something about the tone of the writing and the way the world worked in this one made it work.

Powers are incredibly varied, but the strongest characters are the ones who know how to use their powers well, the protagonist exemplifies this, where she doesn’t get a cool flashy power but she figures out how to use it so well and adapt to each situation that she becomes terrifying.

I also liked the charactersation of the heroes and the villains, where the heroes are somewhat vain and egotistical which means they do good things when the cameras are rolling rather than being “morally good”. the villains are mostly just people on the edges of society for a mix of reasons which means they do what they want, but I think since then “The Boys” has also done something similar so the effect may be lessened.

Curious if anyone else on Lemmy has wound up reading it.

I’m not sure it’s particularly left or right leaning, there was a ban on social media, protests against the ban and the protestors were shot by armed police which sparked more protests and riots, the major grievance seems to be political corruption.

I don’t think any of ^ really slots into a traditional left/right framework, that said the more I read about Nepalese politics the more confused I become.

the corrupt government they are overthrowing is a coalition between Nepali Congress and the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist). Although prime minister Oli comes from the communist partner in the coalition despite them being the minor partner? But I have also read that they unified ml party merged with another communist party a while back?

Either way, glad to see corrupt politicians being replaced.

The letters that make up words is a common blind spot for AIs, since they are trained on strings of tokens (roughly words) they don’t have a good concept of which letters are inside those words or what order they are in.