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  2. Comment on Crusader Kings III: Chapter V | Official reveal in ~games

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    Well the big reworks won't be until later in the year, so we'll both have time to recover from our recent CK3 binges :p

    Well the big reworks won't be until later in the year, so we'll both have time to recover from our recent CK3 binges :p

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Crusader Kings III: Chapter V | Official reveal in ~games

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    Announcement video for all the CK3 content for this year. Ft. Catholicism rework, building rework, trade system, playable republics and theocratic governments. I'm personally pretty excited for...

    Announcement video for all the CK3 content for this year. Ft. Catholicism rework, building rework, trade system, playable republics and theocratic governments.

    I'm personally pretty excited for the new Catholicism stuff, it seems like it has the potential to be pretty interesting.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on What's a battle that nobody knows you're fighting? in ~talk

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    The start of the quarter on my end here sadly

    The start of the quarter on my end here sadly

    4 votes

  7. Comment on Half-baked idea for metered inline image allowances in ~tildes

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    There's boobies without feet? What are you gonna say next, they don't have wings and beaks too?

    There's boobies without feet? What are you gonna say next, they don't have wings and beaks too?

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Half-baked idea for metered inline image allowances in ~tildes

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    You're funny, I know in my heart of hearts that everyone on this site who isn't me is ancient

    Young Tildans seeing this could get a warped idea about anatomy.

    You're funny, I know in my heart of hearts that everyone on this site who isn't me is ancient

    8 votes

  10. Comment on University at forty in ~talk

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    It probably depends on what field OP is interested in studying. While stem fields are probably a no, humanities schools may take OP’s story and work experience into consideration when applying....

    It probably depends on what field OP is interested in studying. While stem fields are probably a no, humanities schools may take OP’s story and work experience into consideration when applying. Social science programs are probably more variable, and might depend on OP’s math/stats skills

    6 votes

  12. Comment on Social media use linked to mixed views on democracy among US adults in ~society

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    Heavy users of social media are more likely than others to believe that leaders are listening to them and to view democratic participation as effective, according to a study conducted by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and Gallup. However, they are also less likely to think democracy is the best form of government and more likely to express views that depart from widely held democratic norms about violence and political compromise.

    These results are from a nationally representative study of more than 20,000 U.S. adults, conducted July 7-Aug. 25, 2025, that finds complex relationships between social media usage and views of U.S. democracy, even when controlling for age, income and other factors related to social media use.

  15. Comment on How China forgot Karl Marx: The Chinese economy runs on labor exploitation in ~society

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    I think this essay misses out by not discussing the urban-rural economic divide in China. While the hukou system probably wasn't discussed to make the essay more approachable for non-experts, the...

    I think this essay misses out by not discussing the urban-rural economic divide in China. While the hukou system probably wasn't discussed to make the essay more approachable for non-experts, the creation of essentially a second class of citizens who hold rural hukou seems important for the kind of argument the author is making, especially as blue-collar work is increasingly performed by rural hukou internal migrants working in the cities outside of their household registration area.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on EU hopes Hungarian election will bring end to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's blockades in ~society

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    Few EU leaders will miss Hungary's Prime ​Minister Viktor Orban if he loses an April 12 election after he blocked key policies, including vital aid to Ukraine, but they don't expect his rival - if ‌elected - to fully reverse Budapest's approach to Europe.

    Most opinion polls suggest Orban's nationalist Fidesz party, in power since 2010, could lose to Peter Magyar's centre-right Tisza party.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on The Ghost in the Shell | First promotion video in ~anime

  19. Comment on Los Angeles Metro approves major rail route expansion into West Hollywood after last-minute deal in ~transport

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    This success comes in spite of being delayed over a year by NIMBYs. For more information about the background of this vote, I suggest this video by nanbert released in the lead-up to this vote:...

    This success comes in spite of being delayed over a year by NIMBYs. For more information about the background of this vote, I suggest this video by nanbert released in the lead-up to this vote: The Nation's Future Highest Ridership Light Rail Line at Risk Over 22 NIMBYs and LA Mayor Karen Bass

    6 votes