The game publishing giant EA has been taken over by the Saudi government, Saudi Arabia now owns 93.4% of EA.
LGBTQIA+ rights do not exist at all in Saudi Arabia. The penalty for homosexuality is death.
If you weren't already avoiding EA, it might be a good idea to stop buying their games.
cc @gaming
the perfect metaphor doesn't exis...
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The Danube river is so low that Nazi warships are emerging
BTW dunno if anyone said this: AI thrives on the question "If you can't tell the difference isn't it the same thing?", ignoring that we know the answer & it's a resounding "Fuck no!".
Is a fully realistic cardboard replica of a burger the same as an actual burger? Would you eat it? Would it nourish you?
We know how to deliver: Just make a real fucking burger.
We know the question is nonsense.
Maybe we should stop giving them a pass.
RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/117043270302045998
not only that: this is their only tool "Law MUST be obeyed says ECHR chief"
this is the normalisation - they need obedience but if it was "natural" then they would not need to spend so much time trying to make it the norm
_OUR_ job is to make it normal to NOT go along with their crap
(and expose it as crap - won't change their minds but there is always a floating demographic looking for external guidance as to how to behave)
PSA for everyone who has strong negative opinions on "the youth" on fatbikes / electric bicycles: go visit Sweden, here they give those kids cars registered as tractors and limited at 30kph.
For an overnight train, would you be expected to sleep in the carriages on board the ship? It's one thing staying on a train for a 30 minute daytime crossing of the Strait of Messina, but 10 hours at night on the North Sea is rather different, and I'd note that I've never been allowed to stay on the car deck of a car ferry. Indeed, back when it still ran, we were evicted from the ICE that we rode from Germany to Denmark when that boarded a ship
@quixoticgeek The constrained loading gauge is only a problem for the first train through… 😁 #omdenken
Another lovely Swedish bus stop. Little green wooden box on a stone island even with the road.
The small window to watch for the upcoming bus while still being sheltered is an excellent feature many designs lack.
#sweden #infrastructure #bus-stop
Hey UK #energy people - an organisation I’m working with has been quoted £12k to have the gas supply removed and capped after they switched to heat pumps.
Any suggestions for how they might avoid these charges?
@richardlowes.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
The EHRC's new Code of Practice comes into effect today. Here's what you need to know.
https://transactual.org.uk/know-your-rights/
Ugh. The gormless are out in force today
EU relaxes methane and carbon emission rules because (chemical) industries have trouble with polluting the planet fast enough @EUCommission #ClimateBreakdown
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/eu-relaxes-methane-and-carbon-emission-rules/4023987.article
@artemis
Darth Putin keeps saying “We don’t do propaganda so you will believe something. We do it so you will believe nothing. Then you will do nothing.”
Turns out, given a chance to do that cheaply, all other governments do the same.
Fight back against the code of practice | Good Law Project
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/fight-back-against-the-code-of-practice/
I don't usually post organisations asking for money, but this one feels worth it.
RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/117014788096780396
So...Google says they are "rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails," but I'm still going to say what I initially felt on reading this:
It's getting hard to believe that it's accidental that all these disinformation tools are being widely distributed to the general public. It feels like we are being handed a bunch of tools for ripping our social bonds to shreds & losing our own sense of reality.
Given the excitement about the new feassibility study about cross channel night trains, I've finally sat down and made a helpful flow chart for understanding if a railway project is likely to actually happen. Feel free to use it as a first line check of if a project has a snow balls chance in hell of ever reaching fruition.
