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They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot.
  • Not really.

    The only reason there is one fewer name than expected is because of Bush, which had the father appear on the ballot four times and the son appear twice. The Bush family was a very old school political dynastic family.

    The only outlier on the Democratic side is Hillary Clinton in 2016. She used her husband's political career to help her, but they were a self made political family. You also have the case where Biden could have been on the 2016 ballot and there would be no change in the number of names.

  • Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed
  • How do you think a person who lives in the middle of nowhere, doesn't have much of an education or anything, would react if they saw someone doing this?

    Fucking liberals who want to destroy everything, just like how I've heard on the few news sources I have bombard me with propaganda all the time.

  • Why does the number of people interested in Creative Commons is way less than people interested in Open Source?
  • There isn't an inherent financial reason for contributing to Creative Commons work the way there is for Open Source.

    Major companies will contribute some development resources to Open Source software because they will get a concrete benefit and the overall effort will be cheaper than going with a closed source option. There really isn't the equivalent for Creative Commons media.

  • Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it
  • Metal and grunge still happened in a music video era.

    I think a bigger thing that happened was the collapse of the CD. From that point, the new acts that the industry seemed to focus on were individuals instead of groups.

  • Thinking the 'unthinkable': NATO wants Canada and allies to gear up for a conventional war
  • I'm not that surprised. Supplying the Ukraine War has shown that most NATO countries do not have the ability to contribute with any meaningful industrial capacity. Fixing this would require a lot of supply chain building.

  • Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam
  • It kind of does.

    You get user lock-in as users buy more games, making it so Steam is always a store to buy from. You can't deplatform from Steam. At that point, you can't replace Steam with another DRM platform to pay existing games. That creates a large customer base which becomes a must add for vending new games.

    It isn't a hard monopoly, but it helps create a soft monopoly.

  • Nintendo would "rather go in a different direction" than follow AI trend, says Miyamoto
  • There is already a lot of work in generative game design that doesn't involve AI, including a lot of procedurally generated items. There is also a lot of bad generated designs as the inputs allowed to be changed are not sufficient enough to create enough variance.

  • I'm watching DS9 for (mostly) the first time, and I have to say...
  • And it was a great early episode where Keiko and Winn had their conflict regarding the school curriculum.

    On Keiko's end, it showed that she had to look for a place on the station and that she was making sacrifices for Miles. It also showed her beliefs the lens in which Federation civilians would look at religion.

    On Winn's end, you see her use of religion for political gain by turning a nothing issue into a conflict on the station. She is acting as a bad priest, using her role mainly for political gain.

  • I'm watching DS9 for (mostly) the first time, and I have to say...
  • but she has absolutely no deference for the fact that she's married to one of the most hard working and honourable people in the whole galaxy

    I think she does, which is why she stays with him and makes make changes and sacrifices to her life to be with him. However, there is a breaking point.

    That said, I think she is a good person.

  • Has there been a depiction of fast food on a space station?

    Both B5 and DS9 had bars on station, but have and space stations have a fast food restaurant?

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    Forums are social media

    People here like to say "I don't use social media; I use forums" like there is a difference between the two. There isn't.

    Forums are places where people post and comment on user generated content, other comments themselves.

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    If the American embargo of Cuba ended, what do you think would happen to the USA and Cuba?

    This isn't meant to be a discussion on the morality of the embargo, but the affects of the embargo ending for both countries. These affects can be political, economic, or social.

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