About 20 years ago we found a true villain in France, when they dared to suggest that destroying Iraq was not a worthy response to 9/11
It was wild. Your below-average American went so far as rewriting their menus so they wouldn’t have to order “French fries” any longer. The pettiness was bottomless.
More recently the Paris accord has given these same below-average Americans angst because it dares offer introspection on the F150 lifestyle that will soon be coming to an end.
Paris is truly evil to dare challenge such mediocrity
Twitter was definitely always bad, but it's also definitely worse now. There are no adults in the room, it's obvious. I'm not sure I would describe the unique amalgamation of neo-fascists and bots that swarm every post on there now as political dissidents who finally have a crumb of a voice.
There is simply no place to discuss whether there is anything beside pregnant women, giving the space to this antiscientifical vocab in science is not a matter of discussion don't let the loonies run the asylum simple as
Lmao imagine just ignoring that Mercedes, bmw, porsche, Wolkswagen, Lotus, Mini, Audi, Skoda, Renault exist.
Even Japanese and Korean workers are getting better deals now, why would you suck the boot, specially only to let someone like Musk enjoy more soirees at Epstein's
the availibility of porn is correlated to people having less and less families, what are you talking about ?
Also the Japanese quite obviously do have porn albeit censored, no one thinks that changing that will help, if anything Japan needs to restrict acces to pron and virtualized or parasocial relationships.
While meta is quite horrible the behavior lol and what TikTok does is way way worse and specially different from what facebook twitter or Insta try to do.
saying "Windows does not officially support Vulkan" is a completely blatant cope by maclovers, nvidia and amd, the people that make the cards support it, and windows "supports" their cards, so let's stop being dishonest.
"Vulkan is not an industry standard" I mean yeah, in the same way Microsoft word is not an standard.
"except Switch, but it is so slow" again that seems to be a lie, doom eternal orks way, way better on it than it would be on similar software on a different API.
> saying "Windows does not officially support Vulkan" is a completely blatant cope by maclovers, nvidia and amd, the people that make the cards support it, and windows "supports" their cards, so let's stop being dishonest.
It is completely honest. On a fresh install of Windows, if you don't have graphics drivers, you can't run Vulkan or OpenGL. Windows washes their hands of any responsibility. You can at least run DirectX with software rendering regardless of hardware support. It is also for this reason that the locked-down Xbox where Microsoft can assert more control has zero tolerance for OpenGL or Vulkan.
> "Vulkan is not an industry standard" I mean yeah, in the same way Microsoft word is not an standard.
Microsoft Word, and the DOCX format by extension, has >90% market share. Vulkan has almost no presence on consoles, presence on less than half of smartphones in use, and mixed presence on Desktop because MacOS doesn't have it. Word is more of a standard than Vulkan.
> "except Switch, but it is so slow" again that seems to be a lie, doom eternal orks way, way better on it than it would be on similar software on a different API.
DOOM Eternal is one of the few games that uses Vulkan. >90% of Switch games do not use Vulkan, and found it preferable to use the proprietary API. That developers would overwhelmingly opt not to use Vulkan on Switch tells you all you need to know about the state of it. If adding another graphics API (such as Metal) was such a big deal, why in the world would they do it if Vulkan was cross-platform and worked fine? It doesn't work as well as it needs to - and adding another graphics API isn't as much of a blocker as we like to think.
>It is completely honest. On a fresh install of Windows, if you don't have graphics drivers, you can't run Vulkan or OpenGL. Windows washes their hands of any responsibility. You can at least run DirectX with software rendering regardless of hardware support.
DirectX with software rendering doesn't actually result in games actually being playable, unless they are 2d games that barely touch the GPU to begin with. So the software rendering fallback is completely irrelevant here, and what matters is what APIs will work when you do have the GPU drivers correctly installed. And at that point, it doesn't matter what degree of support Microsoft provides for Vulkan, only the degree to which the GPU vendor provides that support. (And the software rendering fallback actually makes it less straightforward to diagnose why a game isn't running as expected, in the case of GPU drivers not being installed. Plus, what game developer cares about the software rendering fallback enough to even test their game against it?)
So no, it's not completely honest. It's a disingenuous red herring.
why ?
I think people have the right to start a small venture, like out of all the things to hate, why would you hate people not serving megacorporations ? I am genuinely baffled and would like to know where this opinion comes from.
1. Small businesses under a certain size avoid many labor/work related laws - for example, the requirement to buy healthcare doesn't apply below 20(?) employees.
2. Small businesses almost always have actually worse support overall, but they get away with it because they can "fire" customers. Walmart has a better return policy than almost anything else in the retail world, for example, because they can eat the costs related to idiots scamming them.
3. Small businesses often get away with treating their employees worse than larger ones, because nobody is going to care of Jane's Coffee Shop stiffed a waitress on tips on Wednesday, but if it happened at a Starbucks it'd be on the national news that night.
4. Small businesses enable people and families to be relatively independent of "large control" which is absolutely not desired by certain groups.
>Caring about precedence
>On roman Law
lmao precedence of this kind would mater if this was the commonwealth but historically precedence has meant nothing in the EU
That's the thing about roman law, just because one judge decided fucking people in the ass is correct it does not mean everyone should agree. So don't use the tools for the analysis of anglo law in this.
This is more than the amount that people that lied about WDM's in the middle East were ever fined with. Consider they killed millions. Please know that I am not siding with Jones but this is ludicrous.
This is a fair judgement against Jones. A fair judgement against the people who lied about WMD's and killed millions via the war in Iraq would be life in prison, for a start.
Just because the criminals at the top get away with war crimes doesn't mean the criminals lower on the totem pole shouldn't be punished. It's a false equivalence to claim otherwise.
That is definitively not the definition of a false equivalence as I did not claim he should go scott free. However I doubt that there is anything fair regarding a 900 millon dollar punishment on a person that has a net worth that is orders of magnitude smaller.
A lifetime of garnished wages seems like a small price to pay for a millionaire who makes a career out of peddling hatred that ruins other peoples' lives. And they didn't just make up the number out of nowhere; it's based on estimated damages that his actions caused. I'm not a lawyer so I can't speak to precedent or similar judgements in other cases. In any case, he will appeal, so we'll see what the final number actually comes out to.
And anyone who subsequently voted for them or gave them money. I think they all should pay couple hundred million to victims and then spend rest of their lives in prison.
If you follow the trial at all, you'll see that this was not just "he said a bad thing one time and people are mad at him." He has a strongly demonstrated pattern of lies, perjury, obstruction of the legal process, and encouraging harassment against the Sandy Hook families. Most of the people saying "everyone should be afraid of this" are arguing in bad faith.
but absolutely none of that, save the encouragement of harassment, has any bearing on what the victims suffered from the behavior the lawsuit is fundamentally about. These damages are, supposedly, compensatory, and so the only relevant factor is supposed to be what the victims actually suffered.
Forgive me for wondering whether an account created 27 minutes ago is arguing in good faith on a topic that frequently gets brigaded by FUD trolling. An actual lawyer will have to weigh in on whether this fits the damages awarded in similar cases.
I think the point here is that it doesn't really matter whether the lawyers call it "compensatory" or not. Many legal terms don't really mean what it says on the tin. But we're talking here from a common-sense perspective: is the intent behind this fine, however it is described, to compensate for actual damages suffered, or to punish the conduct? And for it to be the former, it has to be in line with actual damages.
A defendant has a right to trial by jury. The consequence of exercising that right is trial by a jury.
In some venues, "unfair" (quotes here because reasonable people can dispute how "fair" is to be assessed in a circumstance such as this) damages rulings are back-stopped by statutory maxima. I don't know Connecticut law, but that appears not to be the case here.
