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xNIBx@kbin.socialOPto World News@kbin.social•Biden mixes up Germany's Angela Merkel with late Helmut Kohl2·1 year agoWhat if he is a time traveller? Both Mitterrand and Kohl ruled in the 90s. Maybe he was supposed to travel to the 90s to save the future. But his time machine malfunctioned and arrived in the 2020s.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you prefer Twitch or YouTube for watching live streams?5·1 year agoYoutube has better quality and rewind but twitch has more interesting chat, even if it is just spamming emojis. Twitch chat has a vibe, feels like you are in a stadium. Also for gaming streams, twitch is a must. Also you need a browser extension like 7tv to appreciate the chat.
I played the beta. I wouldnt call it a good game but it was a game that i enjoyed playing. Maybe i liked it because ever since i was a kid, i was always fascinated by mad max/waterworld. Having your own vehicle, roaming a hostile desert(or sea).
You have a customizable ship, you can build it how you want. And you have a base that can be built and upgraded. And a giant open world with a forgetful story and generic npc. The gameplay was ok, though the world of warships has infinitely superior naval combat. I think it is using similar to war thunder naval combat(same publisher), which is a bit too arcadey for my taste(not that world of warships is a simulator, but it is a more immersive experience).
xNIBx@kbin.socialOPto World News@kbin.social•Exclusive: Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’ US intelligence assessment finds | CNN Politics3·2 years agoThese reports are coming from US intelligence assessment and it is being reported by CNN. These are not pro-Hamas sources.
xNIBx@kbin.socialOPto World News@kbin.social•Exclusive: Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’ US intelligence assessment finds | CNN Politics3·2 years agoIsrael has shitload of bombs available. But since Gaza is a completely uncontested airspace(therefore israeli planes can fly and drop dumb bombs safely) and they dont give a fuck about the palestinians, it is cheaper to use dumb bombs instead of guided.
xNIBx@kbin.socialOPto World News@kbin.social•Turkey's Erdogan vows 'new era' in ties with Greece – DW – 12/07/20232·2 years agoYou mean Erdogan who said
"“We can come suddenly, in the middle of the night […] if you Greeks go too far, then the price will be heavy,”
Or the Erdogan bragging how turkish missiles can reach Athens
Or the Erdogan who said “He no longer exists for me. I will never agree to meet with him."(the greek prime minister who just met)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/24/erdogan-says-he-will-no-longer-talk-to-greek-pm
Yeah, he is a great dude.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto News@lemmy.world•Victory is an opportunity for Israel in the midst of crisis - opinion11·2 years agoTurkey and Greece exchanged each other’s ethnicities post WWI and War for Turkish independence, ethnic cleansing but not necessarily genocidal.
Yet for some reason there are 0 greeks in Turkey atm and 200k muslims in Greece, most of which selfidentify as ethnic turks. I wonder what happened, i guess we will never know. Oh wait, we do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_pogrom
Also weirdly enough, sanctioned by international mediation because shit was weird back then
It’s not weird, greeks and turks have murdered shitload of each others civilians.
After Greece’s “Great Idea” plan(conquering Western Turkey) got crashed, Greece wanted to protect the surviving greeks in Turkey from further reprisals. So both sides decided to partially exchange populations while protecting the remaining minorities. Eventually(30 years later) Turkey decided they didnt want any greeks left in Turkey and violated the deal. Greece on the other hand just kept being shitty to ethnic turks living in Greece but at least they are mostly ok now.
Most greeks are aware of civilian turks getting murdered. I am not so sure turks are aware of the civilian greeks slaughtered. This “exchange” ended 3000+ year of continuous presence(with majority or almost majority percentages) of ethnic greeks in Anatolia(Western Turkey).
xNIBx@kbin.socialto News@lemmy.world•Victory is an opportunity for Israel in the midst of crisis - opinion23·2 years agoThey are not genociding, they are just removing palestinians from areas, they are ethnic cleansing those areas. This is a pretty standard nation building tactic, except most, european, nations did it in the past, while Israel is doing it now. Azerbaijan did it too with their armenian enclave in Nagorno Karabakh. The armenians “voluntarily” left the region and now there are basically 0 armenians there.
Genocide focuses more on the destruction of people.
xNIBx@kbin.socialOPto World News@kbin.social•What we know about what Israel has found at Al-Shifa | CNN1·2 years agoIf Hamas had a command node in the hospital, the IDF better start releasing videos of underground tunnels and rooms(used for storage/command/communication/etc). Command node implies there should be at least multiple tunnels going in and out the hospital. So far, we have only seen a couple of kalasnikovs, which might be real or planted but in any case, kinda irrelevant, since 5 kalasnikovs and a dude with an rpg walking outside the hospital does not make a hospital a target.
To bolster its claims that Hamas has a control center under the hospital, Israel’s military released video showing a tunnel shaft in the grounds of Al-Shifa. In the footage, the shaft appears to be reinforced with concrete. Exposed pipes and cabling can also be seen close to the surface. CNN cannot independently verify what the tunnel is used for, and the IDF is yet to offer clear evidence that the shaft has a military purpose.
Surely it cant be hard to take some media into the hospital and show that tunnel, right? Also it is interesting how hamas didnt defend the hospital, at all. The hospital is huge and according to IDF is full of tunnels, that would make it a good place to ambush IDF. Especially since IDF would be less willing to bomb entire buildings, therefore it would be perfect for Hamas to fight there.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto World News@kbin.social•Gaza faces ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as power plant running out of fuel1·2 years agoIn what way Gaza isnt occupied? Can the inhabitants leave? Can you get stuff in and out of that area? Just because it doesnt have actual israeli occupiers inside Gaza, doesnt mean that it isnt occupied.
If you live in a place and armed guards dont let you leave or get anything in or out, are you free?
It would be odd if it were a war crime not to provide a hostile enemy territory with supplies while being attacked by them.
When the territory was never independent and was always dependent on you and you never allowed it to become independent, then yes, you have an obligation to keep those people alive. And thats the bare minimum legal obligation that you have. Dont take my word, literally the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says so
“Israel has a right to self-defence, but it has to be done within international law … cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law,”
Even if you ignore the moral thing of you know, not letting people die for no reason, Israel has a legal obligation. Similarly to how when a country occupies a territory, they have an obligation to provide for that territory. So unless Israel decides to recognize Gaza as a sovereign, free and independent state, they are responsible for it and its inhabitants.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto World News@kbin.social•Gaza faces ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as power plant running out of fuel0·2 years agoWell, there kinda was and hamas was elected 15 years ago, when the last elections happened. But still, doing warcrimes(deliberately cutting a large population off electricity, water and food) is not acceptable, even if the other side warcrimed you.
xNIBx@kbin.socialtoGaming@kbin.social•Epic Games laying off 16% of staff, divesting from assets including Bandcamp, and generally hemorrhaging money1·2 years agoTheir reboot of Unreal Tournament failed. And so did their moba named Paragon. Arguably, their Fortnite Save the World also failed. Gears of War Judgement had poor sales for a Gears game though that may have been mostly developed by People Can Fly.
Generally if we ignore Fortnite and Infinite Blade(a mobile game), their last successful game was Gears 3, from 12 years ago. They basically only have Fortnite, Unreal Engine and the Epic store.
Vader could have revoked her diplomatic immunity
xNIBx@kbin.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Saudi Crown Prince on Iran acquiring nuclear weapons: ‘If they get one, we have to get one’3·2 years agoNATO’s is not going to be part of Turkey’s geopolitical schemes. Nukes are needed in order to be on an even footing with the other regional powers(which will also have nukes). Even if Saudi Arabia/Iran never intend to nuke Turkey, they will be at an advantage.
Hard power translates to soft power. And if your regional opponents have nukes and you dont have nukes, you will be at a significant soft power disadvantage.
Btw Turkey is building its first nuclear power plant, with help from Russia. Saudi Arabia also intends to build nuclear power plants soon. Thats the first step to creating a nuclear weapon.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Saudi Crown Prince on Iran acquiring nuclear weapons: ‘If they get one, we have to get one’171·2 years agoPretty sure there are NATO nukes sitting in Turkey already
Those are US controlled nukes. And the US doesnt have the best relation with Turkey atm. They are there now, gone tomorrow. Turkey cant rely on american nukes. If other regional powers have nukes, they need to have nukes. And if Turkey has nukes, then Greece needs to have nukes for selfprotection.
Turkey gets to wave their dicks around and make demands at the big boy table despite being a complete joke of a country.
They have the 2nd biggest military in NATO, after the US, an immensely important geographical location and they are a regional power(along with Iran and Saudi Arabia).
xNIBx@kbin.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Saudi Crown Prince on Iran acquiring nuclear weapons: ‘If they get one, we have to get one’37·2 years agoAnd if Iran and Saudi Arabia get nukes, then Turkey will get nukes. And if Turkey gets nukes, then unless there is an EU army, Greece will want to get nukes.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto NFL@lemmy.world•Ex-NFL player Sergio Brown missing after his mother is found murdered near home in Maywood4·2 years agoEvery time i hear about an nfl player doing(or potentially doing) something fucked, i always wonder how much the sport is responsible for that and for fucking their brains.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a labour-friendly car company?161·2 years agoMaybe Volvo? Do note that Polestar cars are made in China, but Volvo ones should be made in Europe or US. I dont know how good the conditions in the american Volvo factory are but in Sweden, Volvo is considered a good employer. Volvo/Polestar are owned by Geely, which is a chinese company but Volvo is pretty independent.
xNIBx@kbin.socialto PC Gaming@kbin.social•MechWarrior 5: Clans Stomping to PC, PlayStation and Xbox in 2024 from Piranha Games1·2 years agoI had fun playing mechwarrior 5 but i am not a mechwarrior fan. The only other mechwarrior game that i played was battletech(which is an xcom style strategy game) and that was great. Mw5 lacked the polish of battletech but it was still fun to have a customizable mech blowing things up. Mw5 has 83% on steam and it is also available on gamepass(and so is battletech).
I am sure it will be fine. IDF has shown that they go to great lengths to protect innocent palestinians.
For real, it has some “sell their flooded houses to aquaman” vibes. Evacuate where? There is nowhere to evacuate. It would have been funny, if it wasnt so tragic.