Are you suggesting that Fukushima did more lasting damage to the environment than the fossil fuel industry…?

People are just dumb. How can it trickle down if it hasn’t overflown yet? We need to give the top 1% more money, so that overflows and starts trickling down! It’s basic economy!

1. Europe doesn’t drop anything, it’s an opinion peace from the Financial Times.

2. No, not US weapons (or rather: not only). The EU-based military industry is currently booming with countries ordering tonnes of stuff from Germany, Poland, Sweden, and France. All locally designed and built gear.

It made me do a solid “heh”, this one did.

Metro UI included titles (inside the tile), so it very much isn’t. It may be inspired, but it’s like “let’s take elements of the design and make it worse”

You reminded me of an excellent quote: “the USA is not a first world country. It’s 50 third world countries in a trench coat”.

I’m almost certain that earlier versions of iOS exposed the comma on the main keyboard and hid the period under the symbols button, because double-tapping space added it.

Which meant that, depending on version, you’d sometimes need to tap 6 times to write “…” (to enter the symbols keyboard mode after every period, since it would go back to the primary set every time), and only 3 to write “,,,”.

But I might be wrong.

If no media outlet talks about it

Again, you have no idea what kind of an event is the World Cup.

“Not talking about it” is the media equivalent of suicide. Because if you’re not buying the license, someone else will, and that means millions of people will be tuning to their channel.

if the event isn’t advertised

Hahahahahahahaha, OK, that made me actually laugh out loud! :D

if no famous star play at the event

No football fan gives a flying fuck about whoever they get to sing at the opening ceremony. Like, just fucking imagine, a dude from Brazil, Japan, or Norway saying “ahh, I was going to fly to the US to watch football, but they had XYZ artist, so I’m not gonna”. Dude, just stop, you’re digging yourself a hole and the sad thing is you’re completely unaware of it…

the coverage and popularity of the event goes down

See my first quote reply. That’s not how this event works.

What do you remember about 2022 winter olympics?

The fact that the total viewership was 2.01 billion unique viewers.

WC 2026 had 11.53 billion.

(the number is higher than the total population of the planet because it’s counting views across all games/matches).

Once more, you have no idea how MASSIVE an event the WC is.

Why do you make stupid examples when it’s clear what we are talking about?

Because that’s how stupid your example is! I know you’re not aware, but that’s just a fact of life - you don’t get to “make the WC go away” by “not broadcasting it”, such thing doesn’t exist. A fucking local TV station of 30 people would enter a death loan just to get the rights, if no other station took them!

If the billionares who own all the media decides not to talk about the sun shining over texas you won’t see many news about it.

But PEOPLE will still see it! Just like with the Sun, you can just look yourself, with the WC - VPNs exist. People can just watch it from other countries’ broadcasts, or pirate broadcasts.

Let’s remember that this conversation started after i pointed out that this event successfully distracted people from the epstein files and the genocide in gaza,

But it didn’t! These two events are completely disconnected! It’s like saying “the Ukrainian attacks on russian oil refineries successfully distracted people from the Epstein fils” - it’s a fucking insane statement. There can be multiple different things in the news at the same time! Like, for example, Ukrainian attacks AND the World Cup! The fact that the media is not talking about the Epstein list that much anymore stems from two things:

1. It’s being actively suppressed by the Republicans.
2. People are getting bored and aren’t clicking the links.

if you want to reply any further it could be useful if you let everyone know what you think about trump being a pedophile and israel government murdering kids in a genocide

Ah, you’re already putting me down in the “actually supports genocide and paedophilia” column, eh? Well, here’s a surprise for you: I think Trump and Netanyahu both should be, ideally, executed by guillotine, televised. I think the vast majority of the Republican party should be placed in prison. I think the UN should create a buffer zone with “shoot to kill” orders for any fucking settler trying move two steps outside Israel’s borders, and kick all the current settlers out, barefoot, with as much as they can fit in their pockets, all the way back to Israel.

But I know that attempting to shut down the WC is impossible, because it’s just too big an event all on its own.

You just said yourself that billionaire owns all the US media and they can decide what news are about.

They can’t decide to use the WC as a smokescreen, because the WC happens once every 4 years and the host is selected 10 years prior. You can’t really pump it up to “become” a smokescreen, because it already is the largest televised event on the planet.

What you’re saying is the equivalent of suggesting that “the elites” have made the Sun to shine brightly on a July day in Texas. That’s the default state of things, mate, nobody got to decide on that.

I’m only going to reply to this, because the rest is just silly, or commenting on standard Trump behaviour, which is “president of a country is not supposed to do” period.

Mate, the football World Cup is ALWAYS the largest sports event worldwide.

Sure, big events can be used as smoke screens but saying anything here was done on purpose is just showing your ignorance towards what the WC is. They had to have planned it in 1930 for it to happen now, they had to have known that the Epstein files would be a thing in 2016 when the bid started, and pulled some strings to win in 2018, and all that to use the largest televised event to hide the Epstein case.

It’s just ridiculous. Those two events have nothing to do with one another.

Especially since they have an easier method available - Trump’s (Epstein’s?) billionaire buddies own all the US media! They can just decide that the files are to be buried under news about happy puppies and that’s exactly what would happen.

On top of that, you don’t seem to understand how moden news outlets (especially those online) and their readers work. The news outlets publish whatever garners clicks. People click outrage pieces the most, but they get bored quickly. Why do you think Zelenskyy is non-stop circling the world and talking to world leaders? He’s doing all in his power to keep Ukraine in the media, because if it was up to the general public, the news coverage would be similar to that of the Sudan civil war right now - which is negligible. The elites don’t even have to do anything for people to just lose interest, clicks to subside, and news agencies to move on from Epstein to other topics.

OK, I’ll explain because you seem to honestly not know how the FIFA World Cup is organised.

USA won the bid to organise the 2026 WC in 2018. The WC itself happens always once every four years.

Meaning: unless they’re employing some stunningly excellent crystal ball operators, they could not have planned to use the 2026 WC as a smoke screen for the Epstein files OR the Gaza situation.

Yes, that’s right, brother, they organised the World Cup specifically to distract from the Epstein files. Crafty bastards had it planned since 1930!

Fun fact! The US is spending more on healthcare than it does on its military. By A LOT. The military gets around 4% of the federal budget, healthcare gets around 12%.

The US taxpayer pays MORE on healthcare in taxes than the the taxpayers in Switzerland or Norway!

Where does that money go, you ask? Why, to the pockets of the corpos owning private healthcare, of course!

My point being: games and art are not necessities. Don’t be a little bitch, if you want to have them, pay for them. If you don’t want to support the company under which the game was made, wait for a massive sale on Steam or some such.

Giving “a shitty company intent on abusing your customers to extract as much money from them” is not done by pirating the game (which makes them try to extract even more money out of their clients), it’s by financially supporting the companies and creators who don’t do that.

Are you high, friend? How is any of what you wrote related to SteamOS and the GabeCube?

There’s clear data showing piracy almost never has a negative impact on sales. If anything, it’s usually a positive impact. And the exceptions to this are not video games.

Please share! Would love to read about it!

What if your ancestors got forced out 500 years ago? Got claim then?

Artists don’t get paid for the amount of copies sold, that’s executives and shareholders

Sales numbers are the telemetry execs use when deciding what games to green-light.

Why do you think suddenly everybody was making live-service games? Battle Royale first, then hero shooters, and now extraction shooters? These games are reporting great income because it’s not possible to pirate them. Add MTX on top and suddenly everybody and their mother wants a cut.

Why do you think even GTA became a live-service game, even when it has a single-player story?

Why do you think more and more games have launchers that require people signing in to some accounts to verify if they made the purchase?

All the crap you people are mostly moaning about are a direct result of piracy.

This is such an incredible level of magical thinking that most 12 year olds already grow out of.

What do you think happens with the artists if the game doesn’t sell?

What do you think happens to the genre if the game doesn’t sell?

People are complaining about live-service games, but holy fuck, can you not see that these are the direct response to piracy? You literally cannot pirate these games, because they require constant connection to the servers that verify if you have a license.

The list is so confusing… ESL is an e-sports organisation, they do e-sport events, they don’t make games. Why are they on the list? Why is Netflix on the list??

And why is Riot on the list? Their games are free, we’re literally not paying for the games, we’re paying for the in-game store crap (if at all)…