Compare it to China then, which does state sponsor.

Or, hell, South Dakota can state sponsor their Patriot Games athletes if they want, to try to give them an edge. Make it a point of state pride or whatever to pull better competitors than a state that’s bigger but doesn’t care.

Alabama does better at college football nationally (historically) than much bigger states because of a culture difference. The idea that California would outperform them just because they’re bigger does not in fact bear out in reality.

Yes, I agree the Trump administration has been disgusting with regards to immigration. Absolutely a stain on American history.

It seems a stretch to tie this to that though.

I’m glad that’s not a thing anyone has said in real life then.

Look, no one involved in coming up with this idea tied it to the hunger games, and no one thinks that you’ll actually have a “I volunteer as tribute” type thing going. And, not to put to fine a point on it, but “volunteering as tribute” loses a lot of it’s negative connotation when it’s not literally volunteering to go die in a gladiator pit.

Trump has done innumerable things to be upset about. We don’t need to make up fake rage bait. Just look at the actual bad things he’s doing.

I mean, “the Nazis glorified youth sports” feels like an empty argument to me. Hitler liked dogs. That doesn’t make me morally obligated to hate dogs.

And yeah, Trump has abhorrent policies in other areas that could taint this. That doesn’t mean this idea in particular is bad.

I mean, you could say the same about the Olympics. There’s no way a small country like Jamaica could possibly beat a huge country like the US.

But sometimes they do. That’s what makes it so exciting.

And what are you on about a 50 lane track? Does the Olympics have a 200 lane track for all the countries? You do it in heats. Have you ever watched a track and field event? And practically every state has a facility that would support a track and field event with around 120 people. That’s not absurdly large.

I assume it’d general track and field, though it’s a little odd if you just have 2 competitors per state to do all the events. Though I think that actually makes it a little more interesting. Kind of triathalon-y.

I don’t think this is as hard to organize as you seem to think it is. Yes, it requires coordination and stuff, and is more than just a snap of the fingers, but if you assigned a qualified and well funded planning group to it, I’m confident you could get it put together by summer.

I mean, I assume that the states would be able to nominate their competitors themselves.

I think this sounds fun? Would make for a fun “state pride” thing and would be fun to watch. Kind of like a mini Olympics.

Calling it “the hunger games without the killing,” is a lot like saying “the Boston Marathon bombing but without the bomb.” Just a fairly normal athletic event.

I don’t understand why people are up in arms over this. Is it maybe a silly thing for the president to be pushing for? Sure. But I’d rather him work on this than almost anything else he’s prone to work on.

Is it accurate?

I do think that any time you hire an intern, the only thing you can judge them on is vibes.

I used to be in charge of an intern program, and the thing is that you can’t really select based on experience or anything, because they don’t really have that. Instead, you end up asking a bunch of personality questions and trying to get a feel for if they’d be a good fit on your team.

Now, do I think “answers the phone” is a good test of that? Probably not. But then again, we used to ask people if they’d rather be a blade of grass or a doorknob, just to see what they’d say.

I guess my point is, if this was for a “real job,” I’d be a little more judgy, but for an internship, I’ve selected people based on wilder things than “did they answer the phone.”

Never? Rockefeller literally bailed the entire US government out of debt.

I’ll not put too fine a point on it and assume you meant “in the modern US,” as it’s trivial to point out how many times we’ve had a greater wealth disparity historically and globally.

But even then, we used to literally have company towns that amounted to debtors prisons and any attempts to organize were met with firebombings.

It’s not good now for sure, but it’s far from the worst it’s ever been.

Ngl, I saw this and was like, effing chatgpt garbage, and down voted.

Then I realized the joke and upvoted. You got me on that one.

Sure, but that’s not what the article is saying, to be clear.

Rsync

To clarify, the article is just saying that it’s wildly unfeasible and prohibitively expensive.

They’re not saying it’s dangerous or going to harm people in some way.

I feel like some people may get the wrong idea from the headline.

Probably cause it’s even a little anti-Russia on lemmy.ml

What makes you think you can’t leave a significant positive legacy?

You can get involved with your neighbors. Invest in your local community. Adopt an orphan or volunteer at a women’s shelter.

There’s a million things you can do to make a significant impact. Every person you invest in is another person who can go and invest in others.

This idea that anything that’s below the national or worldwide level isn’t significant is a cancer on society.

There are people who lived hundreds of years ago who, sure, you’ll probably have never heard of if you don’t live in the same area as me, but who have had huge impact on the community. The same is true for where you live. I promise you.

Bring your eyes down, and look to make your legacy local. I promise you it’s possible. And I promise you that it’s significant.

I mean, seems fair? It’s not like we haven’t seen large scale cyber operations carried out in the past, and not a single one has ever been deemed to rise to being an act of war.

Unless you’re killing power to hospitals or something, cyber effects seem to be fair play in the modern world stage.

You think Russias gonna declare war on NATO because they have some IT systems destroyed, or a bunch of records stolen or deleted or whatever? I really completely fail to imagine anything short of the “killing power to a hospital” example that would cause an escalation, and honestly, I’m not even sure that would.

Russia is happy to do it to other countries. Turnabout seems fair play to me. Especially since they’re doing it while actively committing genocide on a neighboring country.

The IP address of the machine you’re connecting to has probably changed. If the previous had a DHCP lease, that wouldn’t migrate with the new router.

Go on your Windows machine and open up a command prompt. Type in “ipconfig” (no quotes) and validate the machines IP address. It should start with 192 or 10 most likely. Maybe 172.

If it’s the same as it used to be, that’s not the issue. But my bet is that it’s changed.

I think the controversial bit, is that it’s thanking a rival nation for invading and committing atrocities.

It’d be like if Zelensky came out and thanked Putin for invading Ukraine, as it let him be president over a more united country.

Sure, maybe technically correct, but people probably would be (rightfully) pretty pissed if he said it.

This is just an ad, right?

Like, from the article: “Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is currently $30 for a new physical copy at GameStop. That is 50% off its regular $59.99 price tag. However, PS5 players can save an extra $5 by purchasing a pre-owned copy for just $24.99.”

It just reads like ad copy.