SmoothOperator

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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Unless the rules are something like "you fall in love with what your eyes first find", and he was just alone with the potion.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

I've bought each of the three latest Hitman titles on Steam exactly once at regular video game price and gotten all the content of each game, plus freely received the collection of all that content in the "World of Assassination" consolidation. Plus the free and amazing rogue-like expansion taking place across all maps from all games.

Seems like a really good deal to me.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (7 children)

As in

  • Not talking about race will solve the lingering systemic race issues, or
  • There are no lingering systemic race issues, so we should stop talking about it?
[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Completely fair - do you have a counterargument? I'd be interested in hearing the other side.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People don't have a "natural frequency" is the real answer.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

It would be naïve to fully rely on the old way of diplomacy, but it would mean certain defeat to do business on the terms of authoritarians. Trump wants unilateral, flashy diplomacy, because that's where he wins. Small countries like Denmark need to work to bolster multilateral large-alliance rules based diplomacy, because that's where they win.

By not rising to the bait, but instead presenting a calm, unified European response that there is no way Trump can buy Greenland, but that they're happy to help him achieve whatever policy he's using to justify this invasion talk, they at least have a chance of staving him off long enough that the whole thing fizzles out.

This approach also makes it a lot harder for Trump to actually make good on his threats. He'll have to start a conflict with the whole EU, and he'll end up looking like a guy who pisses on a cooperative ally rather than the strong man who beats down uppity foreigners.

And yes, that's probably also fine by him, but it at least doesn't play into his hand.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No-one is ignoring him. The Danish diplomacy corps is on high alert, and tons of effort is going into both securing support from Europe and trying to talk the US down.

They just don't do diplomacy through Twitter. Public mud-throwing is Trump's game, no need to fight him on his terms.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a socialist citizen of a Nordic state, the Nordic model is a wonderful example of socialism in practice. The US, even with full DEI implementation, would be nowhere near as socialist as the Nordic countries.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Will being hated make what someone says more true?

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

For sure, I was just trying to make a little joke about the willful misunderstanding.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Panels 8 and 9.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I won an Xbox 360 a long time ago from a Coca Cola competition. You had to use codes from the bottle caps and then quickly answer some quiz questions correctly. But you had unlimited tries. So I just kept clicking random answers quickly until I got all questions right at a ridiculously low time.

Good times. Borrowed Guitar Hero, LA Noire, Batman Arkham Asylum and Red Dead Redemption at the library, had a blast.

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