"video games serve as escapism" is such a bad take lmao, video games came into existence as a way to demo the capabilities of computer hardware and it wasn't any deeper than that. they typically still serve the same purpose, with the exception of story-based games which are, actually, a place people can and do spread their ideas via storytelling

Straight to the point yet detailed, thanks for the response!

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probably, and i think its funny because the only ak-esque rifle i can think of with a bolt handle that sticks up like that is the older Galil models, which were israeli guns lmao

According to the IP, Norway apparently

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It's kinda funny to me because most of the people I know look upon suits and ties as untrustworthy anymore

"My mother grew up in the Soviet Union ... So I'm very conscious of what, what it can mean to make knowledge free, to make information free"

I want that to mean free information helps propel humanity forward but I feel like, with this being hosted on CBS, its meant to imply it can help bring these countries down and under capitalist control

Here's the link to the 2007 for future reference. Most of the results that show up on Google are from Wikipedia itself (like this one) which comes with its own problems.

The biggest point to note, however, is that Wikipedia relies on third-party sources to back up their claims, and being a primarily english-speaking, west-hosted service, a lot of these sources will be sometimes biased and sometimes from authors who straight up make shit up. I found this Reddit post on r/communism from ~2yrs ago of a user who scrutinized the sources on its page for Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens and found many anti-communist authors present.

Is there anywhere I can read more about the Wikipedia thing? Preferably more recently since the other article I can remember from Reuters is from 2007 lmao

I think the New Zealand thing has to do with nuclear war more than climate change, since they're far from the theoretically worst affected areas from fallout

The amount of crabs on this post briefly turned my phone into a slideshow