Alcohol, still allowed to advertise every where
Actually alcohol advertising is pretty limited in Europe due to EU wide regulations and some countries have even stricter rules, ranging from "not in public spaces" to straight up "no alcohol advertising at all"
Also I would point out alcohol is a big cusine thing and has been for centuries and you're nuts if you're upset schnapps are a thing but not strawberry cigarettes. Also like, flavoured vapes totally exist?
There's the sonic racing series which has a few ports on PC. I haven't played them on PC, but I've played them on the switch and they're pretty Mario kart-ish both in playstyle and mascot racer charm.
Also you can play as The Heavy.
I'd also add to the discussion that the reason why Norway (and I think Iceland too) eat it as "tradition" isn't because it's some sacred animal or traditional or something, it's because up until very recently both countries were dirt poor and neither country is particularly great when it comes to arable land that you can grow veggies or animals on. Whale is a physically big source of red meat that lives not that far off the coast, and has tons of other uses besides food too. They're also small countries so using them as a food source isn't that damaging (hell I'm pretty sure out of the entire Norwegian fishing industry the whaling part is probably the least environmentally destructive part of it)
Also grilled whale is like, really nice. It's like if tuna was a red meat.
Fine fine, then Emperoress instead. It's what the actual English translation of The Incal uses
English should absolutely do this you'd end up with some really cool words. Also because Jodorowsky was absolutely right - emperoratrix is a fucking kickass title
Funny you mention cheap scissors because I've always thought that expensive scissors were more of an issue because they tend to be super specialised and as a result super handed
Hey at least Rhino appears to be run kinda like a co-op where the employees own the company, which is actually really interesting I've never heard of a co-op for a software company
Also same boat - Autodesk sucks and is the Adobe of the industry yes, but like, the alternative is freecad and I'm sorry but freecad kinda sucks especially when it's standing next to like, Fusion360. It's got the learning curve of a vertical line and is kinda missing a ton of stuff
Oh so there were a million corrupt officials all deserving death were there? Perhaps genocide is technically the wrong word due to the lack of a specific focus, but that sure is an awful lot of death which I dunno, I somewhat doubt was done with good intentions, given it was fuelled by a paranoid maniac and also targeted minority groups. You trying to tell me that The Polish Operation was necessary?
There was no systemic starvation of Ukrainians
...I think most historians agree that the Holodomor was either a systemic man-made famine with the purpose of genocide, or the single worst agricultural fuck up in the history of the world, with the blame falling squarely on the Soviet government due to their forced collectivisation programme. Also it's real convenient that your graph only starts in 1950, three years before Stalin's death and twenty years after the Holodomor. And I mean a population growth of 13 million from 1950 to 1991? If we go by some estimates, that means it took 40 years to recover from the 10 million population deficit caused by the Holodomor. Also, you know genocide isn't just about straight murder right? It's about stamping out an entire culture, something that very much did happen to Ukraine, and the USSR's success at Russification is literally one of the things Putin is using to excuse his invasion.
Also I see you not answering the question about the deportation and forced assimilation of various groups in occupied areas under the Soviet regime. Yes population transfer with the purpose of fragmenting and destroying a cultural group is genocide. I mean I sure you wouldn't argue against it being anything else if the subject was America or Australia doing the same thing to their respective native peoples.
So um, last time I checked the EU didn't force any of its members with invasions and occupations and ultimatums to join and they sure as fuck didn't force the UK to stay, which the same can absolutely not be said about the USSR. Also there is a big difference between an economic area and a military treaty and a political union. Brussels is not micromanaging the entire EU, while Moscow was doing just that in the USSR. It was one big country with the smaller countries acting as states, not as independent entities under the same big umbrella.
Also Finland was Absolutely invaded by the Soviets. Twice even. And it was partly justified by Stalin's dissatisfaction about the fact that the Soviets had failed to stop Finland's independence because that relationship was absolutely not hunky dory like you seek to think it was. Like where did you think molotovs come from? And speaking of Molotov, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact kinda made it clear what the Soviets thought was their territory and it included the Baltics as well as Finland. And if you consider the occupation and deportation and assimilation of the Baltic states into the USSR as a "consentual" thing, by that logic then Poland was a willing member of the Nazi empire because hey, it's from the same pact outlining the two regimes sphere of influence with similar outcomes.
And that's during WW2. Threat of an invasion from the USSR is literally why NATO was founded, and why the USSR forced Finland to remain neutral.
Ok but like that asshole is using his money and power to donate to horrible stuff. Even if we take the stance that you shouldn't let someone's opinion ruin what they make, you're still helping him support his causes financially through using his platform.
Or wow, it's almost like people care about that sort of thing on the platform were most people came from Reddit or twitter because of the awful actions of their respective CEOs or something
You mean appliance bulbs? They're a different thing all together
...please don't tell me you've been putting regular incandescent bulbs in places that need appliance bulbs
...except when a person is doing it, they're doing their own thing to it. They take an idea or two and filter it through their own lens and stylise it
Think about it like this - when you do data scraping, you're still interpreting the results. You're looking at the data and going 'ok from this I can draw X and Y conclusions based on this and that'. AI art is like if we removed you from the process - we just shoved all the data into a black box and it goes ding "X is Y". If you asked it why that's so, it wouldn't be able to tell you. You can't see how it works so you have no idea if it's reasoning makes scientific sense. It would not be admissible in a paper.
...don't most people kinda agree you don't pirate from small artists where piracy is actually hurting them? There's like, honour along thieves when it comes to piracy, and this is stepping all over the little guy who's actually hurt by this just to get your grubby little hands on something you think you're entitled to