Considering the pipeline was not operating yet you might be wrong but ask Germany. Also it's not the action itself at Chernobyl it's the potential consequences of the action that is the concern but that might be too much forward thinking for some. Also no-one seem interested in finding out? Isn't the most comprehensive investigation from the Germans?

Lie about what? I acknowledge Russia says a thing that does not make it true or an acceptable justification for anything.

Not to prevent but to stop an ongoing genocide

Call me what you will but even I, the opposite propagandist know these are like the level 1 from your side. Go back to motherbase, get the 2025 talking points, you're still on the 2022 version. At least I'm good at it! (because the facts are on my side)

Nordstream is a given I'll say that but it does not carry the risk to relations nearly as much as Chernobyl, is also in the ocean and was likely rebels, not a state action.

Who cares? Everyone knows that is not factually true. Do you think that's true? It's not true you know.

Russia does not lean on an attack on their people or terriroty as one of their many justifications.

Oh, pray tell, and what was happening in Serbia that wasn't happening in Ukraine?

What do you mean? Everyone! Europe would not be happy with that. The USA would not. Russia has every incentive to expose such an action if it took place. Belarus would also be very incentivized. Seriously, think about it.

No, this is an invasion. Ukraine did not attack Russia, even Russia acknowledges that. You can say an invasion is justified and make that case but that's the position you're starting from, Ukraine was not looking to war with Russia, you can't just hand wave a "uhh, both sides" here and that does all your cognitive work.

Calling it ethnic is one of the justifications Russia gives but if you think about that's not something we would use to justify an invasion from anyone. It's bullshit, this is political and a power grab. Putin isn't exactly secret about things.

That's if you count *only* streaming platform subscribers though. Paramount/Skydance is far older with a very thorough IP catalog (4500 films, 200k TV episodes), owns and operates CBS with all that comes with a major network, also operates CBS news, multiple other networks (Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Showtime).

Even in revenue Netflix is bigger but its $33B vs 29B. They are pretty close and you can just as easily make a case that considering the size and age of WB's catalog it makes sense for them to join with a "new media" company than combining the catalogs of two very legacy media companies. I don't know if it's a good argument but I think both these companies are pretty equal footing as to who "deserves" it.

This doesn't really track as the most likely scenario, I mean the risk to Ukraine is enormous if this was found out, particularly when Europe is and has been helping them. Really just an overall needlessly risky plan. I'm not totally convinced Russia has a legit reason to attack intentionally, an accident seems likely.

Also it's "very close to the Russian Border" only if you're the type of person who considers Belarus just another part of Russia at this point. It's closer to Kiev than the closest Russian border.

I know the joke is half of them and this one are made up but I do kinda want to see the the idea of a "Columbo" reboot with Kate Mulgrew.

This is where the conspiracy theory falls apart. Specifically, you were expecting the cheapest programmers to make non-shitty code. It's effectively a proclamation that MBAs are not to blame for the shitshow we're in.

Counter-conspiracy theory: AI created the programs and material to make MBAs before astroturfing the internet to promote their effectiveness to dumbass executives. All of this so that MBAs would statistically sabotage software across all sectors to keep programmers from the truth.

Does he know? (Double irony this meme came from a WB film!)

https://www.hbomax.com/

Can we really blame them? Why does Disney keep making live action reboots of their animated films? Because people keep paying to watch them.

What Are Next? (2025 Edition)

Take this entire summary and replace "Netflix" with "Paramount" and every single criticism still applies.

If Netflix shouldn't buy them then neither should Paramount or Disney or ATT or Comcast or Sony.

Do like every other corporation has done this century does and find some dumb shit PE folks to buy it up and ruin the brand over the next decade.

Because ECC adds price and, usually, is slower than regular memory. What has mainly driven PC hardware is gaming, and gamers care about speed, not long-term stability.

RAM speed doesn't matter as much as it used to for framerates, though, unless you are overclocking a ton, in which case you don't care about stability anyways.

Really shitty. I'm arrogant so I do want to point out the obvious: Trump won the primaries and became the candidate for the Republican team because the Republican party is shitty.

Both parties are really shitty.

That's an example of why they have really bad messaging, because they are more interested in politics than in science/reality. That leaves room for someone like Trump (the reality TV star) to do better messaging.

Biden/Harris were going around saying they wouldn't trust the vaccine. Governor Newsom was throwing large dinner parties after telling everyone to socially isolate. That's a strong indicator of people who don't care about science, and that's why they can't do better messaging than Trump.

The problem with free form worlds is they invariably turn into some kind of crappy reality TV show. That's the only way most people know how to interact with each other.

A clear example is the messaging on vaccines and masks. These aren't a matter of scientific debate: if everyone wears a mask and gets vaccinated, the pandemic will be slowed.

But, somehow it turned into "Biden is forcing us to do ..." whereas with a little better messaging, only crazy people would have minded. The problem wasn't the message, it was the way the message was delivered.