Well, I'll have to admit, I didn't have "learning that someone on Slashdot believes that the Cold War was a myth" on my bingo card for today.

Wow, I had no idea you were dumb enough to fall for the Red Scare.

As nice as YouTube science content can be, shows like PBS Nova are still better because they had the budget to do better and the incentive to get it right.

You seem to be confusing "wanting to get rid of communists" with "wanting their countries to be poor and dangerous".

It's quite amusing that some troll follows me around modding down any comments where I suggest humans should cooperate with one another. They are literally proving my point by moving things backwards with their solitary cowardice.

As someone with no experience or qualifications, it sounds to me like he had a gambling addiction. He actually made a substantial profit on Dogecoin, but, instead of getting out then, he spent the money and gambled more.

That it's a competitive system is the problem. The world advances through cooperation.

You seem to have forgotten we have read your comments.

Good. Fuck off and don't come back, hypocrite.

I see that you are ignorant of the USA's entire history in Central and South America. This is my surprised face.

The Swiss aren't exactly an industrial powerhouse, nor scientific. The largest sectors employing more Swiss are the banking, finance, trading and insurance sectors. Chemicals and pharmacuticals are their main physical exports, which means they're pretty much competing with most of Europe. So local universities will not struggle to meet demand and there's a load of British/German/French institutions they could use as well, also remember that they're smack bang in the middle of western Europe with open borders, so already a lot of people work in Geneva but live in France. A commute from Germany to Zurich wouldn't be difficult either.

That being said, even though Switzerland is a very static country, it would still be a mistake.

The only reason anyone knows about them is that the BBC had an article about them this morning.

I suspect it's very much a circle jerk like the British Sandwich Awards (called the Sammies, I'm not making it up) and at best a well paying job for a mid-level commedian-slash-light-entertainer to host.

Gaming in general has always struggled to get any kind of gaming centric event on the social map, E3 before it collapsed and maybe PAX but even that seems passe now so the best we can hope for is a mention in a TV and Film award ceremony suich as the games category in the BAFTAs.

FWIW, I think Clair Obscur cleaned up.

Yep, but the last thing Disney wants is for copyright to be weakened... They'll have everyone doing to them what they did to the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, et al. that were never copyrighted.

As much as I agree with the sentiment, I think we should be careful with too much crowing. European fascists like le Pen, Farage and AFD are trying as hard as Russia possibly can push to get voted into power over here.

You're making it sound like Trump cares about the law. The republicans are too scared to speak up against him, the tame SCOTUS won't do anything... Your country's legal systems are effectively toothless.

Trump gets to rule by fiat and the Republicans and their backers have spent much of the last 8 years ensuring that their loyalists are in key positions.

I mean there are military troops in several US cities which are there on very dubious grounds (read: obviously there to punish and intimidate those Trump perceives as enemies and by enemies I mean people who didn't vote for him) above the express wishes of state governments or the local population.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

So why do you think Trump will care about any other law? There's no-one to stop him.

Here's the thing, I was never a part of Twitter... definitely not a part of the TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter.

My entire exposure to it from go to woah was via thrid parties... most notably reputable news agencies. As said news agencies care about their reputation, they've stopped quoting it as a source and social media in general. Twitter used to be very well cited, barely a BBC article used to go by without a section of "this is what some random twat on Twitter had to say about it" but that is all gone now.

Pretty much everyone I've spoken to has stopped using TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter because it's just become a cesspool of hate. You might not like that, but it is quite significant.