Thanks for the offer, but I got Postal 2 ages ago before the block was implemented.

You need age verification. And not of the “upload a picture for an AI to take a look at” kind, but the kind where a government worker checks your ID. So some games, e.g. Postal 2, are just blocked in Germany as a result.

And I guess if you’re located in Germany, you already can’t buy these games, and therefore also can’t claim this giveaway.

The whole exponential improvement hypothesis assumes that the marginal cost of each improvement stays the same. Which is a huge assumption.

A superintelligence would likely quickly become the sovereign of the earth. And it’s generally a good idea to kill the old elite after conquering a nation, then install new ones. The new ones will like you, because you made them rich, and they’ll fear you, because you killed off all of their predecessors. Of course, there’s also the risk that a super intelligence would just do away with humans in general. But anybody holding significant power right now is much more at risk.

And we can’t forget that we currently can’t even build something that’s actually intelligent, and that a super intelligence might not actually be possible.

None of those are funny.

Reminds me of the Omegle zombie survival game:

1. You have six shotgun shells.
2. Connect to a random person.
3. If they ask “ASL”, they’re a Zombie. If you have a shotgun shell left, you shoot them and use up one shell. If not, they bite you and you die.
4. Ask “What is OP?”. If they give the correct answer, they’re a fellow survivor, and both of you refill your shotgun shells.

Which actual criminals can circumvent, and takes away anonymity from children, which is by far the best protection for them. So yeah, if you want to protect children, this is a serious step back.

A thing about how the group’s goals are contradictory: Sex education is probably the best tool to protect children from sexual exploitation. So stopping sex ed aids child molesters, by making it easier to manipulate children.

Even better name would be the Washington Epstein List.

Then why did you cite a source that doesn’t claim that the CIA was supporting the right wingers?

So, do you have any actual evidence that the CIA got involved in the years of lead? Or are you seriously trying to tell me that the Red Brigades were CIA puppets?

Reading through the article it appears that the group that carried out the most assassination was the Brigado Rosso, or Red Brigades. Interestingly, they also killed a prominent politician of the Christian Democrats, Aldo Moro, who was actively looking into working with the communist party, and his assassination killed his party’s plans to work with the Communist Party.

The CIA appears to have been involved only marginally, being mentioned only only at one point where fascists ask them if the USA would theoretically support a coup. (Technically they’re also mentioned in the list of parties involved in the conflict, as alleged supporters of the fascists). While this doesn’t prove that they weren’t involved, I did expect there to be more proven CIA meddling based on your earlier claims.

It appears that the CIA wasn’t to blame for the leftist’s. In fact, it seems like the Marxist-Leninist Red Brigades killed people until they had no allies left, thus being unable to sustain their campaign of assassinations. So, yeah, basically your source completely undermines your position.

Does it count as repeatedly when its in a time loop?

Source?

Why?

The problem here isn’t that the games are bad, it’s that people are being taken advantage off. A lot of effort goes into making these games as enticing to spend to spend money as possible, which leads to people spending more money on them than they can afford. Vulnerable people are being taken advantage off, and that’s not okay.

Your behavior would have gotten you kicked out of a high school debate club by now.

So wait, what things make me a pathetic coward?

It’s not the fact that you don’t have power, it’s the how you’d yield it if you had it. Because even if you’d have power, you’d be too scared to yield it. Want to prove me wrong? Answer me this: How do you think global warming should be solved? Or outline how society could be improved in general? Up to now, you only told me how you’d not solve global warming. Only told me of things you’d avoid doing. Show me some things you’d do if you had power of an absolutist monarch.

I’m judging you based on what you wrote about your position, which is all I do know about you, as well as what you chose to broadcast about yourself. And you paint yourself as a pathetic coward. You’re absolutely pathetic, even without comparing you to anybody else.

Should we stop pumping oil right this very minute? Do you think the world will be ready by 2050 to effectivly ban the sale of fossil fuel? We are yet to globally REDUCE carbon emissions, we’ve only decelerated so far and by a tiny amount. We are no where near ready to make the change. Unless you are willing to cause a massacre by shutting off the oil wells?

And a big reason why we, as a species, have not made any progress on that front, is because of cowardice. Decisions are being made by people who stand to profit from fossil fuels, or are too scared of the economic consequences of combating fossil fuel dependency. Even though the transition itself would help mitigate those consequences, e.g. new jobs created for green energy development would offset jobs loss due to the necessary structural change.

I want things to be better, you’re right. And we all play a part in improving it. Right now I actually work in solar power infanstructure, is that pathetic? I vote against fossil fuels, and I am happy my country is cutting off gas and forcing people to be more electric.

Individual action, while laudable, will not help without systemic change, which you are too scared to advocate for.