yeah but they were at war when they joined so they were grandfathered in

the nordic systems are based on popular sovereignty by proportional representation, which lies in opposition to separation of power.

no, not every democracy. every government performs those roles but they are not all split the same way. the nordic countries are single-branch and he chinese government has many more than three.

No branch of government should be allowed to accumulate too much power.

tell me you’re from the us without telling me you’re from the us. what’s a “branch of government”?

poor moomin

it’s mostly the interface, the layout, the clickbaityness the format encourages, and the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.

they’re ass because they’re inconsistent, have aliasing issues, are obviously stretched/squashed, are put against a noisy background, and in some cases are just wrong.

and no, if the name was not on it i would not assume that the ps4 was a ps4. it looks like a modem. and the 360 has a keyhole for some reason.

the graphics are ass, and the text is hard to read

maybe i do then because i just keep staring and thinking “how in the world did anyone sign off on this mess”. if it’s not ai, that makes it even worse.

for the asymmetry on the switch i was mostly referring to the silhouette. should havj clarified that.

ok so theyre just bad at it.

the proportions are off and the lines are crooked. there’s also the typical latent noise on places like the controller buttons.

the buttons on the switch and ps2, the asymmetry of the ps1 and switch, the logo on the ps4, and the lack of pixellation and strange proportions of the 360 and ps3. also the fact that only some of them have controllers depicted.

oh great, ai generated pixel art.

i mean python is 99% backwards compatible so as long as you tell your tooling you’re working with 3.10 it will warn you about using stuff that’s too new. that’s why the shipping version is usually enough. in general it’s not recommended to have multiple versions of python3 installed at the same time, but if you are a habitual venv user it’s usually not a problem. however i have also run into the issue of some versions being “too new” for a project, where the thing just would not work with newer versions.

basically, if your issue is only that you don’t want to “contaminate” an older codebase, that can be solved by configuring your tooling. but if your issue is that the thing just doesn’t work with the “wrong” version, you’re probably best of using a container. a user installation of the version you want will work but having multiple installations is annoying.

use something like uv to install whatever python version you want and set up a venv with it. that way you can have project-specific python versions.

for this to be accurate superman would need a ball window

gta2 is still my favourite of the series. the first game was so damn janky that i could barely play it but the second one is smooth as butter, and with the artstyle they chose it looks really unique.

interesting conclusion, maybe you should publish? you seem to have more info than they did ten years ago.

here’s one. it’s a paper from microsoft research researching why so many scammers say they are from nigeria, but the same premise applies:

Far-fetched tales of West African riches strike most as comical. Our analysis suggests that is an advantage to the attacker, not a disadvantage. Since his attack has a low density of victims the Nigerian scammer has an over-riding need to reduce false positives. By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.