I just described money…

Maybe we should all specialize, and pay each other with our own goods, or better yet, a sort of representation of goods we all agree is valuable, so you can get one persons goods with anothers.

In the end all that changes is a Saudi company on NSA checks instead of a US one.

I believe the answer can be broken into three parts:

1. valid criticism, when a movie is genuinely bad and has a female lead, the valid criticisms of the film are overdhadowed by slop online articles criticizing fans for not supporting women and hating a female lead. Captain Marvel is a good example of this. The movie has genuine issues, and is not considered a good Marvel movie, but the overall online discussion focused around Marvel fans not supporting a female lead superhero movie, when Wonder Woman found success and Captain America: The Winter Soldier is arguably colead by Scarlett Johanson.

2. Pre box office reactions. Any movie which can be summed up as “X but with women” lands here. Same with any movie which intentionally admonishes the male audience and advertises itself as for women and only, then get mad men didn’t see the movie. Charlie’s Angels, Ghostbusters, and Captain Marvel fall into this category.

3. Genuine oddities and sexism. I believe this applies to the gaming industry more than the film indistry, but it can blead over. I believe the initial outrage over _The Marvels _ was this, but the movie ended up having major issues and went to category 1.

BG3 and the Cyberpunk dlc sold really well, proving you can turn a good profit from old school single player games still. Simultaneously, live service games like Concord, Suicide Squad, and Dragon Age sold terribly, the current copium is the massive losses from live service will push developers and publishers back towards single player games they can get a nice profit from compared to possible huge losses.

The truth is, the only way good games will be made again is when the publicly traded aaa companies die out and privately owned indie companies rule the scene.

Yes

I travel quite a bit.

Oh .ca is still with .ml, I go there to laugh every once in a while.

Actually the Chinese high speed rail is littered with issues. Safety is obviously an issue, most stories that escape the bubble and make it west are about steel quality in the tracks causing cracking and closures.

The other issue is economics. Sure, China has a lot of high speed rail, but a lot of it goes nowhere important, connecting small cities where a normal train line would have been more economical and practical for the sole reason of claiming more high speed rail than any ither country. This has lead to a huge expansion in the governments “hidden debt” to over 1 trillion usd from the rail line operator alone. This is only for laying the lines themselves does not even account for new trains or maitenance or stations and services.

Also, if the recognized speed of high speed rail is 125mph like wikipedia says, America has a decent amount, it just so happens large cities are spread apart across the continent and flying is more economical than high speed rail.

I wish .ca would list a reason for defederation.

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It may not be a utopian country with unlimited freedom, but at the end of the day we are still more free than China with the insane focus on our policies and problems.

.world, hexbear, and another big one all defederated with dbzer0 since they host a lot of piracy and grey area legal content.

For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.