The flag of the Chinook Nation is one I recall seeing and thinking it was very unique, memorable, and aesthetically pleasing.

I also like the trident on the flag of Barbados.

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There is something about the aesthetics of Greenland’s flag I just really like. It’s simple but pleasing on the eyes. Maybe the way that the circle is offset, rather than centered.

I remember during the initial console reveal, basically the only thing they had to say was that the sticks are larger and smoother (in motion, not the caps themselves).

I don’t know if they mentioned much else later, but they were very tacit about their durability/longevity. I don’t have much hope that things will be better, at any rate. I still bought a Switch 2, because I know it will still bring me joy to play, but as much as I enjoyed the comfort of playing with a Joycon in each hand, I’ve learned from the original Switch to avoid using the Joycons where possible and opt for a separate controller when playing docked (I’m just using the Pro Controllers I have left over from my original Switch).

Seems like the sort of thing that might be used to set up like a mobile command station or something. If a disaster occurs and some agency/organization needs to stand up operations at a new location immediately, things like that

Definitely highly situational, but I’m sure some agencies out there are willing to pay a pretty penny for convenience during those types of situations.

Yep, this is generations of slowly gutting public education at work.

The privileged kids get to go to fancy private schools, many of which are ironically now funded by the public (who don’t get to send their kids there). Everyone else goes to underfunded public schools, which have tragically underpaid teachers who run the risk of losing their jobs if they don’t give every student a passing grade. Teachers in struggling school districts are just shoving their students’ deficiencies onto the next grade up, which continues to snowball until you end up with a majority of high school seniors graduating with a 7th grade reading level at best.

In saying that, it’s not all doom and gloom, but it highlights a key disparity that affects some parts of the US more than others. Some US states actually have very good public school systems, up there with high performing countries in Europe and Asia. But when considering how bad the average is in the US, it means that there are a lot of states that are substantially worse than that, where things are just incredibly dire.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the lowest performing states are mostly in the southern US.

I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they’re the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn’t matter.

You’re spot on, to the extent that there is a concept describing exactly this: American Exceptionalism.

More gooners on PC than PlayStation I guess

Brigading, supposedly, but really they were just the most prominent alt-right sub on the site and banning them was more of a PR move than anything else. Meanwhile, the users (and bots/astroturfers) who participated in that sub just went elsewhere and kept doing the same heinous shit they were doing before, tacitly supported by the admins as the general politics of the site continued to skew further right.

Could just go with Thrall for a Warcraft character. He wasn’t on the box for WoW 1.0, but he is basically the face of Warcraft as a franchise.

I feel like a WoW console release is destined to happen eventually, though, now that Microsoft owns them. We’ll have to see.

The kid who blew up a fertility clinic (and himself) in Palm Springs was a moderator of !antinatalism@lemmy.world, for what that’s worth. Not a war, and the only fatality ended up being himself, but definitely an act of violence with an intent to kill that was connected to a specific community on this platform.

I thought the first Guardians of the Galaxy was great, if only because (at the time) it was an unconventional casting choice and made a statement that this Marvel movie was going to be tonally different from the rest.

Following Guardians of the Galaxy, every Marvel movie started to become like Guardians of the Galaxy, and Chris Pratt started to get typecast as “action hero” rather than “hopeless goofball,” which was his original purpose for being in Guardians of the Galaxy in the first place.

I think we’re having separate conversations, this is about a much needed people’s revolution by the citizens in Iran to course correct for the Western meddling that landed them in their current situation.

Sure, not saying Iran doesn’t have the right to defend itself.

Revolution is sort of a separate consideration, however. Governments often use war as an excuse to continue eroding the basic rights of citizens, and Iran is no stranger to theocratic fascism. Revolutions can begin during wars.

1940’s China paused its revolution in order to face the existential threat of Japan. On the other hand, 1910’s Russia began its revolution during the ongoing conflict of the Great War. The people will reach a breaking point whenever things become too intolerable. It’s different for each example.

Based on your other comment, I’m inclined to agree with the liberals.

Yes I condemn Israel, this isn’t an either/or type of situation. Both countries are shitty.

I expect them to stop harming their own civilians, too.

We don’t need to cheer on an oppressive, totalitarian regime just because they’re at odds with another oppressive, totalitarian regime.

Reddit wasn’t big enough back then either, it was only since Spez took over after Ellen Pao that you started to see more corporatization/astroturfing of the platform.

A website full of young 20-something gamers and tech bros just tends to skew a certain way politically.

I’m not in the UK, but I recall Iran being in the media a lot in China and the US. Back when Trump assassinated one of their generals during his first term, the recurring abductions and rapes of women and young girls by the morality police that sparked nationwide protests, the arms they are providing for Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, and now Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iranian infrastructure and citizens.

The worst is when you are looking up a problem, find a thread like that, and the only reply is the same person saying “Nevermind, I figured it out!”

WHAT DID YOU FIGURE OUT???

Not sure how you got any of that from what I was saying. Feel free to take your black and white worldview somewhere else.