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Konrad retweeted
My 2 cents: SBMM means you keep playing the same game against the same people (ie people who play the same way and the skill as you even if they are different players) so the games lack diversity especially when the constant challenge keeps players playing the meta instead of diversifying their load outs. You also never feel your self get better because the games are always the same difficulty. As you get better so does everyone in your lobbies. There is more to it of course. Ranked is a great place for SBMM but in pubs I'd rather play against a diversified lobby. Generally there will be some people better than you and some worse. And for me that is what made older CoDs more fun because SBMM was minimal.
Konrad retweeted
This is the kind of headline you read and your mind just refuses to believe it. You assume there must be some exaggeration or misinformation, or some nuanced fact is being exploited to paint an inaccurate picture.
Because surely it cant be this, right? Surely theres no way a 20 y/o man could have his sentence overturned because it wasnt established at his trial whether he "thought he was having consensual sex with a 10 y/o".
But then you read the article (article 🔗'd in reply) and thats literally what it is. This is what makes ppl think our leaders hate us, this is what deligitimizes the Liberal project in many people's minds.
Like many liberal-minded people of my generation, I grew up believing that progressivism promised a better way, a more fair and just world, where people really WERE judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
When I see stuff like this, i cannot help but think something is deeply wrong with the state of the modern Left. After all, to paraphrase the psycho from No Country For Old Men:
"If the liberalism you followed brought you to this....of what use was your liberalism?"
Konrad retweeted
Nayib Bukele: “There is no State that cannot defeat criminals. If a State does not defeat criminality, it is because the State is complicit.” @nayibbukele
Konrad retweeted
This Labour government has completely lost the plot.
Their proposed under 16s social media ban could now extend to Spotify, Lego Play and YouTube Kids.
We're talking about children listening to music, playing Lego games and watching educational videos.
What sort of ridiculous, dystopian nonsense is this?
These are the sort of absurd, authoritarian measures you would expect to see in a dictatorship, not a supposedly free country.
The government needs to stop treating parents like idiots and children like prisoners.
🚨NEW: The government is now expanding it's proposals for an Under-16s social media ban to include Spotify, Lego Play and YouTube Kids
[@guardian]
Konrad retweeted
Imagine not being pro death penalty
This happened in January this year when burglar john coker access a old man home by pretending to be fire alarm engineer.
John coker who had 172 previous offences including 80 offencs against vulnerable people.
He was jailed for 4 years 8 months but at a court of appeal his sentence was rise to 9 years 8 months.
Cctv released by the family..
Konrad retweeted
> be El Salvador
> send nerds to Haiti for UN thingie
> gang kidnaps Salvadorian nerds
> bukele says "give back"
> gang "nah"
> bukele says "ok we take back"
> gang "nah, also you're a bitch"
> bukele comes to take back
> gang "wtf that's illegal, UN tell them something"
> UN says "idk bro thats crazy"
> bukele goes on social media
> "does anyone know this houses coordinates? we will bomb it"
> crowdsources OSINT nerds
> OSINT nerds deliver exact coordinates in like, 30 minutes
> bombs it exactly as promised
> goes on social media
> calls them pussies
tl;dr OSINT nerds on Twitter called in Airstrike like it's Call of Duty, never been seen before on social media
Konrad retweeted
These motherfuckers are terrified that Bukele will actually solve the problem. That his solution to violence and corruption is and has always been the only real solution. 75 years of nation-building aid strategies accomplished nothing worldwide; Bukele helped Haiti in a week.
The worry, if President Nayib Bukele’s ambitions in Haiti turn out to be large, is of a scorched-earth strategy that kills a lot of civilians economist.com/the-americas/2…
Konrad retweeted
It's just adult websites, do you want kids watching porn?
It's just social media, do you want kids being bullied?
It's just ... ebay and depop?
Yeah. Age verification was obviously never going to stop at the "bad" stuff and soon we're all going to be carded to buy used books
Carded before shopping on eBay? That could be a reality in the U.K. reason.com/2026/11/09/u-k-lo…
Konrad retweeted
imagine getting 5 years in prison for having a porno of yourself sitting on your partners face when actual rapists are being released early because of the lack of prison room
the uk is something else
Konrad retweeted
Le mensonge de l’ONU vient de s’effondrer en une semaine sur Haïti.
Pendant 30 ans, l’ONU et la « communauté internationale » ont multiplié les résolutions, les missions (MINUSTAH, MSS, GSF), les rapports, les expertises et les mandats limités.
Résultat : les gangs contrôlent 80-90 % de Port-au-Prince, des milliers de morts par an, plus d’un million de déplacés, un État fantôme. La Force de Suppression des Gangs, autorisée par le Conseil de sécurité, a mis plus d’un an à déployer environ 1 500 hommes avec un impact dérisoire. Les gangs ont même réussi à tendre une embuscade à des techniciens salvadoriens sous mandat ONU.
Bukele arrive. En une dizaine de jours, il déploie plus de 2 000 soldats salvadoriens davantage que toute la force ONU, hors du carcan bureaucratique et des chaînes de commandement multilatérales. Pas de six mois de négociations, pas de rapports de 200 pages, pas de « respect des droits des gangs ». Juste des soldats, des blindés, des hélicoptères, et une volonté claire.
Et soudain, les gangs se cachent. Les habitants sortent dans la rue, crient, célèbrent. Le mot d’ordre est simple : « Se débloque le pays ». Les chefs de gangs appellent l’ONU pour « dialoguer » et demander la médiation. La panique s’installe chez ceux qui terrorisaient le pays depuis des années.
Ce n’est pas un miracle. C’est la démonstration que le problème n’a jamais été « trop complexe pour être résolu ». Le problème, c’était le dogme : que seule l’approche multilatérale molle, procédurale, obsédée par les « droits humains » des criminels, pouvait être légitime. Que la souveraineté, la force décisive et les résultats concrets étaient suspects.
Bukele a déjà prouvé chez lui qu’on pouvait casser les gangs. Il vient de le montrer en Haïti en une semaine, pendant que l’ONU en parlait depuis trois décennies. Les Haïtiens dans la rue l’ont compris plus vite que les experts de New York et de Genève.
La question n’est plus « comment faire ? ».
Elle est : combien de temps encore allons-nous prétendre que les processus internationaux qui perpétuent le chaos sont la seule solution possible ?
A bon entendeur.
Konrad retweeted
defund all public services & youth clubs and give teenagers nothing to do except be online, then ban them from being online, and then ban them from speaking to their friends online. masterful gambit from the uk government i have to say
UKs Online Safety Minister has announced all in-game chat will be placed behind an ID gate. Cutting of teenagers from the ability to socialise, risking the cybersecurity of gamers and driving up costs for Gaming industry gamersvoice.org/uk-gaming-re… #SaveOurGames #Stopkillinginternet
Konrad retweeted
> You live in the UK
> You are forced to leak your government ID to random gaming companies
> They get data breaches
> Now your info is being sold to thieves and scammers
> The government can send you to prison for a comment you made online
What’s horrible about these laws is that once they pass, they never go back
The antis surely are quiet about all the censorship that goes on
It’s as if they would not want to admit that censorship is a slippery slope
Konrad retweeted
'Don't ask me what the law I wrote is supposed to mean in practice, just trust that the courts and agencies will use it to discourage bad things' is a completely unacceptable explanation. You are a legislator. Your job is to legislate what the courts & agencies do. Do your job.
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