ArjinFerman
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ArjinFerman
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1d ago
...and just to drive the point home...
EU ties €35bn fund release to Hungary’s break with Orbán era
To unlock the funds, Hungary would need to meet 27 conditions, including anti-corruption checks and a rollback of Orbán-era decisions deemed in breach of EU rules, from the treatment of asylum seekers to ensuring academic freedom.
Which would include the anti-LGBTQ+++ law I brought up with @Stefferi.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
No, it's not. It's only purpose was to antagonize Christians, and that story was invented for gaslighting purposes.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
Yeah, but other Republican candidates weren't necessarily better than Kamala, or were perceived as worse than Trump at winning the general election. There's tonnes of these kind of strategic concerns people have when making their choice. Everybody knows this when they're talking about their own side (why do you think the Dems picked a shambling corpse for a candidate that they later had to eject in the las minute?), but conveniently forgets it when talking about their enemies.
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
This comment is my external motivator to finish the scene.
Would you like a weekly ping like I do for Southkraut?
ArjinFerman
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1d ago
In my defense, it's literally impossible for me to do so. I don't live in America, and even if I moved there and got citizenship, I would not be eligable to run.
That said, he's the one that made the argument that these type of people go to prison, I think it's reasonable to ask if this is indeed the case, no?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
That's hardly the same policy.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
How did that turn out?
The US has just like every other country and organization in the history of the world done bad shit at times. In the US when this has been discovered it has usually resulted in scandal, firings, and at times jail.
First of all, who went to prison for sponsoring the FSA or Afghan kiddie-diddlers? Secondly, which part of "I don't care" don't you understand? I think various states, including the US , have done a lot worse things than sponsoring terrorism, so I don't fret over you doing it, and I won't over Iran doing it either.
Generally speaking the really bad stuff has been an accident or orthogonal to the goal.
Literally everybody says that.
Iran's explicit foreign policy is terrorism.
Do you happen to have a link the an official Iranian policy statement that explicitly promotes terrorism?
They do this to such an extent that it seems that stopping their terrorists was an existential threat, and is how we got the current awful situation.
To who does it seem this way? Iran didn't start bombing people until you attacked them, so I don't see how it would be existential to them. It's definitely not existential to the US, and even calling it this for Israel seems like a massive stretch.
Support of these things is....bad. It has eroded international norms, changed our relationship with unacceptable tactics like using hospitals as military bases.
Again, I see no reason to attribute it directly to Iran. The US or Israel do not answer for the crimes of every proxy they sponsor.
Somehow they've run a highly successful pro-terrorism PR campaign that has dramatically damaged the Western coalition.
Do you want to know what the PR campaign was? It was your little "global war on terror", that promised to bring peace and stability to the region if only you topple Saddam Hussein, and only brought death, misery, and more terrorism, immediately lined up Iran as the next "final boss" who's fall is supposed to bring peace, and is already prepping to set up the next one after that. All Iran had to do was sit back, and let you do you work.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
Sort of... I guess this is where the "long" part of the long march comes in. Sure, you can still see conservative influence on these institutions, but it's still seems pretty obviously being chipped away at.
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
I don't quite see the point of the exclusivity, though, be it geographic or ethnic.
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2d ago
Some of the things he's done, notably on migration, necessarily involved picking fights with Brussels.
The EU institutions have never been committed to unlimited immigration
Hungary asylum policies 'failed' to fulfill EU obligations.
The claims from the pro-EU people here are bizarre, it's like we can't admit the EU made a mistake, let alone that they tried forcing it on others, so when the wind starts blowing in a different direction we have to do the "we have always been at war wit Eastasia" bit.
A deal where Hungary lets in a small number of vetted refugees (who are already settled in Italy) in exchange for a large amount of cash and promises not to close its intra-EU borders works for both sides.
Hungary has never closed it's borders to EU citizens, and as for the rest, what if they don't want large amounts of cash for a """small number""" of """vetted""" """refugees"""? Is it perhaps the case that "some of the things he's done, notably on migration, necessarily involved picking fights with Brussels"?
ArjinFerman
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2d ago
- i don't really care much for the "US has done bad things argument". "All is fair in love and war" (well, within reason), so supporting some shady guys doesn't really faze me. However, this is why I don't understand the moral outrage about Iran and it's proxies.
- You did a bit more then "send some guns" in Afghanistan, these guys were joined to you at the hip.
- I'll need more than your sayso to believe the "effectively the same as an additional military arm of the state" bit. Exaggerating the enemies' transgressions and downplaying your own is basic human nature, and something that every human collective has done since the dawn of time. The US military, intelligence, and foreign policy apparatus is also no different from that of other states, in that it lies all the time to promote it's goels. All in all you might sell me on the difference of scale (show me the numbers, though), but I don't know if I can buy the difference in kind, unless it's argued by a neutral observer (and I don't know if one even exists right now).
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3d ago
In Afghanistan you supported literal Bacha Bazi enjoyers. In Syria you supported the Free Syrian Army.
I find the question bizarre and naive in general. You think there are many militias in the Middle East that don't engage in rape, murder, and torture, that the US can pick and choose from? The only reason you haven't heard about this is that Israel can blast their own cries through a friendly megaphone, while everybody else gets a shrug.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
That's a world apart from the US dropping off some RPGs and training to the Taliban against the USSR.
You were doing that crap up until a few years ago, and that's assuming you're not doing it still. It just comes off as "it's ok when we do it".
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Nothing, why would it be otherwise? The US and Israel don't answer for every crime of every militant group they sponsor.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
For the sake of US readers here I think it’s worth pointing out that what American right-wing political wonks think of as the long march through the institutions never really did happen in the Central European countries that integrated to the EU and NATO.
I mean... the integration into the EU was the long march. It had it's advantages, like gradually replacing the blatant communist "you better have an envelope with you, if you want to get anything done" corruption with "we follow the law, it just so happens that the law says we need to give money to a network of "N"GOs to tell us to do what we wanted to do anyway" corruption, but the establishment institutions are just as cooked as the American ones.
Please define "acting more rationally"
"Acting proportionally to an aggression" for a start.
What specifically is it about of the US, Israel, and the Gulf States recent dealings with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the IRGC that you view as "irrational"
The bombing campaign in itself far exceeds anything Iran has done against US or Israel, and threatening to bomb their civilian infrastructure was psychotic.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
For the same reason it's happening to Spain or Greece? It doesn't matter what the immigrants themselves ideally would want.
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3d ago
- EU founding values: Commission starts legal action against Hungary and Poland for violations of fundamental rights of LGBTIQ people - July 15, 2021
- Commission refers HUNGARY to the Court of Justice of the EU over violation of LGBTIQ rights - July 15, 2022
- In the light of the foregoing considerations, I propose that the Court: Declare that, by adopting (Law LXXIX of 2021 adopting stricter measures against persons convicted of paedophilia and amending certain laws for the protection of children), Hungary has failed to fulfil its obligations under EU law in the following ways... - June 5, 2025
Just off the top my head, and I think I recall a similar case about their immigration policy. This is without getting into how the EU pushes it's cultural agenda by attaching strings to investment/infrastructure funds (the Polish case got dropped because they were content to twist their arms that way), or how they blatantly manipulate member states' elections.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
It's fine, I didn't bet for the money.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
The "continuous fights it picks with the EU" are precisely about the EU decision makers not being happy with the type of people Hungary elects for itself, and the domestic/cultural policy it wants to set.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
Even after you've decapitated half of their leadership, they're still acting more rationally than either the US or Israel, so quite a lot, actually.
ArjinFerman
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3d ago
I will again point out that this would still be true, if you reinstated African slavery today.
ArjinFerman
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4d ago
Hard to say without being able to read someone's mind, and you might as well ask the same question about mass migration supporters.
I got back to working on handling of the background textures, and a lot of the time was spent debugging... which with shaders is tricky. No debugger, no text output, so you're left with translating variables into something visual, and playing divide-and-conquer games with your own code. The issue was that the texture immediately under the player worked fine, and the dying bugs got rendered to it, but the ones surrounding couldn't properly calculate the relative coordinates of the bug, and in the end everything was always rendered out of bounds (i.e. not rendered). It turned out to be a stupid copy-paste error where I was using the wrong variable, but the good news is that it works now.
Now I'm trying to handle the player moving around. If you go leftward and leave the background texture immediately behind you, the textures to the right should unload, and new ones to the left should be created (and if you come back, the old textures should be reloaded). Related to this, I'm wondering how to manage memory issues. If the background textures are small, it's easy to zoom out far enough that no background is visible. If they're big they eat up quite a bit of memory (and still don't necessarily cover the whole screen). I found out it's possible to create a compressed Rendering Device texture, and that the compression is quite good on them, but these are read-only. So the current plan is to read the background texture being unloaded from the GPU, create a compressed texture from it, and keep it on the more distant background sprites. After that I might add a second layer of storage, where they get saved to the hard drive, and reloaded as needed.
How have you been doing @Southkraut?
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