Yeah, that must have been it. It saved and showed up locally as a .jpg, but I didn’t notice that when uploaded it showed as .avif. Reuploaded a .png and it’s normal now.

I spotted it a couple years ago and made a note to look into it but never really did. Came across it again on sale for like three dollars so I bought it on a whim, maybe 7 or 8 months back. Been a lot more curious about it given recent events though.

Completely beside the point, but does anyone know why this post as it is listed in the comm is showing the image as an external link rather than just an image you can expand inline normally? When creating the post I just hit the browse button next to “image” and uploaded the image. After the fact I tried editing the post, putting in a url for a thumbnail but it didn’t make a difference.

That’s not really the case though, is it? Most great games are on all platforms and when it comes to exclusives, isn’t playstation known for having the superior selection?

I caved and let my curiosity have its way. And tbh the comments I’m reading aren’t all that bad! Even a little smattering of good ones.

Just another accident yeah? Laundry fire or something similar?

I must have missed the ones Flyberius is referring to.

Can’t skimp on the !

You’re very welcome. 🫡 And sorry to hear you were in pain, glad of course it’s improving though. Be well, comrade!

Some of this is more fresh in my mind because I recently listened to a new episode of Revolutionary Left (RevLeft) Radio that gets into it: From Persia to Iran: Islam, Empire, and the Politics of West Asia. You might want to give a listen. The guest is Adnan Husain (“Professor of Medieval history and Chair of the Religious Studies department at Queens college”) who also hosted the Guerilla History podcast. Anyway, they talk quite a bit in good depth about the history of Islam. The stuff I mentioned in my other comment I already mostly knew about, but there was a lot more in this episode that I learned. They also discuss the relevance of this deep history with respect to the current war the Great Satan and the Entity are waging against Iran.

I am also not an expert (would it be inappropriate to @ping a Muslim comrade to ask?) but @Maeve@kbin.earth is correct in saying that Shi’a Muslims believe that it is the direct descendants of Muhammad who are the divinely guided leaders of Islam. The first being Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammad’s son-in-law and the first Imam who is the figure that was at the center of the Sunni-Shi’a divide. Sunnis do not accept that leadership was meant to stay in a hereditary line through Ali’s family. They generally see the early succession as a matter for the Muslim community to decide. Which meant that back at the time of the division, Sunnis saw Abu Bakr as the first caliph.

Edit to add:

the schism that divides Shi’a and Sunni Muslims occurred relatively soon after the founding of the religion, like a century or two out.

Less than a century or two! The issue of succession that defined the split was essentially immediately after the death of the prophet Muhammad.

That doesn’t really address what I was wondering though. First of all, Bernie wasn’t successfully elected, for all the reasons you pointed out. But as an already-elected mayor of one of the largest and most politically and economically significant cities in the US, Mamdani (or a hypothetical actual socialist) has a fair amount of potential power to accomplish good things already despite the media control.

expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize literally any inconvenience ain’t that hard.

It’s not as though they didn’t try to do that with Mamdani already, because they tried to prevent his election using media control and failed. I realize they could ramp all that up, but he’s already in there doing some good things with the OP being an example, and I think there could be room for a lot more that bourgeois media control alone wouldn’t be able to prevent or squelch. And at some point, more drastic measures would have to be taken. I was just thinking about how far it could go before that happened, again despite media control. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t and never did think Mamdani would end up doing more than any typical socdem working within the capitalist structure, but I get very curious about where the potential lines are.

I guess it’s going to be tolerated as long as the damage to them is less than the damage which would be caused by removing him, and thus delegitimizing the remaining perceptions of democracy in the states

It makes me wonder just where that boundary is and how much he could feasibly do before it was decided, public perception of legitimacy be damned, that he must be taken out. That’s not to say I think he’ll ever actually even begin to approach that line, being the social democrat that he is. But when positive material gains like this are achieved, small as they may be in the grand scheme, I can’t help but wonder how much more might be possible within the given bourgeois framework before the ruling class deemed him or any hypothetical elected socialist too much of a nuisance to be worth maintaining the facade of democracy and just take him out.

Great comment btw.

Fennec is pretty good too.

Loooooooooove to see it

Iranian people

Genuine question,
Did you mean to say Cuban people or is this a comment on both Cuba and Iran being enemies to the US but with China providing aid, or something? Because if its that, some clarification would be apprciated.

That’s really interesting and not a perspective I see voiced around here much. It’s always the TrueAnon/Hasan rules: have nukes and if you’re ever accused of having nukes get them immediately. Which tbh always made good sense to me. But I realize podcasters and streamers aren’t necessisarily the most geopolitically astute.

All of the reasons listed above for not having them, despite everything that has happened, seem like really good points though. Then again, if Iran had developed nukes and demonstrated them a decade ago or more, it would be a completely different situation now that (I would imagine) would probably not bear much resemblance to how things panned out in this timeline.

Common China W.

Forgive my ignorance but how much energy does that produce vs how much Cuba needs? Is that a significant amount on a national scale or is it just a tiny drop in the bucket, and can they produce right away? More to the point, how far will this go to alleviate Cuba’s US-caused energy crisis? (It’s great no matter what).

Yeah.

I often wonder which of the hexbears whose posting I loved but who disappeared, actually only changed names and maybe posted less frequently, which of them simply moved on from the site, and which of them had irl events (either good or bad) that superseded their continued input here. It’s especially noticeable when I read years old threads and see names (some of whom I might have forgotten about otherwise) that hit me with a rush of nostalgia and think “damn, they were such an awesome poster! I wonder what ever happened to them…”

maybe these pictures are all from the first day Trump gave them the shoes?

Nope. See AernaLingus’s comment here. This has been going on for months.

I think that not only is the oversize a totally intentional choice by Trump, but that also his sycophants know he’ll be looking to see if they are in fact clomping around in shoes too big, so they have to wear them as proof of their deference to him.

This isnt news comrade

It’s not news itself, but it is a question relevant to recent (and in this case ongoing) news events. I’m pretty sure that’s considered acceptable for a top level newsmega comment. Random not-news related questions or commentary is obviously frowned on and will get removed, but as long as it is directly pertinent to current international news events, questions like this are permitted, maybe even encouraged if they generate discussion with analysis.

That’s what I remember from when the finer detail rules were discussed a while back, and rule 6 of the sidebar seems to be in line with that interpretation. But if I’m wrong, I’d be happy to be corrected.