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Leave Bruno alone!

Three of the kids have passed away

Orion splashdown in less than 1 hour... What a view.

They are all great, although some I would say are more cute than funny

Yep. And the technology will only get better. I have a feeling it will become quite difficult to distinguish between a genuine image/video and an AI generated fakes in the future, which will be a proper nightmare in terms of misinformation, propaganda, and choosing what to believe.

@Rab I just started having the same issue I had previously - replying to a PM, but it doesn't work. EDIT: It works again.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/thanks-to-ai-its-probably-time-to-take-your-photos-off-the-internet/ This is quite an interesting read and experiment... The output is not perfect, but it's scary how easy it is to make something like that. @Mel81x

Yeah... I'm all for euthanasia/assisted suicide for terminally ill people who suffer, but this looks more like putting down desperate people who can't afford living.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11516989/Canadian-man-doctors-approval-euthanasia-despite-admitting-POVERTY-main-factor.html I know the source is dodgy, but nevertheless, this is so fucked up... And it seems it's not just this one case. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/11/canada-cases-right-to-die-laws https://globalnews.ca/news/9176485/poverty-canadians-disabilities-medically-assisted-death/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-disabilities-nears-medically-assisted-death-after-futile-bid-for-affordable-housing-1.5882202 https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/10/13/medical-assistance-death-maid-canada/ https://nypost.com/2022/11/08/canadian-man-assisted-suicide-being-pushed-on-me-by-hospital/ @Viva la FCB wtf?...

Düsseldorf should hire you as their PR manager

I've seen some of it in the past, the German show is called Bares für Rares. Not my kind of TV, I'm afraid...

That's a pity. I thought the story was really, really good. If you are not planning to play it, at least watch the ending! I'm putting it into spoiler tags, just in case

Yeah, that made me laugh too Have you played the first game? I really enjoyed it, but the sequel looks so much better

@Mel81x @Dr. Gonzo @Tommy Look how beautiful it is

WTF

Well, if they also made child labour legal again, then the whole family could work at the same place and spend 12 hours together!

You're not really wrong, they were indeed seen as one of the most secular and liberal societies in the region. After Suharto's autocratic rule was over in the late 90s, the country underwent a period of reformations and a largely successful transition to a functioning democracy with free and fair elections, more political and civil liberties, proliferation of independent media, decentralisation, and a largely tolerant, religiously-moderate society. All of that made it a leading (even if flawed) democracy in the region and Muslim world. Well, except Aceh, which is ruled under Sharia law, but that was an exception. However, the process started stagnating at some point, and now it appears it has been in decline for several years, with hardliner religious groups gaining more influence, and government utilising that to cement their own power. So in other words, another failure to separate religion and state.

Sad developments in Indonesia. The western media seems to be focusing on the laws making pre-marital sex and cohabitation illegal, and while it's definitely bad, the other new laws are way, way worse than that. Insulting the president, state institutions and government officials is now a crime which carries a prison sentence of up to 4 years. Protests and demonstrations without permit are now criminalised, participants can be imprisoned for up to 6 months. The new treason law carries a death penalty. Spreading any ideology that runs counter to the national ideology (Pancasila) is now banned and punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Blasphemy laws are expanded, and apostasy can now be charged as a criminal offense, carrying a prison sentence of up to 4 years. Reporting and spreading news that "can be suspected" to be misinformation or cause public unrest is punishable by up to 6 years in prison. At the same time though, the new laws will include more lenient sentences for those charged with corruption. You can't make this shit up.

Another exciting announcement.

This calls for a party tonight!

The 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka showed the importance of mangroves ecosystem pretty clearly, too - take two villages on the Southern Coast for comparison, one of them surrounded by 200ha of dense, healthy mangroves, the other one by severely damaged, degraded mangroves. The casualties in the first one were the lowest in all Sri Lanka, only 2. The second one had around 6000 people killed...

Omg he's back!

Bruno knows him! They worked together at Wolfsburg.

Free movie? Link? Me? What? Never... I don't know what he's talking about, officer, I swear!