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"The definition of simulated gambling applies to any interactive activity within a video game and does not consider how much of the game consists of simulated gambling," reads the FAQ, which also notes the test for simulated gambling "does not consider the type of currency (in-game versus purchasable) used."

You don't need micro transactions to get the legal Restricted 18 label. The gacha games that you spend real money on get an M while any instance of casino games gets you an R18. I wanna know if they're including poker in that.

Dumb. They're giving restricted 18 to "simulated gambling" where money doesn't even change hands but actual gacha gambling that hits all the reward centers with real money and exchanges is M? I think they've got their wires crossed.

Most of the subsidies that article was talking about are actually domestic buyers subsidies.

BYD cars are actually more feature rich than US cars from what I see. One of their big selling points locally was karaoke from the infotainment system.

In reality it's all about the battery manufacture. It's the most expensive component and BYD is vertically integrated (they even mine their own lithium, they are a huge battery manufacturer in their own right and sell cells to other companies to make cars) and has done extensive research on making it cheap with their BYD blade. Nobody can afford to compete with them, but it's not because they're getting subsidies. It's because they're a company that's built completely different when you compare it to buying batteries from third parties.

The cry foul that people make is no company would've survived in building that sort of initial vertical integration without the government propping them up. That's right, but I don't see the US trying to develop an industry that even compares.

The Fediverse effect is much more entertaining. When every instance trys to retrieve a thumbnail and description of a link at the same time. Nobody even has to interact with said post to just give the place a DDOS flood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidative_stress#Diseases

Antioxidants may help with some of those conditions, but others are based on such underlying dysfunction that it would be like trying to bailing out a boat with big hole in the side. They're just not gonna do anything for you.

Aliens would need an oxidizer to metabolize as well, even if that oxidizer isn't oxygen. If they want to actually efficiently get energy out of things, it'll need to be a strong one. Even fermentation is a oxidation-reduction reaction that just doesn't use oxygen.

The incoming CEO kills the preceding CEO's cubs so the company will get back into estrus and they can have their own cubs.

This argument only really works against non-syncretic religions, and there's a whole lot of syncretic ones. It makes sense it would resonate to a British atheist though.

The thing to keep in mind with Plato's ideals is he's taking about actual divine ideals that you're attempting to connect yourself to in order to reach the truth of reality. So Plato's pure Eros isn't really dependent on the physical nature of something and is a love that supposedly connects you to the divine realm.

Vietnam had field artillery and Soviet fighter jets. They were a real army.