I find it hard to believe 9 other people as misinformed as you scrolled this far into this thread to upvote your theory that US troops never left Iraq they just died.

NATO is still currently in Iraq, the US 2,500 troops are only a part of the effort to hamper ISIS.

I feel like it could still get damaged or used as evidence in court if you get caught up in a crackdown.

Buy a Burner.

Are you confused about which comment thread you’re in? You said initially that the protests 20 years ago of the Iraq War were impotent and I pointed out that the US Involvment in Iraq sharply declined as a result of those protests, despite anti-NATO religious extremism presence growing in the region for many of the following years.

The number absolutely should not be 0. It’s a nation which actively funds and mobilizes religious extremists who imprison or execute homosexuals and treat women as cattle.

EDIT: in this context Iraq meant the local populace, not the government

In 2007 there were 170,000 troops in Iraq

In 2010 there were 88,000

In 2024 there were 2,500

I genuinenely did not know that WoW was still running, tbh.

I personally feel like a lot came out of it, though. The USA left Iraq for example.

100% has different cultures, however:

1. Not necessarily better, due to lack of enforceable centralized moderation policy a lot of morally grey or dark communities and instances exist, and it is more susceptible to bots.

2. Reddit was so absolutely massive compared to current Lemmy that it naturally did have more niches.

Some people still have strong possitive feelings for AIM.

Runescape outlived WoW and all the rest because people preferred it.

Defining contextual relationship between words sounds like predicting the next word in a set, mate.

You’re wrong but I’m glad we agree.

See thats just it, the AI doesn’t know either it just repeats things which approximate those that have been said before.

If it has any power to make changes to your account then its going to be mistakenly turning peoples services on or off, leaking details, etc.

You’ve heard of Early Adopters

Now get ready for Early Abandoners.

Other MMOs wish they could have been RuneScape

I think its easy and smart to make political decisions as a business, it simply has to come from a place of pure empathy for real people who actually exist.

Since you don’t know how to cite sources, the citation on Wikipedia says a BBC article claims Iran produces 90% of the world’s supply but due to sanctions due to their geopolitics and nuclear weaponization project it gets repackaged and sold as products of other countries like Spain, which would probably contribute to my being misinformed if true.

However I am not pulling anything out of my ass, Iran cut many former Agriculture Subsidies in the last decade, likely due to the aforementioned sanctions not allowing them to actually sell the product directly.

Building Nuclear Weapons solve exactly zero of their problems. Just look at North Korea as an example. I also don’t really like the prospects of another civil war in the Middle East.

Iran’s core problem in Geopolitics, lack of foreign investment despite an increasingly educated population, is due to their own underinvestment in agriculture and stifled private-sector growth due to government corruption and collusion. Most of their exports are oil and gas in most years. They recently had a multiple year recession where GDP continuously shrank.

Compare them to other middle eastern regions like Afghanistan which provides the majority of the world’s real Saffron and a hefty sum of Gold, Turkey which exports Cars, or Syria which exports Olive Oil. Iran has the climate and resources to expand and diversify in a lot of sectors but instead it continues to cut government subsidies and increase taxes, it’s just not sustainable.

Imagine being out hunting and you walk right near an old injured wild pig and it just sits there staring at you.

Be funny if the Predator pats the guy on the head before leaving.