You might be able to get through the story and a couple of maps pretty easily without a guide, later acts will be difficult if you specced really wrong, but if you want to run endgame content and league mechanics while on a hardcore solo self founded character then you better go get fucking gud, mate.
I have used Gimp for years and I actually do not understand this meme. Like, do you not understand how image selection and/or layers work? What tf did you think would happen except for exactly what happens?
I can't say exactly the scope of Chinese influence on YT or FB/IG, but we know they're 100% present. In fact, some time ago, CCP propaganda was flooding YT Shorts with machine generated content. We also know that FB have in the past been used for largescale campaigns to influence elections, they were fined 5 Billion USD by the FTC over the Cambridge Analytica scandal alone and pay similar fines frequently in Europe.
Yes, these sorts of operations are pretty commonly carried out by all of the world powers, but that's the highest form of whataboutism. It's a problem now that negatively affects us, it's not hypocritical to want to solve the problem. And China is #1 most problematic, in part because it's a top world power and a dictatorship and also because of the scale and frequency of their attacks on democracy.
China has been closing off it's commercial sector, recently. It plans to import less to allow their local corporations to dominate markets.
China benefits from destabilizing the west (and India). Their online campaigns on various social media networks tend to promote misinformation, which correlates highly with conservative and far-right ideologies. TikTok in particular served as a pipeline into far right radicalization.
I'm not denying there is a problem within, and I'm not claiming China only pushes far right, but to claim that Chinese operations aren't noticeably impacting western politics in the most negative ways possible is just pure ignorance.
Also, it's clearly way more important that we let Chinese Intelligence Operations in broad daylight tell our youths to vote for nazis to destabilize the regions rather than peacefully coexist and solve out problems. After all, how else will we get communism if not that? /s
Some versions like Home and Education might lack the options, but most Enterprise versions and LTSC versions can let you delay updates via the menu or disable updates completely via group policy fuckery.
American here, never once heard this phrase used. Seems kind of dumb to have it, like it doesn't even save time describing the situation and if you're already talking about this then you're past the point of vulgar language.
Remember when that time traveler posted Gibby with a Stop Sign memes about Queen Elizabeth's death but due to the nature of butterfly effects she lived another few years? Good times.