When Egypt is the reasonable one … you know how bad it is

At this point it’s Putin (through Trump) who seems desperate to end the war. While I don’t want to see more Ukrainians dying, agreeing to a truce now seems like a bad idea.

Millions of refugees from Syria too

Yes, the way media writes about it is a huge part of their success. Even the media that nominally opposes them. It’s either “oh just another political option”, or “inhuman monsters of the far-right”. Either approach legitimizes them.

They reward increasing the number of people who are formally married, rather than the number of stable couples.
Such a wonderful example of misaligned incentives, only a politician could come up with it.

• Be a huge country of 300 million spread around thousands of islands
• Have centuries long naval tradition
• Your Navy is shit

Indonesia 🌈

immense, extended, extreme violence

It’s been 80 years since the last round of immense, extended, extreme violence. Those who remember and their children have died, even their grandchildren are old. Here we go again…

Like El Salvador didn’t have enough of their own criminals and prisoners, so now they are going to import more.

Ecuador elections are coming up on Feb 9. This seems to be a pre-election stunt, but I have not idea how could it possibly help the incumbent president get reelected.

Maybe king Charles could marry king Frederik, but only in Canada, putting you into a personal union

Make up some story about technically joining the EU when the UK did because you had the same Queen. But not being bound by Brexit vote.

M23 won the battle in the end, shows you can just walk around fortified positions if you have a high enough noncredibility rating.

Rwanda/Congo wars are always extremely noncredible. M23 leader has announced their main goal is marching on Kinshasa. It’s about ~1.500km away on the other side of Africa. With what logistics? But I don’t think it will stop them from trying (and maybe even succeeding)

Welcome!

For a while now Linux has been better at most personal computing things except gaming. And for server uses an even longer time.

There are some specific hardware/software situations where you’ll need Windows but it’s unlikely to happen at home. Unless you have very peculiar hobbies.

khm, khm
let gender

please don’t use deprecated syntax

Instantly redecorate. For best results use one per room

I’m using their optimized x64v4 repos on an otherwise plain Arch. No idea about any performance difference, I just want to make sure all the CPU progress in recent years doesn’t go to waste.

For all the romaboos around, they also make one with SPQR letters (only visible on the initial page)

Not sure what I ate but I just nuked my toilet. Does it count?

US in the 1970/80s were very deluded by thinking that “whoever we support == good guys”, no matter what they do. Huge foreign policy fail, and the reason they lost many potential allies.
And the reason Henry Kissinger had a website celebrating his death.

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