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Mother fucker, I can see that’s your library card. Don’t test me. I’m elite hax.

Ok, NVM Trump is great, super reliableand Nato is not at all in a state of disrepair. Got it.

But boy what a stupid move it proved to be to join Nato in panic. Historic blunder by Finland and Sweden.

Rescued to a sinking ship with a mad captain, where the mid-level officers are just running around in disbelief, unable to decide between doubling down on loyalty to the captain or taking command for themselves. Who will the captain shoot next? Will he shoot at all against the people he’s sworn to protect you from?

That’s kind of an understatement with a party that can track it’s roots to Benito Mussolini.

Dems in 2026:
“OK, sounds good!”

Yes and no, it moves the goal post and makes it harder for some criminals/terrorists to launder money. But organized crime is one of the largest business sectors in the world, so many have large incentives to get around the rules.

It’s helpful to think of crime as a (or many separate) business sector(s) in this context, because at large scale criminals can benefit from much of the economic infrastructure that is required for legitimate international businesses, particularly modern businesses that sell things that don’t cost much/anything to produce (doesn’t have a fixed profit margin), such as subscriptions, streaming or intellectual property (e.g. music or games downloads).

Not long ago the circulation of this dirty money was a staple of many parts of the established financial system (see the Wachovia cartel scandal as an example). Today’s rules and crackdowns after the 2008 financial crisis has changed that somewhat.

You know how you can only withdraw a certain amount of money from an ATM even if you have more in your account and need it in cash?

That’s because of laws against money laundering and terror financing. The gist of it is that criminals and terrorists will finance/get cash out of their activities through using a bunch of middle men/fronts, cash and other ways to obfuscate the origin/destination of the money.

If you’re rich, you look good

That’s not news

Dry Cleaning – Anna Calls from the Arctic

Absolutely, I think games should dispense with the good/evil thing all together and, for instance,focus on whether choices are self-serving, “pragmatic”, diplomatic, earnestly attempting to be moral (i.e motivations). Of course, this only gets interesting if the game doesn’t consistently punish you for being amoral by imposing consequences that are harsher than the rewards. This also means not punishing the player with worse and less content for not following the “intended” story arch.

I haven’t played a lot of Frostpunk 2, but I think that game does a lot with similar concepts.

It’s a time honored tradition to treat foreign legions as disposable, even if Russia takes that to another level with the country’s general lack of regard for human life.

Tl;dr surveillance equipment working perfectly, used for dystopian surveillance. Major shocker.

In the context of parenting there are certainly better things you can do to prevent “shennanigans” other than subjecting them to surveillance. Like you know… raising them?

Terrifying with a generation of peole grown up under total control and expected to be perfectly obedient. They will be shitty adults. But hey, at least they won’t have memories of that time they snuck out at night to watch the stars.

Rutte is Trump’s most loyal ally and friend.

It’s probably right that Trump is overstating his win, but frankly any form of yielding to Trump is infuriating. If there is a deal that covers “the entire Arctic region” the details will be important. Countries in that region include Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. One should not assume it’s a win for the Nato countries with more Trump regime forces in the region after the US has threatened invasion or annexation of two of them.

An average day in 2024, 54 people in the EU died in road accidents, per Eurostat.

Edit: Somewhere around 40 people a day die in road accidents in the EU. (Eurostat seems to only have numbers with the actual number of dead for 2023 so far and that year I think it was something like 47 per day on average, but other sources show road deaths decreased somewhat in 2024.

Yeah, I mean I feel pretty confident trusting stuff like Graphene that’s 1) open source, 2) popular 3) among techy people that 4) are obsessed about privacy and security

[me looking at the source code] Interesting… they used words here and a few numbers too. 🔍🤔

Yes, but will you? In reality it takes trust for most. Personally, I don’t think I could tell a sophisticated back door [pervy emoji] from a hello world! script.

Subscriptions are thieves of intentionality

It’s included, but good lord if that’s not a very high price for temporary access to a collection of bargain bin games. You could buy a full price game every other month for that money.