If Putler had any sense, he’d spend a fraction of his military budget on making nicotine patches available for free to his orcs. That would pay for itself in no time.

They’ve got gigs scheduled in the Schengen Zone. Which is bold, given that Germany has a policy of blacklisting people from the area for the kinds of statements they’ve publicly made.

Time to boycott the UK. Make it unacceptable to buy UK goods or services and still claim to be a trans ally.

Britain obviously wants this to be its own F-35, which it controls.

Possibly not, but it may take you longer to return to the nitrogen cycle

Because you don’t use Typescript/JS perhaps?

Given the margin they make on games, and their absolute control of games for the platform, they could get away with a razors-and-blades pricing model of making a loss on the consoles and making it back from software. (IIRC, some game consoles historically were sold on this model.)

Not quite. The US economy is a large, slow-moving mass, and even with the chaos-monkey-in-chief doing his worst there will be meaningful economic activity: food will be grown, wages and rent paid, other goods manufactured even if only for local use. Crypto, meanwhile, has no connections to the world other than a fringe of payments which, for various reasons, cannot be made by other, vastly more efficient means. A scenario where the two are equally stable would look like a zombie apocalypse or similar.

That’s not even buying it; you’re renting it by the nanosecond.

Tired: the Georgian Dream Party as a subsidiary of United Russia

Wired: the Georgian Dream Party as a subsidiary of the CCP

France, where you see cops throwing their cigarettes on the ground as they enter the police station

I’ve taken my Deck on travels, but mostly taken it out to show to friends.

Don’t forget to engage the anti-theft sloth before leaving the car

The mainstream conservatives (i.e. those within the Overton window of what’s acceptable in mainstream society, or not open Nazis/KKK) have the big corporate networks. Those Nazis who are too Nazi for Elon Musk have their own instances which everybody else fediblocks from orbit just to be sure, where they can run around, sieg-heil and shout racial slurs all day to their hearts’ content. Which leaves those to the left of the centre-right, who are divided between the tankie-triad instances (full of people who think that Stalin did nothing wrong and Putin’s OK too) and the rest (which ranges from liberals to ancoms).

LOL

It’s called the Switch 2 because you take one look at it and switch to a Steam Deck

Do any European defence companies have SAMs competitive with the Patriot, or are they still a generation behind?

They should also make plans to fund a Radio Free America, for once the corporate US press starts fully parroting the party line.

Belarus did this a few years ago with a flight from somewhere else to Lithuania that was carrying a Belarusian dissident. The few minutes it spent in Belarusian airspace was enough for the air force to intercept it, force it to land and arrest the dissident.

IIRC, there was a huge outrage, which didn’t help the dissident (rogue states gonna go rogue and all that), but since then, no EU/western flights have overflown Belarus.

Where else are they going to put the huge, gilded statue of Trump?