While I agree that shifting the world away from being so US-centric is a good idea long-term, this is absolutely not the way to do it. This is going to cause an absolute shitload of harm everywhere - and not just to Western countries, lest you think I’m trying to be an apologist for them. The only parties that this will unequivocally benefit are Russia and NK. Even China is gonna feel some splash damage from the (now ongoing) collapse of US geopolitical and geoeconomic stability.

Ah - I misinterpreted the object of your comment, my bad

That’s about as nuclear of an option as they can threaten in terms of geoeconomics and how they’ll directly impact the US, tbh.

For those in the back: they’re threatening to jump on the bandwagon that’s shifting away from the petrodollar, which would have absolutely catastrophic consequences for the US economy, as well as in general. Think “fall of the USSR” type shit. This is not an exaggeration. And yeah, it can absolutely be argued that the petrodollar was a stupid fucking idea for a lot of reasons. But it did let the US more or less not care about debt at all for over a half century. Pulling that rug is going to have a lot of consequences in a lot of places all over the world - not just the US - and will ultimately yield a lot of chaos.

DDoS is absolutely a game - it’s just that sometimes the person/business/service you’re playing against doesn’t understand or realize they’re playing

I heard he’s throwing an Irish potato bake in the late afternoon today

God does not exist - and even if they do exist, they have about as much consideration for the human race as we as a species have for paramecium

Uh… genuine question: why did you convert? And what were you converting from?

“Double secret probation”

Well-known Russian media outlet says “Kyiv is not ready for the EU” 🤡

Seriously, you couldn’t be more of an obvious Russian shill if you tried.

Yeah so this isn’t gonna fly in any way, shape, or form. All of that will be cited by companies who are users as trade secrets and proprietary internal documentation. This is a great way for them to force their userbase away from their products.

So, yeah… bold move, cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.

• I’m not encouraging the EU or any country in it to vassalize itself to the US. Depending on the US is better than Russia in the interim time that it will take to build infrastructure and industry to be able to depend less - or not at all - on the US. If you’re arguing that Russia is an overall less exploitative and threatening partner than Russia in the past and short term future: you’re deluding yourself.
• The two choices in the recent Hungarian elections were Orban or Magyar. That’s it. You are making light of incremental, but real, improvements. Magyar is not the desired endpoint for Hungary. He is a necessary waypoint on the way to Hungary reclaiming its societal and geopolitical sanity.

1000 years from now the paint will be gone and it will be more interesting to geologists than archaeologists - assuming there are any -ologists (or humans) left at that point.

The EU found plenty. Slovakia and Hungary pointedly refused to. Now, the party and the guy who were in charge of Hungary have been thrown out on their ass. Wanna discuss that at all, or does that not align with the narrative that you’re trying to pitch?

Reagan through the 90s was the period where things visibly degraded to a joke of what the country once was. 9/11 was at once a direct symptom of our own fuckery over the preceding decades, as well as the final nail in the coffin that pushed large sections of our political landscape towards fascism. It was nascent for a while, but everything became fairly overt in 2016.

Fuck you, Gizmodo, and fuck off. There are consequences when you break the societal contract. This is that.

RTGs are subject to the issue of half-life - this is a consequence of that type of power source. Though, let’s be honest: we do not have any other sort of power generation technology that would be viable for literal decades on an interstellar space probe. And we definitely didn’t have a better alternative when they were launched.

They had 4 fucking years to find alternatives. Cry harder.

Our judiciary doesn’t seem to understand how much of a tragicomedic fucking joke they’re making their branch of government out to be

Normally I’d agree, but this is also a timely satire of current events, because of Kegsbreath trying to use the Pulp Fiction rendition of Ezekiel 25:17 in a big “rah rah” bullshit speech, so I admit I did chuckle at this one a bit.