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Read Douglas Adams. We were not really happy even back then.

EU states are providing Ukraine with every resource they can spare without compromising their own defensive stance - which is, understandably, their n.1 priority. In addition, they…

If anything they seem to be having the opposite effect, entrenching defender's advantages to the point that maps might never change again . (Ok, it's hyperbole, but hopefully you g…

It's not a binary choice between material support and sanctions, there are plenty of intermediate states. I think you are being hyperbolic again. And I disagree that USSR and PRC w…

This coming from the leader of the other country in a war... I mean, I do find it credible that Xi might have told Putin to think very hard before doing something extremely stupid,…

That's what's happening in Ukraine right now, I don't understand why you think it's BS. The point is reaching a situation where one of the parties is ok with going "alright, enough…

OpenBSD exploits (defined as bugs in both OS and typically-deployed applications on top of it) are (or used to be) low-value but scarce and hence prestigious. Linux exploits can be…

Compared to Linux, all of them lag pretty badly in one or multiple areas (performance, features, hardware support, available software...). They can be excellent in very, very niche…

The videogame is from the '80s; it became iconic partially because it allowed players to choose the music to listen to "in the car", all of them synths (obviously), and one of the …

To quote an Italian meme, "yes, but they also did a few bad things".

Mine was a quip, but if we want to go deeper: like any phenomenon, it's obviously a combination of cultural, economic, and social factors; but it's hard not to take the marxist vie…

That's just a convenient technicality for historians. From wikipedia: "Most scholars use the last years of the century, often choosing the French Revolution or the beginning of the…

You start with that and then they will clamor for translations into vulgata , and before you know it we're all surrounded by bleeding christiani who don't know their Mars from thei…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33y3151vydo - "Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein - how Italian children became so overweight" Industry fucked us too, dude.

That's how they conquered all of their known world though, out of sheer bloody-mindedness.

> an ancient road in ancient boots Boots? That's luxury! Sandals more likely...

In a neo-oligarchic world, beheading rich aristocrats is a big no-no. Also, glorifying reason has become very unpopular in a cultural context increasingly built around fairy tales …

This is not true. However, because of the massive inequality, I often found it easy to use a sentence I saw somewhere: "the US is a South American country that happened to become s…

Not everything is interactive, and what the routers do is precisely take away that mental effort on repeated tasks.

> Not sure if the couple had made trips to Tuscany before Dude, they were the royal family of Tuscany. They lived there. Which is why this test is not conclusive: sure, they had ma…

A meeting space to discuss business services, and a terminal for people who insist on depositing cash. They are definitely not a customer support terminal.

This is the same in urban Europe, eh. But over here, particularly in Northern countries, basketball playgrounds are mostly used for football. In the end, if you want to play footba…

Where do you buy reliable SD cards without overpaying? At the moment it feels like I can waste a little money on AliExpress, waste more money on Amazon, or be taxed to finance the …

It's a bit of a paradox: burial rites are among the earliest and most fundamental elements of any society we know of; but long-term maintenance of burial sites has always been a ch…

FIFA pays federations on a result basis. It's then up to the individual federations to redistribute that money as you see fit. As you can imagine, a lot of that does not end up in …