So do you have the president of the central bank steal a third of your yearly GDP while you get taxed 45% on your income, 32% on everything you buy, and also on random bullshit?

Amateurs.

Yeah, why not just do an European Citizens’ Initiative?

Would the US Navy be able to block every Chinese container ship to approach the whole of the Americas? Note, they aren’t warships, they are there for trade, legitimate trade actually. Would it be able to stop every ship the Chinese might be able to charter? Even searching those ships would be an insane task. Would they be able to check under every crate of bananas whether there is a guided missile hiding in there? Would they be able to do that without the oligarchs who will be bleeding money screeching bloody murder?

It would effectively have the US sanction itself, and cause the US to have larger problems than Mexican insurgents. Like the dollar being worth nothing. It’s not 1940 anymore. The world is in this together, and our economies are tightly coupled enough that even sanctioning regional players like Russia have dire economic consequences.

And China would already be happy that the US is spending all that money maneuvering carrier groups around looking for 200 dollar assault rifles. Same logic as in Ukraine, one dollar spent in aid causes fifty in damage to the invaders’ economy. And China can outmanufacture the US easily at this point.

But that should be accounted for, otherwise the whole graph is pointless.

BTW Hungary is also off, because the amount of days off depends on your age.

The only real info from this whole map is that everywhere in the world except the US there is a concept of holidays.

The EU and the US is giving Ukraine weapons because every bunch of old tech we give them means one less Russian armored division we need to worry about.

Why would China not do the same and fire up a whole bunch of container ships loaded with old shit and drop it off in Latin America? How long would it take for the US occupation force to start to find Chinese missile launchers and drones taking Abrams platoons to the cleaners?

And if the US started a Mexican occupation, do you think the whole of Latin America would just look on, or rather drift into a Chinese sphere of influence as a result? How long until you had Chinese military presence in Panama for example? Imagine a blockade on US trade in Panama, enforced by Chinese anti-ship missiles.

It would be the mother of all clusterfucks.

The US military is far more competent than Russsia.

But it will not remain so. A dictatorship needs a pyramid of incompetence, the most competent person in the military needs to be Trump, he will hire only less competetnt people, and it cascades from there. The Russians are incompetent not because they are worse as people, but because their society is organised the way Trump wants to remake the US as.

Just to mention, just a few months after taking command, two US Navy fighter jets were lost as they slid off a carrier deck as per the official account, which I expect to be as accurate as the Russian accounts of smoking soldiers blowing up ammo dumps. The real thing is going to be much more embarassing if this is what they admit to.

Why do we call oligarchs by their first names as if they were relatable?

Some of it does, some of it doesn’t, the critique is that kernel level stuff is way more than needed against most cheaters but not enough against the most dedicated ones, and it is invasive as hell.

The best anticheat is good netcode and server side checks. You can’t wallhack if your client doesn’t see behind the walls.

Like Japanese trains being controlled by some Flash app

I’m not from there and I don’t know their politics. Sorry if it came off wrong, but Orbán’s days are numbered, and of course he will take the opportunity to make all our lives just a tiny bit even more shit.

245 days left, I hope the damage he can do in that is limited.

I would really like to know what the other countries supporting this are saying. Is it just a chorus of “but the children”, or can they be asked whether they understand the repercussions of this move? Are there jounralists capable of holding anyone to account?

They armed Hamas in the first place

To be frank, that is pretty hard to do, you’d have a lot of competition

That kind of colony is not financially viable since the 40s-50s. The US wants neocolonies like they have in South America or the Middle East, with a financially, not militarily beholden leadership.

They have a whole lot of people who could pass as someone genuinely from the US underclass for long enough to get into a shopping mall or some legislatures with an automatic weapon.

And a border long enough that they can’t be efficiently stopped, especially as the front overtakes them. Look at Russia and Ukraine and a third of the Russian strategic airforce in flames.

Hungary

Of fucking course.

And Belgium is also missing 12 days since the workweek is 38 hours but in effect that’s just given out as 12 more holidays.

It’s not even that. The current Russian economy would collapse under peace. It’s just more maskirovka, and only Trump hasn’t realised that.

One of their access points has saved my skin twice now in the past 2 months, so I’m happy it exists.

Yeah, what I mean is that if we can do this, it is indicative that we can do other stuff, but if we can’t do it, then that shows something as well.

I feel “tech” communities have always been more about smartphones and startups rather than actual tech.