Russian history is a timeline of the worst execution of a terrible system for running an expansive wilderness built out of fear by greed.

Russia doesn’t deserve to be remembered. It doesn’t deserve a language. The people should not continue as “Russian”. They can be split up and diversified across smaller states that can reinvigorate suppressed local cultures. “Russian” is basically short hand for Asian Imperialism and it’s far outlived any usefulness for the people.

To some, Japan is the scary island.

problem with Epic is that they were with the wrong assumption

A lot of Epic was based on very cynical assumptions about who play games and why. Epic and Tim Sweeney see “gamers” as a monotype who spend money like water and have no loyalty to a brand or marketplace. It must be a shock to give away so much stuff and not buy and favor with the community.

Shareholders don’t understand that we have a few games we cherish and spend years playing. Epic never understood it’s audience and still seems to be missing the point.

Removing Russia as a culture and nation would improve the world drastically overnight.

I loved Civ from 1 through 6. Even 6 was fine after a while. But 7 was just… hollow. Like it knows how to look like Civ but it isn’t Civ. It’s a marketing tool to grab money from players through DLC and subscription passes.

Let’s see how changing the gameplay entirely fixes the personality of 7. I’m hopeful if only to return to a beloved series but am so tired of the hyper marketing of 2K, Take Two, and how disrespectful it is to the people who have already paid to play their game.

Pena uses his social networks to echo the stories of migrants as well as voices critical of Brazil’s leftwing president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and those supportive of its recently jailed former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, who is an ally of Trump.

The US’s estimated 2 million-strong Brazilian community has been badly affected by Trump’s anti-migrant offensive, with the number of deported Brazilians hitting a record high of 2,785 last year, compared with 1,640 in 2024.

Well, it is the story of migrants.

In a previous video, Pena reportedly urged Brazilians to stay calm and not “despair” after reports that ICE agents were rounding up migrants, including Brazilians. “But they’re all crooks. The lot of them,” he falsely claimed of the migrants being seized.

On Saturday, Pena was himself reportedly detained and sent to the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. One friend told the local newspaper the Brazilian Times that Pena had been taken into custody after missing a court hearing.

True journalism is not reporting the pulse but the movement of the heart. He’s so close to the source because he’s the problem.

Man, the disintegration of Trump’s base is fascinating to watch. The DOJ just gave up censoring things and released a shit load of unredacted files. Yes, there is CSAM but importantly the files are wide open and showing everything. And boy does it look really bad for a lot of people who were all wrapped up with Epstein.

No matter how despicable each person turns out to be, remember that all of them are less weird than Elon Musk in the eyes of other pedos.

Obama himself said “we need to look forward, not backward” in regards to the idea of prosecuting the Bush administration

Given the current state of things we need to look backwards with extreme prejudice.

When the blue is from blue collar, you can expect actual social solutions.

Futurama almost got it right.

I’ve heard this story from Wisconsin before. Let’s see if this feels familiar: a community leader makes unilateral choices about how the community resources are spent. Contracts signed in secret make it all binding. “It’s about progress/prosperity/the future of this community” speech by the leader who is being assaulted by the community for not including them in this decision.

The community now has to live with the burden placed on them by others. The big corporation eventually backs out and the community is destroyed, left to rebuild with only the resources available to maintain so slowly the community withers and dies.

Never change Wisconsin.

I will build a wall and make the Mongols pay for it!

And would you look at the time of year!

Tesla has achieved remote control driving. It’s the only taxi service that has 2 cars per fare.

Nolnah knew

To be fair, I giggled at his death too

Bold strategy folding the luxury car models. Must not be selling because the market that can afford it doesn’t like something about it. Curious.

The lower price models and home batteries are probably keeping Tesla solvent.

Don’t forget the push to have more babies at the same time. There is an active push for higher infant mortality.

Like from Krypton?