If there is a peace in Ukraine, the grinder against the Russian military stops. The fear is that Russia will maintain it’s wartime production and conscription. Two years of stockpiling drones, ammunition, and actually training recruits. One might not worry about armored vehicle production when Russia makes over 5,000 shahed-type drones a month.
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/monthly-analysis-of-russian-shahed-136-deployment-against-ukraine

NATO has never intended on fighting Russia without the US, and with the US acting like a fair weather friend, European politicians and likely NATO may be concerned.

The excuse I always heard was the affordable care act made it to expensive for companies to keep most workers 40 hours a week. All my friends in the service industry went from one full time job, to 3 part time jobs. Worse hours and pay.

Sun Tzu would be proud, china still attempting to decieve their way into more territory. They would never fight a war for land, they’ll just decieve you about their intentions and economcially bankrupt you until you have to join them.

People get excited when new documents are re-discovered about Japanese Americans in interment camps during WW2, or the Pope apologizing for the church killing indegeonous people in Canada. You can suffer through knowing there was at least one good person in the PLA ~30 years ago.

If you can’t acknowledge the CCP’s ongoing march to retake Taiwan by any means, I would ask if you even read any news. I don’t understand how you think it is a left or right issue, at least in the US, former President Obama was who started the American pivot to the pacific foreign policy in the ancient history of the year 2011.

Please Gabe sell a special edition orange one for half life 3.

Straight to the work bench, remove the back, physically remove the wifi adapter, replace back of TV. Yay, i am ready for xbox.

Most people hit a wall in their life where they get home from work and they just want whatever entertainment system they have to just work. They do not want a side hobby to get to a video game. Linux as it is now will never be the regular. If steam can make a console like experience that a layman can use, they can save PC gaming for all of the gen Z and A folks who only had a phone or console and refuse to learn windows.

I cannot care less, pets are a luxury. Enjoy your fuzzy furniture. Farm animals live in a barn.

Do you get upset about the coyotes and bears that live outside? Do you get upset some people avoid homes filled with pet dander, and their petless homes are cleaner than others?

Barn cats are peak cat. You get to play with them outside, they eat rodents, they don’t come inside and ruin everything.

In other news, runescape classic is still good.

This sounds like any sports video game where they advertise bringing out a new feature, that they silently removed from the previous version of the game.

Tom Green was on public access TV taking commentary from the internet. He was “live streaming” before most North Americans had internet.

I really enjoyed halo infinity. They also can’t take away the thousands of hours i played in LAN parties and xbox live. It is sad that it is no longer the best party fps anymore, split screen is gone, and it is homogenized with every othet shooter since 2007.

Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on “the cloud” anyways.

mIRC is still great to keep out pedestrians.

This whole thread is full of great references. I haven’t read that horror story in forever.

Yup, came here to say this is a spoiler for SOMA. Plenty of happy ethical issues here to unpack.

Wrapping it around your arm stretches and pulls at the inner cabling. It isn’t a single massive copper pipe in there, its numerous thin guage copper wires wrapped around each other. Wrapping it around your arm puts kinks and folds in the cable that eventually snap those little wires over time.

I bought a digital movie from Amazon prime in 2015. It fell off and they didnt give me a refund. The music I got from a burnt CD in 2004 is still on the C: drive of my current PC. I don’t think it pays to do the right thing in the long run.