Yup, this is pretty much it. I played a campaign of it. Essentially, you’re so far down the hierarchy you’re basically almost human, with older vampires being a far far greater threat than humans, struggling to understand and survive vampire society before it destroys you. As you said, there’s also a fair chunk of trying to hold on to what humanity you still have left.

Oh, don’t worry, I know! I’ve read some DF stories like Boatmurdered. It just seems like way too much for me, and is why I prefer “simplified DF” games like Rimworld.

And this is exactly why by law Italian supermarkets have to donate anything approaching its sell-by date.

Wtf did I write all this for, oh well.

I found it an interesting read. As a huge RimWorld fan, I can relate to some parts and stare in blank confusion at others.

Quite high actually. Peter Magyar is likely going to be the new prime minister. Whether or not Peter will actually change anything or just be Orban 2: Electric Boogaloo is the more important question, imho. He’s also a conservative, was part of Orban’s inner circle before the child abuse scandals, and is running on a platform of “Orban but not corrupt”, which doesn’t inspire a whole lot of confidence from me having seen that exact same cycle play out in Romania.

It’d be great to see Orban out regardless though.

The Californian Republic would definitely have the most interesting flag in the EU. Too many tricolors, not enough bears.

Yes. “Spilling the tea” is pretty standard English slang for sharing gossip.

Dunno why people are down voting you. Password lists have been around since forever, and anybody trying to brute force will start with one. Why cycle through “A”, “AA”, “AAA”, “AAAA”, etc first when you’re far more likely to score a hit faster with a list?

No way it’s Popa in Romania. Popescu is an insanely common name, by far the most common I’ve heard.

Greenland is part of Denmark, which is in turn part of the EU. This is about as ridiculous as saying that Russia could walk into Alaska and claim it because it’s sparsely populated.

I mean, it’s not that bad if you’ve spent far far too long on regex101.com…

I guess I’m one of the few weirdos who actually likes messing around with multiple capture groups and complex patterns.

There are issues, of course. The amount of carbon allowed to be emitted per dollar should be reduced over time, making it gradually more expensive to force lower emissions over time.

However, ambitious infrastructure projects like what’s going on in Africa atm wouldn’t be possible without them selling carbon credits.

I think a better group to ask would be Puerto Ricans. They are US citizens, but as far as I’m aware (not an American myself), being a citizen without any representation or voting rights means they get fucked over a lot.

Difference between Venezuela and Greenland is that for Venezuela, they are openly saying they want regime change and compliance, not annexation. For Greenland they’re explicitly calling for annexation.

Hypothetically, let’s say Denmark backs down and gives up Greenland (not gonna happen, but let’s assume). No way are the republicans going to give them senators and congresspeople, they’d immediately be opposed to the Republicans.

That makes a lot of sense to me. I really enjoyed my Computing classes in high school, and I’ve never used the specific programming language since. Was still very useful because it taught me how to think about programming problems.

I 100% agree that progressive liberalism doesn’t work, but that doesn’t stop them trying. Center-left capitalists love them as well, because they get to look like the nice guys while keeping the focus away from any serious regulation or reform.

This picture perfectly encapsulates what I mean when I say progressive liberal:

There is a real difference between the two. Others have made the point that CNN doesn’t care, it’s all just scary “THE LEFT” wording to them, but the difference in political theory is the following:

Progressive liberals care about social issues, but not economic ones. They will actually care and move the needle on LGBTQ+ rights, the gender gap, minority rights, etc, but as a liberal they’ll also care about the free market and the wellbeing of corporations.

A social democrat wants to regulate and control the economy for the benefit of people. They aren’t going to go full communist and sieze the means of production, but they will actively oppose economic interests in order to improve the standard of living.

The constant flipflopping between calling him a “progressive liberal” and a “democratic socialist” is annoying. Pick a lane, CNN. He’s one or the other, and from what I’ve heard from him he’s very clearly a democratic socialist.

Like it or not (I certainly don’t), we’ve gone full circle to the old server-client relationship instead of the peer-to-peer model we had for a while. Almost everything is in the browser now, which means we need EU infrastructure. That takes time, money and effort to set up, even before you start dealing with user inertia.

Can’t blame him for walking right up to the line of acceptability. If he’d have actually laid the blame where it’s fully deserved, he wouldn’t have a fine, he’d be defenestrated.

That’s for people who for whatever reason don’t use a bank. If you have a bank, it’s with your bank.