More queer train drivers!

Apparently WARNO has its “army general” mode (map painter campaign) now. One of the assumptions about a lot of war nerdery of the Cold War era was that the Soviets were primed for attack and would come rushing through the Falder gap. This justifies NATO, Western Doctrine, tank design etc etc. For instance, the chunky western tanks against the light long-ranged Soviet tanks clearly indicated the aggressive intent of the Soviets.

One thing that was never really questioned in all these fictional narratives (be they video games, Tom Clancy novels, or honest NATO wargames) was that it would be the Soviets attacking. Was this really the case though?

During Stalin’s era, where this narrative begun even before post-war (and a pre-end-of-WW2 version shows up in the video game RUSE), we know that Stalin honoured the end of war peace agreements to the chagrin of, say, communist partisans in Greece. That, and Soviet society was exhausted. The Soviets had to be dragged into Korea.

(I fell asleep writing this and offer no new information)

Famously never a muddy season in Ukraine

This kinda bounces on my thoughts on this thread: For most people, the choice isn’t between agitating in favour of local unions/left orgs etc vs agitating in favour of the left in the global south. It’s usually between frankly pretty tepid support for locals or doing nothing. That’s not to say that local unions like the AFL-CIA haven’t done tremendous damage to the left in the global south either.

Huh, but also I’m sure him being insufferable did not help.

Or in the style of Goya’s Cronos helplessly devouring his own son

Only one thing matters now, the US must not be embarrased again,

Biden is their guy, I guess

Or crushing them up and snorting them

Also, “casualties” refers to wounded, missing, and captured as well as killed, so who knows what “losses” refer to

Game devs often suck at video games, by virtue of having jobs.

Which has the silly implication that there are no other cities under your state, or your state has no industry for producing construction materials and educating construction workers domestically outside of this specific city.

You do spend a lot less money if you do have other cities under your state, but that’s usually not the case if you start a new game on a random map though. You can set up a custom map with a starting city tho (it’s sometimes hard to get to a stage where sewage works on an edit-map since you can’t test the sewage system as you go along)

nods sagely Pissrael

Giant dicks that cum like horses - Ezekiel 23:20

I thought the post title was the bird speaking about its balls, not ai picture energy costs

Getting outflanked on the left by the judiciary is just…

I’m sure it still happens a bunch, I got a random orbital sander second hand for quite cheap. No one sniped me, but it’s not like its a rare collectible.

hands all parties a Pepsi max

Nah, eBay is mostly warehouse vendors now. I find it a little odd if I find an old school second hand item with bids. Also, at least in my country, most of the warehouse vendors offer free shipping. Aliexpress is generally cheaper per item tho

We got discouraged from doing the heimlich at our first aid training and got taught a different thing that I have forgotten

I have to ration disk space and internet here is typically not amazing