vote counting will begin on Monday, with official results expected within a week

Interesting, many other countries offer official preliminary results on the same day and end results within days. Not that either is obviously better.

Russia is certainly trying.

AFAIK the goal is often some sense of revenge.

terror bombing of civilians (the war crime part), thinking they’ll eventually bomb them into total submission and Russia will achieve their political goals (the terrorism part).

Where have I heard that before…

Hard to argue with “charismatic”, that’s a skill and Obama is so good at it that the USA voted for a black president, twice. He got an actual nobel peace price for his campain, i.e. literally just based on vibes (which says a lot about the nobel commitee, but still).

It’s originally in German, IDK if there’s a translation. Maybe the TV Shows/Movies got translations or at least subtitles? Though they don’t seem to be that well-received.

Benjamin Blümchen audio story series. Mayor and most business men are corrupt, main character regularly engages in political action like organizing protests for animal rights and another major character is a female journalist.

It’s insidious because they’re popular children’s stories featuring a talking elephant as main character. Back before everyone lived on TikTok, even conservative parents bought it for their children. And I think even if you don’t quite remember most of it when you get older, stories like these really do influence how you see the world.

Other than that, reading newspapers did most of the work (of course that only works if it’s not all full-on fascist propaganda).

USA: half “serves them right”, half “oh shit”

rest of the continent: “oh shit”

My desire to own a car is at an all-time low, and it wasn’t that high to begin with.

When I lived on a slightly tall hill, we had a lot of lightning one night.

True. I just assumed that if you would forget any password, it’s probably that one, but on most distros you do have multiple layers …

Unless you use drive encryption, you should be able to get it back. https://raspberrytips.com/reset-password-linux/

Some of the gulf states are basically microstates, hardly surprising that they’re focusing on highrises and skyscrapers. Saudi Arabia is a monarchy, reason doesn’t necessarily explain what they’re doing (see The Line).

electric kettle

I assume that leaderships don’t want to put in the work, because that would cost money and talented developers get uppity when you can’t/won’t threaten them with immediate replacement with LLMs and inexperienced, low-paid devs. And nevermind getting on Larian’s level, most big publishers seem to prefer remakes over originals.

Yes. From everything I’ve heard and seen, it doesn’t look like they’re going to be making another isometric CRPG anytime soon. It’s a pretty niche genre anyway, even Larian’s success with Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t change that.

Pillars of Eternity 3, in the style of PoE 1+2 (i.e. isometric perspective and party-based combat). The original developer was bought out by Microsoft and now makes games that are more in line with The Elder Scrolls.

Looks interesting, do you use baking powder to make it rise?

Edit: Ah, I see that it’s “self-rising” - did they add baking powder? We don’t have that kind of thing here.

I do think it’s fun, but I’m definitely not interested in implementing byzantine complexity. When I have something I want to selfhost I pick a solution that’s reasonably easy and works reasonably well, and then enjoy that it’s working.

Can’t we, though? e.g. lemmy.world has this in their terms of service:

No one under 18 years of age or under the regulated minimum age defined by your local law (whichever is higher), is allowed to use or access the website.

Who decides what minors are allowed to see, anyway? No one is going to be scarred for life by Oglaf.