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What of the people who lived in Crimea prior to 2014? No peace for them? I thought these were supposed to be Ukrainians living under occupation, why is their own country threatening them?

Most figs you get in the store are not pollinated by fig wasps.

I thought Crimes was supposed to be Ukrainian. Why is Ukraine using cluster munitions on their own civilians???

No no it’s totally not ww3. These aren’t actually French soldiers - they just serve the French military under French officers. And they aren’t combatants, they’re just support troops. Supporting the artillery. Who’s to say that it’s French people pulling the trigger?

Totally not a massive escalation.

When the game launched, if you played on PS5 you needed a PSN account and if you played on PC the game encouraged you to make one and link it, but it was optional.

New patch made doing so mandatory. Tiny inconvenience for PC players in regions where you can make a free PSN account (basically everywhere except parts of Africa, Eastern Europe, and tiny island nations/colonies), but if you live in one of those regions without PSN access, or refuse to make and link a PSN account, you can no longer play the game. It has also been removed from the Steam storefront in regions without PSN.

This has led to review-bombing and a lot of very angry gamers, most of whom the problem doesn’t actually affect but who still see it as representative of shitty media industry practices. Like how last December, Sony lost access to their license for Discovery content and removed access to paid content for users.

Helldivers was made by a small studio using a big company’s resources to make it cross-platform, but now that big company is making very unpopular business decisions for them.

Nah, you can make a PSN account as a PC player - I did on launch because I didn’t realize it used to be optional. Problem is that PSN accounts are not available in some countries. This change will primarily impact people in Africa, Eastern Europe, and all those little island countries and colonies.

im not crying youre crying

Unfortunately pretty unsurprising after last night. Things were already tense, but then a black bloc used a communist rally as cover to cause a bunch of property damage, so things spread outside the school and into downtown. Anxiously following this today.

Mr Stoltenberg said: “Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO. Ukraine will become a member of NATO. The work we are undertaking now puts you on an irreversible path towards NATO membership, so that when the time is right, Ukraine can become a NATO member straightaway.”

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_225160.htm

There goes the possibility of any country called “Ukraine” existing once this war ends. Russia would be fools to leave them with even Lvov after this.

Looks like Turtletank got some upgrades and a rear window. It’s like a tactical dacha.

This war has had so many interesting characters. Red Backpack, Voha, now we have Turtle Tank. I wonder what we’ll get next.

Are they seriously so desperate that we are sending small arms? I assumed all these packages were for weapons you couldn’t just buy for a few hundred a pop.

I remember when Q got married to U and I had to wear a little suit to class.

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Like, almost everyone shares the same 100 last names.

This is the only thing I know about Jiang Zemin and I think I might be okay with that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGPJzusNPA

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7903104/ this shit is still causing birth defects in Iraq. This is Ukraine’s future now.

Which governments aren’t authoritarian then?

Supplied arms to support genocide in Indonesia, among other crimes. Him building homes now is just some light penance before he’s shipped off to hell. https://fair.org/media-beat-column/jimmy-carter-and-human-rights-behind-the-media-myth/

Do you think it is realistic that Russia will unilaterally pull out? The war will end when Russia leaves, but Russia isn’t going to leave until they are pushed out, negotiations are had, or Ukraine is destroyed. The first possibility is becoming increasingly more unlikely, and the last is something that nobody should want

That leaves negotiations. I think Ukraine should come to the table while they still have some leverage, which is decreasing every week that they throw their men into the meat grinder without meaningful gains.