We should just go Egyptian and drop the vowels from the language

The recent scandal with signing that EP thing shows that Orbán is truly afraid.

Would you consider moving home if the new government fixes the country up to a level rivaling Romania at least?

Why are they specifically against Linux?

As a scifi nerd, I doubt these guys actually read scifi.

Or maybe Gripens.

At any airport you have probably been to, there is. But a lot of things are on the honor system, which works for pilots because if they catch you lying, they basically reset your career.

The common adage on the other side of the fence was that you should take your helmet off so that it doesnt melt down into your neck.

Ukraine has started applying for NATO membership since around 2009?

2002, then abandoned it around 2008 to appease Russia. They did not pick it back up until after the invasion.

I don’t get it why not though, Spec Ops The Line was not a technical marvel or an outstanding gameplay experience even for its time, but we are still talking about it for its message.

Russia slightly but moreso in Africa.

Syria had Russian troops deployed, in the Middle East.

China does not so far.

They own 78 ports in Africa over 32 African ports.

Ukraine is a poor example as Ukraine tried to join NATO against the promises NATO made with Russia.

Ukraine asked for NATO after the Russian invasion, not before. All they wanted was EU trade agreements.

Russia will not attack the EU as the EU has nukes.

Russia is currently conducting a blatant and overt misinformation campaign aimed at toppling democrating governments all over the EU.

Thanks, I was on my phone and I am awful at typing stuff out so I tend towards brevity without noticing.

How it goes in my part of the world, the retailer doesn’t give a shit about sales as their margins are very low and most money comes from placement. They usually don’t pay for unsold inventory.

Might be diferent in Canada though.

I had both, Framework hands down.

you can’t just take off from a runway without being registered and security cleared etc. Right?

Under European rules, if you are flying domestically under VFR, you don’t necessarily need to even file a flight plan. Even if they did, nobody checks who flies the plane if it’s not an international big airport. I mean I sure would file either way, especially since that area is dangerous and I want authorities to know where I am if I disappear in the mountains.

For a small grass strip in the middle of Slovenia, you might not even need a radio, but local regulations might beg to differ.

It’s possible it’s literally as tight and controlled as getting into and driving a car is.

To be honest, crashing a small plane in that area is not that out of the ordinary, I happen to know some people who died there in a plane crash. The more open airspaces there have a low ceiling, and there is a lot of bad visiblility and high mountains. If the weather is not good, you simply shouldn’t fly, or go higher and file IFR, otherwise it’s very dangerous for CFIT incidents.

So does Russia and China. Yeah, it would be a nicer world if we all wouldn’t start wars and stuff, but as you can see in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that is not the case. Europe is currently militarily threatened by the US and Russia, so we either capitulate or do something about it.

By your logic though, Russia should disarm, and the only countries that could be trusted with weapons in the region are Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics, as IIRC they never had significant colonies, right? Zelensky had a proposal for Ukrainian peacekeepers across Europe, would you support that together with a demilitarized Russia?

Harder to diffuse the responsibility when it is about crimes directly committed by specific people than something the orphan-crushing machine did.

Same way social murder is rationalized away.

I don’t even get the point, there was no point in time of the history of Europe when its nations were not one of the major military powers of the world. So when was this beforetime when the “nations of Europe did not bear arms”? In the age of the Sumerian Empire?

Also, why don’t I see the original reply in the thread? I know my instance is defed’ed from grad and hexbear, but this was someone from ml, right?

It’s weird.

Can Imamoglu run with being mayor and all? I’d love to see some positive change in Turkey, don’t get me wrong, but we had a very similar situation in 2022 in Hungary, and it did not go well.

That’s fair