u/absquatulate

This is a dealbreaker for me. I was tempted by it despite the price, but fuck this. I refuse to run everything through steam

I wonder what's stopping them from releasing dedicated win drivers if the native ones are inadequate.

Is this Valve's way of gauging the market? Cause it sure feels like it

Oh, I see we moved on to the "too late to do anything about it now" phase already

Used to hear that spacex has been successful _in spite_ of his meddling, not because of it.

I do wonder if he started taking the reins with Starship, because it sure seems to be giving them a really hard time.

How is this news? This was literally an electoral point of his. Besides, it's the same position other nato members are taking, albeit hidden behind the "territorial integrity" excuse.

The actual news may be that, sadly, Poland these days is sliding into christian nationalism, just like the US.

Propaganda or not, I really hope poland does not soften their anti-russian attitude, else we'll be proper fucked in eastern europe

On the plus side, at least he's just as rusophobic and willing to arm-up as the other candidates, right? Right?

Incompetent incumbent administration + russian propaganda + a lot of angry angry people after the cancelling of the first set of elections.

The funny thing is, we're still quite rusophobic. You'll find few people that approve of russia or putin. Russian talking points and propaganda however, _that_ we gobble by the bucket.

Wtf kind of lazy attempt to normalize nuclear war is this, uk??? Jesus tapdancing christ

Damn antisemites are everywhere!

The "sovereignists" had about 30% of the parliament already, but I imagine it was the decision to cancel the first set of elections that tipped the scales. Heard of plenty of people that decided to vote Simion out of sheer spite after that stunt.

About as fair as you can hope for in this country, I suppose. I imagine the large parties pulled all the stops and still couldn't grab more than 20%. And I know they didn't covertly support Simion (yet) because last night they were _pissed_.

He'll probably sit on 40% of the votes by the end of the count. It's pretty fuckin grim.

I'd be tempted to say this is good news, but I bet it'll end up being just another tax on poor nations.

Edit: amusing how these days "all major nations" does not include US anymore

According to organizers of Sunday’s rally, some 5,000 to 8,000 people were expected to attend the event, soberly titled “Save Democracy,” with a fleet of 20 buses and nine mini-buses to bring in more supporters. During his speech, National Rally President Jordan Bardella claimed 10,000 people were present.

Same MO as when they took out kremlin's candidate in Romania. Because nothing says "save democracy" like a manufactured protest with paid party members and acolytes.

This may have been strictly procedure, since she was already banned once, from running in the first election run. But yes, when she was banned initially, the reasons were extremely vague ( russian interference and whatnot ) and haven't gotten any better.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, this pretty much confirms that the leading parties have been colluding to manipulate elections. The ideal situation would have been him getting his ass whoopped by being voted out. On the other, there was a non-zero chance that he might actually have won.

Either way, the shitshow is not even close to being over. These parties make up 32% of our current parliament, and they're likely to grow after this stunt, so we'll have to deal with this crap again during the next election cycle, or sooner.

This is so sad. I thought the whole paper mail infrastructure was essentially eternal due to its importance.

Letter numbers have fallen since the start of the century from 1.4 billion to 110 million last year.

110 million is still A LOT of paper letters. Shame the service will be gone.

PostNord has weathered years of financial struggles and last year was running a deficit.

Again, I thought this was a national strategic resource, regardless of profit. Over here in europe's armpit the national post has been running at a loss for nigh on 40 years, and it's still kept afloat, for better or worse.

That moment when you're too far right for the far-right.