For everyone’s listening pleasure

Also Trump’s voterbase will believe anything he says over anything Xi says

To be honest I’d expect that’s just someone’s interpretation of the huge amount of maintenance any jetfighter (not just the F-35, any modern one) needs. It’s like five person-hours of maintenance per hour of flight. They’re just incredibly complicated machines that can’t really afford for stuff to fail. If Israel is flying them a whole bunch, they’ll need to maintain them proportionately

If Germany isn’t doing it on its own terms then it’s not Germany doing it, is it? Not only can Germany do it on its own terms, it only matters if Germany does it on its own terms.

Regardless, the responsibility Germany has does not entail giving Russia propaganda fodder for its own imperialism. That helps literally nobody.

The people that committed the crimes of Nazi Germany are dead, and good riddance to them. Modern Germany is doing the right thing by commemorating their defeat. They can do that on their own terms in their own country. People don’t get to just do whatever they want in Germany on the basis of being from a country that suffered under the Nazis.

Nobody is asking Nechayev to make a speech, but nobody is asking him to attend either and he still plans to do that. Nechayev described this commemoration as “part of the path to our reconciliation”, so he clearly thinks of it as something Germany should be doing in order to be friendlier with Russia despite Russia’s actions

This article was presumably written by someone that holds a deep personal grudge with Ian Betteridge

If Putin is going to make use of it either way, it seems to me like you might as well pick the option that makes it more likely for the event to go ahead without incident. It’s not like Germany is burning any good will with Russia here, there isn’t any to burn

Russian representatives aren’t being banned because of the behaviour of this ambassador. They’re being banned becaue they are expected to misuse the publicity of an event where Ukrainians - the Soviet republic with the second-highest military and civilian casualties - will also be present

You’ve got two parts of the former Soviet Union fighting a brutal war against each other. You probably can’t invite both sides to the same event and expect it to go okay. Which side do you invite? The one that didn’t start the problem

Based on your enjoyment of management and strategy, Paradox’s grand strategy games might be something you enjoy. Same publisher as Cities Skylines. There are four main series of them, each with their own mechanics but enough broad-scale similarities that knowing one helps with the others. They are:

• Crusader Kings, set in medieval Europe, North Africa, and about half of Asia. This one is the most roleplay-heavy, as you play as a succession of characters within a feudal dynasty rather than a country
• Europa Universalis, set from the European Renaissance up to the end of the Napoleonic wars. The whole world is playable, and exploration is a big mechanic
• Victoria, which covers the world through the rise of industrialism. This one is the most simulation-heavy, focusing gameplay around economic development and the diplomatic manoeuvring of great powers
• Hearts of Iron, which is the Second World War game. This is the one to go for if you want to play the military side of things

What distinguishes them from strategy games like Civ and Age of Empires is the greatly-reduced abstraction. There’s no expectation of every starting point or playable country being balanced; if you start as Belgium in Hearts of Iron, you’re going to have to do something clever to not get steamrolled by Germany. There’s also no win condition beyond what you set for yourself. When I start a game of Crusader Kings, I’m not trying to win the game, I’m saying to myself “let’s see if I can unite all of Britain and Ireland under a Gaelic ruler”

All Paradox games have quite a lot of DLC, but the base games are solid (often now including several of the earlier DLCs for free, in the case of older games) and they go on steep sales pretty often. If there’s not a specific time period or mechanic that sways you towards one of the games, I recommend Crusader Kings 3 for the best new player experience

After this they’ll remaster Morrowind. It’ll be Elder Scrolls III 2, and two threes is six, so that’ll be Elder Scrolls VI

Imagine what it’d be like if halfway through this livestream they just shift the “I” to the other side of the “V” and reveal VI as well though

Don’t give insider trading a pass on the basis of the people doing it already being very rich. They’re specifically only in a position to do the insider trading because of how rich they are

https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/

Absolutely ridiculous that a jazz legend like him doesn’t have a website but his house does. I bet that pile of bricks can’t sing me Blue Turning Grey Over You

Neutrinos almost don’t interact with other matter. You use neutrons to start fission

It is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Tower_Times

Besides that the OP has replied themselves now, the URL is “european-union-to-boost-pa-funding-with-1-8-billion-over-three-years”, so it would almost certainly have been that headline

The funding is for the Palestinian Authority. OP decided to get creative with the headline

Which Elden Ring ending does this one guide me towards

Yeah but did he do it with a typewriter? Didn’t think so

“A tabloid says the CIA says the KGB saw aliens turn people to stone. Also this is a news article on something that was declassified 25 years ago with no new developments.”

okay