There are some things that do change. In my case, it says my window manager is sway when it is actually river. So certain things will stop working as expected if it is not maintained. This is different from a game, because as systems change, it doesn’t affect how the game works if the platform it runs on can be emulated. In a sense, the game is still being updated because the emulators required to use it are being updated.

Ok, I’ll bite

1. How has Russia invaded Transnistria? Transnistria was a breakaway region during the collapse of the Soviet union, similar to Gagauzia
2. No one disputes that Chechnya is Russian territory. Russia cannot invade its own territory.
3. Georgian military intended to genocide ethnic minorities. Russia supported the autonomy of said minorities.
4. Crimea was given to Ukraine by Kruschev very recently. It is almost entirely ethnically Russian, and those ethnic Russians voted overwhelmingly to secede during a coup/constitutional crisis as the alternative was staying in a country where there culture and language are banned, or worse become the target of hate crimes from neo-nazi battalions as many cases are well-documented

Might as well block me too while you’re at it

Russia can then ingest Ukraine, continue to seed political distrust in Western countries and then potentially start another war in Europe a few years later.

Holy shit this is the most mapgame-brained comment of all time. You mean Russia will get enough war score to annex Ukrainian territories, wait a few years for aggressive expansion to die down, spend some admin points to press the “sow discontent” button, then war when the casus belli is ready? Like a classic EU4 blob?

Stop gaming and read some books.

I’m not against bloat, I just want it to be MY bloat

The Luke Skywalker one? Yes. Notorious shitlib

Russia is the biggest reason the baltics joined.

The Baltic states joined in 2004. Long before Putin was made into a pariah, and Russia was still seen as part of the West and publicly aspiring to join NATO

This should apply to Windows 10 as well right? How soon will this take affect?

But it excludes asexual people /s

This is making me reassess Russia’s prospects in an all out war with NATO. If they can’t supply Ukraine alone as it is, how will they supply a war machine for an entire continent when trade is even more limited?

How else can it be interpreted?

Exponential increase that has been slow for decades, but is just now starting to ramp up?

*Narrator voice*
They didn’t finish the job

I heard one once that goes like “a fool does what he hates, a wise man does what he loves, but a great man learns to love what is necessary.”
I think I am butchering the original phrasing which is probably why I can’t find any source for this quote. But I think about it a lot.

I posted this on 2022 new years. But what’s your July resolution?

Yes, you do have to tip. Maybe not if it’s Chipotle or a place like that. But if someone is waiting your table you have to tip. Yes tipping culture is stupid. No, nothing has changed in the US. They do not have a living without tips, so refusing to tip cuts into their living expenses after they have courteously served you your food. It’s rude

You are either camping with other people or are in some kind of military activity. You don’t want to poop because you are embarrassed of how it smells and the people you were with on a previous occasion gave you an extremely hard time over it. Did I guess right? Please, poop in a hole or something, whatever it takes

I think it’s staged. You get a bunch of experts on the TV who talk about how there’s a “1% chance” of survival. Then tomorrow, against all odds, they’re saved! It’s a miracle! Then the 4 billionaires get to be in a movie. Or maybe it takes a dark turn and I’m full of shit. Guess we’ll see. Maybe they are faking their deaths.

Well maybe if you read past the title you would be following the conversation better

OP is not saying centralization is good, just that it appears to be inevitable even on the fediverse. They suggested this centralization could kill the project altogether. You misread their point.

Smh people downvoting OP because they can’t read.

Twitch has been going downhill for a long time now. They take half of all subscription money which is outrageous. They also have an exclusivity contract which prevents streamers from streaming on other platforms. A number of big streamers have jumped ship to YouTube or Kick. Combine that with the fact that lockdowns are over, people spend less time online. Twitch has no future.