It’s nice to be wrong.

I just remembered that one alleged IDF insider on polymarket with 100% win rate had that bet about Iran being bombed before the end of January.

Today is the 31st, last day of the bet, a Saturday (stock market is closed), all air assets are in place and even more Epstein files were released. Sadly I think the attack is pretty much guaranteed to start today.

Why would one keep their gold in another country, one that is an ocean away no less, when the gold reserve is not threatened by invasion or civil war?

From now on all art assets in service of fascism will be “AI” slop. Cheapskates.

Keeping up with the news about this is like watching a bad movie, who even came up with this ridiculous script?

Lovely image, but for extra comedic effect you could have gone harder on the labels.

I understand the situation now, thank you for the information.

Yes, I am fully aware. But how does this particular action advance Chinese interests? I am helplessly puzzled.

Is the RSS poised to take power? Do they control vital mines or industry? Are they a foil to weaken another element in India?

I need someone else’s knowledge here to help me figure this out.

How does something like this advance Chinese interests?

For maximum factory game spiral into efficiency fever try GregTech New Horizons as well. (you will not see sunlight for months)

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Factorio: I briefly tried it in the totally completely legal way before I switched to Linux, it was great! But, post-Linux I lost interest in acquiring it in the totally completely legal way again.

Risk of Rain 2: It’s always fun, the new DLC that released this year was a hit. To me the game feels complete without mods at this point.

Hearts of Iron 4: I was gifted the new DLC that added content for the People’s Republic of China, perfecting the strategy for early ahistorical expansion and victory on ironman was quite engaging.

Minecraft (Modded): This year I got the idea for making my own mod pack that turned it into a factory building game with a persistent enemy threat similar to Factorio. In December I finally got through my attention deficit to write my first functional lines of code, I feel quite proud of myself.

Signalis: pain and suffering

Atomic Heart: I was gifted the game on my birthday and it was beautiful, the retro-futuristic Soviet environment really comes alive with all the little details the artists put into the game, it will definitely be a big source of art inspiration for the future.

I overall scaled back my consumption of video games at the end of 2025, the goal is to eventually replace video games with consistent daily drawing and illustration practice.

The United States is the world’s most successful bandit kingdom.

Europe has no countries, only collectives of consumers. I find it laughable that after decades of pursuing the atomization and destruction of society (of which the UK’s Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer of) any one of these authority figures would even entertain the thought of mobilizing the population to fight on their behalf. If they ever get the war they want it will manifest through drones and nuclear bombs, because those are the only things they can use reliably and will never question their authority.

I live in Romania, I can confirm that that figure is even worse.

The average labour participation rate (age 15-64) is 63.3%, 18.7% for age 15-24. (source is the official statistics institute report for September 2025)

Out of that 18.7%, 26.9% are considered unemployed for that statistic.

My recent choice to FOSS-ify my whole computer is paying dividends every day.

Personally, I don’t even know that much about how computers operate and using the terminal feels like witchcraft, but ever since taking my chances and jumping ship to Linux Mint I feel like I actually own my own computer.

Now that phrase captures it perfectly, “revolutionary optimism”, I firmly believe that such a mindset is what socialists need if we were to get anywhere and sway more people to our ideas. We are firmly dominated by the ‘organic ideology’ of our capitalist leadership, if we ourselves are not convinced by the vision of a better world being possible, how could anyone else?

Beautiful edit, thank you for trying to preserve it.

I accidentally posted without the link at first, oops.

Glad to provide something worth checking out, tovarish.