To be fair, I’m not sure what Obama did to deserve this…

Now’s the time, seeing how the party is polling right now, they wouldn’t lose much by dissociating from it.

As others have said I believe the meme didn’t originate in Russia, but was used disparagingly by its enemies. That said, a Russian author did write The Last Ringbearer, an alternative perspective on the events of LOTR:

Kirill Yeskov bases his novel on the premise that the Tolkien account is a “history written by the victors”.[1][2] Mordor is home to an “amazing city of alchemists and poets, mechanics and astronomers, philosophers and physicians, the heart of the only civilization in Middle-earth to bet on rational knowledge and bravely pitch its barely adolescent technology against ancient magic”, posing a threat to the war-mongering faction represented by Gandalf (whose attitude is described by Saruman as “crafting the Final Solution to the Mordorian problem”) and the Elves.[1]

Sounds familiar?

Oh he knows, he’s been doing it for a long time. Only this time he’s bought the US government, and spends most of his time with the president-elect, so these tweets have consequences in the real world too. He’s also perfectly aware of this, as is his buddy Putin.

I think he meant SSN.

Bonus: Elon “fuck yourself in the face” Musk pretending to be shocked.

StarCraft 2, during the Terran campaign you chill out in a bar between missions. There’s no actual gameplay tho, other than optionally talk to NPCs.

Steam deck is digital only and is selling like hot cakes.

One thing about him I saw in a Lemmy comment a couple months back, is that in every picture of him smiling, if you hide his mouth you’re left with his lifeless eyes, it’s like he was told how you’re supposed to smile when you’re cheerful so he goes through the motions but he’s not entirely sure what the point is. It works with all the pictures of him I came across since then, including the thumbnail of this post.

I used Ubuntu at work a couple of years ago. When they announced the switch to snaps I didn’t really care, but when they switched Firefox to the snap version it had quite a few issues like really slow startup, inconsistent theming, and problems with some extensions. So I uninstalled the snap, installed the standard DEB and went on with my work.

But then the issues came back, and it took me some time to figure out they had replaced the actual DEB package with an unholy shim which just installed the snap. THAT really pissed me off, so when I got a new laptop I just installed Arch and my only regret was not doing it sooner.

For a couple of people I know, the answer would be: “This is obviously terrible, yes, but we need to preserve our traditional values at all costs, otherwise Muslim immigrants will replace us”.

It works really well, I want to support them and donate but I’m afraid YouTube will find a way to block them like they did to others…

Well they’re voting for a rapist who cheated on all of his 4 wifes, in case you still thought they actually cared for family values.

They cut the quote too soon. He actually argued that mass killing was more humane as the alternative was starvation, because try as they might, the poor Nazis weren’t able to feed their prisoners. So they decided to mercy-gas them instead.

Not sure about US companies, but I’ve never seen an AC plug on European and Asian companies’ airplanes. They do have USB ports but they’re underpowered (barely enough to keep my battery at the same level while playing music on BT headphones) or straight up don’t work. Ask a flight attendant in the latter case, they’ll reboot your screen which might fix the issue.

I liked it a lot, although the DLCs were far more memorable than the base game.

It’s not water vapor. It’s mainly propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin, plus flavorings and (optionally) nicotine.

Hazing in the Russian military (dedovshchina) is horrifying, straight up torture, mutilation and even murder. Families often use their entire savings to bribe officials so their sons aren’t conscripted. So the Russian military is made up of the dregs of society, people so destitute they can’t pay their way out of military service. Mental health issues are prevalent, either from their past life or from the hazing itself.

Yeah but it’s an USAF system. “Canada remains in DEFCON1” makes no sense.

Sorry our awesome plan was so clever it got you confused. We’ll try and make it simple for you morons next time.

Ah yes, the Macron Apology.