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I don't think it's even that controversial they were loaned from somewhere in the Appenines and adapted for use in rock carving.

St. Petersburg's Gunboat Isle looks like something I desperately avoid in Cities: Skylines:

TL;DR: I need something to keep me awake for about 18 hours straight while driving shotgun, without occupying my eyes, and without relying on a cell signal. Ideally, I'd be looking at a downloadable audiobook, or ripping something from Youtube. Thing is, I'm fresh out of ideas of what to actually listen to, so I'm asking you guys (and Rule 16 violators).

Clearing out some old junk. Il-2, Men of War, Civ IV, AoE 3 and AoM, Pirates!, gonna try to sell the well-worn 20-year-old editions for about 1$ a handful. My old XBox collection is on the chopping block next.

I was going to start spewing bile at the study when I saw the press headlines, but it's... not terrible. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381041896_The_cryptoterrestrial_hypothesis_A_case_for_scientific_openness_to_a_concealed_earthly_explanation_for_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena

Could you perhaps pick a safer hobby, like bathing in nuclear waste? I think that's part of a broader logic that I've been struggling to formulate as a counterargument to the 'moral guardian' types - the 'depiction is endorsement' ones. Essentially, they demand evil would never be depicted at all, or depicted in such a simplified, cartoonish way that it becomes inconceivable 'we' could commit evil and it's always some sort of 'them'. I think this leads to a rather dubious attitude of cowering away from evil, fearing it, which is not an effective method of reducing its allure. Play, in general, lets us flex our intellectual and physical muscle to simulate activity that would usually be pretty unwelcome. What were the Olympic Games if not the sublimation of warlike impulses between the poli into a relatively bloodless activity? What share of children who played the local cultural variety of 'cops and robbers' have ended up becoming actual robbers? (and, on that note, actual cops?) There is certainly a line beyond which games can become "murder simulators", but it requires a receptive mind, and it's rare that enough sick people would gather in one place to develop and market such a game. Most people have a decently functioning individual moral filter.

Castle Bravo. "We accidentally overshrimped the Shrimp, and so our 6 Mt H-bomb output 15 Mt" Combined with a "nah, it will be fine" attitude to wind forecasts, this led to extraordinary radioactive contamination across more or less the entire Pacific region.

I believe articles encouraging this began to crop up almost a decade ago (contemporary to Orange Man Bad: Part 1). People playing Pavlik Morozov was always the plan. Inciting a totalitarian mindset is, unfortunately, a powerful electoral strategy - especially when you're on the backfoot and want to stigmatize dissent. I am looking at Apollo. Gallop polls show majority opposition to Apollo at the time. Like all too many things, popular perception of history heavily misrepresents this.

How to win Hamster Combat: https://t.me/banksta/53514

Would that ever stop Rogozin? https://ria.ru/20210526/buran-1733927276.html I imagine the Roscosmocops - NTTs Okhrana - have some leeway to their status in Kazakhstan.

Agreed. "Urban explorers", probably targeting the part of the spaceport not under Russian custody (the Buran MIK? Rogozin claimed he'd posted security there, but they never sorted out the deed).

The sequel really jumped the whale on that one. An anti-aging serum extracted from the brain of an alien whale. Like, how did you even find that?

Two French citizens attempted to infiltrate Baikonur; one dead through dehydration - source. https://ria.ru/20240611/baykonur-1952116166.html

And yet not a single M113 variant?

Probably just winter tyre storage, but it might make the neighbors wonder where you're putting out fenders to moor an airship to the balcony below yours.

Isn't it the Naryad ASAT, though?

Only because you can't stick them on a private jet. So many climate conferences to attend, and the celebrity evangelists are in a great rush... P.S. Go big or go home. If your private jet can't make Mach 2, I'm not interested.

Even proper surveys - with drills and stuff - aren't allowed. However, the political situation is starting to heat up. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/11/russia-uncovers-oil-and-gas-reserves-british-antarctic/ I'm pretty sure the Arctic supplies are good enough to keep Russia busy for the next few centuries, but apparently we're just so perniciously malevolent we're going after both poles. Somehow.

85 million years ago separate the "canon" Stegosaurus from the T-Rex. 67 million years separate the T-Rex from unicycles. It's less anachronistic to depict a T-Rex fighting a Stegosaurus than to depict a T-Rex on a unicycle.

Meanwhile, it's been over two years of Youtube refusing to show me or the entire country any ads... But I remember accessing it in various indirect ways and being shocked at the sheer amount of ads they plaster onto videos nowadays.

So I've just found a guy... Anyway. This is deliciously meta: Can someone please get this to Jill Bearup...

Yep, I'm now officially convinced the Steam Community is ran entirely by hired bots. Otherwise I can't explain the usual line-up of meaningless positive comments and emojis under a "Snowrunner DLC Unlocker" video. Oh, is that what they're calling it now?

Too soon. At least one human sacrifice case on the books, plus a strong foreign policy element - the second-in-command of a certain "opposition" unit based in [neighboring country name redacted] was the leader of the Temple of the Black Sun, Moscow's chapter of the Order of the Nine Angles.

https://t.me/roscosmos_press/2083

The ultimately unnamed hospital in Khovrino, Moscow was built starting 1980, but outfitting began to slow down in 1985 and ground to a halt in 1992. As it turned out, the brutalist monstrosity was built on poorly-drained swampy soil and was rather quickly sinking into it. Fans of the Resident Evil games successfully christened it the Khovrino Umbrella. Until knocked down by the long-abovementioned CrushMash demolition company in 2018, it was quite the magnet for trouble, with two confirmed murders, one suicide, at least one accidental death, plus up to hundreds of lesser injuries per month due to all sorts of adventure seekers, as well as a rumored battle between the police and a Satanist ring.