Property is a social construct. It’s just a way for all of us to make sense of living with each other.

The kid owned that door through a consensus, just as you own your things, even as an adult. If that was an illusion, so is all your property.

Point is, don’t be a dick.

Unsurprisingly, the site has nothing on who owns it either

(at foot pedals) “Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn”

Doesn’t the 737 have toe brakes?

There is also the possibility that it’s a principled stance towards executive authority. Like they don’t want the precedent of the courts and the system in general successfully protecting people from them.

Software engineers are among the best paid employees, and are not licensed.

The US used the American engine of it before to exert pressure.

Maybe we should start fucking with the F-35 in turn.

In the EU, you also have to be able to buy exactly as much as you need

As opposed to being disappeared without identification just based on your skin colour.

Yeah I was going to say the same, “Berlin has its U-Bahn Museum, Stockholm boasts the Sparvagsmuseet, and London is home to the Transport Museum”, Budapest has the frickin BKK running buses and trams as old as your grandpa.

Yeah I 'member. The good old days when an expansion pack was basically the dev wanting to do another game on the same engine, so they basically released another game’s worth of content with it.

Age of Mythology: The Titans comes to mind.

That said, the skelly island was definitely a DLC, as in it had barely any content. Tribunal, and Bloodmoon were expansion packs, and good ones too.

I think this is the most uninteresting part of Morrowind, it’s a DLC that is basically “go to this island and kill a metric fuckton of skeletons”.

I think these are more representative of the game. It’s a bit dated, but insanely atmospheric and modders are still keeping it alive.

The whole thing is a huge problem TBH and there is no easy way to solve it. Pouring money on it mindlessly is not enough.

I’ve seen several interviews with successful Roma people who became teachers or engineers for example and it seems like it is an universal experience that their family cut ties with them. One girl who became a schoolteacher was violently attacked by her own family after coming to visit after she graduated, as her attending higher education was seen as a kind of betrayal at home.

This is in Hungary BTW, and that said the Roma politician who is supposed to represent them and preside over integration efforts stole most of the money given, so there’s that. I guess he at least integrated well into the government of thieves. IIRC he had a scandal as well because ministers and the like in Hungary have to have at least finished elementary school (8 years from 6 to 14), and he faked his record.

It also doesn’t help that the child protection system is broken, while the foundation was solid. In Hungary, child protection services visits are mandatory in the very early years of having a kid for everyone, which IMO should be a good policy.

That said, it was corrupted by being defunded and children’s homes being used by pedophilic politicians as a brothel for example. The Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Public Communication (propaganda) have both been implicated in essentially raping orphans, among other people. Numerous other people.

This also impacts Roma people in and outsized way of course, as children’s homes are mostly full of Roma kids. Kids have been taken away by power-drunk officials from perfectly good Roma parents on racist grounds while cases of totally unfit parents getting signoffs are mounting in number, including cases where the child dies in the end. Of course, this then is used to fuel racism instead of calls to reform the system.

That said, there is also cause for hope. The current Hungarian government is, as things stand, going to lose the April election. The new government will likely have Kriszta Bódis in their cabinet. She led a program that had the rate of enrollment in secondary education of the local Roma population of one of the most destitute Hungarian towns go from 2% to 100% in 5 years. Her foundation called “You have a place / You belong” (IDK what the better translation for “Van Helyed” is), led an effort of joint cleanup and reconstruction of the ghetto Roma people live in at Ózd.

Classic case of “history is written by the victors”. You only call it antimatter because it lost, if it won, you’d call it matter.

I hate it so much that this exact headline could be from any day of the past 3 years.

This headline does not feel sane

The thing is, it was always okay. The reason we didn’t take on debt was because it benefited the German elite. And it’s not “everybody” going into debt, it’s the state going into debt. Which is in general okay, money itself is debt, and nobody wants to abolish that.

What we don’t need is excessive debt without getting anything in return. In a very simplified example, if we bought one tank per year so far, and we make the military budget five times as big, we should get five tanks, not one tank for five times the money. Because in the first place, the five tanks will need five times as many people to assemble it, while in the latter, the economic boost will only boost wealth figures.

This article is coming from Ukrainians who I wish hope and strength for and I understand why their outlook is gloomy.

But with the US heading towards a civil war or IDK what the fuck with random domestic troop deployments, OpenAI being a financial black hole of epic proportions that threatens imploding the NYSE, Russia fucking its economy up beyond recognition so much that the gas station of the world became a petrol importer, and China trying to figure out what to do with its insane overcapacity, the EU is a wild card with economic and political safety belts that make its problems manageable.

It has the potential to become a decisive power that could basically inherit the US alliance system, as deals with the Commonwealth, but even Brazil and Mexico have been newly started up as a Trump reaction. The economy is not exciting or booming but is mostly steady with some problems, at least compared to the rest of the world. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best we have. Even with Chat Control, can you imagine the powers that be thinking up some bullshit like this, and people being able to fight it as much as here in the US or China? We can beat Chat Control, the US can’t beat the NSA dragnets, and China is China.

The big thing limiting the EU is division, member states going their own way. So the powers that be keep pumping out articles trying to deepen that division. Together, we can stay stable, maybe even assume a lot of shit the US is shedding now. Like the reserve currency, or at least we can decide how we want to live. They don’t want it. They are not winning though.

These are not mutually exclusive. We could easily fund healthcare and this.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, long regarded as the EU’s most pro-Russian leader, has sharpened his anti-European and anti-Ukrainian rhetoric ahead of parliamentary elections next spring.

Because he is going to lose it. There was just another major pedophile scandal involving the Deputy Prime Minister raping orphans, on top of the other orphan-raping scandals and general economic fuckery.

In neighboring Slovakia, the Party of European Socialists—the largest social-democratic group in Europe—has suspended, and is expected soon to expel, its local partner SMER.

Which pretty much nullifies its influence on EU politics beyond vetos. His government is also on super shaky ground, with the coalition threatening to collapse.

In the Czech Republic, another populist and Eurosceptic—Andrej Babiš, a former prime minister and critic of Ukraine—won Sunday’s parliamentary elections.

He already backtracked and said he’s pro-EU, and even with a coalition he doesn’t have a supermajority.

Babiš faces an ongoing fraud trial, and his party failed to win a majority.

Nuff said.

“This aligns with an unprecedented ideological convergence between the MAGA movement and the EU’s rebel states,” said Alberto Alemanno, professor of European law and policy at HEC Paris.

They are not “rebel states”, that’s actually Orbán’s rhetoric if anything. They are failed byproducts of German big business nearshoring efforts, along with Poland. After 2008, the German government pushed against debt for restarting the economy, so the US got ahead on us on fixing the mess - that they caused BTW.

Orbán and Merkel have used each other as scapegoats for like 10 years, Orbán being the public face of vetoing legislation that Merkel didn’t want passed but couldn’t sell to her voters, while Orbán played the “rebel leader” against “evil big business Merkel” and stole whole industries and a ton of EU funds.

Orbán was on the news covers in Germany, Merkel was on billboards in Hungary, the Hungarian workers had their rights taken away with unpaid overtime laws, the German workers had their unions undermined by nearshoring. Orbán never faced any consequences for stealing, Merkel could build her corpo wet dream of a German economy. They both sucked off Putin for cheap gas and didn’t ask questions when Russia kept attacking its neighbours.

Shit came crusing down for them and we’re in the find out phase of the European neolib fuck around.

That said, Merkel is now out of the picture, Orbán will soon be. We got off Russian energy, we’re getting off of US dependencies now, the economy is not catastrophic, nobody is eating their pet hamster like on that one Russian ad.

Please stop dooming.

It’s an American billionaire paper, they are not reporting on industry panic, they are in the business of causing it.