We already started during this year. No sane leader trusted in a coin flip to guarantee our security. A possible Trump presidency was planned for.

giants existed and were romanian

Wait, what? I didn’t see any giants in my high school. Are they invisible giants or something?

Also, where were those giants during the 2nd Dacian war? Romans must have been superheroes or something to take on giants and win.

Honestly, if you’re in the US, best you can do is focus on your local community. Help out your neighbours, find like-minded people, stay active on the local level. There is almost 0 possibility for a normal person to make a difference on the national level, but you absolutely can on the local level.

The optimistic alternative is EU countries scale up their military production and cover the gap. We were already seeing a ramp up, but it’ll have to accelerate.

Downside for the US is later down the line, exports will go down as the EU will have more domestic manufacturing.

This is more about ramping up domestic arms production to fill the gap that is going to come from US production no longer going to Ukraine.

When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way

being able to consistently and reliably operate the thing without taking your eyes off the road

Considering they’d just spent the previous few questions discussing the visual-first aspect of touchscreens and accessibility issues for the visually impaired, I think that’s exactly what they were talking about.

The generalizations are about completely different devices. They talk about CT machines & automatic defibrillators later.

Sure, but my whole point was that you can’t exactly expect defederation to impact their culture in any meaningful way considering being completely defederated was the status quo.

I highly doubt there’s much more migration than before. Hexbear existed as a standalone site with no federation for years before the reddit apiocalypse caused the mass migration to Lemmy.

I think Brexit has also been a significant factor in making UK way more xenophobic.

Personally, I don’t think it’s made the UK more xenophobic. A decent percentage of people supported Brexit due to xenophobia, and the success of the referendum made them more outspoken. Basically, Brexit is a symptom of xenophobia rather than the other way around.

Yeah Alex, people having too much info about you can be scary.

Personally, the game I run the most is Shadowrun. Managed to transition my DnD group to Pathfinder 2e and it’s great. Pathfinder is DnD but so much better.

It’s actually worse than that. Starvation takes a long time to happen (~3 weeks). Lack of access to water causes death and desperation in a much shorter period of time. If water pipelines and/or pumping facilities get screwed up in any way, cities will become mad max much faster and in a much more intense fashion. In a water-starved population, people are mostly composed of water…

I AM LEAD VEGAN OF THE VEGAN BEINGS REPUBLIC. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER, SO I MAY ENGAGE IN CONSUMING NUTRIENT FOLIA IN A RITUALISTIC MANNER.

I guess Germans read about the fate of the Eldar & birth of Slaanesh and took that as an instruction guide.

The key thing is practice. Like any creative pursuit, your first attempts will be trash. The greatest writers, artists and musicians ever went through this too. If you care about that form of creative expression, just keep at it!

Cyberpunk was supposed to be fiction, not a blueprint :(

If you got a powerful tablet and installed Kali on it, isn’t that effectively a cyberdeck?

It’s a confirmed fact they ordered troops in fallback lines to shoot any fleeing Russian troops trying to pull back on some of the fronts.

Playing on the highest difficulty level

FYI, I’m not Ukrainian. I’m Romanian. We have more skin in the game than Germany or France though. If Ukraine falls, Moldova falls 24 hours later, and allowing our brother country to go back under Russian domination is pretty unthinkable.

Even without that existential issue, allowing democratically minded Europeans trying to walk the same path we walked 25 years ago get invaded by Russia without as much help as we can give them seems horrific to me.