I’m disappointed in Norway and Japan.

I suspect that travelling to Russia would have been more likely to get flagged by their government than travelling to the EU would.

“Es are good! Es are good! These effin’ Es are good!”

So it appears to be a 1:1 straight remake, but with modern graphics, better sound and probably some improvements to the UI.

I’ll be honest though; I preferred how all the characters looked in the 3DS remaster. Oh well; I don’t have a Switch 2 anyway, so it’s not like I was gonna get this either way.

The rest of the country really needs to implement Ranked Choice Voting in order to give more people like him a chance.

Nah, that’s no good; I like a little absurdism.

Oh right; actual operatives behind enemy lines. For a second I thought you were saying they’d managed to fly drones that far.

…are Ukraine even able to reach Vladivostok? It’d be mind-blowing if they can

Russians also describe 1990s Russia as an economic wasteland where all of Russia’s wealth and resources were gathered up by oligarchs. So yeah, pretty apt analogy.

Yep. Now, it should be mentioned that clean drinking water SHOULD be a constitutional right, but that’s a matter for an amendment, not for a judge to unilaterally decide.

That quote strikes me as suspect, since the UK doesn’t have “kindergarten”. It’s like hearing an “anonymous UK diplomat” quoted as referring to rubbish as “garbage”.

Sometimes it takes a while for statisticians to notice things, I guess.

The replacement rate is over 2, though.

People just liked it better that way.

Everything Trump says is a joke until he does it

I’m considering renaming the United States of America to Cringetopia

I hate the existence of billionaires as much as the next person, but it always rubs me the wrong way when journalism wears its bias as a badge of honor. Just the facts, please; trust me enough to come to the right conclusion on my own.

What?

Depends what you define as “okay”? My family moved back to Ireland in the early 90s when I was young so I don’t really know how it compares to Canada in terms of racism. Racism certainly exists, and it seems to be worse now than it was before COVID, but I can’t say I see it personally in my own life, maybe one minor incident (eg most recently a kid in the street throwing pebbles and shouting racist abuse at passersby) every fifteen years or so. And every time it’s happened, everyone else on the scene takes the POC’s side (most Irish people pride themselves on being sound).

TBH I’m not really sure I’m qualified to answer, though, as I’m white and I don’t hang around with racists so just because I don’t see racist stuff happening doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen when I’m not around. I suppose the most objective measure I can point to is that we have a racist political party but they’ve never won even a single seat in the Dáil.

Here in Ireland I’m getting a bunch of ads to come visit the USA that I never got before.