Malcador

Of all the things to level state level pressure on, Andrew Tate is one ? https://www.ft.com/content/3f951e0b-a9cb-489a-be89-fdf9f996ed27u

Don't give him ideas...

Cleared snow, think we got maybe 20 cm again. Hopefully that's it, but this stuff isn't going to melt for weeks, which is interesting. Pretty sure some cars near me are going to be immobile for that period of time too

How long are we supposed to wait before judging Trump, again?

Wrong thread

Finished Kotor 2, got to see Atton die because I can't build good characters I guess.

Snow is irritating, running out of space to clear it to. 20 cm this week and maybe 25 cm this weekend. Guess will have to shovel it while it's still falling, chip away at the boulder.

Apparently DOGE has fantastic security. https://www.theverge.com/news/612865/doge-government-website-database-security-open

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-reciprocal-tariffs-coming-thursday-2025-02-13/ Also, Trump doesn't know what VAT is, as he wrote on Truth Social. "For purposes of this United States Policy, we will consider Countries that use the VAT System, which is far more punitive than a Tariff, to be similar to that of a Tariff. Sending merchandise, product, or anything by any other name through another Country, for purposes of unfairly harming America, will not be accepted"

Real Men and Women.

https://buddycarter.house.gov/uploadedfiles/redwhitebluelandact.pdf "To authorize the President to enter into negotiations to acquire Greenland and to rename Greenland as ‘‘Red,White, and Blueland’’. Sherman didn't burn enough.

"After reports circulated Wednesday night of the State Department's intent to purchase Tesla vehicles, the document was edited, at 9:12 p.m., and now says the federal contract is for $400 million worth of "armored electric vehicles," but the word "Tesla" was removed. Responding to a segment by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow about the $400 million contract, Musk wrote on X on Wednesday night: "Hey @Maddow, why the lie?" Hopefully more people report on the edit. But not like people will care about details.

Well, I guess it can be a quantum of success. Not exactly raising hopes of any kind of reasonable deal, Trump's in it for his glory after all, that doesn't mesh with Ukraine, Europe, well or even the US' strategic goals.

The ceasefire that is hanging by a thread, and threatening friendly nations for things they already had in motion?

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5141716-trump-ukraine-war-negotiations/ Not the best diplomacy at work here.

Droid factory in KOTOR 2 should have been left out of that restoration mod, good grief what a tedious experience

Well, was nice knowing you all

https://defence-blog.com/algeria-confirms-purchase-of-russian-su-57-fighter/ Algeria buying Su-57s, means we'll get a better look at it perhaps (and flaws will be waved away due to 'export model')

https://newrepublic.com/post/191426/donald-trump-threatens-judges-blocked-orders “Hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth, much more than that, in just a short period of time. We want to weed out the corruption. It seems hard to believe that a judge could say, ‘We don’t want you to do that,’ so, maybe we have to look at the judges,” Trump said. “I think it’s a very serious violation.”

Saw one theory is thamt Hamas doesn't have some of them, sort of a black humour in that. Other than that is strange for sure, if the war resumes we're going to see Palestinians on the move again and all which I guess is bad PR for Israel, not like they care though especially with a more obedient US.

Well, at least you admit you're full of crap, I guess. Small news but notable - https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24177681/avowed-breaks-down-barriers-with-cross-buy "When you buy any edition of Avowed on either Battle.net or Xbox, you can then play the game on both platforms by linking your Xbox and Battle.net accounts. This means you'll be able to switch easily between playing Avowed on Battle.net or Xbox."

Congrats on not being dead, GD.

https://abc7news.com/post/netanyahu-threatens-resume-fighting-gaza-hostages-arent-released-saturday/15894131/ And I guess this time they'll "take the gloves off".

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-11/treasury-secretary-bessent-to-visit-kyiv-as-trump-seeks-minerals Looks like Ukrainian minerals for US support is a good play