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I thought the gas is already flowing again.

I'm still waiting for RLM to talk about it. Maybe they are waiting for the final episode?

Not exactly sure if this is funny or sad, tho.

Interesting, related tweet from 5 days ago:

For what it's worth, I'm glad that Macron has won, however, it's way, way too close for my liking. Almost the half of france doesn't seem to have issues with having a right wing, russian pupped as their fuhrer.

Meh, I don't agree. IF ukraine can get access back to the oil fields and the offshore stuff (crimea), we will likely pump lots of money into the country to get access to those resources for cheap prices.

I mean, germans are pretty much anti-war for the majority of the past 70 years. Every time a politician wanted to get into a war, it caused a major ****storm in the whole country. Most of what we have military-wise is intended for defense, and even in this area we are lacking a lot due to corruption and incompetence. Considering this, I don't think it's surprising that germany doesn't really have the military capacities.

I've read the issue with germany and sending heavy weapons is that ... we simply don't have any to spare. If we send our guns to ukraine, our military won't have any guns anymore for years(!) to come, which basically means that whole units will have to be disbanded, unless we keep training them like north korea - with imaginative weapons. The weapon / vehicle factories are also booked out for the next 10 or what years. It's simply impossible to produce more, faster right now.

I think it's cheaper to kill them like that. Also no need to show gore, etc. which gives a better age rating. Basically the bad guy just disappears and it's done.

I've heard there are already 5 high profile gazprom guys who, uh, did the suicide. Coincidence indeed. Just wondering if this really is a Putin purge like some assume, or if some other intelligence agencies are involved. Guess we will never really find out.

lol, I thought the news feeds are bombing me with the same "oligarch family suicide"-story since yesterday, but now I accidentally found out that there was a *second* family that "suicided" itself. Coincidentally both families are linked to gazprom. Surely we live in mysterious times.

And now nobody can do Z for Zorro anymore. Thanks russia.

Watched The Batman yesterday. Truth told, I'm not sure what to think of it. The style and atmosphere was pretty good, imo. I liked that a lot. But it also felt really long ... when I thought it is about to be done, suddenly it kept going for almost another hour. Also there is a bit of a weird dissonance in style, because on the one side they are trying to show a more "down to earth" Batman, who doesn't have the kind of super powers he has in other movies -- he doesn't fly around the city, he travels with a motorcycle and civilian clothes, his mask looks very self-made out of generic leather, etc. -- But then they keep blasting machine gun bursts into him and he doesn't even care about it (nor does the suit, there is never even a scratch in it). I'm also curious where the hell he has hidden his suit all the time. If he is in "civilian mode", he has a backpack, but I highly doubt he can store it in there ... also, how is he able to swap the clothes so fast? Doesn't look like one can jump in and out of the batsuit that quickly. Still, people were right when they said it does feel a lot like the old 90s cartoon. Even though I'm undecided about this movie, I wouldn't mind seeing a followup.

I'm actually surprised that the remnants in the steel factory still have (or had) food and water left after so much time. The way I understood it, there must be at least ~1k people. Try getting rations for so many people if you are surrounded.

In the beginning of the war they were showing russian tanks that had the explosives in the reactive armor removed. Basically it was just the empty shell, sometimes even only made out of cardboard box.

Would be kinda sad. He managed to play the game for so long and dodged all the time. It's quite an achievement.

I'm a wee bit desperate by now, so I'll just post in here: I'm looking for a writer who would be willing to help out with some ... writing. Paid job, the content will find its way into a commercial game. Not a lot is required, some monologuing, some task texts, coming up with some ideas for story background, etc. A slight interest in northern africa / morocco and algier is preferred. Anyone around who would feel the motivation to help out?

That reminds me .. for some reason every software on my TV (Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc) thinks that I have a 5.1 sound system... but I don't. I have 2 speakers in the TV in front of me ... Every time, on every single movie I have to manually switch back to stereo, or else the 5.1 sound will mix wrong and the voices get drowned. Super annoying. Why does nobody offer a setting to force stereo?

You probably need more vitality. I started pumping it up now - want to get to at least 45 or 50 ... Based on old FS games, I stopped at vitality 30, but that's clearly not enough in Elden Ring.

Why the hell would the US build biological laboratories in mongolia.

Why is it so hard to find out if a big boat is still over water level.

We call her Flinten-Uschi, because she was defense minister for no god damn reason (was family minister before that, maybe they thought it's pretty much the same thing?). Guess they pushed her to the EU just to get rid of her. I have no idea why germany can't appoint a defense minister who knows what s/he is doing.

Eh, I really don't know. There's many what-if's if you go back the years. Fact is, personally I think the other parties surely would have been worse. Also keep in mind that nobody would have changed the gas deal with russia anyways (to get partly back on topic). I just wish certain policies would have been handled better, such as same-sex marriage etc. There was absolutely no reason to stall on this, except that they were scared of losing their 60+ years old voters. Also there was always hypocrisis about arms deals. Stopping the delivery of tanks now and 1 month later, once everything has cooled down, secretly start exporting again, etc. This is nothing new, always happened.

After all the years, people voted for her simply because she was the status quo. Not the best, certainly not the worst. At least you knew what to expect, which couldn't be said of the competition. The lack of progress in many areas was very nerve wrecking and annoying, and I do blame a resurgency of the right wing on it, but at the same time nothing really got much worse for most of the time. I guess this shows the lack of trust of the population into our politicians. Can't really trust anyone, so better to not move at all.

Btw. even my mother is pissed and feels insulted about it, which is kinda a big thing. 😄This tells me that many, many people in germany will have reacted the same way. Probably the reason why Ukraine moved back a little on it since the incident. They probably realized this wasn't a that good thing to do.