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  • I assume then that the next election won’t be pretty for them

    Pretty much every political commentator at this point is confident that they’re going to be wiped out and lose worse than they ever have in history. So yeah, not pretty.

    That said it’s their own fault, Sunak was supposed to bring things around, but he’s basically done nothing and just sat there being useless while the right wing nationalist element of his own party essentially destroy their election chances. It’s bizarre watching them go at it, it’s like they were sent from the future with a mission to ensure the conservative party is never politically electable ever again.














  • I think that ship has unfortunately sailed.

    Even if I buy a game on Steam I don’t technically own it. If the game was ever deleted from their servers and then I lost my local copy either because I uninstalled it or because I got a new computer, I would have no way to get my game back, and I doubt that Valve would refund me.

    But some games literally don’t have physical releases, even if I did have an optical drive. So what option do I have?

    The only real solution to all of this is a changing copyright law that says that once a piece of software no longer becomes commercially available through legitimate means it becomes legal to pirate it. But that would require politicians around the world to a, understand computers and b, not being 900,000 years old.


  • Attacking Poland would be a stupid thing to do even if Poland wasn’t a member of NATO.

    The Russians can barely fight a war on one front, opening a second front would be insanely stupid.

    Poland has all the same weapons Ukraine has, plus an air force capable of hitting the broad side of the barn.

    What am I saying of course they’re going to do it. This is the country that thinks that orbitally dropping unguided bombs constitutes an effective military strategy.