Eh. Flattery works particularly well on Trump, I believe. So I think Rutte is doing a good job here. It's sad that it's necessary and that it works, but I don't blame Rutte for the election of Trump.
Xbox seems like it may be toast. It's being rolled into Windows somehow, it seems. The odds are decent that it's a face-saving exercise and the whole thing is being shut down slowly. Or Microsoft pulls something incredible out of the bag. The Xbox management has to be desperate at this point. We'll see whether whatever Winbox thing comes out of it sticks to the wall or not.
Exactly this. Isn't the point of the BBC world service to communicate/propagandise the British view of what's happening in the world to other countries? Imagine Russia Today adding a paywall? It's counter to the entire point! I think you may be on to something about this being a concession to Trump.
Second this. It was really rough for a while, but now it's mostly (mostly!) smooth. Still waiting for a mesa version with the Doom fixes, though, so don't expect frequent driver updates. I think maybe the stable Pop release is better with this?
Is it democracy that has a problem, or is it humans? Take the housing crisis, for example. We want low rents without lotteries, except we also want beautiful cities without commieblocks or even high-rises, and the significant proportion of voters who own their own homes want home values to always increase. And god forbid property taxes forces a retired old person out of a home that's far larger than what they need. There is just no solution that satisfies all constraints. So we muddle through, mumbling something about "damn foreigners" and "eat the rich". If we all actually agreed the housing crisis is a problem we're willing to make sacrifices to solve, then we'd solve it in an instant. But no. Only mimimi.
The left runs on vibes and the right doesn't want to fix anything. That's not the fault of political parties, but just how different kinds of people think and operate. I don't have a solution, really. The best I can come up with is: If you don't like the laws where you live, see if anywhere else has a system you like. If you find something, consider moving there. If you don't find what you're dreaming of anywhere in the world then it is probably not (politically?) possible and you'll just have to cope.
The most extremist-proof voting system I know of is approval voting. Proportional representation is unfortunately not really great at preventing extremism.
I think it's fine that the crackpots have their own instance. And anyway it's possibly good that there's a counterbalance to the right wing MAGA/Orban shitheads, although a stronger center would ofc be best. I just wish there was a way to block the ibstance so I wouldn't have to listen to their inane opinions.
Isn't 5% a lot? IIRC even the US aren't that high. And what are we supposed to use all those soldiers and weapons for? Surely that's overkill, even for Russia? Is this actually about China?
Edit: It's 3.5% on the military and 1.5% on dual use infrastructure like roads, for a total of 5%. That's high but quite a bit more sane.
Did a driver just say it's political correctness that this guy can't high five? What does the driver think PC means?? You just know that's an annoying as hell person
Also the reason they don't want to anger Russia. Just a voter base defined by selfishness and - even worse - short-sightedness. Anything that's not of immediate and personal benefit to them personally they are against. Fuck others and fuck the long run.
Conservatism does sort of exist, but it's all about conserving the social, economic, and power structures of the present. Honestly most so-called conservatives are actually reactionaries - they want to bring back the social, economic, and power structures of the recent past, i.e. reverse the past couple of decades of development. Mostly, of course, because they believe they were better off back then.
Eh. Flattery works particularly well on Trump, I believe. So I think Rutte is doing a good job here. It's sad that it's necessary and that it works, but I don't blame Rutte for the election of Trump.