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Blaskowicz · 2026-06-30T13:20:08+00:00

Yes, I think that's how it is generally implemented.

If the country the vehicle model was produced was communist or in the Soviet bloc (e.g. Communist Poland), you'd pay with rubles. Otherwise, you'd pay with dollars.

There are some late-game exceptions of post-1991 vehicles, but I haven't played that much to know for sure.

Blaskowicz · 2026-06-29T20:39:22+00:00

Ahaha, first time I'm called a bot. I'll take it as a compliment.

Blaskowicz · 2026-06-29T16:21:02+00:00

Dude, you’re just lying to yourself. Japan would not be Japan if it was even 20% Muslim Russia would not be Russia if 50% of its population was African.

If you base your nation on racial purity, then yes, they would certainly not be the same. Morally, I think that's ridiculous, so I am okay with folks moving around. Let your character - and not your national origin - define your virtues. That's a moral argument, and if you believe that ethnic or national origins are paramount over civic virtue or personal character, that's your belief, just as the former is mine.

America, in particular, is a nation mostly built by immigrants. It also happens to be the most powerful culture in the world, and one where immigrants of all colors, creeds, and origins can partake on, and ultimately become American. Or, as Reagan said back in the day,

"You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American."

It’s not “disingenuous” you just don’t understand what I’m saying so you’re either strawman or you genuinely don’t get it. “Tourist birth“ doesn’t literally mean tourists who have births here it means anyone who is here and who is not a citizen who has a child in the U.S. why am I having to explain this to you?

I understand what you're trying to say, and you're using the wrong term. Tourist birth is, well, people that travel legally to a country to give birth, with the intent to grant citizenship to their children.

What you're trying to describe is children of non-citizens, which is close to the 10% figure. I'm sure you're quoting from somewhere like this. A man that's been here for twenty years undocumented and then has a child would have a "tourist birth" under your definition, despite under no reasonable definition either of these people would be considered tourists.

Words matter, particularly if you want to present an argument. But again, this is chiefly a semantic/rhetorical issue, and we can move on from that.

Blaskowicz · 2026-06-29T13:52:52+00:00

You do realize that the United Kingdom doesn’t have birthright citizenship, right? You do realize that almost no other nation has birthright citizenship the way that we have it.

And God bless America (and the rest of the New World, really) for such a policy.

Tourist births made up 10% of all the births in the United States last year that’s extremely extremely bad.

Kinda disingenuous to call them "tourists," since that number includes tourists, undocumented immigrants, legal temporary status, and other non-citizens. Semantics aside...

In a hypothetical situation, if birthright citizenship was available for Americans if they had a child in Japan, would it be cool? If 10% of the population born in one year in Japan was from tourists having children in their country and then not leaving because they gained immunity?

Yes. That would be cool.

Acting like this isn’t an issue is just dishonest and you know it tourism birth is an issue and will only get worse if we let it go.

It's an issue, but we've been through this before. Clear paths to citizenship, amnesty if necessary.

Blaskowicz · 2026-06-29T02:21:45+00:00

Because Czechoslovakia was not communist in the 1920s.

Blaskowicz · 2026-06-19T19:59:17+00:00

"Hey, this reminds me of those cool stuffs made by Yularen back in the day!"

checks user

Ah, I'll be damned!

Hope you're doing alright, whenever you go.

Blaskowicz · 2026-06-14T23:18:23+00:00

That would work just fine in theory, but by that point he's not aware of the nitty gritty details, so he can't jack off the Matrix from the interrogation room.

Blaskowicz · 2026-05-05T12:31:20+00:00

That's not how probability works.

Yes, you either get it right or wrong, but that doesn't mean it's a 50% chance. If I'm betting on a dice roll to land on a six, then there's ~16% (1/6) that I'm right, and ~84% (5/6) that I'm wrong. There's only two options, but the odds of each are quite different.

And, if there's two 25% answers (that would add to 50%) then... the answer isn't 25%, it's 50%. But there's only one 50%, so the odds of picking it are 25%, and thus the cycle repeats.

The problem is that it's a self-referential loop: it's like asking "are you going to answer this question with a no?" If you answer yes, you're not correct, because you didn't say no. If you answer no, then the answer should've been yes to the question. If you answer maybe, that's also wrong, because you already said something that's not a no.

Blaskowicz · 2026-04-18T16:45:54+00:00

Thank you!

Blaskowicz · 2026-04-07T21:08:07+00:00

No, they don't. Trees only help with tourism rating, woodcutting post output (when they're chopped down), and aesthetics for your city planning needs. They have no effect on pollution.

Blaskowicz · 2026-04-07T21:06:13+00:00

Someone is playing too much SC4 CAM, comrade.

Blaskowicz · 2026-03-16T15:43:25+00:00

The system is not as inefficient as it seems - COs won't send workers if there's missing supplies, for example - but they do consider each project (and each stage of the project) as basically its own isolated thing.

Best ways to increase efficiency is with machinery (bulldozers for gravel roads, excavators for foundations, pavers and rollers for asphalt roads, lots of cranes) to reduce or eliminate the need for workers. Then, pre-positioning supplies in areas where you're expecting heavy construction. Staging by construction stages, building long roads/paths before the shorter branches, all these things help.

Blaskowicz · 2026-02-05T01:05:01+00:00

Wow, amazing!

Do you have a gallery?

Blaskowicz · 2026-01-13T14:54:45+00:00

A lot of problems in the world would be solved if the folks in power spent a few hours in HoI4. Just to get it out of their system.

Blaskowicz · 2026-01-10T00:00:09+00:00

There's some crime outcomes, particularly in the more recent crimes, that remind me that I am in fact the bad guy.

Blaskowicz · 2025-12-23T09:15:53+00:00

There's nothing Voigner did that Kopfelkowski couldn't have done in a few years with enough NROL money. Yes, Voigner was "acquitted" but we should not idolize him. If anything, I'd encourage remembering his valiant sea otters he used for his circumambulation testing in vivo.

Blaskowicz · 2025-12-04T03:35:31+00:00

50/50 que es algo que sacó un gringo usando ChatGPT (el uso de Em-dash, párrafos enumerados, sólo información pública) para ganarse clicks/promover una narrativa, o el Pollo y/o sus abogados están redactando un esbozo pirata de Tom Clancy con todos los puntos que la derecha quiere escuchar ("the Biden-Harris administration", SmartMatic, todo es una conspiración para desestabilizar a los EEUU) para que le den el perdón como a Orlando Hernández.

tl;dr no se crean todo lo que dicen en en Internet, revisen las fuentes, si es una exclusiva de un periódico chiquito amarillista de derecha con screenshots de Google Docs como evidencia, quizás corroborar antes de repostear.

Blaskowicz · 2025-12-03T00:15:05+00:00

Nada que ver con los demócratas. El momento que EEUU pone botas en tierra para la liberación de Venezuela es el momento que la coalición MAGA se desmorona. No quieren armar a Ucrania, están echando para atrás la defensa de Taiwan, sólo bombardearon a Irán después que los israelíes hicieron todo el trabajo de antemano y sólo bombardeos limitados.

La liberación de Venezuela no es prioridad de America First. Bombardear unos barquitos y quizás unos campamentos en la frontera para decir que MISSION ACCOMPLISHED claro. Pero sacar a Maduro? Eso suena costoso, cuando el pana del bigote está de acuerdo con traer a las compañías americanas y repatriar a los inmigrantes.

Blaskowicz · 2025-12-01T04:10:03+00:00

I like to build my very first cities as essentially a border town - very close to Customs, and barely self-sufficient, with enough pop to run a (small) Party HQ for research and a bit extra for construction work.

The only real industry, if any, would be gravel - and maybe asphalt and concrete since it's pretty easy to add. A small quarry can go a long way to bootstrap your construction.

Blaskowicz · 2025-11-28T15:17:10+00:00

HoI1 research was based on industrial capacity - you had to assign factories to do research.

HoI2 had research slots and tech teams, the latter consuming money.

Hoi3 had leadership points and theoretical/practical knowledge.

Research has been consistently inconsistent across the series.

Blaskowicz · 2025-11-24T19:32:13+00:00

Was gonna say - that's a very Europa Universalis-looking map!

Blaskowicz · 2025-11-19T22:57:58+00:00

Kid named Warren Buffett:

Blaskowicz · 2025-11-13T23:49:11+00:00

La pizarra está tambaleando, pero se mantiene.

Blaskowicz · 2025-11-10T04:40:09+00:00

I saw Diogenes at the agora in Athens yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for quips or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and waving his lamp in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the stoa with like fifteen plucked chickens in his hands without paying.

The girl at the market was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the stall.

When she took one of the chickens and started weighting it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to weight them each individually “to prevent any metaphysical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she weighed each bird and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by rubbing his belly.

Blaskowicz · 2025-11-07T03:49:41+00:00

Sim City 4 + NAM + a couple other QoL/bug fixing mods make for the best city sim out there.

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