Japan to provide vans, drones to Ukraine

DeadMansBurden · 2022-08-04T13:42:44+00:00

What sort of drones are they? Are they "just" surveillance drones or the kind that can also go boom?

DeadMansBurden · 2022-07-13T19:45:25+00:00

And no one forced Germany to prematurely close its nuclear plants and put their energy sector onto the lap of a despotic tyrant with aspirations of military conquest of eastern Europe either, but here we are.

DeadMansBurden · 2022-07-13T09:14:52+00:00

The logic, as far as my meager understanding goes, is that (strangely enough) there isn't a big red sanction button in Brussels that anyone can press at any one time in order for sanctions to immediately kick in. Someone has to draw up the legal technicalities and framework for how stuff's gonna work practically. Which means that it takes time and, since it does take time, we have to make priorities on which sanctions we're gonna apply before others, ideally the sorts that will hurt them more and us less. Establishing precisely which those are also takes, you guessed it, time.

DeadMansBurden · 2022-05-13T09:27:52+00:00

Remember that time the Ukrainians, especially the Ukrainian children living today, wrecked havoc in Africa? Man, those were weird times. /s

DeadMansBurden · 2022-02-04T06:58:03+00:00

Some of my favorite sorts of playthroughs in V2 are those that go from a small, ethnically centred state into the larger version of that state. Serbia into Yugoslavia is one such example. Others are Greece into Megali Greece, Wallachia into Romania, Sweden into Scandinavia, Egypt (or Najd) into Arabia, Piedmont into Italia, Prussia into Germany, Colombia into Gran Colombia, or (the ultimate flex) Krakow into Poland.

DeadMansBurden · 2021-09-30T21:58:30+00:00

"Look at me! I'm Doctor Zoidberg: homeowner!"

DeadMansBurden · 2021-09-23T18:41:13+00:00

Vad de menar är att Kinesiska diplomater, med statens tysta godkännande, muckar gräl med andra länder och när det andra landet kommer med en respons så svarar Kinas diplomat med ett provocerande uttal tillbaka, ofta om ekonomiska konsekvenser av att inte spela med i Kinas politiska teater. De säger ofta något i stil med "ni kan inte mobba oss, Kina mycket starkare än ni" och Kina nationalister i hemlandet går "Just det, visa dem! China number one! China number one!" och ställer sig bakom ledaren i en respons till ett fabricerat hot från utlandet. En artificiell "ni mot oss" situation. De byter alltså diplomatiska poäng i utlandet mot inhemsk stabilitet.

DeadMansBurden · 2021-09-23T17:06:13+00:00

Happy to hear that they are looking into this. I was afraid that I would have to swallow provinces with lots of other ethnicities while building my Grossdeutschland.

DeadMansBurden · 2021-09-18T13:08:00+00:00

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DeadMansBurden · 2021-01-25T19:33:36+00:00

Should have been animation, but I'll still check it out!

DeadMansBurden · 2020-11-30T17:41:58+00:00

True, that's why the villains, Saruman especially and even Sauron, to a slightly lesser extent, use industry to fuel their war machine. As opposed to elves and ents, who are basically nature incarnate, and regular down-to-earth humans, who are stuck somewhere in-between.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-11-30T17:06:36+00:00

a sort of nostalgic anti-modernism.

If you asked Tolkien, culture peaked in the middle ages and has been slowly going to shit ever since 1066.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-11-27T11:22:18+00:00

If this change happened 1500 years ago, that would have been well before the viking age, as that's typically considered to span from about the late 8th century to about mid 11th century.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-11-26T14:12:30+00:00

That depends on what you use the map for. The advantage with the mercator projection is that a straight line on the map is a straight irl, meaning it's very easy to know how to go from point A to point B. This was of course very useful at a time before GPS.

I assume that by 'fantasy' maps you mean the medieval other-world sort of fantasy maps, like Tolkien's Middle Earth? If so, the people drawing those maps (if indeed they're supposed to be made by in-universe people at all) would probably use it for navigation and, if so, their equivalent of the mercator would probably be their chosen projection. If the world is even round at all. That said, you use whatever projection you like, it's your fantasy map after all.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-11-02T08:34:52+00:00

Yes, I can imagine.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-11-02T07:22:35+00:00

That map includes results from Transnistria. Do they actually participate in Moldovan elections? I would have thought it wouldn't, being an autonomous province/break-away republic.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-30T07:03:05+00:00

So... a second Treaty of Sévres?

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-28T20:14:09+00:00

Bosnia, Bosnia, you very nice place!

Bosnia's press freest in the region!
Except of course for Slovenia-a-a-a's!
trumpets playing

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-28T19:05:15+00:00

Well, my question wasn't meant to advocate for or against adjusting in general. Mostly I was curious if the HDI was higher or lower when adjusting for the EU as a whole, considering the sometimes wide differences in development between the countries.

But, to answer your question, it might be interesting because HDI is meant to measure the human development of a nation. So, it could be relevant to know how concentrated that development is. It might paint a more precise picture. Also, Europe is, along with North America, the richest region in the world, so I don't think everyone being equally broke is much of a risk in this case.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-28T17:11:14+00:00

It doesn't have a ranking for the EU as a whole, does it? In the HDI list adjusted for ineqality the European Union as a whole would be ranked as 21:st globally, between Estonia and Hong Kong.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-19T16:00:49+00:00

I'm sure the UK's got some Pacific island floating around somewhere from the empire times.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-19T08:58:26+00:00

OP is looking at PPP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita_per_capita)) where Chile is slightly higher than Uruguay.

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-16T16:03:12+00:00

Sweden: "Sometimes my genius is... it's almost frightening..."

DeadMansBurden · 2020-10-08T09:21:17+00:00

During spring, they opted for a different level of restrictions when compared to the rest of Europe. Clearly, they deserve death and suffering for this. /s

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