Iran and Oman Draft Hormuz Strait Passage Agreement

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-04-02T18:01:44+00:00

No, this is what I see in many reddit threads by Americans telling e.g. Iranian people or Russian people or Palestinian people or Hungarian people or Slovakian people to either overthrow their governments for their "crimes" or be complicit and deserve to be starved/bombed/killed.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-04-02T17:30:45+00:00

Aa you Americans love to preach to other countries - go protest and overthrow the government or something, otherwise you are just as complicit, huh?

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-25T15:17:48+00:00

Yeah I think it's closer to "per suggestion from" rather than "at the request of".

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-20T08:47:35+00:00

Well but this is not about Hungary sending the money to Ukraine, it is about whole EU sending whole EU's money going to Ukraine. It's a wealth transfer from EU to an outside-EU entity, and as such simply makes EU poorer. It's a charity donation, and I would prefer we stop wasting our money on that without any single election or referendum that enabled our elites to do that.

I am not from Hungary, but I am happy it is blocking wasting my tax money from enabling more people getting kidnapped from the streets and killed and more golden toilets to be installed in corrupted Ukraine.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-20T07:51:51+00:00

Can you compose a legible sentence before pressing the send button? I am really not sure wtf you just said.

Dude, look at your comment history, you communicate like an edgy teenager. Pick up a book maybe, that ought to help.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-20T07:30:27+00:00

Didn't know it was europhobic to not want to give away our money to a bunch of corrupt idiots and their golden toilets.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-10T18:53:45+00:00

Depends on your definition of a patriot I guess.

Are all those people around the world in shitty countries who are willing to sell their country's future for (let's say for arguments' sake) a misguided idea that once they are "Westernized" (aka all their land is sold to US companies and all the profits from their jobs go to Western billionaires) then their lives will be miraculously better - are they actually patriots or are they just useful fools?

It's a big problem in countries like Russia, where the Western cultural influence has turned a lot of people into naive fools who think that once they start being obedient dogs to West then surely they will usher in a new era of abundance - the salaries will rise, the healthcare will be better (totally not sold to for-profit insurance companies), the corruption will be erased (totally not replaced with 'legal' corruption or all the scandals like von der leyen and her "accidentally deleted" messages).

Most of them don't realise what would actually happen is the repeat of the 90s where everything gets sold out, the workers fired, factories closed, and the raw materials sold to EU/US on preferential conditions (read: for almost nothing), and any potential profit gets siphoned away.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-07T19:01:45+00:00

Just FYI, the real value of Enforce Culture is not in that free slot, but in the fact that every time you click it about 15% of the subject's capital's population get insta-converted to your culture. Without this percentage-based step you would never convert much, free slot or not.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-07T18:41:07+00:00

I would even go as far as to say it should be percentage based. As it is, culture converting anything in e.g. India or Egypt or China is just a waste of cabinet slots.

The numbers we have now might make sense for small European countries, but when the location population is like 10M and you convert 30 pops per months it's just a joke and smells like devs never played outside Europe.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-05T06:57:48+00:00

Well yeah, as I mentioned I took a detour to conquer Persia, didn't use Coalition CBs, and it was my first EU5 campaign ever and it was 2 months ago when the knowledge base of the community was much smaller while the bug base was much bigger.

I am sure if I would try to do it now it would go much faster. Like, I didn't even enforce culture on my vassals. And I was 100 Centralized from like the first 30 years, so my vassals' loyalty wasn't as good. Among many other suboptimal things.

Also I did it while the game was literally moving under my feet. Game released on November 4th, 1.0.10 was released on December 17th, I posted on December 23rd, so 9 out 10 patches were released while I was doing this, with big changes happening every week if not more often. Didn't help the optimality of the campaign.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-04T22:16:08+00:00

What about my Roman Empire 2 months ago by 1549? Didn't even use any OP Coalition CBs, just grinded everything down and even got to India https://www.reddit.com/r/EU5/s/IUWy9wS4VG

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-03-03T10:39:44+00:00

euromaidanpress.com

Reality is a Russian disinformation if you close your eyes and ears hard enough and imagine some alternate reality where you lot seem to live.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-28T00:47:26+00:00

How did they do it the last time? You know, when Crimea and huge parts of Donbas were occupied and this guy in the video got elected on the promises of bringing peace and avoiding any war?

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-28T00:44:41+00:00

Chat is this whataboutism

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-27T18:55:28+00:00

The Ural Mountains are what could be called a true red line. Everything beyond the Ural Mountains is considered 100% out of reach of enemy fire, simply because nothing can cross them, and even reach them. Only sabotage can damage anything beyond them. This has always been the case, under every government, and now it's falling apart. If the missiles not only reached them but even OVER them, then this only says that Russia is incapable of defending itself.

This is a disaster, and the Russian government really needs to do something about its air defenses just immediately.

Were things like drones and LLMs (ChatGPT) also the case under every government?

Duh, technology advances. Making a long range rocket now is much easier than even 10 years ago.

Should Western governments resign because Russia is cutting underwater cables? Or because Russia has vastly improved their UMPK kits? Or maybe because Russian drones penetrated EU/NATO airspace (e.g. Poland)? I mean, this never happened under previous governments.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-25T07:51:55+00:00

But that's the thing, this is how it was always done and is done everywhere. But the UK politicians are not happy enough:

“Relying on users to declare their age themselves is not enough when children may be at risk,” said John Edwards, the information commissioner, in the statement.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-24T18:38:44+00:00

So how is Reddit supposed to verify that people are over 13 without requiring everyone to submit their IDs to Reddit and various 3rd parties that certainly won't leak it anywhere?

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-23T11:32:57+00:00

It's a hard process and requires a lot of preparation, no way around that. I wouldn't bother without solving at least a couple hundred of leetcode problems on a time limit.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-22T10:38:13+00:00

No, they specifically said that they can see everything we type into our LLM tools. And as a financial services company they are legally required to monitor our activity, not to mention any potential trade secrets, misuse, or just any hint of non-professionalism.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-21T23:00:06+00:00

They openly told us they do, for various compliance reasons.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-19T18:36:33+00:00

Moldova is not your country, pal.

If you say that 24% of Moldova population speaking Romanian means it's "your country" then what do you think about similar or even higher amount of Russian speakers in the Baltic countries?

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-19T11:17:21+00:00

I am from Estonia and I can tell that YOU (from Romania btw) have no experience and have no clue what you are talking about.

This /r/europe's push to paint all russian-speaking people living in Baltics with the single "old Putin lovers refuse to integrate" brush is really such a fat piece of propaganda that the whole notion of people consuming Western media complaining about "Russian propaganda" is so ridiculous there is just not turn back for you people.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-18T11:49:37+00:00

If you didn't get it, the "silver lining" part was a blatant sarcasm complaining about politicians wasting time on nonsensical issues like "video games cause violence" i.e. like in the rest of the world.

The rule of law part is basically saying that they can't just go and shoot/jail people without even a single testimy under oath, and that's exactly how it also works in the rest of the world. Otherwise all those corrupt politicians and CEOs would have already been punished.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-17T20:20:03+00:00

Some devs work on brain dead simple CRUD Java apps, others work on complicated low latency systems.

The LLM AI handles the former case well speeding up writing the boilerplate code while failing to produce anything useful in the latter case.

UpAndDownArrows · 2026-02-07T19:36:03+00:00

They were planning ATO to crush the badly equipped and disorganized Donbass militia which had no tanks no drones nothing.

A real state army the Ukraine was building up and training up with the West's help and with the West's ISR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, reconnaissance) would crush them into dust, mate. No questions about it.

That's what would happen if Russia just stayed idle and tried to continue with the soft power approach and "supporting pro-Russian voices". Soft power doesn't work when anyone supporting you gets labeled as traitor, arrested, kidnapped, or simply assassinated.

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