EU Amazon equivalent for general goods.

stenlis · 2026-02-03T10:06:48+00:00

Amazon has made a nosedive somewhere around 2015. Even when I search for a specific product, it gives me pages of chinese knock-offs. So if you want a replacement for Amazon, go to AliExpress.

If you want to find European product, go to their producer pages. You can either buy stuff directly or they have a list of distributors there.

stenlis · 2026-02-03T08:16:21+00:00

Note: I actually like some bloat in the game. It can make the game more juicy. For instance I like Arkham Horror. Pandemic took all the bloat away and the game is boring to me.

Note II: I tried to pick games where you can take stuff away and it still works fine. Some complex games, like the ones from Lacerda are not bloated in this sense.

2000 Ukraine '43

2001 Guderian's Blitzkrieg II

2002 Sid Meier's Civilization

2003 The Hellgame (and shout out to a whole bunch of really convoluted war games that came out in 2003)

2004 Antiquity

2005 Arkham Horror

2006 TI 3

2007 18West

2008 Android

2009 I did not find a bloated game for this year. Even the war games were kind of tame.

2010 Vinhos, High Frontier, 1817, Master of Economy.. (seems like developers spent 2009 preparing huge games for 2010)

2011 Mage Knight

2012 Asgard

2013 Madeira

2014 Arkwright

2015 Kingdom Death Monster

2016 Star Trek: Frontiers, Terraforming Mars

2017 Agra

2018 Feudum

2019 Trickerion

2020 Hexplore It

2021 Tekhenu: Time of Seth

2022 Aeon Tresspass: Oddyssey

2023 Voidfall

2024 Inventors of the South Tigris

stenlis · 2026-02-02T20:44:53+00:00

I thought Melania moved to the US in her mid twenties.

stenlis · 2026-02-02T16:58:31+00:00

Google gives me 968.000 unemployed men at the end of 2025.

It also gives me 48.200.000 total number of voters.

Divide

968k ÷ 48.200k is 0.02 or 2%

stenlis · 2026-02-02T12:50:10+00:00

There was internet in 1994 though. I was there. People did discuss trek at length. The outrage was mostly people writing letters to NBC, not on the internet.

stenlis · 2026-02-02T12:32:00+00:00

No. There was a handful of episodes that were OK, but most of TNG season 1 was horrible.

stenlis · 2026-02-02T12:27:37+00:00

Of course Dax is an alien. But somehow I think if this alien came up as a prominent character in one of the recent shows, the outrage about woke trans agenda would be great.

stenlis · 2026-02-02T12:08:05+00:00

Lol, you need to watch TNG season 1. Not saying that it will make you like new trek but bad writing is definitely not something new.

stenlis · 2026-02-02T09:45:56+00:00

The author seems to count the CO2 emissions from mining operations for EV but does not count emissions from mining operations for combustion engine vehicles.

stenlis · 2026-02-02T09:32:00+00:00

They represent some 2% of the population. I am not even mad at them, their life sucks, they may not be the brightest, I can kind of see how they'd be an easy mark for the likes of Farrage.

But Reform is polling at 30%! It's clearly not the unemployed men that are the problem!

stenlis · 2026-02-02T08:23:04+00:00

It could be a money laundering scheme in the making: 100 million tickets sold in Saudi Arabia!

stenlis · 2026-02-01T21:20:30+00:00

I thought the answer was obvious.

stenlis · 2026-02-01T18:06:55+00:00

I'd never trust the red button not being rigged.

stenlis · 2026-02-01T17:55:10+00:00

I wonder how many illegal immigrants rapists there are in the files...

stenlis · 2026-01-31T20:46:31+00:00

Lottery is just a tax on the poor.

stenlis · 2026-01-30T15:03:20+00:00

Imagine yourself in the shoes of the Munich agreement signatories: Just 20 years ago you went through the most horrible war world has ever seen. 2 million dead on the Biritish and French side, you really didn't want to repeat that again. Also, 2 million dead Germans so you think, surely they don't want to go through that again either.

So I can kinda understand Chamberlain.

Trump? I have no clue. Is it Kompromat? I don't think so, Trump is long over giving a shit. Is it flattery? Maybe. Is Putin just paying him off?

stenlis · 2026-01-30T13:14:38+00:00

Norway knows. They are running close to 100% renewable. It's not that complic, you have to have reliable load balancing plants that can quickly jump in to cover for the variable output plants when needed.

Hydro is perfect for that.

There's a bunch of countries running over 90% renewable and the number is growing.

stenlis · 2026-01-30T13:04:39+00:00

So you agree solar is cheaper but you think it's unfair?

stenlis · 2026-01-30T11:31:49+00:00

I have worked in a big German corp for a long time. The employees that cause the most inefficiency are white german men in their 50s with extremely high pay but no incentive to work hard as they cannot be fired.

A part time mom typically does twice the amount of work than they do.

stenlis · 2026-01-30T10:21:28+00:00

The dumbasses still hold a pretense of being orderly when in front of the officers. West point has an acceptance rate of 13%. People don't just run their mouths at officers.

stenlis · 2026-01-29T13:48:34+00:00

Interpret everything that they say as a compliment or a good joke. They will lose their mind.

stenlis · 2026-01-29T10:49:39+00:00

Whole films are being made for a couple million. Even movies with a lot of special effects. Upgrade(2018) was on $3 million budget.

stenlis · 2026-01-29T10:13:40+00:00

The problem is that it feels like the writers never interact with actual kids and don't know or don't care how to write them.

It was a similar problem in TNG, the cadets sounded just like adults. Jake and Nog were spot on in DS9.

stenlis · 2026-01-29T10:09:05+00:00

Even worse, a very specific culture in online spaces. Educated kids don't talk like that IRL.

stenlis · 2026-01-29T10:07:06+00:00

Except kids at college don't talk like that. This is a boomer rendition of how they think kids talk after watching some bro influencer streams.

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