• 0 Posts
  • 297 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: July 1st, 2023

help-circle













  • Hexen to CS 1.6. We must be very similar in age. That’s basically my teens.

    Red Alert was my favourite. Dial-up multiplayer with my school friend. Rarely finished a game because someone’s house got a phone call or someone picked up the phone. We both got in trouble when the first phone bills came in. Would spend about $2.50 in local calls each time tuntil the computers linked up. A $60 phone bill was savage back then for families living in government housing and struggling to pay off a base model computer.


  • saltesc@lemmy.world
    cake
    toWorld News@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    8
    ·
    17 days ago

    If military superiority were measured in size, Putin could’ve had his two day war. Alas, they have only displayed inferiority which continues to damage Russia’s economy, population, and global reputation, despite Ukrainian boots remaining at home. It seems Putin has finally looked further down the timeline and realised his forces are incapable of taking Ukraine, let alone the strenuous task of occupying a very resistive nation.





  • I wouldn’t be so sure. Government bailouts tend to happen because they’re almost forces to. Where the economy can suffer greater loss without the bailout. Generally, in a scenario where a company or corporation has nestled itself into something the economy is dependent on. Of course what happens after that bailout is the bad part where it often seems nothing is done to alleviate the economy’s dependency, nor is the actions of the body receiving the bailout regulated, monitored, or needing to pay it back.

    I don’t know how much dire a state the US economy would be in with Boeing missing or significantly damaged, but can’t imagine it’s perceived to be as bad as the crooked banks.

    Edit: Oh, wait. The military is dependent on them. Yeah, there’d be a bailout lol