I presume by… making things? with the 800 billion euros?

Exactly its not some mysterious problem no matter how much the government and media try to frame it as one, people of the age to have kids have no time for kids and no money for kids so no wonder they have no desire for kids.

I’d go a bit further and say Camacho was actually pretty proactive, he did after all institute that nation wide intelligence test to find someone to tell him how to fix everything, and was humble enough to listen to that person once he found him.

Honestly fuck it we know appeasment doesn’t work, I’d rather have WW3 now when Ruzzia is still just a middle power with a ton of second hand equipment than let them take half of eastern europe and build up some serious strength before finally having WW3 anyway.

Fucking Idiocracy is competence porn at this point, Camacho was an idiot but damn was he actually really competent if you think about the events of the movie.

Unfortunate slight difference, The US was unwilling to go full scorched earth, the potential effect of the US bomber fleet using just conventional munitions was described as having the potential to do almost as much devastation as a nuclear strike, despite the warcrimes the US still held back. I doubt Putin would bat an eye at such a policy we’re simply fortunate the russian military simply isn’t capable of that kind of attack.

Because Ukranian troops have 2 things Russian troops will never have.

• Commanders that don’t use idiotic human wave attacks.
• Shoes.

I’m probably still gonna try it later, managed to re-format the laptop back to windows and get it working again… still no issues outside linux related things but I’m open to the possibility that it might just be bad luck with hardware.

Mentioned in a different comment but I have installed a custom win10 on this same laptop with this same USB stick before.

Reporting back, rufus fucked it up even more, laptop is now bricked. I know y’all are gonna say it has nothign to do with Linux but it was working perfectly for years right up until today when I tried to install Mint.

(Bricked as in boots up but won’t boot to the Linux preview OR windows, possibly salvagable with a windows boot stick but currently a paperweight)

I mean I got past that part as per the list. I’ve installed a custom win10 on the same laptop using the same USB before and it worked flawlessly. So far Mint just seems to be far more finicky about hardware than win10.

Didn’t Russia already sieze all the assets they left behind? What are they gonna do levey a another quadrillion-trillion ruble fine that no ones ever going to pay?

I followed the instructions to use Etcher, etcher itself crashed but it was a pretty easy fix running it in administrator mode and apparently a known issue. Its weird because the live preview works fine. The stick was made on the same machine I’m trying to install linux on.

Pretty sure Poland is already on course to exceed 5%.

The concept isn’t entierly unlike fracking though there are some key differences.

• No hydrocarbons to leak into the local water supply, their presence would actually make an area less suitable.
• No drilling mud being pumped in.
• No net removal of material, water goes in, the same water comes out.

Now pumping high pressure water into the ground could have some localized seismic effects though they should be pretty minimal as the best kind of rock for this kind of deep well geothermal is dense hard rock than carries more heat energy.

And a never ending insurgency?

Has the US fought anyone even near parity since WWII? Its a big army but it has a hard time defeating guys living in tents and caves without resorting to carpet bombing.

The clear answer is the Euro, its a decently strong currency and the EU can’t stop bickering long enough to pull off a conspiracy like that.

I’m reading that Trump actually caved by sending people in non-miltary planes and not chained up which was the just the existing agreement. The pro Trump media is just spinning it as ‘Colombia caved’ to make him look good.

Isn’t Mexico considering a panama canal alternative of their own? If they can actually get it done then a Trump take over of the panama canal would probably just go badly for the US in the long run.