They were convicted but it didn’t stick ( or someone intervened ) and afterwards i’m fairly certain they were set free and allowed to go to florida in an exchange of favours: we give you your guys and you shut up about us cancelling elections ( back then maga was particularly vocal about those elections, for good reason too). And wouldn’t you know it, not a maga peep about the elections since. The tates even revisited Romania to “make investments here”. Isn’t it nice when crooks scratch each other’s backs?

Honestly I feel strangely optimistic after seeing this graph. If the current pricing hellscape only makes the market dip by 14% in 2026 that’s not too bad. And let’s talk absolute numbers: they sold nearly 30 million prebuilts to consumers in 2025??? And only US consumers at that. And for consumers it supposedly only dipped a few hundred thousand? I may just be naive, but this looks like a fairly stable market ( rampocalypse notwithstanding ). I was expecting much worse after hearing the report about ms windows’ base shrinking by the hundreds of millions a year due to mobile.

Aaaand of course its through Reform MPs. Why did I expect otherwise

Several funds which lend money have declared losses or restricted investors’ ability to take out their money. BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo and Blue Owl have all faced demands for billions of withdrawals from private credit funds - institutions that provide an alternative to traditional banks

Those are some…interesting names. Could these be attempts to pull the rug before an AI crash? I’m genuinely asking as I have no clue how funds work

Lol, they won’t. These days their primary business MO is being anti-consumer, lobbying to be allowed to keep being anti-consumer, or outright public bribing of presidents.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-eu-partnership-deepening-ties-1.7570680

Carney already said no pretty clearly, so I’m not sure why this guy “floats the idea” again.

That whole “civilizational erasure” quote was so vague, grand and threatening that it sounded just like it came straight out of kremlin. It’s the kind of bullshit declaration russians love to make

The actual number of applications was not disclosed.

So then the article doesn’t really say much, does it. It could well be 20->31 applicants.

True, but it looks like it may have been a railway issue on that (recently renovated) sector.

AGAIN? Holy crap, if this wasn’t sabotage then heads need to roll in that ministry

Man, imagine the paranoia. You literally have a russian puppet for president, but are worried about infiltrations by communist spies from Cuba.

This reads just like the news we had of antiwar protesters in russia a few years ago. Except you know, it’s the uk this time.

Finally, a sane fuckin approach to the tarriff madness. But it’s probably due to them exporting to the US a lot less than what they’re importing.

On another note, I really hate that trump’s buffoonery is helping brics. They used to be just a bunch of greedy autocrats but now this asshole is giving them common ground to stand on.

They did. It wasn’t quite as good ( awful UI iirc ), but still a decent game. You can get it on gog too

Omg, my favorite civ!

I’ve seen way too many couples (married or otherwise) that influence each other to vote Trump and other populists to believe that you can single out loneliness as a main cause of the rise of the far right. Lonely single males are on the rise, sure, and it’s a problem that needs dealing, but i’d wager most of those 3 million new single people are mostly old folk, since Germany’s populatin has been aging rapidly in the past decades.

Oh, I see we moved on to the “too late to do anything about it now” phase already

Used to hear that spacex has been successful in spite of his meddling, not because of it.

I do wonder if he started taking the reins with Starship, because it sure seems to be giving them a really hard time.

Propaganda or not, I really hope poland does not soften their anti-russian attitude, else we’ll be proper fucked in eastern europe

On the plus side, at least he’s just as rusophobic and willing to arm-up as the other candidates, right? Right?