"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".

It still makes sense for Ukraine to bomb russian data centers - the far right is on the rise thanks to putinbots and these arseholes want to stop support of Ukraine.

Except the planning is idiotic precisely because russia is so unbelievably centralised.

How much has your government money grown in that time?

Loss of freedumb maybe.

Me too. Made an opening source door library and a couple of applications like ANSI colours supporting chat as an example of it, even started developing an open source BBS software, but at some point everyone moved to www, so that project was never finished.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

Let me guess: "This, Jen, is the Internet".

Ah, so the republican voters will happily pay additional taxes to service the record debt the orange shitgibbon created? Nice.

It is actually pretty simple unless you are a bot, of course. The vikings didn't annex russia, they have merely replaced the rulers with one of theirs, keeping the rest as it was.
The mongol conquest also hasn't been an annexation. It was more like a racket, with the russian princes paying protection money while being free to launch wars of conquest on their own. Pretty common in history, really. See danegeld as an another example.

At the same time when vikings conquered parts of it and at the same time when the mongols conquered parts of it. And obviously after that, too. So yes, "throughout the history" is pretty much correct.

How do you think russia got so huge and multi-ethnic? Pure conquest.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

Garin's beam was not infrared, it was visible light created by some kind of chemical candles IIRC.