Caldathras, sorry but that's ridiculous revisionism. It has long been quite popular on the far right, seems lately they've repeated it so often it's become mainstream, but it is not true. Nazism and Soviet Communism were both bad but in very different ways, and Nazi ideology was extremely anti-socialist. I think when people start saying this kind of thing it's worth remembering how the poem goes:
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist."
Obviously they weren't coming for the socialists and trade unionists because they themselves were socialists. They were coming for them because they were fiercely opposed to them. Everyone at the time knew perfectly well that the Communists and Socialists hated the Nazis and vice versa; they were always having big street battles before the Nazis got into power.

And, state elites that control everything function differently from private elites that own everything. It's like saying feudalism was the same as capitalism, just that in feudalism it was aristocratic elites that owned everything while in capitalism it's private elites that own everything--they work different, the difference in what kind of elite is screwing everything up makes big changes in how they screw everything up.

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How can "Space Marine" be remastered? The Space Marines' only master is the emperor!

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Cato, while it's certainly true that there were strong differences in ideology between the Soviet Union and the Nazis, trying to downplay Stalin's atrocities to someone with a direct personal relationship to them is a terrible idea. You just don't have standing.

Same re: Lecturing Ukrainians about how they're allowed to react to Russia. I actually am of the opinion that Russia started that war largely because of NATO, particularly US, determination to encircle and ultimately overthrow and dismember Russia. If NATO, in response to Putin's repeated requests escalating to demands, had just said OK, we won't try to bring Ukraine into NATO and arm it to the teeth, there probably would have been no war. And Ukrainian political elites played into that game. But if you're Ukrainian, none of that really matters at this point, you have no responsibility not to hate the people who've been killing your countrymen and destroying your stuff on the basis that geopolitics made them do it. An outsider trying to tell Ukrainians in what manner it would be legit for them to censor Russian content from something they're making is just being incredibly tone deaf and arrogant.

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Bug Lenovo for me, since they don't reply to my emails.

Releasing a new device for gaming that runs Linux. "Hey, some guy who runs like the most prominent website for Linux gaming wants to talk to us. Should we answer?" "Nah. What good would that do?"

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Why would you want it? To launch your Zotacs of course! How are you supposed to launch a Zotac without a Zotac launcher?

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@fabertawe The reply button and some other things are gone due to a weird new British law which Liam is trying to keep away from the wrong side of.

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There was another board game I had when I was a kid with that same "pop-o-matic" thingie; I think it was just called "Cross Over the Bridge" or some such. I enjoyed doing the dice thing. The "popping" action was quite strong. And it kept on working forever; I suspect a version manufactured today would die in two weeks.

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I'm a little worried about this, as if this is pushed on EU citizens, could they make it biased against specific political or philosophical searches?? Especially as a more 'conservative' person, I worry if the EU could use this against people trying to search for information that promotes right-wing or right-leaning ideas.

Search is already biased against specific political or philosophical searches. Or rather, against specific political or philosophical viewpoints coming up in searches relevant to politics. Google systematically suppresses left wing and socialist points of view. A few years ago, certain sites such as Counterpunch and the World Socialist website suddenly noticed that traffic coming in from search dropped by about two thirds; within the rather small world of leftist political news there was quite a kerfuffle about it. Of course the media in general did not consider this worth reporting, so mostly nobody heard about it.

So yes, clearly it can happen because it is happening. Although not from government, except probably in China. And not to suppress the right--to the contrary, all the social media and search algorithms seem to systematically promote right wing viewpoints, particularly the far right because their stridency promotes "engagement" (and in one certain case, because the owner is a fascist).

Meanwhile, if this EU initiative does things that bias the results returned by search engines that use it, in a way that's unacceptable to search engine companies' right wing CEOs, then I guess they won't use it. So I don't think you need to worry too much about right wing viewpoints ceasing to have a massive advantage.

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Minions . . . so does that mean all those war machines are piloted by little yellow fuzzy guys?

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So, can you play this single player?

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