It’s talking about legitimacy of who/whatever ends up running Venezuela after this, not Trump’s legitimacy. The point is that removing Maduro is not going to create a pro-USA Venezuela

I’m never going to actually watch any of the live action Popeye horror films, but it is funny that we immediately got three of them

He has the perfect voice for this

Fighting Baseball did this the best

To be fair, the Finnish yards are also just really good at building icebreakers. Something like half of all of the entire world’s icebreakers come out of Helsinki

We just need better branding for them! Middle East and North Africa doesn’t roll off the tongue nearly as well as just Africa

Well yes, it is entirely arbitrary. One of the most agreed-upon factors is that “at least as big as Australia” is a requirement, but there’s no hard reason for that requirement

Personally I think we should consider particarly big mountain ranges and deserts as continental boundaries more often, like we do with the Urals in nodels that separate Asia and Europe. “Asia” is such a huge concept as to be almost useless, and it’s not like China and Arabia had much influence on each other historically

As I understand it, Russia actually tends to reject the notion of a separate Europe and Asia. They prefer a six-continent model with Eurasia as one thing

Man those games are great. I recently-ish tried out one of the decompiled versions of the original after the source code leaked. It’s still a lot of fun

What you describe is a huge part of vehicle racing in general. Getting into a flow state is fast. If you can stress an opponent out enough by threatening to overtake or even just keeping up, you can very often push them to start taking bigger risks and to drop out of that flow state

Funnily enough, if you do really well in a specific mode of some of the Wipeout games, you do indeed get a rating of “zen”

For this specific purpose it probably does make sense to consider Russia part of Europe. If we go by the common Europe-Asia dividing line of the Ural mountains then a large majority of Russia’s population is in the European half, so most Russian births are probably in the European bit

The weird thing about the Americas to me is that only Mexico, the US, and Canada are counted. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone that draws a dividing line between North and South America do so anywhere except at the Darien Gap, nor have I seen anyone put all of the Caribbean islands in South America. Iberoamerica or similar cultural region terms, sure, but South America the continent?

You can add a scale to a digital image by having a line on the image and labelling it with the distance that line represents on the map. You might have a line roughly the width of Cyprus and mark it 200 km, for example, and then no matter how big the image is for a given viewer they will always know how big 200 km is

However on this map it’s definitely completely unnecessary, nobody is trying to figure out the size of Europe from this

The SC kickstarter was 2012, but it started development in 2010

Star Citizen has been in development since before both GTA V and goddamn Skyrim released

They’re also countries with extremely low wages and fairly large English-speaking populations

Ahh fuck I was trying to hold off on buying anything new

Wir essen Kosmoskost Wir lesen Kosmospost Wir trinken Kosmosmost Und wir sind bis oben hin so voll!

Just to back this up, I combined this map with OSM to show where Moscow is

For the Northern Ireland one it’s a particularly messy question to answer because the attacks were not all working towards the same goal. Pro-UK paramilitaries were a huge part of the Troubles, it wasn’t just pro-independence paramilitaries vs the British army

Beslan and Moscow are both off the eastern edge of the map