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The problem is, once the country is out of the EU’s protection, daddy Russia will be happy to raise him an alcoholic, racist scumbag.

Oh no, Hungary could do so much damage on their own! /s

And honestly, it's a question how long Putinism is even going to survive. If the West can keep it's shit together the answer is not very long.

The OG white Middle Eastern country.

Mmm, race conditions, just like mama used to make.

It's not environment-killing either, at least as far as growing wheat and tomatoes is concerned. Environment-damaging, sure, but we could potentially starve a lot of people and keep going (though we shouldn't!), and it's not even clear agricultural output will go down rather than just relocating.

Don't get me wrong, I like having wild animals besides rats and flies, and I don't love the idea of a giant global mass-migration crisis as Bangladesh sinks into the sea and we fight over farmland in what used to be an icecap, so I still think we need to crack down on fossil fuels a lot harder. We're pretty adaptable, though, and some sad little human world will exist on the other side if that's all.

Actually, I'd say it made them a country, back before they lost all their territory.

I'm not sure what the exact term we use has to do with the fate of socialist systems anyway, so I won't reduce myself to arguing about it. If you don't have anything else, I think we're done here.

Not particularly related, but neat. I learned some things.

I guess the crisis itself could be and was, but at the time nobody was really talking about the concept of a cold war, and the nuclear threat stayed heightened for decades. Actually, opinions vary on how long a nuclear-power conflict can reliably stay cold, even now.

AI and nuclear war seem like the main direct threats right now. Climate change will suck and I'll miss coral reefs, but it's not planet killing unless it sets something else more deliberate off. The world looks unstable, but I'm not expecting WWIII this year, and AI isn't going to be very dangerous by 2025 either. The Cuban missile crisis should have ended the world as we know it in the span of a few months. We basically just won a few coin flips in a row; I bet other parallel universes weren't so lucky.

Thank you!

It broke in the 90's. History was "over" so they kind of adjusted the scale, and now that shit's real again they keep having to shave off tiny increments closer and closer to midnight.

We're still way better off than during the Cuban missile crisis, imminent existential risk-wise.

From the perspective of the people who make the crap, corporations are the users.

He got a hand-me-down iPhone because he's poor, and has decided it's better than no phone, but is sad it's still a walled garden despite other people being rescued.

Is there a joke I'm missing?

New Guam, maybe.