In Spain, living a the bottom of an apartment urbanization well, I get 2 hours of direct sunlight a day. Some people are luckier and get all the morning sun, while others get all the afternoon sun.

Installing panels may still be troublesome, since the urbanization has a requirement of “unified look”… so I’m afraid it would mean either everyone, or no one, installing a panel, and they better look all the same (had an issue with additional balcony railing, optional but single design allowed).

Nobody cares about “international law”, it’s a bully-vs-bully out there, “laws” are not laws when they can’t get enforced. There are agreements, and disagreements, that change over time. Don’t be mistaken, this or that country’s “support” for this or that war, is just an excuse, a propaganda bite.

Touching China’s assets, is too dangerous for as long as they’re the main source of slave labor worldwide. As India’s slave capabilities grow, things may change though… and India is being smart, buying arms from everyone, for the time being.

As for democracy, “representative democracy” is little more than a step away from a full dictatorship. Keep in mind that Russia is still “a democracy”… they just happen to pick the same guy over and over 🙄

There is not really an alternative, countries will force onto each other whatever they manage to get away with.

Putin will keep trying to “Make Russia Great Again”, as in the Soviet era USSR “great”, stopping at East Berlin at the very least… only that’s another bunch of propaganda 😮‍💨

Russia needs to secure its inland waterway system, and its resource extraction areas. That includes control over the Sea of Azov. Any less, and the country might as well break up already, so they’ll throw the whole country under the bus rather than surrender any of that.

Is anyone actually supporting Russia? Or are they fleecing Russia, waiting for it to become weak enough?

China is definitely looking towards regaining control over Manchuria, as it had during the Qing dynasty, and why not some more.

They won’t stop, but they can be slowed down until they implode. Whether turning Russia into another North Korea is part of the long term plan, is a separate question.

Goat Simulator, 62fps 1080p, 70% GPU use, 2W TDP avg, 5W peak.

My GPU? A smartphone’s Mali-G68 😁

1. More soldiers
2. Fewer consumers
3. Fewer workers
4. GOTO 1

I’ve spent way more than 100 hours on plenty of games over the years, games that nowadays are below $10, like:

• Doom
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Tetris
• BlockOut (now, BlockOut II)
• MS Flight Simulator 5.0
• F-117A 2.0
• Monkey Island 1
• Monkey Island 2
• Ultima Online (now, UO Outlands)
• GTR: FIA GT Racing

There are many free-to-play mobile games with optional ads, that I’ve also enjoyed for over 100 hours each before they became frustrating, but hard to make a list now.

Many others have been mentioned already.

Each sanction needs to be spelled out, discussed, and voted.

Countries have a lot of complex relationships between them, sanctioned countries find new ways to circumvent some… so it’s not possible to “do all the sanctions” at once, not for the existing relationships, and definitely not for all circumvention methods a country might come up with in the future.

Then, there are underlying interests, like in sanctioning Gazprom along with most banks… but waiting over two years to sanction Gazpombank, which was still being used to buy gas from Russia.

What kind of handheld, what genre, open source or anything goes…?

There are many decent games, as in “none or optional ads, not pay to win”. Some P2W can be played up to a certain point before they become obnoxious.

Recently I’ve been playing casual/idle ones:

• Rush Royale
• Raid Rush
• Pocket Champs
• Capybara Go

Before that, I went through a phase of RTS:

• Last War
• Top Heroes
• Million Lords

Before that… don’t remember anymore, I keep switching genres every few months 🤷