Because no one wants to pay for anything.

Well, the author of the Cyberpunk universe is Mike Pondsmith, who’s American and the game setting is in the US.

They will also have a chance to defect and then finally have a life somewhere in Europe. Or maybe even migrate to South Korea later on.

The difference between the czar and Putin is that many people in Russia are (or were, before the war) living a decently good life. But back in the days if you were not an aristocrat, you were pretty much a slave living in utterly horrible conditions. Wikipedia can give you a quick overview of 19th century - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Russia

In short: non stop wars with everyone (over 1m civilian peasants died in just 1812 alone), serfdom (literally slavery in the case of the Russian Empire) was only abolished in 1861, Russians endured SIX cholera pandemics during the century before the revolution with millions dead, there was a massive famine at the turn of the century, and lack of industrialisation meant that the economy of Russian Empire was dying. The late Russian Empire was a meat grinder, people had nothing to lose. And they knew that they will die soon anyways, either from famine, physical abuse or an illness.

It is exactly that. Otherwise Marx wouldn’t praise the Taiping massacre, which led to tens of millions of deaths.

Please stop whitewashing a genocide.

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Lol ok

Wealth is not money. You can build wealth much faster on $100k a year.

Additionally it’s more like the rich will force the poor to eat each other. The convicted felon is running for a president for a reason after all.

Military is the only thing they have. It might not be the most modern, but they have more artilery shells than any other country. Other stockpiles are huge AF as well. Almost 4% of their population are in active military service and 2% more are reservists. In terms of head count, they have almost as many active personel as Russia while having a fraction of population. Plenty of disposable meat!

Mate, I was born in USSR, stop spreading lies.

We have universal healthcare and human rights everywhere in Europe. But we don’t have authoritarian regimes which kill millions for ideology. Fuck communism!

Yeah, only privileged people from Western countries who never knew struggle dream about communism. No one who went through communism will ever support that shit.

We tried many times, millions were killed each time.

No, communism is an authoritarian regime fuelled by a never ending genocide. Because there are always enemies of communism and they all must be killed.

No, communism kills everyone. That’s a big difference.

No, that’s the other way round. You either have high CPU load and low memory, or low CPU load and high memory.

The software is getting heavier because content, not code. Again, we can look at the games. Take some old games like GTA V or Skyrim, they will fly on modern high end machines! Now add mods with 8K textures, higher definition models, HDR support, etc and these old games will bend over your RTX4090.

That’s about what my Slack is using, while being written in Electron, lol. Oh, you people…