Something something you just won 3 tickets to a Siberian reeducation camp, something.

Yeah, I kept winning with smoke too.

I think Vance would be so unpopular that he would get ousted one way or another. The guy has less charisma than an old boot.

Excellent TV show.

It’s all fun and games until the database gets leaked and guards start getting offers to off a particular client.

“If you have the patience to sit by the river and wait, eventually, the corpses of your enemies will float by.” Sun Tzu

WWII might be a distant memory for Americans, but most of Europeans have been to historical sites of Jewish genocide.

To show the goats.

Lithuanian: rodyti ožius.

Means to cry, fight or roll on the ground when you didn’t get what you wanted.

My wife is wears a .45 carat moissanite on her engagement ring. The stone cost 80 euros three years ago.

Yes, also, Geralt is sterile and immune to STDs.

Arrival had Alien contact plot subverted by the main character can see into the future plot.

There’s plenty of countries with cheap insulin, and people there are fine because other treatments for diabetes are cheaper too.

I think that extremes exist and go to both directions. I have known people who lost their mind when their wages tripled after they started working abroad (e.g. my father started having mistresses when his salary went from 800 euros to 2200 in today’s money). But I have also known millionaires who live very middle class lives, except they travel more and drive better cars.

The WHAT?

Please explain to me how sending most of the Baltic intelligensia to die in Siberia and replacing them with Russian settlers who held most positions of power was better for my rights than what I have right now.

Please tell me how great my grandmother in law had it living in the outskirts of Archangelsk in a wooden barrack because she was sent there against her will, how much more rights and opportunities she had back then.

Please explain to me how great the industrial management in the USSR was, where they built a bunch of heavy industries in countries that had few mineral resources to support them locally, leading to plant closures in the 90s.

Before WWII, Estonia was a bit richer than Finland. Not it is lagging behind by decades.