The United Earth Government was an authoritarian, inclusive, and militaristic government. They acted as a mercantile empire with their colonies. Still, as authoritarian as the UEG is, as shady as it’s intelligence agency (ONI) is, what the Republicans have turned into is far worse.

The UEG would not encourage killing migrants and refugees. The Republicans are.

Where Republicans seek to institute a form of ethnostate theocracy, the UEG has freedom of religion and couldn’t care less about the color of your skin or which region you come from.

I think they mean that the output that makes task X more efficient slows down task Y that uses the previous output.

So all those “red room” legends were true. It’s just that instead of being in the dark web, it was broadcast in public for the world to see. How dystopian.

The short is that the acquiring bank of PayPal has banned transactions to Steam in all non-Western currencies (exception being Japanese Yen).

À ce rythme là, ce serait préférable que le cirque nucléaire au sud.

At this rate, it would be preferable to the nuclear circus South of the border. Where can I read more?

The conditions in prisons are inhumane.

Damn, that was close! Their own anti cheat is currently overly sensitive on some stuff yet manages to miss a fair bit!