Sverige stronk!

It’s appropriate that it’s endorsed by porn stars, because this hooch is to real Scotch what porn is to real sex.

Trigger warnings seem to have been hijacked by people who treat them extremely frivolously. They’re supposed to warn survivors of serious trauma that they might encounter content which will make them revisit that trauma. Not “any potentially distressing content whatsoever”. There was a college recently that put…

The FIFA series might as well be a license to print money for EA. In football-playing countries, FIFA is one of the most universal gaming experiences. I remember when I was a kid; you go round to a friend’s house, if its raining, you play FIFA, if its sunny, you go kick a real football. Then came the rise of online.…

Presumably the US has better jurisdiction under the FCPA. I suspect the various arrestees will have done far more of their business in the US.

which first appeared at a Russian arms expo in 2013

It’s also a recruiting strategy. For a bunch of bored, sexually frustrated young men with very little to do, often living in very puritanical societies, the idea of being a big tough jihadist who can have any women he wants (consent may vary) might be appealing. When you consider what Sayyid Qutb, who’s the…

Well, if you want “cheered up” (not), the post of “Person in charge of Chechnya” isn’t a very safe one:

Not quite. He’s too clever.

This is 2015, right?

This is half-true; Operation Blue Spoon was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but it was actually General James Lindsay, head of USSOCOM, who demanded a name change, and Brigadier Joe Lopez who coined the new name.

This article explains how operations are named. It seems Frequent Wind came before the recent trend of naming ops for PR purposes.

This is true: Another thing to consider is how unsystematic and inefficient German R&D was. The Germans had a whole host of technological and knowledge advantages, but they failed to make good use of them. There was also a whole bunch of scheming and corruption; the German arms companies are still trying to squeeze as…

Al Jazeera is fearlessly independent...right up until the Qatari royals involved. Then it clams up tighter than Fox News on Republican graft.

Beheading’s too good for him. A prison cell and explosive dysentery would be my preferred solution.

It’s a WWII game - the Meteor has a modded skin. That’s why the history’s out of whack. But hey, maybe its all just some Israeli pilot’s dream?

You should see some of the awesome fan videos people have made in War Thunder:

Ah. That would have been in ‘99. Also - what a prick. Ignore that zoomer.

What did the SNP lose in 1997? They gained three seats in the GE and campaigned for a YES vote in the devo referendum IIRC.

[glaswegian pride intensifies]