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Basic dictator.

Devo was right.

Yes. I almost added a note that inflections and uses and transliteration makes it not quite match, and it’s just broadly the same word.

(And I don’t speak Russian, let alone lawyer it. I can barely read Cyrillic slowly and recognise a handful of mostly loan words.)

Thanks for the tangent. They’re often the best part of these threads.

Notably russian.

I like to think “of average intelligence” means intelligent. Just not remarkably so. Kind of like a medium red thing is red. Anyone a little intelligent, generally intelligent, or very intelligent is still on the spectrum of intelligence. Not unintelligent. At least not remarkably so.

I have bought a few otherwise hard to find books on Amazon. Actual paper books. At least used to be possible.

If all the settings and versions match, my first suspicion would be that there’s some library available on one system that gets used but not the other. Have you taken very verbose logs to see if there’s differences that stand out?

Impersonating police or military is usually a very high risk thing to be doing.

Thank you. I’ve seen that one before. Maybe it’s time to dive in again. I even have a spare box to try on.

I still haven’t found a good guide on how to use flakes though I’ve read many. It really is an incredible mess.

It is our duty to the party.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Beware that you won’t have ECC, so corruption is much more likely than with proper hardware.

Finnish one is an actual and common expression among the scatologically inclined. “Even the stones care” might be another one.

Looks like Sylvester Stallone to me

It’s mostly used to fund the military and it’s industry.

Can’t run when there’s no more elections

People who are making money with the brand.

It hasn’t. That’s a fairly recent (1990’s) innovation.

we can do that kind of thing again.

I admire the optimism.