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Basco are used to it at this point, they've been relegated five times, and Santos always seems to pull a great escape out of nowhere when they're threatened. Botafogo though...Choking not just a historically enormous lead but also every single game individually, especially considering they...

:run: summarizes it pretty well already

Under 100k is a low bar but Mindelo looks like a decent choice South Africa and Namibia have penguins:

neither intifada saw a genocide of israelis, nor did 1967 or 1973 one is a colonial project who's national security minister openly defends a mass shooting, the other isn't Israel doesn't exactly have a leg to stand on when complaining about low population or agricultural production - and...

(Assuming by them you mean Hamas, since they're the biggest non-Fatah organization involved here): Hamas was founded during the First Intifada as a split from the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood because the wider Muslim Brotherhood organization refused to militantly oppose Israel - It...

it was at a train station on the same line but halfway across the city

there are some annotated editions with commentary that explains some of the more complex or dated parts

Norway has never been part of the EU, its imperialism comes from resource extraction in other countries

The high interest rate in Brazil is contentious, the current government wants to significantly lower it but doesn't have the power to remove the head of the Central Bank

As elections go, I'm mostly a straight-ticket PSOL voter (where they run candidates) and have voted PT in the second round of every Presidential election. This statement applies to both parties. My parents vote mostly the same way, and have voted for the PT since redemocratization.

I played a few games up to around 1890-1900ish. Some feedback: While my computer isn't the best, it does run most games pretty well, and Victoria 3 is not one of them. Even on the lowest graphics settings, it struggles like a steam train climbing a too-steep grade. Some of the decisions taken...

Vassals refusing to hand over tech for free is a holdover from vanilla Civ 4, C2C didn't change anything on that front Vassals are also good for supplementing your research, assuming they're in the same era as you and produce a non-trivial amount of beakers (e.g. your vassal can research...

c only sounds like /th/ in the middle of nowhere, in reality the vast majority of spanish speakers use it as /s/ spanish doesn't have /z/