Yup, this is pretty much it. I played a campaign of it. Essentially, you're so far down the hierarchy you're basically almost human, with older vampires being a far far greater threat than humans, struggling to understand and survive vampire society before it destroys you. As you said, there's also a fair chunk of trying to hold on to what humanity you still have left.
Oh, don't worry, I know! I've read some DF stories like Boatmurdered. It just seems like way too much for me, and is why I prefer "simplified DF" games like Rimworld.
Quite high actually. Peter Magyar is likely going to be the new prime minister. Whether or not Peter will actually change anything or just be Orban 2: Electric Boogaloo is the more important question, imho. He's also a conservative, was part of Orban's inner circle before the child abuse scandals, and is running on a platform of "Orban but not corrupt", which doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence from me having seen that exact same cycle play out in Romania.
For fairness here, tarrifs can be beneficial and useful when specifically targeted at industries which you can compete globally in with commensurate subsidies. In other words, universal tarrifs is the same as shooting your own nuts off, but targeted tarrifs can be helpful in growing specific industries you can grow.
All tarrifs are paid by the population of the country doing the tarrifing, but when it's well thought out and specifically targeted it can be a good thing.
Lastly, for clarity, fuck trump, what he's doing is incredibly stupid and will only hurt US citizens.
I'm one of those nano weirdos. I mean, I get why people use vi/vim, but I'm a lazy man who has the nano shortcuts hardwired into my muscle memory. It's definitely not as full-featured as vim, but it does what I need it to do quickly and easily. If I need to just quickly drop into a file and do a find/replace, takes me maybe 3 seconds.
Also, to share an ancient joke from the dawn of computing: emacs is a great OS, I just hope someone makes a decent text editor for it eventually.
Nor should you be. Some of the best food is rooted in fusion food, tacos al pastor is no exception. Hell, practically everywhere across eastern Europe has their own variant of shawarma/gyros, which is arguably fusion food as well.
There's no deal. Anybody who tells you there's a deal is lying to you. Any danish politician who would even consider a deal at this moment would get lynched in the street by their citizenry.
What the US has is what they had before: as much military presence as they want and the ability to negotiate with the local Greenlanders over minerals (who will likely not want to deal with the people threatening to invade them for weeks). They've had that deal since 1951.
Alberta has always been full of crazy people threatening to leave Canada as far as I understand, would be surprising to me if they actually do it.
Different people have different thresholds. I can say that in my personal experience, the majority of people in Romania have been able to rationalize everything until this point as Trump just running his mouth, but the "real powers" (Romanians in general are very conspiracy-minded) would never let him actually upset the apple cart.
Some people had the spell broken months ago, during the first round of universal tariffs. Some people saw the stories of Europeans being abducted for weeks at the border for no reason and that woke them up. Some explained all that away as a few unfortunate mistakes, not a real pattern. Then the next round of negotiations with the EU, widely considered a capitulation to the US around here put some people back to sleep (we gave him what he wanted, maybe he'll leave us alone now).
The higher tensions get around an actual military engagement, the more worried people are getting, the more people are snapping out of it.
LBC radio host James O'Brien has been shouting from the rooftops about the worst case scenario for months, and unfortunately he's being proven right.
It's normalcy bias. Career analysts, people that have made their living predicting the next major geopolitical shift, are more vulnerable to it than your average Joe. The world has operated one way for their entire lives, and it's very difficult for most people to see that the rules of play have completely and irrevocably shifted.
They assume that the US won't do something this patently self-destructive because the US has (mostly) operated on a logical set of self-interested principles dressed up in the language of "Democracy" and "Freedom". The idea that it would blow its own kneecaps off while overtly and clearly talking the language of imperialism and might makes right is so outside their experience that it's unthinkable until the spell of normalcy bias is broken.
Dunno why people are down voting you. Password lists have been around since forever, and anybody trying to brute force will start with one. Why cycle through "A", "AA", "AAA", "AAAA", etc first when you're far more likely to score a hit faster with a list?
Greenland is part of Denmark, which is in turn part of the EU. This is about as ridiculous as saying that Russia could walk into Alaska and claim it because it's sparsely populated.
I think a better group to ask would be Puerto Ricans. They are US citizens, but as far as I'm aware (not an American myself), being a citizen without any representation or voting rights means they get fucked over a lot.
Difference between Venezuela and Greenland is that for Venezuela, they are openly saying they want regime change and compliance, not annexation. For Greenland they're explicitly calling for annexation.
Hypothetically, let's say Denmark backs down and gives up Greenland (not gonna happen, but let's assume). No way are the republicans going to give them senators and congresspeople, they'd immediately be opposed to the Republicans.
Yup, this is pretty much it. I played a campaign of it. Essentially, you're so far down the hierarchy you're basically almost human, with older vampires being a far far greater threat than humans, struggling to understand and survive vampire society before it destroys you. As you said, there's also a fair chunk of trying to hold on to what humanity you still have left.