I actually find the outdated textbooks simpler and easier to understand. Sure the information may not be entirely accurate but it’s enough to get you started.

Uh so Trump is doing something illegal. So like, Tuesday?

Oh no! Anyway…

I never understood why pigs were associated with cops. Pigs are intelligent and remarkable animals, capable of showing great empathy. They are also delicious served in a wine sauce. The last cop I had in wine sauce was decidedly of middling taste.

Oh gawd, there are people that don’t know DOS.

FACK…

Heh, the days when the six 3.5" floppies of Wing Commander was a huge install and often required a hard disk clean out.

I believe you need to be able to read Russian to understand the former though…

Heh, this is brand new software and tech as far as I’m concerned. I remember when the computer did not automatically boot into windows and you had to cd c:\windows and then win.exe.

Fuck his feelings!

So when Putin says “I love you” after Trump sucks his dick, he’s lying?

Mine as well. Who’s do you have, if I may ask?

It is now no longer social suicide to not drink.

I hear that before all those illegal immigrants showed up in those big sailing ships things weren’t THAT bad.

I think they might find a tour of Auschwitz educational.

Damn, that rope’s pretty posh by 2025 standards…

My condolences to your hand.

Sorry, just kidding.

Lacrosse and hockey sticks.

Basically it was a giant stew of small states of various religions, cultures and beliefs. Then everything changed when the English showed up. After the second world war, and the English were divesting their empire like a used coffee filter, the place was partitioned into its modern borders with the Islamics supposed to be in Pakistan while the Hindus and other assorted were supposed to be in India. Of course this required mass migrations of people which didn’t exactly go off without a hitch and so old grudges from before the British colonial days bubbles back up and there were a couple of casual genocides.

So now you’ve got enclaves in both countries, historic grudges and now (in the 1950s) you’re one of the many fronts in the Cold War.

That evolves into a shooting war every once in a while between the two countries with the Indians also squaring off against the Communist Chinese from time to time. The Chinese are still interested in keeping things going because if they can team up with one side, they get a good access to the Indian ocean.

Indo-Pakistani politics you mean? Somewhat. I might not be as up to date on it as some other situations in the world, but I’ve had the Coles Notes version.

Neither. Burma, actually.