Someone should tell him

Yugo tell him.
- Quality automobiles.
- You've got to put it in H!
  
  How many hectares per tank of kerosene does that baby get?
- Yu go, car doesn't!

Ah, the old merge and commit genocide.
Seen this before, we don't need a sequel.
- merge and commit
  Are we talking fast-forward or squash merges?
  
  Squash, definitely squash.
  
  Let's rebase, for the fun of it…
  
  But they don’t need SQL.
  
  Rebase/squash merge for sure.
  Definitely lost some history in there.
- What does the CI/CD pipeline look like for this?
- Genocide in Eastern Europe? Never! Never I tell you!
- That was after Tito died. He never would have let something like that happen if he was still alive.

As an older Millennial, I keep thinking Yugoslavia still exists. And the US 9/11 attacks happened last year.
- I recently watched 'robot dreams' good animation movie from 2023, setting is 90's new york. It was so strage seeing the twin towers in the background during the entire movie. But then i realized the new generation has no first hand 9/11 experience and would probably dont even notice.
  
  That just hit me in the olds. Kids today are grown ups that can drink in America and it was after 9/11
- In my eyes, Jurassic Park from the 90s is still so realistic looking. A lot of these films today look like shit.
  
  It's because of the crappy colour grading they do to merge shot footage with cgi effects. Jurassic Park holds up because it's from an era of cinema where they didn't do that grungy Blue-grey shit.
- I’m reminded I had a classmate who was Yugoslavian.
  At the time I had no idea what was going on in the world at the time.

Bosnia: "Ooh, can we go to the beach?"
Croatia: "Haha, fuck no!"
- Whipped up on my phone in 5 minutes
  
  You think that's bad, check out Chile.
- They can have Neum, as a treat.
  
  Me, an American, trying to pronounce the name.

Romaina, Slovenia, ohh I wanna take ya
To Serbia, Montenegro, baby why do we go
To Bosnia, Croatia, why do we just make it
Down to Kosovo, they'll shoot you fast and you'll bleed out slow, thats how I wanna go
Get shot in Kosovo!
- I wonder how many lemmings understand this is a Beach Boys reference.
  Do they still get a lot of radio play in the USA?
  
  Do they still get a lot of radio play in the USA?
  I think it's safe to say that anyone in the USA who still listens to the radio knows the Beach Boys.
  
  Some people just like old music :)
  
  Yeah, but on the classics channel, and they'll play nirvana right after, and make you feel old.
  
  For the youngsters (Piped)
  
  All we hear is radio gaga

Yugoslavia 2 isn't on my 2024 bingo card, but if they make the flag look cool...

Meanwhile I'm here thinking it would be nice if the whole world was made up of countries of that size with a global alliance that will fuck up any country that starts getting all imperialistic.
- "the circled region needs more countries. please break up the big ones"
  
  I hope the Russian federation is going to look like that in some time.
- Pretty sure Americans are gonna do that soon. Then we can convince MAGAland to pay to build a wall around itself
- Seems like that would be hard to regulate things like pollution, since there isn't really effective treaty enforcement. Unless we give someone like the UN binding authority on global things like that and enforcement ability.

Dear Mr. President,
There are too many Balkan countries. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.
- That's me writing to the US president.
  I mean do we really NEED two Dakotas?
  
  Do we even need one? I propose we give them back first
- OK, let's see today's mail... oh, this guy says he's not a crackpot, huh... OK, maybe I should do what he says.
  Mr. President, you do remember what happened last time you listened to someone who sais he was not a crackpot 😒.

Pain.

I'm sure they had no idea what they were doing when they randomly circled the Balkans and presupposed that there was no problem with their proposal.
- Yea, prime c/thatsthejoke material.

Serbia likes this

- To be honest, things went wrong because the person who knew how to keep the piece died, so... nationalists rose to power (they didn't rebrand communism though, so most got onboard the loony train thinking this is about communism and who is against it), and that was about all that was needed in a powder keg like the Balkans... a lot of war time profiteering as well, some people got very rich during those days... blood money, sure, but it didn't seem to bother them. Some of them are still in power, or their children.
  Bottom line, none of them are communists, period. They're thieves and killers.
  
  Why is it, every time some regime claims to be communist, they are never really communist?

still hurts after all these years

Anybody tell him, he should go slavia.

do it and rename it to superfunhappyland
- Do not taunt Superhappyfunland!
  
  If Superhappyfunland begins to smoke, move away and seek shelter immediately.

I am a bit bothered by how the modern borders of Croatia seem like they are designed just to prevent Bosnia and Hercegovina from having a coast. I get that you can have a thin country, but they are really pushing it. Give them one beach!
- They have Neum
- They have one beach! Let them have 2.
- croatia was already funny shaped when it was in personal union with the kingdom of hungary. that's the upper half of modern croatia. most of the lower thin bit was dalmatia, which was also historically inhabited by croats and unified with (a newly independent) croatia immediately after ww1.
  so while yeah, it looks like the west meddled to deny serbia access to the sea, i dunno how true that is. the region really was mostly croats and some italians, i think...
  i could much more easily believe that montenegro was the result of such meddling

He doesn't even realize he just circled a federation within a federation

catchy accordion music starts playing
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG4zSd8H-fs
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=SG4zSd8H-fs
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  How dare you?!?

Tito intensifies

Capitalism thrives on divide and conquer especially socialist states. Same playbook as forever.
- Is that supposed to be a joke? I don't get it.

They're not entirely wrong... Quite a bit of the division comes from pre-modern events and decisions.

the olny one that even has a chance is albania and kosovo uniting
- Yeah, they'd like that, but the west (US) won't allow it.

How did Tito keep the peace? He wasn't magical. You would think he successors could have done the same.
- He imprisioned the nationalists on Goli Otok. No nationalists, no religion, no problems.
- Bread, circus, jobs for everyone, cheap housing, cheap food. And suicide the loud critics and trouble makers in the back of course.

Almost all of the US states that have more cows than people share borders.
They should all be merged into one state.
This would solve many problems.
- Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.
- See, that's a nice idea... and it did work... for a while... without religion and nationalists in the mix... once you mix those 2, guess what happens...
  The moral of the story is, it is doable... but you'd have to either get rid of the 2 things mentioned above, or historically you'd have to be a clean slate, which is pretty easy for the continents discovered in the last 5 centuries or so.

Oh... Oh no...

RIP HOI4 Huge-oslavia strat.

Feel like shit, just want it back

In terms of geography, My secret weakness is how often I confuse Slovenia and Slovakia, solely because they share most of the letters in their name.
(I also have a similar problem with Armenia and Albania. Within the US, Mississippi and Missouri used to give me a lot of trouble when I was younger, too.)
- I also have trouble crossing wires with the Balkans and the Baltics.
- having grown up between slovenia and slovakia, i cant imagine mixing them up. they have such different vibes.... :D
  but yeah, i used to mix up liechtenstein and luxembourg...
- congratulations, you might be dyslexic 👍

Tell him it's a great idea! 👍
- It WAS a great idea...

I heard someone say there’s a North Montenegro now. Is that true?
- They probably meant North Macedonia. Macedonia changed it's name since there is also Macedonia in Greece which is presumably the southern part of Macedonia. There's a lot of places like that in Europe. Usually remnants of old kingdoms. Tyrol is a region encompassing part of Northern Italy and Western Austria for example. Bohemia is another example which historically was a lot bigger than the region of Czech nowadays.