Eventually, Russia is going to run out of stuff. They are able to produce war materiel at about 1/10 the rate it’s getting spent on the battlefield. However, Russia has a fucking lot of stockpiled stuff.
What Russia is attempting now is to hold out until Trump gets into office and Ukraine’s support is slashed. Then they might win. But they are already cutting it close, using thirty-year-old rocket engines and tanks donated by movie studios and the like.
Trust in scientists hasn’t recovered from COVID. Some humility could help.
Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence.
This $8,000 Suzuki From India Received A 5-Star Crash Test Rating.
‘Achilles heel’ of antibiotic-resistant bacteria discovered in life-saving breakthrough.
Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets.
Trump’s demolition of the US state.
First Stand-In Attack Missile Delivered To USAF.
The Three Pillars of the Bro-Economy.
Tech jobs are mired in a recession.
Harm to women is perceived as more severe and unacceptable than identical harm to men.
It’ll be about preserving civilization at some point, and not that far off. Must of the left would prefer to see it destroyed. But we can put them on the other side of the wall.
This is not the direct setup for the Taiwan invasion. That’ll occur in 2026-2027 while Trump is at his weakest. This is a test to see how the US and Europe respond to provocations. This is a common Chinese tactic that produces extremely valuable real-world data on likelihood of aggressive retaliation, determination of actual effects of communications being severed, and movement of forces in the area in which the sabotage was conducted and in other areas as well.
This is a dry run for a future, much larger operation and not the operation itself.
This is also true:
We end up with every problem. Developer code problems, putting together BBQ grills1, electrical issues, lighting, copiers, doors, staplers, and any complex business task no matter how little it has to do with actual systems — it all winds up in my department eventually. I’ve done a lawyer’s job, an accountant’s job, an engineer’s job, an insurance adjuster’s job, a graphic designer’s job, a developer’s job, a DBA’s job, a lecturer’s job and many many others. And no, I am not talking about making sure their computer works and that they have access to the tools they need. I mean actually doing the work they should be doing 2.
The peril of being the only team that can troubleshoot and reliably solve problems is that you end up as the dumping ground for all problems. And then are hounded ceaselessly about them even if they have nothing to do with you or your department.
It is not fun.
Ehh, hmm. Alrighty then. That is one way to do it. If you like dying even harder than you already woulda.
These are indeed the main problems with working in IT. It’s so oddball how everyone expects you know everything about anything that runs on electricity of any kind. I will never understand that. I don’t even assume a tax attorney knows anything about contract law. However, the hoi polloi believes that because I know how Linux works, I can troubleshoot an issue involving some obscure code they wrote in 1998 or fix a coffee machine.
It is completely mystifying.
I wish this video weren’t true. But it is. And it’s a microcosm of all that’s wrong with contemporary filmmaking in general (not just trailers).
Of course. Men are just not allowed to talk about it as much, and men aren’t believed (or are belittled) when they say they are afraid or something bad actually happens to them.
When I got my ass kicked in middle school, that wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was being made fun of for it afterwards, even by teachers, etc. There’s nothing worse as a man than being perceived as weak and an easy target. I think women have a lot of trouble understanding this.
Then I learned how to fight. The hard way.
But men seem fearless to women for these reasons:
1) Showing fear makes it so much worse for you as a man. Makes you into an insta-target for other men and even women. So we don’t.
2) We feel fear and do it anyway.
Women are allowed to express fear. Men are not. Simple as that.
A chief characteristic of our contemporary dating discourse is that we take it—and by extension, ourselves—much, much too seriously. Agreed. One of the reasons I said “yes” to any and every date is to see what sort of crazy shit would transpire.
We must think about the resiliency of an economy before the crisis.
A Tiny Gladiator Uncovered in England Tells of the Reach of Roman Celebrity.
Why Big Oil Doesn’t Mind Big Regulation.
How Democrats Blew It on Inflation.
World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say.
Florida Faces Exodus as Residents Declare Insurance Crisis Final Straw.
Trump’s attack on the enemy within will delight America’s real foes.
Stealth firing or ethical dismissal? Why employers terminate staff for minor offences.
It’s not every day in my field that you get to run a regression analysis on survey data, but some days you do.
Housing is a terrible investment, by the way. Real returns of around ~2% a year. And no, the recent run-up does not change that much at all. People only perceive it as a good investment as it’s forced savings.
But I don’t need that. I save without being compelled to do so.
We only bought a house when its expected investment “returns” could be in the sharp negative and we’d still financially be ok. That’s not the only time you should buy a house. That is up to you and depends on your risk tolerance and financial status. But you won’t even beat a money market fund with housing unless you get really, really lucky.
Housing as an investment is BS in all sorts of ways.
On one customer questionnaire, my name was next to 14 different job titles.
I don’t get paid for 14 different jobs. But I should.
Feminism really screwed itself over when it went from striving for equality to mostly about keeping undesirable men away from PMC women.
Branding 90% of the male population “creepy” and “default rapist” did not help them, not at all.
I’ve seen a whole damn lot of that bizarre pretending. Also goes along with the “only white protestants can be colonialist and no one else” casuistry. Most people just fundamentally do not live in reality and care nothing for the actual facts.