Aaargh! Grug make mouth-noise, and now da air is all wobbly. Eerz hert from da wibble wobble air, it wobble too fast!

DESKTOP! Wait, snake desktop? How’d that get in the script?

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And then the recipient of the knowledge realizes the problem was never the technology, it’s the incentive structure of the system.

Sorry, legacy code and technical debt. Please check in with us in ~2000 years or so, we might have the next minor bugfix version up by then.

Many people (not all) rent because they can’t afford to buy, not because they don’t want to own property.

(remember, your aunt charging below market is the exception, not the norm)

Isn’t this definitionally true? The norm, by definition, is the market rate.

Russia prefers a destroyed world over an intact one without Russia.

That much is true, but none of this is existential. If the Russian military packs up and heads home, Russia continues to exist. They don’t want to do that ofc, but obviously Russia prefers an intact world with Russia compared to a destroyed world.

Citizens may have non-citizen friends and family who are potential targets.

Honest question: are eggs going to be affected? Corn feed for chickens is mainly domestic, there’s a lot of US factory farms. I’d expect tarrifs to primarily hurt foodstuffs that are heavily mported, like avocadoes, bananas, grapes, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, etc.

What about those on the periphery, with minimal protection from the state both before and after the fall? For them, the only real difference was the tax collector stopped showing up.

Please don’t take this as analogous to the modern day in any way. A modern village/town will break down rapidly without access to modern logistics, which was not the case then.

Isn’t that the same person? (Sorry, couldn’t resist!)

If that was the case, you’d have mandatory voting like Australia.

We already started during this year. No sane leader trusted in a coin flip to guarantee our security. A possible Trump presidency was planned for.

The optimistic alternative is EU countries scale up their military production and cover the gap. We were already seeing a ramp up, but it’ll have to accelerate.

Downside for the US is later down the line, exports will go down as the EU will have more domestic manufacturing.

American voters in general dgaf about things that don’t affect them. Israel is irrelevant to your median American voter.

It really was (or at least the Democratic party’s fault). If you take every single third party voter, assign them to Kamala, she still loses.

This is more about ramping up domestic arms production to fill the gap that is going to come from US production no longer going to Ukraine.

When I’m driving, it’s actually unsafe for my car to be operated in that way

being able to consistently and reliably operate the thing without taking your eyes off the road

Considering they’d just spent the previous few questions discussing the visual-first aspect of touchscreens and accessibility issues for the visually impaired, I think that’s exactly what they were talking about.

The generalizations are about completely different devices. They talk about CT machines & automatic defibrillators later.

The funniest part is that in one of his dialogue trees, he reveals that he’s never actually been to the Semenine islands and his whole understanding of Semenese culture is based on stuff he’s read and heard on the radio. He legitimately has no real understanding of the culture he presents as superior, and no place in it.