The large vehicles he’s referring to are industrial large vehicles. Which require special licensing. Even the big ass pickup truck they showed could make the turn with no issues at all going at a reasonable speed.

I think images/meme level stuff is fine. As long as it’s resharing something that is resonating rather than just reposting. i.e. posting the image or video directly rather than linking to Reddit. And as others mentioned, a text story is likely to be inappropriate, unless we do the whole screenshot other social media site trend which is fine imo

It’s actually supposed to be a “pie napple”

Fair points, however, there is a big difference between torture, abuse and murder, and limiting those from corrupting the system. Also, people wanting to live under a different economic system are not fascists I agree that fascism must be harshly dealt with, and it is a major failing of Western society, particularly over the past 5-10 years.

Similarly, complete suppression of the ability to spread and discuss ideas will always lead towards a backwards thinking society.

I do think that with the passage of generations and improvements of education people can revert back to being social creatures rather than individual. Greed is largely taught rather than innate.

You can be communist without being imperialist (in the case of the soviets), sending people to gulags, or massacring protesters 🙂

It’s always difficult for people to untangle their own experiences from being universal. It’s a common logical bias for most things, and we are all guilty of it at least occasionally.

“I know better than you because I am __”. It is the classic anecdotes are not evidence.

I personally am economically extremely communist while being very anti-soviet and anti-CCP, because I disagree with their authoritarian methods of enforcing socialism. Having grown up in a former Warsaw pact country I can see a lot of the great things that were outcomes of the communist ideals while simultaneously being surrounded by evidence of the awfulness as well. (And yes, I know “free” countries are also full of authoritarian bullshit and I am against that as well).

I think it’s important to remember that the viewpoints of those who endured or witnessed the outcomes of, for example, soviet, control are recognised and heard. That way we are able to untangle the implicit knots between the bad parts of certain regimes and the actual economic and social principles of different systems. E.g. is capitalism bad because America is an imperialist shitty asshole country which is capitalist? No, it’s bad because its underlying principles are flawed, and they also incentivise America to be a shitty asshole country.

It’s somewhat the same issue as the ad hominem fallacy, but towards a nation as an entity instead of a person.

It’s very difficult for these asshats to get decent lawyers because most lawyers care about win rates and their public perception to gain clients

Agree completely!

And yeah, VCs doing VC things has really made it a tough industry to be in lately 😭 I miss the early days of new space when we were just a bunch of nerds trying to make the space industry more effective at making the world a better place.

Edit: don’t get me wrong, a lot of VCs are great, and have done wonders for the industry. I’ve had the pleasure of working with a few of them. However, the explosion of a new industry has attracted a bunch who just see a market for a market’s sake.

I don’t agree with the dual use aspect being a good part of space Tech. But I definitely chortled. 😅

Firstly, people have such a massive misconception about the cost of space exploration. It is such a miniscule part of our overall expenditure it is a drop in the ocean. (It’s important now to distinguish between overall Space budgets and the exploration budgets since we spend a lot of money in space that’s not for scientific development nowadays).

The Artemis program for example was 93 billion over 13 years, ~7 billion per year (2012-2025).

The Iraq war cost ~5 trillion over 8 years. Or 625 billion per year.

The entire Artemis program could have been funded by winding down the Iraq war a couple of months earlier.

The annual cost of the NHS is 275 billion per year.

The extra knowledge, research and development in everything from materials, human biology, life support systems, to just engineering management improvements yield absolutely massive benefits to life on earth, greatly outweighing the alternative.

Not to mention inspiring people to enter STEM, especially girls who are still hugely underrepresented. Which has incredible benefits. Hell, even just making people excited about science and technology instead of so distrustful of it is so so important and intangible.

Even if you extend the budgets to the entire space industry, it’s still a drop in the ocean, and most of the space industry budgets go directly to economic or defence benefits. Supply chain resilience, climate change policing, communications services, wildfire detection, industrial efficiency gains (e.g. data driven farming). As well as existential threats from space like solar storms and asteroids (although that’s an admittedly tiny portion of funding).

This is coming from a space engineer and senior manager who has mostly fallen out of love with the industry because it is leaning towards profit focus instead of benefit focus. But it’s still one of the best bang for buck industries that exists.

I think they mean it’s their only option to make ends meet.

The term alpine divorce references a book about a murder/suicide/framing plot of a couple going in a mountain holiday. (Check

So the term implies that it is attempted murder.

The article dives into more nuance. The hypothesis being that it could have something to do with instances where men feel more of a need to be able to “complete” the “objective” of the hike, or may go on hikes which are more demanding than their partner may be ready for, or also that they may be ready for.

Similarly, one of the experts in the article goes on to say that this they don’t particularly like making it a gender thing, but unfortunately there is some stark correlation

Yeah i was also a bit shook 😅😅😅 but if you think about a device with Bluetooth, a decent chip for processing (they all will aim for high bitrates), touch screen, good quality DAC, youd maybe expect 200 ish.

Then when you factor in that these will be very low volume runs since not many people buy them, it makes a bit of sense.

However, I’m sure there are some decent more cut down options out there that they could have found.

https://www.whathifi.com/best-buys/portable/best-portable-music-players#section-best-budget-portable-music-player

The audiophile community keeps them kicking around! Whathifi usually have good reviews and recs. Let me find a link

In central Europe:

Alza is a great alternative for a reasonably wide range of products. Started as electronics and computer hardware so that’s the majority, but have hugely expanded over the years.

Nothing is marketplace so it’s all handled by them afaik. (Which is a huge plus imo). Which means they don’t have quite the insane variety.

I know them from when I was in CZ, but now they have expanded to Germany I use them here. I think they also do Austria and Slovakia.

Generally speaking, I strongly disagree with the idea of complete one stop shops. But for sort of generic household/adjacent consumer goods it’s fine.

The problem is that nurses and doctors aren’t having “easy days” and if they are understaffed because of something that is not plannable, eg illness or mass casualty events, then it is critically important that they are not expected to be overworked.

Healthcare staff are already (for the most part) being pushed to their absolute limits, with very high rates of burnout.

I think the point of the OP is not to advocate taking away people’s healthcare, but rather asking for society to be more understanding of healthcare professionals when delays are necessary to save other people’s lives.

Remember that we generally as a society are fighting an uphill battle to even pay decent wages to the few staff we do have, let alone expand staffing. So while we should fight for adequate staffing, that requires people to be prepared to pay for it (through healthcare cost or increased taxes/insurance fees), and in the meantime, don’t blame doctors and nurses when they don’t have time in their 12 hour+ days for every elective procedure because someone in the unit got sick.

Kneecap have been getting massive publicity because of their pro-palestine/anti-genocide stance. I haven’t listened to much to their latest stuff, but I should re-explore them.