Lmfao.

No, it’s the US.

Trump is not an aberration, he is an exact representation of American values. He did not rise from a vacuum, he rose from decades of Americans blindly following Republicans to their doom.

You cannot say that he does not represent the US when he was voted into office on two non-consecutive turns.

America is a shit hole country, filled with shit hole people, who vote for shit hole representatives. There may be occasional flecks of not shit in there, but you’re just hollow husks of corns in a sea of shit.

Honestly, not at the scale of the US, but Cuba has cracked down on political prisoners and the corruption is sometimes extremely visible in Havana when you see the properties of the elite and government compared to those of everyone else.

The history of Cuba is another example of why America is such a piece of shit country.

Honestly, it must be fucking wildly embarassing that a tiny island, that America has used it’s full economic power to try and impoverish and starve to death for decades, has a comparable average lifespan and cancer survival rate, far better infant mortality rate, almost double the number of hospital beds per person, and an over 10% higher literacy rate.

Yes the Cuban government has corruption issues that cause the powerful to live rich unattainable lifestyles compared to the average worker, and issues with jailing people who don’t deserve it… Can anyone argue that America is any better in either of those regards though?

It would be interesting to see a filter of responses by country.

In my experience:

• Architecture / Eng / Construction Industry (Canada):
  • 8-5, summer hours, loosely enforced.
• Software Industry (Europe):
  • 9-5, several extra weeks of vacation, loosely enforced
• Software Industry (America):
  • 9-6, moderately enforced
• Software Industry (Canada):
  • 9-5, summer hours, loosely enforced

That being said, even with the shorter official working hours, I often end up working more than that. I may have a bunch of 6 or 7 hour days, but will also have a bunch of 16 hour days when things are hectic.

Yeah, no one in here is claiming they know 100% who did it.

But it would make sense if SK did. They have the motivation and potentially the means.

That’s what Spain’s investigation thought was most likely

Honestly, this just exposes how bad the author is at math.

Like congratulations, you’ve heard of a linear trend line, surely all systems can be modelled with nothing more than an unchanging straight line right?

I hope nothing but the worst for Tesla, but this kind of guffawing at the most basic possible extrapolation just makes the author look dumb.

To prevent the literal unpredictable madman neighbour with a mortal vendetta against you from getting a nuclear reactor.

Also, Russia already has super cavitating torpedoes, and there’s not necessarily that much to learn from their pieces after impact.

Not saying a limpet mine isn’t likely, but this also feels like exactly why SK is developing those torpedoes.

1. the article is a year old, so those statements were made at least a year ago, 2) militaries aren’t always super up front about their weapons programs timelines 3) the statement specifically said that even though it was “2/3” of the way through development, it had been tested. How do you know this wasn’t the test?

It could have been Ukraine, but Ukraine does not have super cavitating torpedoes, so if that’s the case the reporting on those and the shape charges must be wrong.

Let me just leave this here:

South Korea’s ADD showcases new Supercavitating Torpedo at MADEX 2025

ADD said that the development of this supercavitating torpedo is currently about two-thirds complete, and that after further maturing the torpedo’s stabilization control technology, it will finally secure the design and testing technology of the test body.

…The MRXUUV (Mission Reconfigurable eXtra-large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) currently under development by ADD could serve as testbed.

According to an interview with the ADD chief researcher, the supercavitating torpedo displayed at MADEX 2025 is an actual tested torpedo, designed in size to fit in a UUV, capable of being guided (in the initial phase of the launch, at low speed), and is being developed to sink enemy main surface ships with ultra-high-speed kinetic energy without a warhead.

The publicly released timeline doesn’t line up, but the motivations do.

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I mean sure, but that’s an argument against where you locate data centres, not necessarily to stop them entirely. i.e. evaporating that water is a problem in a region that’s already over populated and doesn’t have enough water

It doesn’t just disappear. It falls back to the ground.

The danger of an over simplified model.

A joint and a pipe are very similar.

A bong is the same thing but you can smoke way more at once so it hits you harder and faster.

A blunt is basically a giant joint but it’s wrapped in tobacco paper so you get a little extra tobacco buzz alongside the weed.

The biggest difference with edibles is that because you eat them and they have to go through your digestive system (rather than through your lungs), there’s like a 45m delay before you feel anything. That means is really easy to eat some, think ‘i don’t feel anything, I should double up my dose’ and then get way too high.

That being said there is also evidence that when cannabis is processed through the digestive system there are enzymes that turn them into different cannabinoids, so you edibles probably do genuinely produce a slightly different high

It’s not generational, its proportional to how brain-rotted you are.

The more time you spent scrolling mindlessly, or doing some other brain rotting activity, the more your brain defaults to that reward path and makes you crave it and the more you do it.

But there are tiers to the activities you choose to do and how they rot or don’t rot your brain:

Tier 1:

• Playing a social sport or game - it’s fully engaging and interactive, it requires planning and foresight, and forces you to communicate and engage socially.
  • It often also forces active choice in picking something to do
  • It often requires broader commitment and week-week planning just to create the events
  • Bonus points if it’s a physical sport or game since it helps you stay fit
  • Bonus points if it’s an intellectual challenge that pushes you to think outside your comfort or default zones (for some people that might be DND, for some it might be playing a team sport)
• Pursuing a challenging cooperative project - joining volunteer organizations, starting / running a business or charity to try and do something for world, organizing large social events, or participating in parent Council and community groups, and local politics, etc. - these all require working with other, broadening your skills, and will be rewarding as you change your environment
• Caring for others who need it - when you have the ability and others don’t, it benefits everyone to help even out the world

Tier 2:

• Reading a challenging book that will make you grow as a person (maybe the news or a genuine deep research binge depending where you’re at) / listening to an educational podcast / watching a challenging movie or mini-series / pursuing a challenging independent project / pursuing independent physical fitness - those are all great pursuits that will help grow you in some specific way that will benefit the world in the long run, and all require active choice and follow through which is great, but when you do things solo, you have orders of magnitude lower effectiveness in terms of your impact on the world, you don’t grow socially (and tend to atrophy). For some people who are hyper social, these might be more Tier 1 since they need to adjust in that direction, but for most people, I would put these at Tier 2.
• Socially consuming good, but non-challenging media / activities. Picking something to do, but picking something good and well made that you can examine and critique with people. Watching breaking bad and picking apart the foreshadowing or symbolism, watching sports and dissecting the strategy, watching a bad movie and actively extrapolating what their bad writing implies about the universe they’ve created and the horrors that would create. Playing the same casual sport you play every week, and not really trying to push yourself or do better.
• Healthy social events - seeing friends / family / neighbours, going out to parties and festivals and events and socializing with people and making friends and adding positivity to the world.
• Necessary cleaning & maintenance - you still gotta take care of yourself, the world you live in, and learn how to do it all sustainably.

Tier 3

• Independent physical fitness activity where you don’t push yourself - going to the gym / run / etc without actually trying very hard. Still good that you’re doing it to prevent atrophy, but not really improving and not necessarily the greatest use of time. Usually hiding a deeper underlying issue like exhaustion, depression, etc.
• min/maxing cleaning and home improvement - still good in that it will make you happy and satisfied, but at a certain point it’s just an obsessive waste of time without benefit

Tier 4:

• Passively consuming content – this is the dividing line between healthy and unhealthy in my mind – but this is putting on cable and watching whatever’s on, opening an app and scrolling, defaulting to reading the latest gossip magazine because that’s just what you do at this time of night, - this behaviour is, imho, fundamentally toxic, in that the act of doing it not just wastes your time, but actively makes you less happy / stable / etc, though it’s often not the root cause. You tend to default towards these when you’re stressed and low energy, on the flip side, they tend to make you stressed and low energy.

Everything is a spectrum, and I’ve known Pre-Boomers, Boomers, GenX, Millenials, and Gen Z who all have problems with Tier 4 (and lower) activities. Usually it’s a sign of other stress / unsatisfaction / depression (note that Tier 1 activities are the ones you tend to drop when you get depressed), but it’s really upsetting to see anyone when they seem unaware of how stuck in a toxic Tier 4 loop they are.

I do understand why the state wants to prosecute him

Because he exposed the state for being a massively illegal and corrupt pile of shit directly perpetrating crimes against not just the American public, but the world at large?

Like yeah, I understand why cartels kill informants, that doesn’t make them justified in doing so.

If you’re a user who grows up using one, and then starts following instructions on how to build one, when are you going to come across the word program?

It will be app, maybe application, saas software, functions a service, compute as a service etc etc. Hell what most people think of as an “app” is really a collection of applications all working together.

People at the University of Washington don’t refer to soda pop the same way as people at Berkley, or at MIT, or at Oxford. Why would they all have had the exact same term for writing software?

Edit: I’m being argumentative, I honestly have no idea what term was common then. At that point most people I knew referred to it as “computer stuff”

It’s probably predominantly because of the switch to mobile computing / smartphones / web being dominant, and everyone referring to programs there as “apps” / applications.

i.e. If you write a mobile app with a function-as-a-service backend, you will never compile what someone would refer to as a “program”, so calling yourself a “programmer” (as-in, someone who makes programs) feels inaccurate and a not helpful description for people. “Coder” (as-in, someone who writes code) is a vaguer in terms of the type of code you write and more accurate in terms of what you spend your time producing.