My personal favorite platform is GOG simply because it offers actual ownership instead of a crippling dependency on their ecosystem. My second favorite is Steam because it has games GOG doesn’t. I’m not sure why I would want EGS beyond the free games, which are frequently not of interest to me anyway.
“We had been operating relatively conservatively, in how many people we were allowing ourselves to hire and capital expenditures,” Romo said. “This will allow us to release a little bit of that conservatism and lean into some stuff like electric propulsion and potentially other vehicles that are going to allow us to grow long-term.”
(Emphasis mine)
He said this but then never really elaborated. This was the only part of the article I wanted to read more about. It sounded like he was talking about something akin to the EmDrive, but my understanding was that the EmDrive had been debunked as a measurement calibration error, so I’m curious WTF he’s talking about.
As a mostly liberal American, I just don’t know where to begin.
As an Irishman, I would say Ranked Choice Voting. It’s not a silver bullet, but it does solve the main problem that prevents the other problems from being solved.
Doubling the already over the top european military budget isn’t going to fix any of the things in your first list.
Can I ask you to expand on that thought?
Judging by the video, the Russians seem to have placed barriers around the supports as buffers against this exact sort of thing. The explosion’s centre seems to be at one of these barriers rather than at the support itself. It’ll take another drone to go through that hole and hit the support, I think. Of course, I’m no expert - I’m just trying to interpret what I’m seeing.
I think most of us have experience of the concept of something being said ironically, as a joke, at first but then being increasingly serious. It’s like magic really does exist and if you say words often enough they start affecting reality, like a spell. Freedom of speech is a right but it’s also a profound responsibility.
Can I ask your security assessment of:
The Transatlantic cables?
The recent network outages in Spain?
Transnistria?
Gagauzia?
The EU-Belarus border?
The North African migrant crisis?
The ongoing cyberattacks that have been hitting Europe for years?
The price of wheat?
Then I would ask your assessment of how much the EU should plan on relying on the USA for its security over the long term.
Threats to annex Greenland?
Threats to annex Canada?
Threats to seize control of the Panama Canal?
Kill switches in the F-35?
Sentiments expressed during the Signalgate Incident about the US doing all the work in securing the Red Sea?
Attempts to influence European elections?
Growing American control of the Western Internet?
Not to mention if they were able to pull off a mission like this, allegedly using cell towers to fly their drones, what’s stopping them from doing similar limited missions to tank factories, recruit depots, and other places that are further away from the front? Literally all of these targets now become viable because they will be much less heavily guarded than the nuclear triad bombers.
I assume the cell tower thing was exploiting an oversight or other vulnerability that can only be exploited once before Russia plugs the hole. Maybe they can do it again but it would be relying on enemy incompetence, which is in plentiful supply these days but still not a good idea to rely upon.
Well that comes under point #3 but yeah
What’s wrong is that some people have decided that they’re at war with the rest of us.
This is most likely a combination of:
Trump’s tariffs driving international users to seek alternatives to American OSes
Windows 10 support coming to an end soon despite most people not wanting to upgrade or not having a desktop capable of upgrading to 11
Steam supporting Linux increasingly well
The money saved will pay for one dev, or two if you cheap out
And oxygen kills everyone who dies of old age.
Yeah, this is something we can cheer for without even a hint of equivocation because it’s the destruction of weapons instead of the killing of people. Though I’m sure there were probably SOME human casualties, I’m comfortable with Ukraine targeting weapons and ordnance as much as they want.
I don’t have kids so I dunno if it’s still happening, but my dad had a brief and very awkward conversation with me to tell me that if I had sex to make sure to use a condom but if I ever did get a girl pregnant I could always tell him and it’d be OK, we’d figure it out, etc. Nothing fancy or anything; just the essentials to make sure I wasn’t a dumbass about sex.
This is why the current political climate is so extremely dangerous. The world has spent so long developing the Global Nash Equilibrium that nobody believes that anybody is in a position to actually follow through on any of the threats they make. Everybody is fully willing to believe that all their opponents are bluffing, and fully willing to call those bluffs. But all the bluffing was part of the Nash Equilibrium, so actually calling those bluffs is destroying the Equilibrium. The only way we can go back to the balance is if the threats become credible again, and that can only happen if people start actually following through on some of their threats for a while. And that would make for an extremely rough decade.
Honestly, nowadays a part of the “birds and bees” talk should include an explanation of privacy settings and common Internet scams.
Absolutely not; I wish all kids argued their case using well-thought-out presentations
We all choose makey-uppy things to believe in, through which we interpret the purpose of our own existence. There’s no objective reason to be kind to strangers beyond what we can get out of it - there are plenty of billionaires in the world to prove that selfishness and greed is a valid life strategy - but we CHOOSE to BELIEVE in made-up concepts like fairness and love, because it makes most of us happier to live that way. I see no reason to look down my nose at people who choose a few more made-up concepts to believe in than I do. I’m only bothered by the people who are pig-headed about it, incapable of accepting that people believe in different things than they do… and that category includes people who say “faith is idiocy”.