You would have to have an incredible grindset to become a decent engineer without actually enjoying any of it. You could become a shitty one just by passing tests, I guess. (And probably many people do)

Shit, I wrote that wrong. Trying to do too many things at once.

Wow, I’ve never had this problem. The tricky thing is Australia vs. NZ.

I mean, every dialect is just a bastardised version of an older dialect, including your own.

I mean, it is really big and looks like it’s in the way, although I wonder if it’s also parked wrong.

Maybe the owner needs a large pickup, but relatively few owners of large pickups do. For the rest it’s conspicuous consumption, which is always gross, and in cars seems to correlate with antisocial behavior.

The name might well have come from the community, since the whole app store model is as old as the modern smartphone, and downloading a different way is new, while possible, was always for power users.

If there had been a more normal software ecosystem from the get-go that would have been nice. Actual regulation to enforce device freedom would also be good.

Ah yes, the old “I own a book” defense. Or maybe the “I’m also vaguely non-Western” defence (maybe you have Tatar heritage?). Either way, you are what you pretend to hate.

It’s not like it’s a unique offering at this point either. Everyone and their dog has complicated syrupy coffee/tea drinks on their menu.

I don’t know, maybe the busy-but-nicer-than-McDonalds ambiance is worth it to some people. If it’s anything like Tim Hortons, lots of people just buy out of pure habit as well. Either way, that’s their business, not the person selling it.

Flew over the may day rally in San Francisco.

Don’t take the bait.

So not off-grid, exactly. (Although the grid in any poor country’s cities will not be up bougie, Western specs on reliability)

TBF the only people that have to answer for it are the ones still buying them.

Like, he may literally have been thinking “because you dumb bitches will pay that”, but obviously couldn’t say it.

No u.

If you’re actually interested in Chinese justice vs. American justice, and how that’s related to rule of law vs. party leadership, there’s interesting things to say.

However, a month old account coming in and fixating on race, which wasn’t even mentioned in OP but rather later in response to someone else, seems more like trolling.

I mean, you can argue with .ml about political philosophy or economics, but it’s a waste of time because that’s not their real motive. You might as well argue rocketry with a moon landing denier.

“These places you have funny ideas about are real places to me, and they’re not like that” is more productive. They can either actually engage, or run away to protect themselves.

That Russian сок birch sap drink. It’s super hard to find in Canada but nothing hits me quite the same way.

No, you got called out on basically being a left-themed orientalist, and now want to run away.

I have family in adjacent, politically similar countries. Most likely, you’re a white person with no connections to Asia who likes to project fantasies on it, which is why you’re on .ml.

It’s a Liberal concept, not a Western one. Tudor England or whatever worked the same way before the age of revolutions. As did everything else all the way back to prehistory, more or less.

Yup, you can write anything. The USSR also guaranteed freedom of speech in it’s constitution, IIRC.

People who are purely Western often forget it, but laws that actually apply to everyone all the time are a very recent phenomenon. Historically, and in other places, they’re more like guidelines for what to do when there’s no other major considerations.

I really doubt they’ll actually stick to this in practice. Keep in mind, China is not a place with binding rule of law.

When it gets in the way of whatever industrial expansion, workers rights to not have toxic rocket fuel falling on them or to get paid for their house being demolished aren’t even respected.

A really big neighborhood or single factory, and it’s not cheap (upfront), even if you believe their own cost projections. OP was talking about the “plutonium to heat your personal swimming pool” kind of scale. (That’s an actual idea Glen Seaborg put forward in the 50’s, BTW)

It’s also worth mentioning intrinsic safety is kind of mutually exclusive with fast reactors that can use waste. If your neutrons are at millions of degrees it’s a lot harder to set up a feedback loop with reactor’s temperature at all, let alone an unbreakably stable one.