Real engineers write everything in machine code. Programming languages are a crutch. Reproduce everything from first principles every single time or don’t dare call yourself a programmer.

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Yeah, the US really does have a debt problem. I’m a big defender of government debt - governments have an ability to carry debts in a way that regular households absolutely cannot, and that’s without even getting into ideas like MMT - but US debt to GDP ratios are getting truly reckless. Raising taxes, along with reigning in their absolutely demented levels of military spending, are going to be the only reasonable way forward.

Not really. Israel’s primary concern is removing Iran as a regional adversary. I’m not saying they would say no to stealing their oil industry, but it’s not really the primary motivator. They’d be perfectly happy with the US swooping in and controlling Iran’s oil industry as long as it left them free to basically act unobstructed in Lebanon and Palestine.

Again, that comes back to the fact that Israel and the US have fundamentally different goals here, which is a huge issue for Trump.

Honestly, this is so hilarious. The Russians threatened to publish their address, and Sentinel’s reaction has more or less been “Thanks for the free advertising, but could you include our email and phone number as well?”

It’s pretty clear that at no point did the US plan for Iran closing the state. They should have. Every previous US government considered it the primary danger of a war with Iran. But Trump doesn’t surround himself with smart people.

Also there’s credible reporting that their belief that Iran would not close the strait was reinforced by the AI planning systems they recently invested in. So that’s fun. The blind leading the stupid.

While this is true, to my recollection Venezuela actually does produce the right kind of oil for the US to refine. That’s believed to be what made it attractive (the other option would be Canada). Ironically the US does not have the ability to refine the oil they now produce. That’s why they export it instead.

But the idea that they’re actually going to get any oil out of Venezuela is laughable. Every company that Trump pitched the idea to turned him down, because it’s far too volatile a region and political situation for them to go in and set up billions in infrastructure.

This, by the way, is how data centres work only worse. Even a hyperscale data centre in the gigawatt range is very unlikely to employ more than a hundred people. After initial construction - which will often be handled by out of state specialists, not locals - their effect on employment is basically nil. They’re sold to voters as a big deal for the community they’re in but in reality they just make noise, drink all the water and jack up power prices for no benefit.

Bibi is part of the problem. Israel fundamentally does not want the war to end with anything short of total US occupation or annihilation of Iran. They want Iran deleted as an adversary and regional power. It’s not by accident that Israel keeps fucking up every ceasefire, and that’s exactly why Iran are so insistent on the US proving they can reign the Israelis in.

Bibi will do everything in his power to tank peace efforts. His goals, and Trump’s, are diametrically opposed. Which means if Trump is getting out of this war before the midterms, he has to be the first president in US history to put Israel on a leash.

Meanwhile these assholes will claim HRT is “experimental” when it’s been in use longer than heart transplants.

It’s such an incredibly childish way of thinking. These people grew up with “Russia bad, Murica good” propaganda, had their minor awakening as they realized the US weren’t in fact the heroes they’d been taught they were, but never actually bothered to unpack the underlying assumption that the world is made of heroes and villains. So instead of figuring out that actually all forms of imperialism suck, they just swapped the heroes and villains in the fairytale because it’s more comforting to live in a world that has unambiguous good guys and bad guys. They want to have a team that they can cheer for and screw it if reality doesn’t agree.

Agreed, Horizon: Zero Dawn is a truly excellent game. It’s saddled with the usual Ubisoft design elements (map full of things to tick off, towers to unlock areas, etc), but none of that gets in the way of how fun the gameplay is and how good the story is.

It’s one of the few video game stories that has really, really stuck with me. Some moments in that game are genuine gut punches that will leave you reeling.

I really enjoyed Sable. It’s not the biggest or most complicated game, but it’s beautiful, thoughtfully written, and really pulls you into its world. I loved just zooming across the wastes on my bike wondering what I would explore next. Incredibly chill.

There’s nothing incompatible about Marxism and shopping.

The USSR (which is, to be clear, not even a great example of Marxism in action) had money and shops. When Marx talks about ending “private ownership” that’s not the same thing as “personal property.” People can, and should, own things.

The problem is when individuals own the means of production - banks, factories, companies - and other resources such as, hospitals, housing estates and city blocks that should belong to and benefit the people as a whole.

OK, fair point.

No idea why it took you so long to make it, but fair point all the same.

Charging them $100,000 is objectively better than charging them nothing. You’re not actually making a point here, you’re just quibbling over details.

I’m not commenting on any other changes to the process that they may or may not have made. I think that the idea of attaching an additional fee to H1B visas (or their equivalents) is a good idea. We shouldn’t be facilitating companies bringing in cheaper overseas workers, and attaching a hefty fee is one way to shift the economics of that back towards domestic workers.

If I say “Sandwiches are a good idea” that doesn’t mean I’m in favor of going to Strychnine Joe’s, Home of the Deadly Poison Sub. A good idea can still be implemented badly. That doesn’t stop the idea itself from being good.

Pity. One of the only good ideas that government has ever had. But of course, even when they’re right, they’re too corrupt and incompetent to actually get anywhere.

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When you accidentally reinvent corporate taxes.