And drugs.

The reason Trump is doing this is so that we are not focusing on the rift in the party over H1B visas.

Where the fuck are the Democrats hitting the issue while it’s hot with 3 interviews a day agreeing with the average Republican over Trump and Musk?

Yeah you’re right, mentally I added the part of the Caribbean that goes down to Venezuela to it.

The real fucked up part was that the British made the Polish fighter pilots who fought and died for them in the Battle of Britain go back to their now-occupied country.

Much like them stiffing the people who helped them in Afghanistan.

Yeah, the US waited out most of the war against fascism and only joined after victory was likely.

The US were much more cowards than traitors.

The British always had funny names for stuff. Their name for their super heavy tank design was Flying Elephant. Funnily enough, the German project of the same was named the Rat.

It mostly would.

Hungary renamed an iconic square in Budapest like 10 years ago. Most of the city still calls it Moscow Square.

It technically lies between north and south america.

It is a more fitting name than that of the USA.

There is a serious problem of kids, especially boys, not having heroes these days.

I worked as a techie in adtech, investment banking and healthcare.

With adtech, there is a complex inscrutable network of layered data brokers, and each as you see is the result of a complex but very fast auction of your eyes at that time.

The other aspect is that there are companies that collect data, other companies process them, and a third layer are the ad companies selling ads themselves. While Google is doing its best to monopolise the whole thing via Chrome, there are a lot of companies either piggybacking on them or doing their own thing. There are also “mom and pop” shops spying on you, not just Big Tech. You decide if a competitive or a monopolistic ad industry is better, I think the whole thing shouldn’t exist.

Investment banks DGAF about regulations, but are super serious about compliance. We had to attend like 12 yearly training sessions about not having the WhatsApp group we had. They are a weird mix of cutting edge and awfully obsolete tech, the feeling is that the business will keep printing money either way, so do whatever. Also, because since 2008 there are apparently regs that you need a higher up to sign off on some stuff, titles are super inflated. A Vice President might not even be a team lead.

I watched an innovative healthcare startup that actually saved lives be acquired by US big pharma. We sold AI medical imagery, not the quack kind, but the “proven by studies and active use to save lives” kind. European healthcare providers paid us 5-7 EUR per scan where it cost us 2 EUR to make one, and we were wildly inefficient, startup spaghetti code. A US monopoly bought the whole thing, along with a bunch of others like it, and billed insurance 100 USD in some bundle deal for the same thing.

Insert “I’m tired boss” meme. This was all in like 5 years.

Yeah there are days when you catch some cold that puts you off for a day, but you’re back on your feet one-two days later if you rest.

I’d take a week off to be sure in this case.

People can also be mature before 35.

The idea is that in a country of 320 million, there should be enough qualified people, and nobody cares if you disqualify some people who should still be okay.

There is also the aspect of very old people not having to live with the consequences of their decisions.

What’s up with world? I’ve seen that there are a lot of complaints going on about it, but what is the underlying problem?

I think it just goes back to “their competition is even worse”. “They let people prey on the vulnerable” doesn’t hit as hard when the competition is literally preying on them themselves.

Valve is the least shitty of the competition. Maybe GOG is better, but then CDPR is only viable because they can underpay Polish devs.