In not a Chinese shill but realistically modern war is a competition of industrialized might. China would whoop the US in a slugfest (i.e. not nuclear exchange. Nobody wins that) because the US can’t produce at the rate the Chinese can.

China can mass produce sophisticated weapons… The US’ military industrial complex and incentive structures (cost + % billing) has created a giant cancerous tumor of an arm’s industry. It’s currently tooled for bullying and murdering brown people for profit, not fighting a near peer nation and changing that system takes years.

It won’t change as long as cost + % and corruption continue, which they will. If the US finds itself in a war with China it’ll have entirely the wrong arm’s industry for fighting them and they won’t have the grace of 1939-1941 to scale their domestic arms industry prior to a major conflict… There’s also the fact that the US is heavily deindustrialized now too compared to WWII… China is closer to the industrial heavyweight the US once was in 1941-45, but they have technological sophistication and a knowledge economy now too…

Patriot interceptor missiles are a decent example of what I mean. They cost millions to produce and take forever to make which is by design. They could be made faster and cheaper but that’s less profit. If the arm’s industry in the US were paid a lump sum and not “pump your costs as high as possible to get the highest cost+% you can” things would be different.

Procrastinating spiced sardine

I just brushed my teefs! I’ll drink more water in 30 minutes like the toothpaste says.

I’m not sure what app you’re on (or if you’re on browser) but I think you favorite them from their profile page? I’m still new as well so I could be wrong.

Yeah, except GIMP heard of The principle of least astonishment and took it as a fucking challenge. If it astonishes you by behaving in an unexpected way, it’s probably a deliberate GIMP design choice who’s goal is to defy your expectations.

I was just thinking the same thing…

He’s flattering them with words they understand

If you get cheap large flash drives the thing that’s wrong with them is QLC memory, and the fact flash memory rots over time.

Bitrot is a thing no matter the medium it’s just what timescale we’re talking about. Blurays are the poor man’s LTO tape backups. M-disks were also good for a long time too. Very stable and high density.

However there is a way to make flash drives work for a backup solution. I would pair drives together in mirrors under ZFS. Maybe 4-6 drives in a pool, with 2-3 mirrors. That way you have error detection (ZFS checksums for every bit of data stored), and error correction (mirrored data across drives, along with the checksum to verify which copy is good).

It also allows you to run “ZFS scrub <pool>” to check everything once a month or so and detect corruption and fix it. ZFS can also identify a drive that’s failing from consistent errors.

Edit: if you don’t run Linux you could manage this using a raspberry pi 3 or 4 as the host. It could be a very low power and cheap NAS.

And there better be a way to settle greivances for essential jobs or they quickly hollow out. If you don’t, people don’t train for them or pursue them, and we damn well know they aren’t going to up the pay to make them more attractive.

Yep fetish driven art

But how will I spend 3 years making my 2D platformer thats as generic as possible except for one slight difference I implemented poorly?

You’re taking away all of the fun of posting my 2D platformer post mortem #204582910058 where I refuse to see reality and never understand why my game sucks or why it flopped!

When you do the math on how much it costs both a private citizen along with the public to enable cars as transportation it’s mind boggling.

The province I live in makes around $90-100B / year in tax revenue, and spends around $4.5-5.5B / year on roads and road maintenance.

There’s also the hidden cost of road work caused by utilities being replaced, struck, or newly installed. We pay thx bill for that through our telecom, power, sewer .etc

Insurance, gas, car payments…

If a road is built to last 10 years then technically on average you’re replacing ⅒ of your roads every year. Utilities are the same and trenching/patching is horrible for roads necessitating rework on them earlier than the life expectancy. A fiber line might have a 40 year life span, but installing it turned a 20 year road into a 10 year replacement.

Cave man mode. Save much token. Very easy. Get straight to point. Missing semicolon line 182.

They also walk around on their middle fingers so they’re literally flipping the world off with all 4 limbs from the day they were born.

“shit wouldn’t melt in her mouth!” - my late grandma’s favorite

We are idiots and we deserve it

That’s what I’m getting at but who gets the center square is decided by dice.

Soon I can algorithmically identify friend or foe by comparing their multidimensional political beliefs to my own (17, 89, 7, 32, 90, 72, 11, 3, 55, 23, 68, 99)

HOW!?