those other devices are largely irrelevant now in 2025, you'd need a study in 1960, 1970, 1980, etc. to disprove TV was just as bad. Having been alive back then, I can assure you some kids were big fat depressed couch potatoes glued to the tv, not playing outside

the land is very valuable, that's where Ukraine's resources are. Couple that with control of the sea front and Russia will get centuries of return on its "investment" (they don't care how many of their soldiers get killed)

The "exit strategy" is Russia controls a valuable chunk of Ukraine.

How do you imagine we could "end the war anytime we like"? Seems you're disconnected from reality and maybe ignorant of the subject of warfare.

Just as you live on land that was taken from someone else by killing, so it is with this. How mankind acts, sadly.

Again, this is a very specific, unique field, and you're trying to generalize it over the rest.

This case is about City of London financial analysts. They're a very unique position in the world. About the only other place in the world that is comparable is New York's financial analysts, and those have even higher starting salaries because NYC is even more expensive than City, while actually having less intense work schedule.

In large part because NYC is not quite the global financial hub that City is in terms of complex international analysis needs even after all the problems UK managed to create for the City in the last decade. Also if you ever wonder why UK is still considered a developing country, it's because it's attached to the City. That small place in the middle of London alone is generating so much revenue with its financial activities, that it's basically carrying the rest of UK which is actually somewhere between developed and middle income country after you cut City out of GDP calculations.

You can google the work required of junior analysts and bankers in the City. There should be quite a few stories still around from that one widely publicized case, though they were a bit dramatic and mostly seemed to focus on "women can't handle this tempo at all, and so this is almost fully a male field. This is misogyny and we need to give women more of these high paying jobs without the intensity of work".

This is a guess but it's based on how people were when I was in college. The market for these would be people who occasionally need a car for something where they cannot borrow one or where they cannot get a friend to provide a lift.

For a short-duration trip where this service makes sense, that's probably going to be a chore or an appointment. The chore could be shopping where hand-carrying isn't practical and where the shopping needs to be done in-person and delivery isn't practical or available. For appointments, I could see needing to visit doctors or the like where they may not be convenient to mass transit, or where post-visit there may be other chores like picking up prescriptions or going to have bloodwork done would mean an inordinate amount of time on mass-transit.

The issue isn't just crew launches, it's all the supply-launches. The 'progress' cargo craft make regular runs from this pad.

That is not the question. The question is whether not handing them said machine is worse.

Indeed. But too many idiots do not understand the difference between correlation and causation, because they can only think in correlations. For example, the typical MAGA is "keyword-trigger only". They see a specific keyword and then see the whole cloud of correlated things as also in there. Causation? They do not even understand the concept, much less being able to use it.

I'm pretty sure Starlink is already blocked inside Russia.

I understand that you live in a shithole where "there's a different price in app, just for you" is sci-fi in 2025.

In first world, it's been reality for a while. And what they do is not "increase price", but "vary the discount".

Which falls under the law.

You don't understand what these people do for a living, which is why you typed out this "but in a completely different field, this doesn't work".

True. In your field, it probably doesn't work. But for junior analyst, this is the only way to make it work. The job is to trawl through time sensitive raw data and pre-collated data sets, to generate collated topical data sets for senior analysts. Ingestion of data is constant, creating constant need for junior analysts to trawl through the next data set.

This is a job where working 18-20 hours a day, 7 days a week for years at a time is a norm, and working less than that is an exception that requires high level connections. This job kills people because the tempo is insane, and senior analysts demand quality on top of numbers. And there's always more time sensitive data to trawl through, and where collation is worthless if not downright counterproductive if it isn't done in a timely manner.

This is why older people can't do this job. It's not survivable outside twenties. This is also why this job is exceptionally well paid even for new hires. It takes very exceptional individuals to be able to do this job. You need to be high IQ, educated in complex mathematics and statistical analysis, savvy in relevant software packages and their applications, require no more than 4-5 hours of sleep a day to be fully functional (with stimulants) and be driven to actually want the senior analyst position badly enough to be willing to suffer through years of junior analyst position.

There's a reason why this job pays big.

i notice your posts always follows his and have poorly worded run-on English sentences. It's as if a N. Korean were using machine translation, badly. Why don't you go out back and dig up a kimchi pot, and chill out with a meal, Kang-Dae?

People working their hours in exceedingly challenging environment generally earn way more. These are basically the only people in the West who actually suffer from Karoshi - death by overwork.

The expectation is that you're working 6-7 days a week, flat out, all day. You get a few hours of sleep, and then you're back at the office. You eat at the office. You live at the office. You may or may not take showers at the office, but you almost certainly shit at the office, and probably with your laptop in your lap as you're doing it.

The only reason people agree to do this insane work is because they know they have to power through it while they're young enough to mostly be able to survive this lifestyle until they make it to senior analyst. Then they get a few free hours a day.

There was a bunch of articles about this a few years ago after a man from a rather vocal family died of Karoshi while doing this job in London. They basically explained just how much work a healthy young men in his twenties needs to carry to die of overwork. It's pretty insane.

In general, these salaries are significantly lower than in US. Very much dependent on a country though. Luxembourg is going to be close and sometimes even exceed US salaries, Bulgaria is going to be way lower, and everyone else is going to be somewhere in the middle.

Most people really don't understand just how badly EU stunted growth of its member states. Many of developed European nations were pretty close to US in terms of productivity (which in turn generates salary levels). But we were stagnant due to EU's regulatory orgy in last two decades, while US advanced due to much lighter relative bureaucracy.

I love it how shitholistani bots keep revealing themselves as such by not knowing the newer trends across first world when talking about it. For example here the shitholistani bot doesn't know that in first world a lot of retail stores now have apps that give you personalized price offers based on algorithmic analysis of your purchase history.

kids who sat on their ass in front of the tv too long had worse health including significantly higher odds of depression, obesity, and poor sleep.

In 1990s joined by kids who sat on their ass with their home computer or game console