"Most of the areas where Russia is fighting are full of ethnic Russians and they literally asked for Russian peacekeepers in 2022 because Kiev kept attacking them."

You are wrong on multiple accounts. First they are not "full" of ethnic Russians. Ethnic Russians make up a MINORITY of the population.

Second, there is no credible evidence that ANYONE was asking for Russian peacekeepers.

Third, there is no evidence Kiev "kept attacking them".

So, you are entirely full of bullshit, which is what I would expect from a Russian shill.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Seriously, the idea that we know all the practically important physics there is is the kind of thing only somebody who's never done science or engineering would believe.

Industrial R&D is important, but it is in a distrant third place with respect to importance to US scientific leadership after (1) Universities operating with federal grants and (2) Federal research institutions.

It's hard to convince politicians with a zero sum mentality that the kind of public research that benefits humanity also benefits US competitiveness. The mindset shows in launching a new citizenship program for anyone who pays a million bucks while at the same time discouraging foreign graduate students from attending universtiy in the US or even continuing their university careers here. On average each talented graduate student admitted to the US to attend and elite university does way more than someone who could just buy their way in.

The US is Roy Kent.

The Swiss aren't exactly an industrial powerhouse, nor scientific. The largest sectors employing more Swiss are the banking, finance, trading and insurance sectors. Chemicals and pharmacuticals are their main physical exports, which means they're pretty much competing with most of Europe. So local universities will not struggle to meet demand and there's a load of British/German/French institutions they could use as well, also remember that they're smack bang in the middle of western Europe with open borders, so already a lot of people work in Geneva but live in France. A commute from Germany to Zurich wouldn't be difficult either.

That being said, even though Switzerland is a very static country, it would still be a mistake.

The only reason anyone knows about them is that the BBC had an article about them this morning.

I suspect it's very much a circle jerk like the British Sandwich Awards (called the Sammies, I'm not making it up) and at best a well paying job for a mid-level commedian-slash-light-entertainer to host.

Gaming in general has always struggled to get any kind of gaming centric event on the social map, E3 before it collapsed and maybe PAX but even that seems passe now so the best we can hope for is a mention in a TV and Film award ceremony suich as the games category in the BAFTAs.

FWIW, I think Clair Obscur cleaned up.

Yep, but the last thing Disney wants is for copyright to be weakened... They'll have everyone doing to them what they did to the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, et al. that were never copyrighted.

As much as I agree with the sentiment, I think we should be careful with too much crowing. European fascists like le Pen, Farage and AFD are trying as hard as Russia possibly can push to get voted into power over here.

You're making it sound like Trump cares about the law. The republicans are too scared to speak up against him, the tame SCOTUS won't do anything... Your country's legal systems are effectively toothless.

Trump gets to rule by fiat and the Republicans and their backers have spent much of the last 8 years ensuring that their loyalists are in key positions.

I mean there are military troops in several US cities which are there on very dubious grounds (read: obviously there to punish and intimidate those Trump perceives as enemies and by enemies I mean people who didn't vote for him) above the express wishes of state governments or the local population.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/...

So why do you think Trump will care about any other law? There's no-one to stop him.

Here's the thing, I was never a part of Twitter... definitely not a part of the TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter.

My entire exposure to it from go to woah was via thrid parties... most notably reputable news agencies. As said news agencies care about their reputation, they've stopped quoting it as a source and social media in general. Twitter used to be very well cited, barely a BBC article used to go by without a section of "this is what some random twat on Twitter had to say about it" but that is all gone now.

Pretty much everyone I've spoken to has stopped using TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter because it's just become a cesspool of hate. You might not like that, but it is quite significant.

A single mod down because someone wanted to silence what they didn't like... Elon, what is your /. user name.

Containers are for lazy developers who can't be bothered to actually make software that works without a shed load of libraries sucked in.

It makes their lives easy, and the sysadmin's life far more difficult (especially given the range of potential docker formats).

Hey, the sysadmin won't let us spin up virtual machines, so we'll create fake miniature virtual machines that all include massive amounts of out-of-date dependencies in an independent manner so that they're obfuscated, locked into older version that we're "not allowed to run", and which become a management nightmare the second one of them needs updating globally.

But, hey, at least we don't have to comply with "IT" and their ridiculous security protocols.

Is something like YouTube, except when they show a clip from something, or a slide, or anything, I can click on that and it opens in a new tab as the video continues to play. That would be nice.

Rivian doesn't have an approved permit for an autonomous vehicle testing in it's home State of California:
https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/...
Till it gets a permit, this is just CEO blablabla effort to pump stock prices.