I noticed that you have to reverse everything the Russian government says to get the truth. In this case: Russia is an extremist organisation. It works suprisingly well.
"It isn't confirmed until the Kremlin denies it" has been a truism for some time.
Aren't the people who poop on climate science the same who usually lament that people care way, way too much about the fee-fees of people today and that they should just grow a pair and toughen up.
So toughen up, morons!
A month ago it was freezing. 2 weeks ago, we hit the 30s (Celsius, that's like the 90s in backwards units). We're now back to freezing temperatures. But don't you worry, we should be back in the 30s come May.
You want to call that normal?
Talking to yourself again, I see?
Melodrama much?
We have the technology to wane us from the habit of fossils now. Yes, it is indeed possible to have civilization AND a habitable planet.
Actually, considering how humans react when resources (especially stuff like food and water) get scarce, I dare say having a habitable planet is a prerequisite for retaining civilization.
It's like playing hide and seek with a three year old that covers his eyes and thinks if he can't see you, you can't see him.
I can see the appeal of apping appz.
It's nice to know that 3 years from now, your code will be considered hopelessly outdated and obsolete and you'll never have to maintain it...
As I've been one of those software engineers that got thrown into the slings and arrows of old, badly written, worse documented and worst supported code, I admire the coding (and working) standards of the NASA engineers of the 70s.
They still have people at hand who can make sense of that code. Even the junior programmers of the original crew are by now retired or dead.
Most of the population just doesn't have a fucking clue what's going on. Imagine all you get is Fox News. No other news sources allowed.
It's like being trapped in a right-wing filter bubble, the main difference to the average Fox News enthusiast is that it's not self-inflicted.
Yes
*looks left*
*looks right*
A stroke. Right.
Hold on, what animator gets paid a subsistence level income? Is the studio hiring?
Pithy quotes prove nothing and often hide deception.
Margaret Thatcher said that while more or less giving away a ton of publicly owned stuff to indirectly buy votes. We now have a massive housing and water quality crisis (among other things) thanks to the conservatives running out of other people's money.
Meanwhile we've run out of the "other people's money" she got by privatising everything and we've no assets to show for it.
China hasn't been fully socialist since Nixon went to China. You can actually look at their GDP over time and spot where on the graph they started to implement market results policies. They aren't a fully free market society, but if they were they'd easily be the world's largest economy today. The CCP being unwilling to give up control of the country is holding the Chinese citizens back more than anything outside of the country might be doing.
Same story with other former communist countries like Vietnam which also instituted market reforms. Meanwhile countries that remained centrally planned (such as North Korea) have remained poor. Others such as Venezuela that went further down the path of Marxism have destroyed much of the wealth they previously had.
China (and Vietnam) have never been fully socialist. They were always "socialist lite". Maoism and Minhism didn't have the same anti-free market bend that Marxism and Stalinism did, they knew that they'd never get the market economy out of their societies so instead worked with it to control the excesses and ensure that they remained in power. Basically just let people get on with their day as long as they remember who the boss is. Communism in Asia has always been about ensuring the right people remained in charge.
Stalin at one point tried to eliminate currency and market economies from the Soviet Union (in the 30's if memory serves), it was the 2nd worse economic action he was responsible for.
The most controversial risk will be that of minors accessing their websites at all. They will be required to prevent it. There is no particular mandate on how, and I expect it will be fought in court, but ultimately their sites will be blocked in the EU except to those willing to give up their anonymity (or use a VPN).
The EU isn't the US with funny accents. They know that if kids see a boob they're not going be turned into malformed monsters.
That kind of Puritanism is the domain of US (and occasionally British) conservatives. Honestly, they'll be more concerned with copyrights.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
