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Whatâ(TM)s even more puzzling to me is the level of incompetence of their leadership. People have been complaining loudly about what a miserable experience SO was to use for over a decade and company leadership was happy to sit back and do nothing about it. They absolutely deserve what theyâ(TM)re getting.

Atwood and Spolsky cashing out at the top got incredibly lucky given what a terrible job they did running the site.

1789 French Revolution - violently overthrows a monarchy to then kill the very revolutionaries and then replace it them with monarchy after monarchy for nearly 100 years.
1870 - Stable democratic government finally formed with the 3rd Republic.
WW2 - France surrenders to / joins the Nazis under Vichy regime.
1946 - Unstable 4th Republic which lasts only 12 years.
1958 - Formed the 5th Republic which still exists today.

FWIW, France has almost no culture of democracy. They've had a stable democracy for the same amount of time Alaska and Hawaii have been states.

It's "treason" to try to end the war in Ukraine?

There are a million dead Ukrainians and the war is one of attrition (that Ukraine is losing). The choice facing Ukraine is not "win or lose" it's "accept a bad deal now, or accept a worse deal in two more years with another million dead". And no, just sending a few more American missiles there is not going to magically turn the tide of war- just like every other weapons shipment over the past nearly 4 years made no substantial difference to the front lines.

People like you who push for forever war no matter the cost are absolute ghouls.

Short of a dinosaur-killing asteroid, there is absolutely nothing that could wipe out every human within 40 years- including disease. We are too widely dispersed on the planet.

Also the CO2 concentration during the dinosaur age was 10-20 times what it is today- so if youâ(TM)re referring to global warming killing us- thatâ(TM)s also a fever dream.

It is quite easy to tell the cause. The birthrates dropped precipitously starting in the late 60â(TM)s and early 70â(TM)s. Itâ(TM)s not just a coincidence that this perfectly lines up with 2nd wave feminism. Women leaving the home, delaying marriage, prioritizing career over family.

Whether you think this is a great thing or a horrible thing it matters little. Reversion to the mean is a real phenomenon and thereâ(TM)s no social engineering that will stop it. Cultures which prioritize women having careers will die and cultures which prioritize women having children will grow and flourish. You cannot protest or outwit mathematics and Darwinism.

And for those that will shout that Iran shows this isnâ(TM)t true- Iran is actually quite a progressive country that happens to be run by an oppressive theocracy. Many (most) Iranians hate their government and are far more western in attitude than in other Islamic countries.

Global poverty has never been lower, war rarer, or standards of living higher than they are today at any point in human history. You are totally brainwashed.

TFA talks about why companies cannot innovate in Europe because of over regulation and every top comment is âoehereâ(TM)s why thatâ(TM)s a good thingâ.

Your 6 months off a year and 3 year resignation periods may seem great but what youâ(TM)re really doing is mortgaging your childrenâ(TM)s future for your own convenience. They will grow up in a poorer, less dynamic Europe with fewer opportunities. Innovators leave Europe for bluer skies. Anyone can look at a the GDP charts of the last 15 years and see whatâ(TM)s happening.

Just to be clear, the "wet bulb death" claim is that a person stuck outdoors at 35C would die within hours even if they were in shade, resting, and had unlimited water. This claim about has zero empirical evidence, despite that temperature having been achieved numerous times within recorded history. There is not a single documented instance of a person actually dying under such conditions; it's based purely on lab predictions.

Dinosaurs lived for 300 million years in a world far hotter and wetter than what we have today. Humans have lived for millions of years on a changing planet. Until/unless there is actual evidence for this theory- I remain extremely skeptical, like with all the great theories that there used to be about how large land animals can become- which were proven to be total bunk when the Titanosaur was discovered.

News at 11

1. A woman did eat a cat, however, she was not an immigrant.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatime...

2. Haitians eat cookies made from literal dirt.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The leap between the two doesn't seem that massive. Maybe you aren't as smart as you think you are?

The money is used to pay staff... Payroll is by far the biggest expense for most businesses.

Totally agree. In my college classes at a prestigious school, well over 15 years ago, only a tiny fraction of the students in class could actually code to any reasonable degree. Maybe 10% or less. The rest were there to do the bare minimum required, never developed a deeper understanding of any of it, and were just hoping to land a cushy job once outside of school.

Coding is more than just rote memorization of constructs. To do a good job with it you need to have a deep understanding of many related concepts at once (algorithmic complexity, memory usage, network latency, threading). Even the best AIs today cannot write novel code that does all these things well or even correctly.

This is already obsolete. DeepSeek can write so well it passes with "AI detection" tools with 100% pass rate.

Personally, I prefer to get advice from how to be successful from people who are actually successful.