...I suspect higher wages and cost of living are part of the difference.

Ironic the anti-DEI prez is doing the very thing DEI is meant to reduce: putting loyalty and connections above merit.

Frogs are renaming it the boiling human effect.

As bad as the cloud is, too many companies manage IT in a dysfunctional way if it's not their core business because they apply the management style of their own domain to IT, which is often a poor fit. The cloud is the least evil for such co's. Cloud is a C-plus to their D.

I'm just the messenger.

Mechanical cheating in car racing has become an underground sport in itself, being the tricks are often so clever and sneaky that it's hard not to admire some, making them bragging point "trophies".

by RFK's brainworm.

F MAGAnderthals!

glory he deserves.

Nope, conspiracies don't ever happen.

The 9/11 hijackers did not plan their actions in advance. Just by sheer coincidence, 19 people just happened to be taking those four plane flights. And by coincidence (no coordination) they all got the same spontaneous idea at the same time, an idea they had never spoken about before: let's hijack the plane and crash it.

Crazy people babble on about "evidence" like people taking flight lessons, sharing vehicles, etc. but we know those things cannot possibly be true, because conspiracies are not real.

If you have a hypothesis of x and then find lots of supporting evidence for x and it becomes the prevailing explanation, that creates a theory of x, but there's one exception: when x is a conspiracy. Conspiracies are a special case, because they don't really happen.

"don't put electronics in extreme radiation environments" solution to the problem nearly always works.

Maybe you are jesting, but the article mentions applying Juno maintenance & survival lessons to Earth satellites and military equipment, both of which can suffer radiation damage. Consider EMP weapons, for one.

or have co's electronically bid for them, where the highest wage gets selected first. This discourages coding-farm visas.

"The Art of the ... hey, let's golf!"

-productive. Who wouldda gassed

There are private islands not owned by any major nation.

The brain pleasure triggered by nicotine has biased your view of the socializing. If you slap a meth addict in the face just when their high is kicking in, they'll start to view slapping favorably. The mental associating is strong.