It’s very hard to find the original image on the internet tied to the actual source, but it is reportedly this 2008 Pulitzer prize finalist in the breaking news photography category: https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/mahmud-hams

The picture is in the Gaza strip, the people fleeing are Palestinians. The party who dropped the bomb is not named… But I reckon we could take a guess.

I’m not even American but this is widely known history: https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties

This raises questions, we wake up in the engineers body but do we have his mind? Are we just going to be obliterated by biters? Maybe we can even progress to the point where we are generating the pollution needed to cause any issues if we keep our distance?

I think Microsoft has grown too large to deliver a coherent product, and has probably forgotten how to do so. Beyond a certain point, knowledge just completely breaks down, without near perfect knowledge management, senior developers leaving just leaves an understanding gap too big to ever fill. Windows has been around so long that people have had entire careers working on it and have retired and it’s all falling apart.

Individual teams still deliver decent stuff, dotnet, WSL all stuff pushing in the right direction… But no unified approach. The core windows teams seem paralyzed to implement real change. By all reports the code is now a spaghetti mess and no real endeavours to fix anything can get budget approval. Any budget that might exist to fix it is being redirected towards copilot projects

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Not sure what marketplaces are available in Switzerland, but I recommend all the time that people look at Facebook marketplace and others for people selling entire machines. Lots don’t know their worth and also know that there’s implicitly less trust with no warranties and such. That said, if you’re willing to take that risk, there are some great deals.

I played the MX vs ATV games years ago as a kid and they were heaps of fun then. No idea what the new ones are like but legends is cheap at the moment on steam and seem to get good reviews. Definitely a more pure racing game though than the others on your list.

That fine is so insubstantial it’s more like a ticket to ride.

In Australia, though it might vary from state to state, you can request a blood test. If there’s no booze bus right there in which they’ll take it, you might be able to make the cop go to the pathologist with you within a few hours during which you might dip under the limit if it was borderline. Never heard of anyone actually pulling this stunt, I’m sure it would royally piss off the cop.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the summary bot have such an aneurysm

Throw another one on!

It looks like a barrel chest, which can be a symptom of lung conditions like COPD, or just being old. Other rumours suggested it can happen because of steroid usage without appropriate accompanying exercise. Elon does seem like the kind of person who would use steroids without exercising.

There’s a huge black market for tobacco products here in Australia and it’s completely legal, simply having the tax on it so high has led to massive smuggling operations, black market cigarettes in many convenience stores, and a fire bombing epidemic of those same convenience stores for carrying competitors black market cigs. It doesn’t even need to be illegal. Just too expensive.

Probably because they went around the moon which is perceived as not for profit endeavour to further humanity, unlike SpaceX polluting space with its outrageous satellites. I’m aware that SLS is just a jobs programme, but despite that the whole premise of Artemis is a little more visionary.

Mate, ICBMs were solved decades ago, SLS is a jobs program.

The wildest part of Lao Gan Ma is sodium if you ask me. Some of the Chinese import ones are over 1000mg per serve, though the domestically made ones are a bit healthier. That said, you’re probably not using 4 tsp of the stuff in most things.

Over a full career, saving 10% of your salary can allow you to live comfortably in retirement with minimal government pensions. Depends on your overall salary of course, but 10% is a good start. 250 euro a month tucked away in an account that only earns a very mediocre 5% per annum would still have you almost 400k after a 40 year career. Obviously investing more and getting a better return could lead to much much more than that. A 400k annuity at retirement age would basically continue to pay 3k a month for well, as long as you need it.

Scientific consensus is that we now recognise and diagnose autism better than ever. Previously children that struggled in school would be labelled as troubled or slow or any number of other things. The thing about autism is that like many other things it is a spectrum, and thus previously many people with mild autism would have just cruised through and been thought of as odd or antisocial. Often when really questioned, people like your parents can think of a few people like this from their school days that might now fit the definition of autism spectrum disorder.

Also, it’s worth noting that human DNA does not and cannot degrade in any manner you suggest and that kind of reasoning has unscientific and innapropriate connotations that might associate you with very disagreeable groups.

It’s basically a fact that companies that make their office desirably to be at in general get better attendance. Cheap food, good culture, good facilities all contribute. Even then, if you’re at a shitty flex desk most people would much rather the comfort of their own desk, screens, peripherals. I think a huge amount of companies underinvest in this area. You have to make working from the office genuinely more enticing than working from home and one of the biggest factors here is costs. It takes an epic culture to override that cost imperative.

From the culture side:

Run events to draw people into the office. I organise takeaway once a week and it sucks heaps of people into the office for a good lunch, but really the business should facilitate that or comp it even because I’ve clearly proven it gets people in the office and motivated.

Design the office for collaboration, prioritise mobility so the office can be restructured for the work at hand. Minimise underused desks. I work in engineering so relocating to other desks is a huge pain when you have to bring all your hardware with you (power supplies, debuggers, oscilloscopes, programming jigs etc.) I wish my business had rolling desks or some kind of nice system for allowing these setups to move quickly and easily.

From the cost perspective:

Free or very cheap food is a huge huge perk. People hate packing and prepping a lunch in advance but it’s almost always cheaper to do that or just work from home.

Free laundry is a great suggestion, save energy and water bills by doing it at the office. On-site gyms are a great incentive if they can cater to the demand because a gym membership costs a ridiculous amount.

Free EV fast charging is basically free fuel, helps cut back on that commuting cost. Or alternatively supplement public transit expenses, ebikes or even car service costs.

I’d even pitch giving employees a budget to get their own screens, keyboard, mouse etc if they make an effort to come in often enough.

Whatever it is, the more a business goes out of its way to make the office a cool place to be, and not cost more to be at than home, the more people will attend.

There probably are inefficiencies in any government that do add up to some savings, but it would be in the process and methods and not the stupid shit DOGE honed in on. They skipped the whole reason people are typically made redundant and just downsized teams that actually did need that many people. They went for the smash and grab to try and show big savings quickly without actually doing any real work.