The US is about to find out (well, eventually I suppose) that the stone age didn’t end due to a lack of stones.

Meh, you get used to it. It’s only stressful when the end of the maintenance window is approaching and you still don’t know whether you’ll wrap it up in time. The odd hours are more annoying though. Often late in the evening or during the weekend. Long weekends are actually perfect for large maintenance operations, but you (and the other people doing the maintenance) give up that long weekend in return. And I learned over the years that a compensation day during the week does not equal a weekend day, because you can’t do anything with your buddies for example or when you want to sleep in, there might be roadworks in front of your house.

Another retirement age candidate. It’s really time for the boomers to just fuck off already in politics.

Space invaders: genetic boogaloo

That’s actually a very interesting question. Caesar was known for his luck throughout his life, and it certainly led to him having a larger appetite for risk than his contemporaries. But a lot of that luck was also created by him being incredibly skilled at just about anything.

Another commander known for his luck, and gambles, was Napoleon. This worked out incredibly well for him (well, for a time anyway). He equally was incredibly skilled at just about anything he set his mind to and both were tireless workers.

Gambling like that is something you can do when you are confident that whatever situation you get yourself in, you’ll be able to work your way out of it. Both got into very dicey situations at times. They had the skillset and the highly disciplined troops to work themselves out of these situations (example: Napoleon losing the first battle of Marengo, realizing there was still time for a second battle and crushing the celebrating Austrians. Another example: Caesar at the battle of the Sabis managing to rally his troops after being ambushed and eventually being able to push back the Nervii. Both turned out to be crushing victories where they really should have lost.)

Prove it!

This is obviously a nefarious plot by George Soros.

This was what I immediately thought of as well.

They can plan and wish all they want, Orban has made it impossible to get anything done without a 2/3 super majority in parliament and at the same time made it as good as impossible for any non-Fidesz alliance or party to win such a majority.

An example of how difficult it will be to not only rule but to stay in power: the budget council, packed with 3 Fidesz loyalists for at least the next 4 years, can veto any government budget for whatever reason. If the government is unable to pass a budget, the president (also a Fidesz loyalist) can call snap elections. Both can only be changed with a super majority. This is just one of the many legislative booby traps in the path of Tisza.

Thanks for getting this clarified

So for those who want to know more: this was a joke protest because the students were bored. The cited demands for the protest were: repeal the increase in the price of beer, repeal the new police uniforms because they are shit and abolish the city prison.

Source: https://frankpersblog.blogspot.com/p/stad-de-studentikoze-bezetting-van-het.html?m=1

Windows 11 has given me so many headaches at work I have genuinely explored moving the entire corporate environment to Linux. Unfortunately it would be a massive multi-year operation that would not bring the amount of benefits required to get such a thing greenlighted. But simply the fact that I, and many peers, took a good hard look at it tells you just how incredibly shit Windows 11 is. It’s a fucking nightmare on so many levels, it’s ridiculous.

The one good thing that may come out of this, is the Arab countries bankrolling and supporting Ukraine, as the Ukrainians actually help defend against the drone and missile strikes with their homegrown interceptor drones and missiles.

Unlike Russia (supporting Iran) and the US (screwing things up as a policy), Ukraine is proving valuable to them in times of need.

Still at 33%. Surely you can disapprove harder than that, dear Americans?

If you have really complex books with lots of story threads, I can imagine doing this. For example in Tolstoy’s War and Peace or GRRM A song of ice and fire books.

That’s why it’s called Polandball and not Belgiumball

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Throughout history the human population has only been able to increase thanks to innovation. Irrigation, the wheel, alternating crops, crop distance, keeping disease in check, genetic engineering to increase resistance and crop yields, and this is another innovation in that line. If you want to go back to nature, by all means do.

I believe the only way forward is through science and innovation and if that means genetically altered food for the bees, then so be it. This with the in combination with limiting roundup should bring the global bee populations back from the brink.

I was reading somewhere, in an article in the economist I believe, that most of their mining capacity was taken out, but that it didn’t even matter. Even if they only managed to lay 10 mines, it still poses a significant risk to shipping.

I live in an area where you don’t have to have a car, you can do most things without. But you’ll have to pry my car keys from my cold dead hands because it is so incredibly more convenient and faster to have one.

Edit: noticed the community. To be clear, I’m all for good infrastructure for people who don’t own one, I just wouldn’t go back to the days where I didn’t have one.