Also isn't English the only European language not to call Pineapples some variation of "ananas"?
HiddenLayer555
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We call them "dirt beans" in Mandarin which is an improvement I guess?
Counterpoint: HSR is far more energy efficient than air travel, which would otherwise be the preferred option because regular trains are just not fast enough for country as big as China. Even when the electricity is generated from coal, the simple physics of not needing to literally defy gravity significantly reduces the carbon footprint of the trip.
To paraphrase Alan Fisher, electric cars fail to solve the biggest problem with cars: The fact that they're still cars.
Can't wait to have Google's telemetry injected into my Linux apps
Hot take: Japan invented the bullet train, but China perfected it.
The inquiry found that Israel was committing ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’ in its attacks on hospitals.
Can't wait for this to be ignored like every other finding that they are committing war crimes.
I'd argue that the internet has made this problem worse, not better.
In fact, I'd argue that the internet has taken away tons of people's ability to admit they're wrong because there's always an echo chamber that will support you on even the dumbest of beliefs and anyone fact checking anyone is seen as the enemy. You see this on places like Facebook and YouTube comments where someone will make a claim, other people will think it makes sense on a cursory glance and express their agreement, then someone who actually knows what they're talking about will politely correct them and everyone will gang up on them because they've disrupted the vibe, and simply because of that the unanimous decision is made that the correct answer is in fact wrong and is a government conspiracy.
It’s something that literally every dev has done at some point before they knew better.
If you're working for a multinational tech company handling sensitive user data and still make this mistake, then you are being malicious in your incompetence. This is something that would cause you to lose a significant amount of marks on a first year college programming project, let alone a production system used by literally billions of people.
More expensive than the building itself below a certain size