My only wish is that we had all done this sooner. We could have given Ukraine the tools it needed two years ago. Hundreds, maybe even a thousand tanks, APCs, AA, artillery vehicles. As many fighter jets as we could rearm and train people on. Cruise missiles to penetrate and take down Russian supply lines. We waited too long, until Ukrainians got their armies ground down and America turned isolationist again.
It's not too late, but we really shouldn't have waited and drip fed our allies. :/
Fwiw, being best friends and living together isn't that far off from dating. It's so fun to live with your best friend too, like all the sleepovers, campouts and hangouts combined :D (if you can't tell, I miss living with some of my best buds in uni!)
Sounds like a fun living situation, even if it did have its normal ups and downs. Sometimes one bedroom can be kinda a bit much, haha.
Pat ain't perfect, but I think he was on the right track overall. Fix the the CPU issues, and do more R&D on GPUs.
Your products don't have to be cutting edge, but they must be rock solid and reliable. Once that is dialed in, then push towards the cutting edge.
I also think it is imperative to keep the foundry business. Now that we are completely fucked six ways from Sunday, having a working domestic foundry, particularly one integrated directly with a chip designer, is insanely valuable.
Not too much can be done, since a ton of the country sat with their thumbs up their asses instead of voting. Republicans control all three branches of government now.
In two years, after permanent damage has been done to the government, the climate, and the economy, we may have another shot at at least slowing things down via Congress IF people actually vote for sane people.
And in four, potentially a new presidency and Congress. But that could be dicy, since there's going to be little stopping corrupt officials from screwing with democratic safeguards now that the government is teeming with freaks and degenerates under its skin.
Aside from lawsuits from Democrats, I think the federal government is going to be in complete freefall for the next two years, bare minimum. Thanks fascists and nonvoters. You really fucked the entire world this time. Fucking malicious idiots.
All this you feel? It reeks of the stuff leading up to WW1. Just waiting on the Zimmerman telegram now.
We're going to backslide to the prewar days where violence was the only way to amass power, before the days of the UN, USAID, NATO, and the rest.
And that isolationist shit is consistent with America pre WW1 and the interwar period before WW2.
Etched glass storage can survive for insane periods of time, but is probably extremely expensive to write to. It might be better for things like offworld backups of human knowledge, almost like seed vaults.
They never should have sold us Florida. That was a huge mistake.
It's a good time to get ALL your vaccines. Try to get the mpox vaccine, even if you aren't queer.
It protects you against smallpox too, as it's the modern smallpox vaccine. We have smallpox samples and Musk is at the helm, need I say more.
Call the pharmacy ahead of time. They will need to order it. It's a two shot series and will give you great protection against smallpox.
I also said half life. Doom was a leap forward, but Half life actually set a technological and story telling bar, on a budget, in 1998. Many videogames drew inspiration from its innovations, storytelling or themes.
Monty Python hit the nail on the head with The Life of Brian.
"Aside from the sewage system, water system, health system, education system, roads, bridges, internet, weather prediction, farm insurance, bank insurance, home insurance, disaster relief, police, fire department, and GPS and space constellation... What has the government ever done for us?"
This might be kinda a stupid question, but does the direction of the antenna affect the output of the wave? (Eg, if the antenna is tilted 45 degrees from vertical, is the radio wave it transmits also 45 degrees from anyone else's vertical antenna?) Or does the wave stay the same (parallel to the earth, but most of the power is just dumped in an unhelpful direction, so it doesn't transmit nearly as far?)
I know this is silly, but I don't actually know the answer, and it makes me curious, since I tend to ski with radios, transmitting while skiing down steep slopes while people are above or below me by hundreds/thousands of feet.