I went through school, having classes for Spanish for 4 years and Italian for two. It was obligatory to choose a third language. The second I was done with school, I had already forgotten everything I learnt of those languages. If I am not gonna use those languages daily I will forget them. It was a monumental waste of the students time. Now I have a spouse that speaks another language, that was never an option to learn in school. We both speak english though. There is little way to predict what languages will be useful for a student. English as a second language is a good bet. Every other european, except Russians, have been able to communicate with me in English. 99% will never benefit from a third language. They should have taught computer science or something instead. Before LLMs I thought they should at least have focused on teaching languages that were hard to machine translate. Like Russian, Japanese or Korean. That is my opinion.
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Infinite growth is inherently incompatible with life. It does not work. The biosphere is under immense pressure already. Humanity extinct 4 species every day and has killed off 90% of wild animals in the last 100 years. Nature is the greatest repository of knowledge that we have. It is invaluable to our science, though we treat it as expendable. It's like burning all libraries. We are simply using too much land in an effort to support a shitty economical model that is based on population growth, forever. This is the kind of problem that humanity has proven to be ineffectual at solving. Long term and noone will take action unless it blows up in their faces, personally, right now. Let the next generation deal with it. That is what they said in the 50s and that is what they will say in 10 years too. The damage done to the biosphere is practically permanent. Once an animal or plant is extinct, it is gone. Once enough of them is gone, the planet no longer supports complex life.
Sounds a little bit like using dd.
Someone on Reddit said the Russian train their vehicle crews in the game War Thunder. Isn't that the game where they made all the Russian tanks op?
The car maker will gather your mundane data, and all other services you, your friends, parents, parents friends and employer use will also do that. Then data will be deanonymized, traded, aggregated, traded around some more and aggregated again. Suddenly all actors have a complete profile on you and your social network, where they can very accurately infer many data points not explicitly collected. Good luck gdpring every company in existence. Your profile is eternal and growing. Also 20% of entities holding copies of your data also didn't care to keep your data safe and lost it to the criminal element. Somewhere on the dark net you can now buy access to a database where you can query for that shopping list you sent over your cars entertainment system and also your sexual preferences and social security number.
It's ok to feel weird about being lied to. But since the lie was simply to preserve their privacy, just acknowledge that and congratulate them now that you are in on their secret, that they chose to share with you. Feel honoured. Not betrayed. The default is not to be inside their private bouble. You get invited in there, temporarily, whenever they feel like it. Friends respect that. I think your friendship is fine. Carry on.
With no water and electricity for a couple days, that seem like a low number to me.
Only put people who thrive in those conditions in those places. Obviously this guy should not have gotten this job. I hope they have some psych evaluation for these people before they get sent.
When you are a dictator; Laws don't apply to you.
I guess if they ever remake C&C: generals they could adjust the shoes quote to "Can I have some Adidas pants?"
I'm a tea enthusiast as well. I run arch and only have an idea of what I'm doing half the time.