Like I get the whole moralistic bent about not wanting to pay representatives big incomes relative to their constituents because politician bad and “they should be doing it for the pride of serving”, or like term limits because “I don’t like these politicians and they keep getting reelected/ serve life terms.”

But realistically, if you want skilled professionals in a field, you need to pay them competitively and offer long term career prospects. Otherwise you’re going to only get people who take the job as a stepping stone to another position, like a high paying job at a big company they passed a bunch of laws to help, or who can make money in other ways.

As it stands right now, the whole stock trading thing is largely a result of how little congress people are payed relative to the importance of the position. Like, sure, it’s a six figure salary with a great benefits package, but, that’s peanuts compared to what a modern private sector executive make, even a mediocre one.

If anything, congress people should probably have their wages increased significantly.

The thing that would get old is managing all that damn grass. That and presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.

Never personally had issues with living near or even with friends. Only ever had issues with was a rando roommate I had because a friend had to move for work.

It’s so weird to see a company with such strong and straightforward brand chasing trends in such a sloppy manner.

Imagine, that you were the intelligence service of a small country dependent on the support and compliance of larger countries to enable you to enact a genocide you had been planning for decades. What would be the best way to achieve that? Extensive Kompromat on influential individuals in positions of influence in media, politics and business might be one way to do that.

This isn’t a new thing ether, the lavender scare was in large part J “Edna” Hoover forcing queer individuals into a strict network of mutual blackmail. One of my grandparents told me several stories regarding the subject, don’t ask what they were doing in Budapest in 1956.

I wonder what size the circle would be if you took in to account the earth’s curvature.

Are there any map projections that allow for accurate projection of circles across arbitrary points?

Although a lot of the tooling for manufacturing is made In Germany and the Netherlands. Particularly the lithography machines. A lot of important of the chemicals come from Japan. Japan also has a history of manufacturing chips, although they haven’t been on the leading edge node for a while.

As an American, no it fucking ain’t. Keep boycotting American shit please. Keep being a problem. I beg you.

This situation is dumb, and the only way certain compatriots will get that through their inch thick steel skulls is pressure from all sides.

“jUsT uSe A cHeCk LiSt”

I TRIED THAT! GUESS WHAT? I KEPT FORGETTING TO CHECK STUFF OFF!

Louis Rossman did a video a while back basically suggesting it as a form of visible protest against the over reach of the tech industry.

Like “clippy wouldn’t try and harvest all your data or force you to make accounts you don’t want, sure he could be annoying, but you could turn him off.” Like the worst thing tech companies used to do was something like clippy, maybe annoying but trying to be helpful

So, it could be. Like, there’s no reason that the program its self couldn’t run through a comparability layer like wine or proton.

It’s just that it, like many other big multi-player live service shooters, it requires kernel level “anti cheat” programs. Basically programs that run at the lowest level of your system and check what’s running on the system, making sure the user isn’t running any cheats or altering how the game runs to cheat. They need to be at the lowest layer to prevent programs below them spoofing the checks they are running. So if they detect that they’re not running at the lowest level, they tell the game not to run, or at least, not to allow the player to join online matches.

These could theoretically could run through a compatibility layer, but then they wouldn’t be running at the lowest layer of the system, defeating the point of them. They would have to run natively on Linux, and the companies that make them have not made versions that run natively on Linux.

The actual efficacy of these anti cheat systems is dubious, as there is still cheating in games that use them, and they’re super invasive, being basically spywear. But they’re required by a handful of major games.

Sanctions do not stop wars, nor do they outright stop trade, they inflict costs for doing trade and for doing a war. They are there to make it harder to prosecute and fund a war, not impossible. It was always understood by those making the calls that these sanctions would be subverted and worked around, but that this would increase costs and lower Russia’s capacity to divert resources to fight the war.

The idea that they stop wars or are some magic trick to destroy someone’s economy outright is absurd. No one implementing them ever claimed they did or would, although people in media outlets sure seemed to talk about them as if they would.

The sanctions have done what they were intended to do, and it is the fault of the writer for believing the media sensationalism around them, not the fault of the policy for failing to accomplish the unrealistic goals that were imagined for them.

Lmao, color revolution theory is actually BS.

But let’s just say that foreign interests had a vested interest in the Soviets being as brutal as possible in putting down the Hungarian revolution.

Ok, but, like, no offense, are you skilled enough to properly analyze and dig through large complicated bills? Are you a skilled enough administrator to manage an office of staffers? Are you a good enough public speaker to campaign?

I’m not saying people should want to serve in congress because it pays well, but, if the same set of skills that make a good representative could earn you 4 million a year in the private sector, then it’s going to be really hard to get qualified professionals. Instead you’ll get incompetent ideologues, independently wealthy aristocrats, or corrupt individuals intending to abuse the position.

It needs to pay competitively or else you create a bunch of perverse incentives.