RegalPotoo @ RegalPotoo @lemmy.world

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Nah, fuck that.

You know what humanity has done with its chances? Eliminated polio. Developed better crops and farming techniques to almost entirely eliminate famines. Slashed maternal mortality to a fraction of what it was 2 generations ago. Developed social and economic systems to tip the incentives in favour of peace and cooperation - even with gestures broadly at Russia and the middle east the current generation is less likely to be killed in war than in any other time in history. There are dozens of medical conditions that, if you developed then 50 years ago you just died where today it's a routine surgery to correct.

Apathy is what kills us. If you want to die then go get help - personally there are a few billion people I give a shit about.

Unless you've got an absolutely stellar CV, I don't see you getting a chance to explain that

Poor kid

I want to see the high-octane action thriller where the grizzled old hand and the renegade upstart trek to the remote compound in the woods of Montana to find Bob, the last man alive who understands how some obscure part of the IRSs core systems works and bring him back in from the cold for one last job... to save America(s neglected computer systems from decades of under investment)

I agree with your analysis of the law, but I do get why people are a bit uncomfortable with this. Elon has been a shit human, rocket launches have impacted wildlife and SpaceX and Tesla have been toxic places to work for a long time, but that's only become a problem recently because he's been getting more involved in politics? The whole point of having a regulatory state separate from the rest of the government is so they can set and enforce rules fairly and impartially.

Imagine the most stereotypical Australian you can. Now imagine he has a PhD in chemistry but no money for a lab, so does all his work out of a literal tin shed full of spiders using stuff he found at the hardware store

But it's all the government's fault for having regulations that stop him doing what he wants - he'd be on Mars by now if it wasn't for the stupid government stopping him from poisoning a protected nature reserve and crashing rockets into people.

Don't they understand? It's really important to get people to mars so there is a place for rich assholes to go when the environment on earth is completely trashed beyond repair

I've used 85GB of the 128GB of my current phone after using it for 2 years and never deleting anything. I suppose if I took a lot more video I might burn through it quicker.

Personally, if I'd paid $1500 for 1000 of something and got any less than 1000 units I'd be kinda pissed

In highschool I worked a shitty job at a butchery, and one day the boss decided to "test how smart" I was or something by asking me to get him 1000 wooden skewers out of the box.

Being an attention to detail kind of person, I spent a few minutes counting out 1000 cos I wanted to make sure I gave him exactly what he asked for - wouldn't want a customer to order 1000 and get 995 or something cos I miscounted right?

Apparently not, cos that was the dumb way to do it - boss slapped 10 skewers on the scale then weighed out 100x that and was really proud until I pointed out that the certificate of accuracy only guaranteed the scale to +/- 2 skewers, then apparently I'm a "smart ass". Can't win with some people

"how do you explain this gap in your job/education history here?"

Makes it harder to get a job overseas though I'd hope

Idk, if I was in a position to be hiring people and I saw "served in the IDF 2023/2024" in the job history section of a CV that'd probably count against a person the same as a conviction for rape or murder.

I'd say that if all you want to do is scare the shit out of some scientists in Antarctica you probably only need 1 polar bear

Who would win: one of the most destructive natural disasters ever seen, or some strappy bois

Those anchor points are going to need to be driven really deep to do anything - the ground is already waterlogged

Oh, you could get them printed in the US by someone who knows what they are doing, but it'll cost $1/unit more

Nowhere do they actually require anyone to vote or to vote a specific way

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Pig butchering

Strongly agree. The fact that a nazi shithead felt safe enough to out himself in public means that more nazis need to be seeing public consequences for being hate filled oxygen thieves.

Being a nazi should be like being a pedo; you should be living in constant fear that someone is going to find out and that when you eventually get out of prison your friends, family and society at large want nothing to do with you