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Those estimates are highly disputed because they all come from modeled projections, not anything attributed on the ground.

If a death toll like that was real and attributable it would be the only thing in the news, 24/7, until the next election.

The fact is, it’s not. Aid was relocated to other departments and continued. Significant insider pork was cut leading to a lot of very loud people complaining with hyperbole in their outrage.

Elon remains the most effective person in history at wielding wealth for the benefit of mankind. It is not particularly close and he has banked more credibility for moon-shot efforts (pun intended) than anyone on the planet.

Last time he got a bunch of money he used it to fund SpaceX and Tesla.

Now also Neuralink.

It’s hard to imagine anyone else who’s done more for the planet with his money than Musk.

Use honey instead.

Tar?

Can this actually work?

I was thinking just high heat output gas logs. Heat source, you can cook on them and it's not loud.

The timing of having Meta dropping encrypted chats on Instagram is...interesting.

Having some natural gas purely as a secondary emergency heat source is well worth it IMO.

Economics will always win in the end. At the rate that costs are dropping for solar, it should just be a matter of time.

Biggest concerns are usually placement and durability to bad weather.

I read the original Dumas story a few years back. Never had any idea.

Hold on…that was an entirely fictional story?

Is there some part of it that was based on real people?

I was won over by this distinction from another senior some years ago. I think he said…

“Developers build things. Engineers build them and keep them running.”

I like the linguistic point from a standpoint of emphasizing a long term responsibility.

Same. I read history now for fun. It’s stranger than fiction in many cases.

A little, yes. It’s starting to feel like “blockchain” from a topic exhaustion standpoint, just more useful.

If any Wine devs are reading this, I'd love to see a talk on this topic at the 2026 Carolina Code Conference. Call for Speakers is open until March 31st.

Also, congratulations.

This was also my experience.

Thanks!

The polyglot and cybersecurity conference for all who code in Greenville, SC this August 14th and 15th.

If anybody is reading this and would like to submit a talk on it or Haskell itself to the Carolina Code Conference, please do so. Our call for speakers is open until the end of March and I've been hoping to get a Haskell talk in for the last couple of years.

https://blog.carolina.codes/p/call-for-speakers-2026-is-open

Yes.

https://a.co/d/0ieNUmhB (Not a referral link)

Stuff like this is why I keep a small library at my house.

Full encyclopedia set, Merck Manual, home repair book, etc. May never use them, but I like having them.

Facebook ads even successfully targeted me for that “how to rebuild all of civilization” book. :)

Wait til you see my todo app though…

It’s impossible to take anyone seriously who dismisses the threat of developing a nuclear weapon with intent to use it.

Sponsoring and funding global terror networks is not a “defensive posture”. Giving speeches about nuking your enemy while secretly developing those capabilities isn’t either.

Totally agree with you. The US also created the Bin Laden problem.

That genie isn’t going back in the bottle though so now we have to deal with the very real threat to the world that we certainly had a hand in creating.

Glad to hear your opposition to all of the evil as well. The desire for vocal, social righteous indignation with most of this dialog does not follow your fervor though. People remain silent until it supports their local politics, for the most part.

US/UK base

Right. Under sanctions to prevent them from being a danger to everyone around them while they sponsor terror globally and go on TV talking about getting nuclear weapons to destroy Israel.

Most of Europe is within striking distance of their current capabilities that they were not supposed to have.

Treaties gave terms to limit the range of their missiles. Treaties were agreed to to prevent them from enriching uranium.

They violated both. Had they been allowed to continue on their path, we can all expect that we would be looking at a nuclear terror attack in the near future.

People are going to react for their left/right politics but the Iranian regime is a danger to the entire planet. There’s a reason that Iranian expats world wide have been celebrating in the streets.

Their biggest fear is that we are going to leave before the regime is fully removed.

Let’s have a serious conversation about downplaying things because this is where all of these conversations go sideways.

Many people, myself included, watch very loud righteous indignation about this awful event…while hearing absolutely nothing from the same people about…

- The Iranian women’s soccer team who are returning home from asylum to likely torture and execution due to regime threats against their families.

- The thousands of Iranian protesters who were shot by the regime.

- The 19 year old wrestling champion who was executed for participating in a protest.

Nobody is saying the school wasn’t terrible, but it’s not some situation where if we just leave the regime in power it’s going to be all sunshine and roses over there.

Show equal parts outrage and people will take you more seriously. Show equal parts outrage and you will find far more outrage from leaving the regime in power.

Well, a couple of days ago Iran fired 2 missiles at a US base in the Indian Ocean with twice the range of anything they were supposed to be allowed to have.

That was pretty validating for the war effort.

Seriously. All credentials compromised that it can see. It's active in CI/CD pipelines and follow on attacks are happening.