For a flight that lasts less than an hour, I didn’t find comfort or the TSA screening really much of a drag.
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Turns out flying was both cheaper and faster.
Now, you can argue whether sacrificing various things for the sake of raw progress is worth it. But what if that question becomes no longer askable in the future in a planet dominated by China and the CCP system?
That day might come sooner for some of China’s neighbors. It may come later, or even not at all, for the US or Europe. But the age where the West dominated global policy via a more or less liberal democratic model, and by extension, arguably the general direction of the human race, may no longer be taken for granted.
What happens then to some of your precious “freedoms”?
Supposedly most buyers in fact, did not like the knob.
This seems to follow other manufacturers that formerly had knob based controls but similarly abandoned them.
Supposedly the story is that outside of a small but vocal contingent on the Internet, most buyers did not like the knob.
IMHO what you describe is more attributable to .NET.
That’s not to say driving facilitates creativity either since it also requires constant attention. But even in a traffic jam, at least I’m sitting in comfort.
Granted, this is in the US, albeit the American city with arguably the best transit - NYC.
I can see myself having more mental clarity while riding some of the more comfortable transit systems in other countries.
And by “pay for it”, I don’t mean the typical employer provided insurance and visiting the usual doctors.
I mean high end concierge care that starts at five figures minimum to buy in annually before any other expenses.
A PC doctor is just a phone call away, and they’ll use theirs and their organization’s connections and resources to get you whatever additional care you need quickly and effectively.
Rolexes also keep their value incredibly well. I bought a nice Tag many years ago (I knew nothing about watches) and it’s now worth about $1000 on the used market at best. Had I bought a similar priced Rolex instead, it would have kept its value, if not even appreciated.
But the figures I’ve seen quoted for such service usually begin in the four digits, sometimes five digits, annually.
Occasionally? Tons of middle class people do it.
The majority of my social circle consists of middle and upper middle class Newjerseyans. Many commute daily into Manhattan via public transit. But if they’re going in for anything other than work, it’s always the car.
Which congestion price is perfectly fine for if you’re only going in occasionally.
American ‘Burkes and peer destroyers from some Asian navys have a shitload of VLS cells, but my understanding is that the majority of these hold anti-aircraft (defensive) missiles?
Russian ships seem to have an extremely powerful, but limited load of anti-ship and cruise missiles.
But most other navys (see - especially Europe) have rather poor armament.
In the case of the USN, you could argue that a ‘Burke’s primary role is carrier escort, and that the carrier air wing is the real offensive punch. But most other navies don’t have carriers.
If I tell them about something in NJ, they look at me as if I’m talking about Alabama.
Miami or Los Angeles is mentally closer to them than Jersey City.
There are a ton more people working in tech in finance that don’t quite have it as fun (or lucrative) as Jane Street let alone your average tech company.
Was this always the case historically, or is it a more recent phenomenon.
Also, from what I observe, the child-parent relationship is starting to break down in Korea as well. Considering the demographic issues with low birth rates, I imagine my generation will have significant numbers of people without children to take care of them.
As somewhat of an old timer (turning 43), I remember the techie population seemed to overlap a lot with the car enthusiast population a long time ago. Nearly everyone at my first job (small startup) was a car nerd. A lot of engineering and tech goes into cars after all.
Somewhere along the way a lot of techies became very anti-car.
The only SWE jobs in finance that really match or exceed FAANG and other top (or even mid tier) tech companies are a very select few elite hedge funds and trading shops.
If I had to make a random guess, is it something related to Athena?
And that’s not even counting the cases where your children can’t stand you, if not estranged and outright hate you. Which if you read suggestions that ever dare to suggest that you can indeed live with your parents beyond the age of 18, seems to happen quite often too.
The first scenario is the good ending, and would definitely be worth the effort of raising children.
The second ending? I think I’d rather just not have kids at all if that’s my fate.
I’d say anyone seriously thinking Japan has bought out the conservatives is just as foolish as someone that seriously thinks the liberals are North Korean spies.
That said, there is a contingent of South Koreans that genuinely consider Japan a mortal military threat just biding their time and waiting to attack Korea. And that North Korea is just a merely misguided misunderstood brother that is absolutely harmless despite their sabre rattling.
Elon will be appointed to a new cabinet position - the Fabricator General and will be given license to lobotomize people into servitors - AKA Optimus. This will also allow for true FS(ervitor)D.
I’m joking of course. I think.
I know we have Hellfire toting drones, but their payload seems very limited versus existing attack helicopter platforms or the A-10.
I’m actually surprised we don’t have a drone attack helicopter - basically an unmanned Apache.
Or has that entire concept basically become obsolete in favor of just sending over swarms of loitering suicide drones?
To be fair, I’m (partly) playing devil’s advocate, but I don’t think the tech to create a fully or nearly fully autonomous attack sub is that far out. Key point is that you would have to be willing to give it more autonomy than the current crop of UAVs.