Everyone fukkin hates them, but are content to just be really vocal about it.
1500 miles
They don't have to. The main drug routes out of Venezuela go through Haiti and Honduras. A couple hundred miles each way.
Venezuela isn't even the biggest player. Most of the volume moves on the Pacific side. The main obstacle is the Darien Gap.
I don't see how direct ownership by the US government would be something to be celebrated
The chips act, as enacted by Biden, was going to give them the money as a grant. Trump got elected and was like "whoa whoa whoa, hold up", and changed it from a grant to an equity buy.
Compared to just giving them money with no strings, giving them money for an equity stake in the company is unequivocally less bad.
Bear in mind: Trump probably doesn't have enough support among congressional republicans to kill the chips act outright. If he'd gone to congress and tried to claw the money back entirely, it would have been a messy own-goal. He's gotten a little better this time around at not rolling the dice on congress to have his back.
The vampires would still control the world
I'm not saying everyone who works for TfL is a vampire.
But the London Underground WAS created for and by the Ventrue, and most of the deep tunnel maintenance workers do happen to be Nosferatu.
What is being rented?
Reputation and audience respectively. Both of which are dwindling as science commands less respect and media commands less attention, both because they have squandered those things supporting the causes they have been rented to support. Yet even faced with the demise of their institutions they continue to do so.
Why?
Because you're mistaken about them having money and influence. They have neither. They are Winstons. They have a TASTE of money and influence, but only just the taste of it, enough to get them hooked on the supply. But they do not possess it. And that is why they can be controlled.
just fucking buying influence with cash
Is something the American public broadly does not care about.
They already have influence and money.
I think the key takeaway of the last five years has been that no, they don't, and that's why the loyalty of media and experts can be rented so cheaply. They preach progressivism because they are Winstons.
Why bring children into it
The purpose of a thing is what it does. Why? Because man is running old wetware that wants to climb into a wooden horse, slit a thousand Trojan throats, burn their temples and fuck their daughters. All of the enlightenment, all of Locke and Hobbes and Mill, all of that was just a blink of an eye so far as human nature and DNA are concerned. And that is why Hobbes was right.
The seeds were planted earlier, but 2015 was where the damage became evident. In one word...
Cove.
I cannot put this boldly enough: the rollout of 10nm was a FUCKING DISASTER for Intel. Worse, they couldn't even manage to fire Krzanich over it, they had to get rid of him over sleeping around with coworkers.
As for WHY 10nm was a disaster... Intel tried to get clever. They knew extreme ultraviolet lithography wouldn't be ready on the timetable they wanted, so they resorted to using exotic patterning techniques that caused their defect rate to explode. To deliver the product they wanted, with the methods they were comfortable with, they would have had to punt on the tick-tock model. Which is effectively what happened anyway.
But as we know now the real killing blow was that AMD actually learned from their mistakes. Zen didn't have to be perfect, it just had to less bad than Bulldozer was, and less watt thirsty than Intel's equivalent.
In my first job, the developers were so bad at managing memory, and the users so accustomed to the developers giving them whatever they wanted, that we had to make all the devs write batch versions of everything they did.
That way if a user submitted a policy for processing and it was too big to run in a tomcat instance, rather than spending a day investigating how they managed to run themselves out of memory this time, we'd just tell them they had to send that job to batch. It'd go into queue and run on a whole ass IBM z machine.
Meanwhile, "devops engineer".
Okay! Imagine you have a toy robot that your friends keep building and upgrading to make it better. But every time they try to give it to you to play with, something breaks or doesn’t work right. A DevOps engineer is like the super helper who makes sure the robot gets from the builders to you safely and quickly—and that it always works the way it should.
every time they try to give it to you to play with, something breaks or doesn’t work right
Goddamn programmers, man. TEST YOUR FUCKING CODE!
Yes.
But in the last 10-15 years, an increasing number of the most successful titles have come from LNs. And this article is very specific on that point.
"there is a particular shortage in the sphere of comic adaptations of light novels"
They specifically want more artists, not more creators (writer-artists). And I'm saying they're likely to have an even harder time finding them OUTSIDE of Japan than they're already having finding them IN Japan.
Emphasis on shortage of artists.
Not writers.
I don't think they're going to find the help they're looking for. The Japanese model of taking a popular book and finding an artist who wants to adapt it is going to run into a harder cultural barrier over here. Basically... our artist community isn't willing to tolerate the crap that Japanese artists put up with from their producers.
Don't shift goalposts, that's SJW bullshit. Self improvement has nothing to do with any of the points I've made, if you met me in real life you'd be like "wow, there's a guy who has his shit together, why are you single?"
"Because I did it all for ME."
Imp understands one thing about this conflict, he just says it poorly, and that's that the whole of society is designed to enable women to swindle men if they participate in the game.
Where Imp is wrong is that he thinks it's a conspiracy of women against men.
No, the truth is its a conspiracy of lesser men against better men.
And I'm not asking you to. Because there is literally nothing you can say that would convince me you're not duplicitously trying to get me to go full TheImp so you can betray me as surely as Robert Ford shooting Jesse James for the $5000.
Mali is a strange case.
A distant region that has one resource in such abundance that the limitation is on what you can spend it on because of limited transport.
In absolute terms, Mali had a lot of gold. Not quite "Bolivian silver" amounts of gold, but definitely the most easily recovered reserves of gold by pre-chemistry methods. If we measure strictly by the amount of gold that was held by any country all at once, then there probably was a point where Mali was the wealthiest country on the planet. But if you can't buy anything with it because you're on the wrong side of the desert, it doesn't really matter that you have bricks of shiny yellow metal.