H is the funniest. You’d get to pay people in rocks. That will lead to so much interesting slang

You have to have a shared cultural identity to be Egyptian

It’s not useful, hell it’ll be mostly half-truths and plenty of outright lies, but it’s a way to build cultural identity in a top down stort of way

Isn’t that like his entire arc? He slowly realizes his leash is only as strong as he believes it to be

Because that’s not how any of this works.

For one, modern warfare is always asymmetrical. There’s no fair fights - the weapons are too strong. There’s no way to do this without turning it into a sport, at which point why make it lethal? Either way, the loser could decide to go back to violence

For two, this isn’t a war, this is denying aid to starving people, then shooting at the bread lines for reasons such as… Showing up too early

For three, Hamas are hardliners. They want all of Israel, which is obviously impossible. So their method is to make Israel martyr the civilians in the hopes the rest of the world will attack Israel

For three part 2, Israel is propping up Hamas because they’re hardliners. When Hamas gets to open to a real piece deal, Israel assassinates the moderate (and often the negotiator)

And beyond all of that… This is violence. This is what happens when you flip the table. We could settle conflict with Yu-Gi-Oh games, but only so long as everyone abides the results.

We have rules of warfare… But even those are broken all the time. In fact, if everyone followed the rules, both sides would only be allowed to hit military targets. Hamas wouldn’t be able to hide among civilians, so they’d just occasionally attack Israeli troops before running off to a deep hole somewhere. Israel would only be able to attack that hole, so they’d probably occasionally find one and cut the numbers

So don’t ask why the combatants don’t duke it out… Ask why the rules aren’t working

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Rereading your post a third time, that is not my take away

But the very well might have been your intention. Language is delicate like that sometimes…I don’t know what you meant, but if you tell me that’s what you meant by those words, I believe you

No? You said it would trip the circuit breaker

I mean in spirit, we agree this is a nonsense wiring diagram for sure, but my interpretation is that we disagree on the details

You don’t need to be good at math to learn to code. In fact, someone telling me there wasn’t much math involved is what made me seriously consider it.

And well over a decade in, I’ve actually found I enjoy math when it’s about how things fit together rather than the numbers themselves… But generally you can totally avoid it, the computer is really good at math so make the computer do it

Get away from the C++, start with python then move to another high level language like typescript or C# or something. You can learn to code on your phone if you hook up a keyboard, it will be limited but you will be able to do code challenges and even build apps

As far as the future? AI is really killing junior dev jobs. Which is going to lead to a lack of mid and senior devs pretty soon.

The Internet is also dying, a lot of people make money as content creators, but it’s not a quick path to money and it’s a very uncertain one. The people who love it are living their dream, if that’s not your dream, don’t do it to yourself

My honest advice? Get a job as a handyman and major in computer science if you find you have the aptitude.

No one knows what is going to happen in the near future, but people will always need things patched up. And if you can break through the gap in junior devs, there’s going to be a huge need for people to maintain all the old code that underpins modern life

In uncertain times, it’s good to go all in or hedge your bets. If you’re not the all in type, learn every skill you can

No. A year ago I would have said yes, but I’ve come to realize some uncomfortable truths.

The Internet is dying, the parts that will remain are able to manipulate users, and actively doing so to create a global rise of distopian authorization surveillance states

I think we can either have an underground Internet of technical minded people, or you get a weapon that will be used against the people

No you won’t… The “live” wire is just shorting neutral to ground. You’d need a second, far worse, problem for this to do anything

I think he’s hurting for relevance, which means he’s probably broke based on the court cases

Expect to see increasingly crazy shit from him

No, and the funny thing is the purpose of the greeter (at least at this stage) is to lower the chances of shoplifting

If they were serious about protecting children, they would have a device level lock and force web pages and apps to positively affirm they are “safe” for minors

That would work, this clearly won’t. This is just censorship, you can’t sanitize the Internet, you can only carve out walled gardens

Because you can go through your whole life with zero negative social corrections. It’s a low trust, collapse of society thing

What’s a pure technocrat? Technocracy wants to control all aspects of life, they want the tech oligarchs in charge, they want to be generally isolationist and carve up the world into blocs

That’s how these people act. That’s where they focus, that’s what they hint and feel out responses for. This is the roadmap they’re using

Spirituality? Religion? Patriotism? These things are a veneer to fascists. They don’t believe in any of that, hell they generally don’t even believe in Technocracy… This is a means to an end

They’re Fascists. They don’t believe in anything but power and using it against their enemies

They’re the Technocracy movement, started in the 1930s and stewing as a behind the scenes backer of conservative movements, such as the heritage foundation

Wikipedia link. If you read through that, you’ll find a lot of the seemingly random shit they say, like taking the Panama canal, Greenland, and Canada, it’s all related. This is the end goal

It’s capitalism, but the government does it’s job and hammers down companies that get too big to fail

There’s also all the one party authoritarian bullshit, but main concept is the government remain the strongest power

The shape changing being loud and bright would help nerf it… Not the teleport so much though

In both cases, the delay and the warning are what brunt the tactical advantage

I still don’t think it’s enough. Maybe if you’re extremely vulnerable in your in between states, while the lights and sound are ringing out

What do you mean obeyed the Pope? You realize I’ve of his last actions was to donate the popemobile as an aid vehicle for Gaza

The tunnel collapsing during the period extends your “trance” by the difference of going around. Quantum style, you get the minimum conventional journey at the moment of your arrival

You have to know where you’re going, pictures work if you have an intuitive understanding of where it is. You have to know how to get there, but you don’t have to have been there before or know that it looks like currently