Semi cool. Doesn’t look like China will be getting involved. Russia is over extended and won’t be stepping in even if they wanted to. Trump will keep blowing up little girls until his ego is satisfied or he’s extracted enough favors owed or the yes men surrounding him can divert his attention to something else. After that, whatever is left behind will be led by either resentful family members or opportunists, whose actions will probably regularly give war mongers in the States enough press to sell more “police actions” to their populace for many years.

That’s my 2 cents.

Abomination!

Early evening in the western hemisphere, OP posted a large sum of perfectly native fluency English, so yeah, I’ll assume US or Canada. Can’t have a conversation without making reasonable assumptions. But please, feel free to add to the conversation, where do some of these exceptions exist? Don’t just “um, actually” the conversation, add to it!

You just can’t legally transmit without a license. You can own a ham radio and listen all you want.

Compare Virginia with California. This chart is specifically for EC2, but I believe the trend extends to other resources. The difference are larger when you start looking outside the US. And, if you weren’t aware, AWS also offers reserve and spot EC2 instances for savings relative to on-demand instances.

Just my own theory, but my observations are that us-east-1 is often a little cheaper than other regions, plus they have access to the latest resource types.

Headline writers sure do know how to target an audience, don’t they? Here’s the real summary: “A new study from The University of Manchester has found that a well-known mental health intervention for children may be no more effective than the usual social and emotional learning (SEL) programmes already being taught in primary schools.”

So, the real headline should be: A study has determined that a particular, new program is no more effective than the existing programs.

Best explanation of salt I’ve ever seen. Thanks!

Gee, I can’t see at all how this could be a bad idea /s

I want to go to there

I admit, it wasn’t on my 2025 bingo card, either.

I haven’t seen it, but I think it’s pretty apparent in the trailer. Superman is supermaning, and modern powers, both real and fictional, don’t like that.

Reminds me of this trailer I came across the other day.

It depends on the humidity of where you’re at. On a warm day in Houston, for example, it’s not at all uncommon for water to condense on the outside glass of a cold drink, run down, and eventually damage the wooden table it’s sitting on. A coaster will help prevent that damage.

From Dwight Eisenhower’s Cross of Iron speech:

…Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.

It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities.

It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population.

It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway.

We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat.

We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking.

This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron…

Computer chips, simplified, consume inputs of 1s and 0s. Given the correct series, it will add two values, or it will multiply two values, or some other basic function. This seemingly basic functionality, done in very specific order, creates your calculator, Minesweeper, Pac-Man, Linux, World of Warcraft, Excel, and every LLM. It is incredible the number of things you can get a computer to do with just simple inputs and outputs. The only difference between these examples, on a basic, physics level, is the order of 0s and 1s and what the resulting output of 0s and 1s should be. Why should I consider an LLM any more sentient than Windows95? They’re the same creature with different inputs, one of which is specifically designed to simulate human communication, just as Flight Simulator is designed to simulate flight.

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Not the only reason, but the cost of living is higher in the U.S. than most other locales on the planet.

Well, that was a little terrifying

“Get paid doing something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life!” Yeah, it sounds great, and a small handful of people accomplish it. For most people, this advice will just ruin what they love by turning it into a job. My advice is to find something you don’t mind doing and it can pay the bills. I work with computers. I don’t love working with computers, but it’s fine, I like it. My hobbies get to continue being things I enjoy doing after work. I don’t recommend finding a passion to inspire you to work (or study, assuming you would plan to study something that would turn into a job qualification). Instead, find something that you merely like well enough but there is a demand for in the job market, and then use that to fund your future passions, long term goals, and some emergency savings.

Btw, I don’t think your attitudes are unusual for your age. Large percentages of students begin university as undeclared majors and/or aimlessly switch their declared major many times over. And if homemaking really is your thing, consider taking classes and looking at majors that focus on cooking, nutrition, interior design, art, personal (or even business) finance.