IDK stuff
I don’t watch a lot of NASCAR but seeing AKUS is blowing money being the lead sponsor on a car is wild. I guess since Australia isn’t actually getting the submarines for a long time (or is it not at all?) they’re free to do this.
Link to an image of the #6 and #17
Buildsubmarines is some site talking up AKUS
True, all good points. Uruguay has looked pretty good in the game I watched. They don’t have the the same top end star power, but the addition of Bielsa might help them add up to more then the sum of their parts. They’re definitely more talented on paper than Bolivia. The one victory in neutral sites is pretty brutal. I guess the altitude is really what tends to give Bolivia a shot.
Yeah I’d imagine that’s a massive advantage for them and with this Copa America they’re completely missing that advantage now with it being in the US.
So I’ve been watching the Copa America as well as the Euros this year. The Bolivia coup attempt got me thinking, how do we think the Bolivian National team will react in their game today against Uruguay? I know they have quite a few domestic players.
Good to know I had a feeling this had to be the case. It’s always the first thing I notice, since it’s so obvious.
This isn’t concrete evidence but I feel like a lot of craft breweries made one or two good beers as a homebrewer and somehow knew people or had established money to start up a craft brewery. Since I do like checking out craft breweries and most have literally 1-2 good beers and the rest mid to poor (the bigger the draft list generally more likely all are poor). A lot of these breweries get bailed out by good locations or recently providing spaces to let the adults booze + “Watch the kids”.
I like to homebrew and so I’m aware of the process and have some idea of the costs since there was a moment I thought about it before I realized how much money I’d have to find (not happening) and how much I dreaded the business side of it. It’s much more fun to just give people beer and see them enjoy it.
I had no idea this existed and was just using ublock origin.
How cpu intensive is this? Just curious since I’ll definitely put it on my desktop but wondering if I should also put it on my phone Firefox browser.
Reads like one of those Japanese LN titles. Would just need the character to die and you’ve got an isekai right there.
I’ve been using my OnePlus 9 which has been solid so far. I had to loose the headphone jack unfortunately which I really hate. Not sure what their new phones look like at the moment, but they’re one of the Chinese manufacturers that at least had phones at cheaper than the flagship price point.
I have no idea on the bootloader side of things, but OnePlus has been good about the OS updates. I’m on Android 14 at the moment.
Jeez I knew about the rent one. I’m not exactly surprised by the rest of these. I am a little surprised how blatant it is now that even the US Gov cannot pretend anymore.
I used have a early 00s Sentra and did the same cassette to aux thing. I thought it was a big deal when I got some head unit on clearance put in, and then and I blew out the speakers.
Yeah, I have the same. I would like carplay/ android auto or whatever. But really don’t need much of a screen. Just something big enough for GPS and see the current thing playing.
Otherwise yeah I could care less about most of what others consider essential. I don’t even like leather seats lol.
I believe it was Mazda? I saw recently that was already doing this since they saw distracted driving massively increases with less buttons and knobs and whatnot.
I feel like whenever my current car dies I’m going to be looked at like a weirdo because I want buttons and knobs and analog gauges.
Edit: Thought the Mazda thing was more recent. I guess it’s from 2019 Why Mazda is Purging Touchscreens From its Vehicles
Yeah I suspected there’s a bit of truth in there on the first part, the second bit seemed more like pure propaganda as they’re needs to be some crazy explanation for the lack of defectors.
both established advanced air combat schools to try and teach their pilots similar tactics (Top Gun in America and the 1521st Aviation Base in Turkmenistan for the Soviets).
I did not realize the soviet’s also setup an equivalent.
Alright well this hubris reminds me of when I was taking with a former air force pilot years ago. He was at least a lot less ridiculous than this individual in the article. What stood out to me was that basically he said they’d win for sure because the Soviet/ Russian pilots weren’t trained right because their respective military was too afraid they’d just leave with the planes. He also added the ones that were any good were also too by the book with no freedom to operate independently based on the mission.
It’s something I feel like I’ve heard once in an article shared here about the Chinese pilots as well. Not sure if that’s just kool-aid moving through the system and how true it is exactly. I’m sure some of it is doctrine related and most of it is kool-aid.
Yeah, I saw you were quoting a Fair.org article so figured I’d read the archive link first. What a whiff.
I definitely agree, with some of your points remind me of what I read this morning on Michael Robert’s blog and additional ones that are all correct.
What is puzzling many is that the US economy at least is apparently achieving a ‘soft landing’ from the pandemic, with inflation down, unemployment low and average real incomes beginning to rise, but the American public still seems depressed and uncertain about the future.
The problem is that inflation has only fallen by half and remains well above the pre-pandemic level of under 2%. And that fall is almost entirely due to the end of supply blockages caused by the pandemic and the eventual fall in energy and food prices. As many have explained, it has had little to do with the monetary policy of the central banks.
The misery index may be down, but most households in the US, Europe and Japan are still suffering the after-effects of the pandemic slump. Prices in Europe and the US are higher by about 17-20% compared to the end of the pandemic. Jobs may be plentiful, but in general they do not pay well and are often part-time or temporary. Moreover, the continuing war in Ukraine and now the horrendous decimation of Gaza could lead to a reversal of the past fall in global supply chain pressure – according to the New York Fed index.
The hope of the optimists is that AI and LLMs will kick-start a ‘roaring 20s’, similar to that experienced in the US after the end of the Spanish flu epidemic from 1918-20 and the subsequent slump of 1920-21. But some things are different now. In 1921, the US was fast-rising manufacturing power, sweeping past war-torn Europe and a declining Britain. Now the US economy is in relative decline, manufacturing is stagnating and the US faces the threat of the rise of China, forcing it to conduct proxy wars globally to preserve its hegemony.
Sometimes I remember when I had that level of brainworms and really bought the tech koolaid.
Now reading this is just incredible, I trust China a lot more than the west on this. And either way I think ‘AI’ in it’s current iteration isn’t a game changer. Especially when everything I’ve read I think China has like a whole portion of their court system setup for IP and patent protection and stuff.
It’s honestly continually astounding when we get numbers like that showing how pathetic the defense industries production capability is.
Update on Greg Joseph with the Israeli shoes: Missed a 49yrd field goal.
Vikings offense is so bad I’m guessing he’ll get another cracks at it unfortunately. Would love it if he couldn’t hit any of them wearing those things.
Edit: Vikings offense is indeed bad, Greg Joseph hit a field goal. Very upsetting to see him 1/2 and not 0/2
I don’t think most Americans are going to even register it’s subs for Australia though. Maybe that’s also the point, get Americans excited about building an extra sub or two as a treat for Australia. (Well really to your point Australia still wouldn’t actually get new subs)