There would be no merit at all.

I’m sure Zelenskyy would be more than happy to host NATO troops in Ukraine; it is a decision of NATO nations to not deploy to Ukraine.

If NATO troops were not invited, that would likely trigger a wider war. It would also mean that the Ukrainian government becomes a NATO problem; NATO isn’t as interested in nation building since Afghanistan.

Yes. Democrats voted for Obama in 2008 and he presented himself as more progressive than Hilary.

Get work to implement it.

I didn’t, but it comes off as preachy for a question asked in a community called “No Stupid Questions”. A dumb question was asked about AI and the response was “actually, these are the things we need to be worried about because I’m very smart to worry about it”.

Yep. That’s a lot of words to try to seem superior to other people. Did you use ChatGPT to help you write it?

I know The Simpsons sends the grunt work to East Asia, but I thought that South Park is so simple that a US team can bang out production with the writing staff within a week.

I’m putting enough money away that I see myself retiring. At minimum, I would transition to a less stressful job about 10 years away from retirement and ride that out as I go to work less and less.

That said, I know I’ll kill myself if my health degrades too much. I haven’t decided what would happen if I run out of money.

It has gone to shit.

In some cases like McDonald’s, the ingredients have been on par while the cooking quality has tanked.

For a lot of other places, both the cooking and ingredient quality tanked.

Taco Bell is probably one of the few major chains I still eat at because their ingredients are hard to fuck up cooking and putting it together isn’t that difficult.

I didn’t take the photos.

I know, but my response sparked further discussion so it’s cool.

I find it interesting compared to the USA.

The USA has migration from richer parts of the country to select poorer parts because the lower cost of living makes up for the lower wages. There are also states that built themselves in part on the back of being a low cost of living place to retire.

Why isn’t Europe there yet?

Both programs were developed to work on high end consumer laptops, which meant being able to work on IBM PC and therefore DOS.

Those programs also were likely 2D in their initial versions in the 1980’s. They were also competing against human drafting, which was considered to be industry standard at the time.

Cost and ease of use were likely more important than other potential users of 3D software, so they went with DOS and made the transition to Windows.

Neither Autodesk nor Bentley had a good economic reason to develop in Linux. Those companies also spend a lot of money on major clients to produce tools for them, which they then force all contractors to use.

At minimum, we would need AutoCAD, Microstation, and Projectwise. We also need these exact programs as our clients require our CAD submittals to be in specific formats.

We also need Bluebeam Revu for other client coordination.

Yeah, but I don’t want to flip through photos in GIMP.

This is a work problem and a lot of software we use isn’t supported on Linux.

It becomes a problem if you didn’t take the photos.

It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

Yeah. There was talk about using the 25th Amendment at the end of Trump’s first term. That won’t happen with this cabinet.

I’d just let it go. Why put so much effort into a group that doesn’t want your participation?