I guess you need to pretend there’s a threat NOW in order to divert funds towards defense now.

If the threat is in more like 10 years, why don’t we start investing next year instead? etc.

Ra-ra-rasputin

Man, if only this was happening in a country with armed citizens, they could maybe do something about it.

It’s an Aurus, a Russian luxury brand. Knowing Russian automotive engineering, I’m sure the only part that works properly is the engine, which was developed with help from Porsche.

I actually also went before EVs were commonplace, I was more referring to the fact that you got the knowledge to instinctively make that connection (and probably nowadays they have exercises on the subject too).

Yeah, we were pretty similar, except we didn’t have “school school specialty curriculum” since I went to public school, and public schools are standardized in what they teach

I went as, I believe, the second or third year of an experimental new system under which schools offered different specialty tracks that were up to the schools themselves to design. We had like a science-focused track, an art focused one, and then one that was basically “cool shit we threw together” that included stuff like psychology and law (first all kinds of basic legal concepts, which in of itself was a really big course, and then a second course focusing mostly on Estonian contract law, as that is hugely important, as well as some looks into stuff like employment law, consumer protection law, etc. This probably was not too common in schools in our country either, we just had a really awesome principal that was a former lawyer and took it upon herself to teach all this.

As of the 2024/2025 school year, the system is abolished and now the student gets to pick more of the electives, instead of the school tracks. So more freedom of choice, which I reckon is a good thing. The mandatory basics are still really solid.

It’s called CECOT and while it’s had a massive positive impact on El Salvador’s crime rate, it feels like a giant human rights violation at the same time.

Give him a bunch of tattoos and send him to CECOT.

You actually got me there, I had to google his mother’s name thinking this is the worst prank from the universe ever.

The bread and circuses plan from Rome worked.

Might get interesting when DOGE removes the bread for a lot of people.

I mean that depends on the sign of the W/h as well as your W/h² and higher orders too. Maybe you’re actually approaching zero watts :P

In our case, we had the pulleys and stuff too, but we had different modules and the later ones showed how they connect to eachother, so you start up with optics, mechanics (as in movement, not car parts lol), thermodynamics and electricity in middle school, then you get all of the same with a lot of new information in high school and also very basic nuclear physics, like atom models, electron levels and stuff. Essentially first you learn about power and energy in the context of movement and thermodynamics, and then later also electricity (at which point you’ll understand how heat at the power station converts to electrical energy at your home car charger converts to movement of your electric car, or similar with fuel and internal combustion engine car - of course the efficiencies are simplified greatly).

Of course you heard a lot of bored classmates go “But why do I have to learn this, I’ll never need it in real life”, but at least electrical bills are so much easier to predict when you know how power and energy relate.

I’m very happy with how the education system in my country works and how it prepared me for university (which I just didn’t have the attention span for) and life. It’s the reason I’m OK with paying a fair bit higher tax than I would in some other countries. Our income tax is at 22%, but a bunch is hidden from regular peoples’ view by making it part of the employer’s tax burden, meaning if I pay myself a decent salary, the tax rate is ~43% or if I pay myself less than I need to live I can make it 31-33% and get a visit from the taxman asking why I’m paying myself so little and paying the rest out in dividends. Luckily the economics course in high school included our tax system in addition to macroeconomics concepts, so I can navigate all this fairly easily. Not sure if that one was mandatory nationwide, or just part of my own school’s curriculum, because we basically had 3 types of subjects: Absolutely mandatory (like 60% of total course load), school specialty curriculum (like 20-30% of total) and then the rest was up to you to choose what you wanted to learn.

However, now they’re talking about making universities charge tuition from everyone as well as all kinds of cuts in other sectors WHILE raising taxes, despite the fact that we barely even use debt as a nation so if all that happens, I’ll find some creative ways to reduce my taxes or pay them in another country.

Okay, long ADHD rant about our education system aside, I do agree with you that most people will probably intuitively understand the differences. But man do I feel like some countries’ curriculums have been half-assed. It’s entirely possible to give young people an understanding of the universe from astronomical scales down to microscopical AND teach them things like tax systems, energy consumption calculations and other things that can be used in real life.

Oh, in my country you have to take physics, chemistry and biology. That actually goes for middle school too. Plus geography which actually also contains geology. And math could be considered science I guess.

We have elective courses too, but all the basics are mandatory. That includes at least two foreign languages, history, our own language, literature (becomes separate subject from language in high school), music, art (including history of both), basic computer usage, shop class for boys and home ec for girls (with trades in between so us boys still got to cook and stuff, plus in elementary school everyone gets to knit and crochet IIRC). Oh and physical education unless you’re disabled, in which case you either get to watch or just do something else I think.

I’m actually sure I’ve missed something. These are all mandatory. You can do shit like folkdance or choir for electives, or many other things depending on school. I had philosophy as one of my electives lol

I think people in some countries (the US) don’t even know what they’re missing out on tbh.

watt/hour

Oh yeah I’ve seen that used before, makes me cringe every time.

Anyway, do must people not go to high school? Or is stuff like that not part of the physics curriculum in some places?

Source?

I mean the owners of this “Estonian” company are Russian and Belarussian (company ownership is public record here in Estonia and foreigners can easily start companies), so I wouldn’t be surprised, but I also hate how easily unsubstantiated claims spread on the Internet.

You don’t even have to be a datahoarder to help. Run ArchiveTeam warrior on a computer

Easiest way if you’re already someone who needs to use Docker, is to throw this compose file somewhere and run it: Docker Compose file for Warrior

First off, that’s literally what Forgejo is trying to do

Secondly, git is technically already federated.

Things are a lot better than you might think. It’s just that people naturally gravitate towards centralized services, because of the network effect.

Any productivity it gives has a noticible drop in quality and capabilities that result in net loss.

The productivity that skillful users get from it does not have a drop in quality or capabilities.

Word it better if you want people to understand that you mean another thing entirely.

Also love how you’re downvoting my comments just because you disagree with me, whereas I’ve yet to downvote any of your comments. Really puts it into perspective with what kind of a person I’m arguing with. Bye.

Two people have told you that AI can be useful, but not if used by people who don’t know what they’re doing. It boosts the productivity of people who know the field they’re working in, and know the strengths and weaknesses of AI.

You ignore it and say that because some people don’t know how to use it, it’s completely useless.

You said ANY productivity. It sounds like you mean amateur productivity.

Idk, AI generated boilerplate code via Copilot and similar utilities have been useful. I wouldn’t trust it to build an entire system, but it does alright at automating mundane shit.

AI in creative fields might be a different story.