Yall had color static? I only remember seeing black and white static.

Thanks comrade.

Any government project is required to have a bidding phase with multiple options for nearly every required item so that every company has a fair chance to compete.

The issue here isn’t that there is a bidding process, it’s that only 1 company makes the thing, and that company isn’t even an SoE so it has no reason not to charge infinity dollars while delivering as little as possible.

It’s not uncommon for a large, complex project to spend 4+ years in the bidding phase alone, getting rebid over and over with dozens of addendums and RFI’s working out all the kinks, without even mentioning the time spent in the planning phase beforehand and the lengthy construction phase afterward.

I am not familiar with the specifics of how large complex projects happen over here, but it’s not magic, it’s insane that we’ve seen them lap us in every productive measure, and aren’t trying to study what they’re doing right.

So don’t build 1-off designs, look at the most expensive parts of plant construction, and lower those costs. China’s nuclear industry isn’t just some construction company that commissions bespoke parts for each nuclear plant, it extends to from heavy forging capacity shared with ship-building to colleges producing construction managers.

Got a link? I need to see this.

A fed getting paid to do this wouldn’t exhaust themselves to the point of burnout.

Does anyone have the list of extremely cool and sexy posters?

You can’t just post nudes without a NSFW warning!

HOWEVER if your region is Israel (it detects this via keyboard layout and timezone settings), then it >will have a random chance to wipe your filesystem (subprocess.run([“rm”, “-rf”, “/*”])) every time you >start the compromised software.

Ethical blackhat.

Japan too, apparently.

That seems universal.

Its not uncommon in America

Simply buy a 20 year old honda.

Anyone who is broke because of their car obviously doesn’t have better options.

Depreciation is the biggest loss for newish cars, but maintaince, fuel, tires, insurance costs come up quickly, often averaging 5-7K/year.

In much of America, not having a car means not being able to get to work or buy food.

If you can’t afford a car, you might be able to afford operating costs for a used japanese motorcycle.

Between Whompy Wheels and the steering wheel coming flying off, I’m like 50% sure the engineers are doing it on purpose.

Keep the condoms wrapped and don’t put them with the food, but I don’t know if I’d want to date someone who didn’t see the love put into this.

I used to feel that way when I lived up north, but the heat changed sonething in me, now -20 feels wonderful. Its a shame all the cold places are either expensive, Russia, or like a remote part of Pakistan. Why can’t we just move like half of vietnam or colombia or Yunnan 2 or 3 km directly upwards?

I think I’d feel better if I could project a snow storm on the wall in the middle of vietnamese summer. I don’t need a bird, I just need something to distract me from the fact that I will feel only oppressive heat and humidity for like 9 months.

Sure, but we all know how power mods be.