There are recurring cycles in the American/Western history, with each cycle lasting +- 20 years.
The cycles are High, Awakening, Unraveling and Crisis.
We're supposedly in the Crisis cycle, where there are major crises like war, depression,revolutions that would help the society to rebuild institutions.
This theory seems completely flawed as it applies itself retroactively, entrenched in confirmation bias, but still entertaining.
It's fascinating to see you embody this decade’s tendency to divide everything into good or bad, with the classification entirely left to one individual.
In some regulated places, someone is legally responsible for authorizing a change in production.
If it fails, that person's on the hook.
So the usual way is to have a manual authorization for every change.
Yes, it's a PITA.
One place I've worked changed their process to automatically allow changes in some specific parts for a specific period during the development of a new app.
And for some magical reasons, the person usually associated with such legal responsibility are the one that don't trust automatic process.
> This is maintained with stringent animal movement controls, surveillance, trapping, and following the proven science to push the NWS barrier south in phases as quickly as possible.
Why add "proven" before science?
Nobody expects the USDA to handle such problems with "unproven science", for whatever it could be.
For decades they've made the sterilized flies by exposing them to gamma radiation that damages their reproductive system and it's been effective.
Am I getting doubtful of every announcement from this administration or are they trying to tackle conspiracy theories from the start?
With Dart/Flutter, it's often recommending deprecated code and practice.
Deprecated code is quickly identified by VSCode (like Text.textScaleFactor) but not the new way of separating items in a column/row by using the "Spacing" parameters (instead of manually adding a SizedBox between every items).
Coding with an LLM is like coding with a Senior Dev who doesn't follow the latest trends.
It works, has insights and experience that you don't always have, but sometimes it might code a full quicksort instead of just calling list.sort().
The fact that you think that's a big number just underscores how dire Europe's security situation is at the moment. One hundred billion Euros sounds like a lot, but China spends two and a half times that much on defense every single year, the U.S. spends 10X that much every single year, and even the Russians spend more than that every single year. Nevermind the fact Europe needs to play catch up here, not just keep pace.
Wikipedia says Russia spent 100 billion in 2023, so increase of 100 billion should be more than that don't you think? Are you misinformed or deliberately lying?
You have to adjust figures for PPP, or Purchasing Power Parity, due to exchange rate differences. In 2024, Russia's PPP adjusted military spend was somewhere between $300B and $400B [1][2]. Their technology is also vastly superior to Germany's and they have a much larger personnel. It doesn't matter how much you spend if you don't get your money's worth.
There is no sign that "the Rich" will even be smart enough to understand that you can't placate the orange buffoon over a meaningful period. They keep paying him other people's money and throwing their staff under the bus. I'm sure they'll be angry when he demands their money and chucks them under the bus but that's too late isn't it?
There are recurring cycles in the American/Western history, with each cycle lasting +- 20 years.
The cycles are High, Awakening, Unraveling and Crisis.
We're supposedly in the Crisis cycle, where there are major crises like war, depression,revolutions that would help the society to rebuild institutions.
This theory seems completely flawed as it applies itself retroactively, entrenched in confirmation bias, but still entertaining.
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