If my years in a technical field have taught me anything, it’s that this half-cooked shit sandwich was made by people in sales and management who were all promoted for making the shareholders happy. It’s always up to the engineers to slap some shit together that they just learned about yesterday and was needed last week.

FELLAS

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky could be up your alley. One of the best books I’ve read in recent memory

That actually makes a lot of sense, especially combined with the other answers of how some sanctions are trickier implement. Thank you!

It seems like there’s always another sanction package, why didn’t they slap them all on there in the beginning of this whole thing? What’s the benefit of holding some back and letting their economy limp along for a bit?

If you or a loved one was diagnosed with Mesothelioma getting tortured by the US government you may be entitled to financial compensation.

We built some gas turbines for them at Siemens and trained a few of their people for a new factory we had to build in Riyadh as part of the turbine deal. The individual people we were training were nice enough but it felt like morals just went out the window when the Saudi money showed up.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the real estate crisis. Shitty situation all around, but I sure hope we’re not just burning buildings and fucking the environment to get out of bad business deals.

I am SHOCKED

Oh no, did covid get them?

MacKenzie Scott is the sole exception

I have been obsessed with The Matrix for multiple decades now and never knew that Neil Gaiman wrote a graphic novel about a guy pulled out of the Matrix to kill aliens. $50 hardcover collection on the way, thank you for sending me to see how far the rabbit hole goes!!

Cracks down on climate polluters? Right? Right?!.. Nope, fuck these activists ringing the alarm for the planet we’re actively destroying. I did NOT consent to being born into this shitstain of a society, take me back to the void.

This existence kinda blows, thanks a lot Mom and Dad

Getting old is strange. I keep trying to go to house or techno shows in the basement of restaurants or other weird places, convinced it’ll be a great time because I used to enjoy it. My knees hurt and I’d rather be home most of the time. It’s okay for things to have a beginning, middle, and end. Also, not to be nitpicky but just because I think it’s a fun word: it’s “baubles”

Me for the back 98.5% of Tears of the Kingdom

We live across a back alley from a hookah bar that was called “A Buck R 2 Lounge”. There’s a shed in the back where all sorts of ATVs and dirt bikes meet up to terrorize the neighborhood/city, it sounds like we live in the middle of a motocross course. They recently painted the building black with purple trim (as hideous as it sounds) and put a new sign up proclaiming the establishment is now called “Rico’s Rush”. I wish someone would just burn the place down already, starting with the shed…

Don’t let Elon get his hands on that

Voyager has exceeded all of my expectations, it’s great!