Amazing. From what I heard Russia is the same, I’m wondering how is China (probably similar). Along with the known numbers, it also makes me think if there is even a credible threat to the US military’s dominance - probably not.

It’s also funny, how things like delegation of authority are very simple and proven concepts, yet it’s not used at a lot of places, even western companies. My squad only fights battles with ppts and clients, but I operate in the same way, often having weird interactions with other leaders, when I explain how I don’t hog power and information for myself unnecessarily.

Around 10k total I think

One of my parents was in North Korea multiple times in the 80s as a tour guide from the Eastern Block, I remember hearing the stories about it when I was a child.

Cameras being taken, poverty housing blocked off with walls, fake buildings and rooms, US soldiers watching them from the other side of the DMZ “negotiation building”.

I always took these stories for granted, and didn’t realize for a long time how special and unique these experiences were. When I tell my Western EU colleagues they always drop their jaws.

I see a huge untapped business opportunity in selling “how to” courses and templates to sovcits

I find it unlikely that they couldn’t track and disable units if they are used outside of a permitted region. They can also compare locations to license / point of sales, e.g. if a unit sold in China gets activated in East Ukraine

By the way, does anybody have a credible take on the current status/outlook of the war?

I hear nothing about the Kursk offense now, but mainstream news mention recent Russian successes in the East. I understand striking deep into Russia with US weapons would be critical, but I think that is unlikely to happen before the elections.

I am (again) worried for Ukraine, and to our Western politicians f*cking this up.

BNE

(Big Nose Energy)

be me

Plato, philosopher extraordinaire

trying to write “The Republic” but keep getting distracted

student Theaetetus shows up

he’s like “hey Plato, when’s the last time you went on a date?”

tfw too busy contemplating the ideal forms to get a real girlfriend

tfw only girl interested in me is Socrates’ cousin who keeps asking about dialectics

”Maybe if you stop talking about cave shadows, girls will like you, bro”

Theaetetus thinks he’s funny

mfw dude has a point

try to go on a date

ask her if she’s ever considered how the soul yearns for true knowledge beyond the physical realm

she asks if I know a guy named Aristotle

apparently, he just talks about practical things, like biology or something

tfw getting ghosted by girls who want literal shadows over my allegorical ones

Don’t forget innovation:

Not the asshole. Your cat, your rules

evil math teacher laughing in background

Yes, simple doodle below for anyone wondering.

You start from left, and calculate them 1 by 1, based on the angles that you already know. It is quite simple actually, you just have to know they always add up to 180 (within triangle, and when you “split” the space over a straight line).

I mean it’s definitely helping, but not in the way I imagined. It is becoming a major driver of CO2 emissions due to the large computational power if needs, which will only increase in the future. The planet is boiling, and they will keep building more server farms for the next LLM upgrade, giving up on stopping/controlling climate change.

I liked the game, but it was way too long and repetitive. I hope they delivery a tighter story and experience with the second

A true marvel of engineering, pushing the boundries of business and technology

Behold, the Xbox Series X Ultra for $899*

*Charging cable sold separately

1. Even if they sell at a loss, the number of consoles mean the potential number of buyers for games. More consoles sold means they can sell more games and other profit generating products/services.
2. Sony is barely selling any PS5 Pros as there is a low interest at this high price, which is unlikely to change in the future. The current console is not even fully utilized, lot of recent games are still PS4 cross-gen. 0 chance of the base PS5 being left behind
3. MS will not make COD an exclusive, as they will not give up on the chance to sell a 70 USD/EUR game to 60 million PS5 users, which is double the size of their own market

Time to cut Deutsche Bahn’s investments even more, that will definitely help.

Sony has sold double the consoles this generation (60 vs 30 million I think). And the Series S is very unpopular with devs, increasing the complexity of developing games for Xbox to get just half the PS market.

Game Pass is popular, but it’s just one stream of revenue, and a lot people are only using it on PC. Sony is selling consoles, 70 EUR games, and in addition their own subscriptions.

I understand MS’s strategy, and maybe this was the best they could have done for this gen, but Sony and Nintendo is dominating console gaming, with MS lagging far behind.

This happens when there is a lack of competition. If MS didn’t shit the bed with xbox in this generation, Sony would be trying harder