I see a lot of electronics becoming the same form of a black rectangle. I think the design of older electronics will be cherished.

Can I change it?

I got a scan that detected cancer which I was later able to get removed. That cancer would have probably killed me in five years.

If I get told that I'll die of cancer in twenty years, I'm going to deal with it in ten years.

I'm a structural engineer.

Spatial skills are required and some people seem surprised that you need them.

Writing skills are also really needed and a lot of people seem surprised that the autistic kid in the back of class needs to communicate to hundreds of people in a way they understand.

I had one about the possible affects fall of the Cuban Embargo and the answers felt uninspired. Like, a bunch of people were talking about the benefits of the fall of the Cuban Embargo but no one could talk about how it could change both countries.

The South Sea Bubble would have worked if they sold it to the French.

At my company, we had someone who told us they were planning on moving countries within a year, but hadn't given a firm date to leave. We interpreted it as we weren't given an official notice until they confirmed the date.

Even after they gave a date, we still treated them as a normal employee, but we did tell them we expected that their quality of work wouldn't drop during this period. I don't know how that would work in positions where the policy is to cut off access after someone gives their notice.

If this was the deal after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, I could see it being ok. However, this is the second invasion in a decade.

What keeps Russia from invading a decade later?

The chemical properties that create surface tension help water become a great solvent for a variety of chemicals. There isn't a chemical that wouldn't have surface tension that would also be as good a solvent in that class of materials.

To anyone on .world, which is obnoxiously in line with the United States status quo, I am a 'tankie' because I do not believe that China is evil, that Russians are 'orcs', that the Cuban people deserve to be starved by our sanctions, that Joe Biden has to support Palestinian genocide and continue Trump's border policy because 'its complicated', and anything else that is critical of my own country and its actions that continue to harm people not as fortunate to be born in my same geographical location.

I wouldn't call you a tankie for that. The closest thing may be the Russian orc thing, but that is more a statement that Russians are still human while fighting an immoral war.

That the Cuban sanctions are still going on are stupid and support for Palestine is consistent with general leftist theory regarding freedom.

Yeah. By your self-description, I wouldn't call you a tankie.

I didn't know Finland and Sweden got flooded by NGO's. You know, the countries who actually joined NATO.

If Russia is so peaceful, why would countries want to join NATO?

Why would Europe still be in danger?

Leave them high and dry to whom?

I use a laptop as my PC. It is big and bulky, but it is mobile enough.

They've been getting creative in building their brands.

Why should we hold South Africa to a different standard than other democracies? If we encourage voters to pull support in all major parties in "mature" democracies, why not encourage similar behavior in a democracy like South Africa? A parliamentary system is the best system in allowing a collection of minor parties to come together in creating a new majority government.

ANC needed to lose an election a long time ago.

Yeah. Two years is just about long enough for a company to figure out that a manager is useless.

American religion has always been a shit show. You had various colonies established with wildly different beliefs and state churches. Part of the reason for freedom of religion on the federal level was as a political compromise to make sure a state's church wasn't developed above others; at the time it was relatively common for inter-Christian wars to take place. Over time after the country was founded, this allowed for free market Jesus to form.

If you wanted to make a weird religion that was vaguely Christian, you went to the USA. This is why there are so many types of Christian church that were founded in the USA compared to other countries. This meant that pastors could sell whatever bullshit they wanted to in order to get coverts. You didn't need to follow a national religious canon because there was no nationally imposed canon. Church leaders could make up what they wanted.

So now, as there is a push to lead to actual American Christian Fascism, no one really knows what that means. You've got churches and other organizations used to making their own sales pitches now being forced to agree on a common canon and set of laws and they aren't used to this outside of agreeing that abortion is bad and civil rights need to not progress. Incels probably stick out the most, but these debates are going to become a lot more pronounced even among different conservative Christian groups and within those groups as the sales pitches to the different groups push wildly different goals.