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No, that one was actually pretty spot on. My uncle works at Nintendo and he told me it's pretty similar there.

I've never had vaseline on a windshield on a foggy day, just on an overcast one. You'd have to try it yourself.

Silo is absolute pants on head as far as realism. Here's just ONE example: the light bulbs in the bunker(s). To show what an immense challenge it would be to keep light-bulbs in the bunker, let's make some assumptions:

Suppose the silo houses 10,000 people and has around 150 floors. If each person uses about 1.5 rooms on average, and each room has two light bulbs, that's already 30,000 bulbs just for personal and work spaces. Add another 7,500 bulbs for common areas like hallways and stairwells, assuming 50 bulbs per floor. Throw in another 2,500 for things like emergency lighting and equipment. That brings the total to roughly 40,000 bulbs.

Now, consider that the average bulb lasts around 2,000 hours. If lights run about 16 hours a day, a bulb would last approximately 125 days. With 40,000 bulbs in use, about 320 of them would burn out every single day. That means someone needs to replace 320 bulbs a day, every day, just to keep the place lit. That alone is a full-time job for a crew of maintenance workers.

Storage becomes another massive problem. If they want to keep a 10-year supply of light bulbs, they would need 320 bulbs a day times 365 days times 10 years, which adds up to about 1.17 million bulbs. That is a staggering amount of fragile, breakable glass to store in an underground bunker.

And what about manufacturing? Are they making glass, vacuum-sealing bulbs, mining tungsten, and wiring filaments all inside the silo? Are there glassblowing workshops next to the hydroponics farm? Are they running vacuum pumps on diesel just to get replacement bulbs?

This is just one mundane aspect of life in the silo, and it already falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. Unless there's a whole floor dedicated to crafting light bulbs by hand like some sort of monastery of electricians, it simply doesn't add up.

Aside from Mr. Robot, almost every show that features software or computers completely butchers the details. My favorite offender? Mythic Quest. The main cast supposedly runs a massive MMORPG, yet their day-to-day activities have almost nothing to do with how game development or even basic software work actually functions.

It is like if ER was about hospital staff moving random boxes labeled "coils" back and forth while claiming to perform life-saving surgery. That is how far off it feels.

What really gets me is that Mr. Robot proved it is possible to do it right. If you treat the subject matter with respect, you can absolutely make something compelling and realistic. But since it is all just "nerd stuff" to most writers, and none of them are C++ goblins, we get tech scenes written by people who probably think JSON is a fitness drink.

Why can’t people be punished for being anti-lgbt? There is no non-religious reason to belive so

The non-religious reasons aren't discussed as often in the US but they do exist. As a great example, look at the USSR. Very not-religious and very, very against homosexuality.

I love stuff like this because it shows the cognitive dissonance on the right really, really well. They hate foreigners and imported stuff EXCEPT just for times like this, when it makes a lot of sense for the USA to get this "gift" from a foreign nation that doesn't seem to line up with what MAGA says a country should be like.

It's exhausting to keep up with. Are Islamic countries "based" now?

Trump said this in 2017: “The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Does he no longer feel that way? Are we supposed to like them now?

If Walmart really loved Trump, they'd sell their items at a loss to own the libs. Well, I guess I can't be too surprised, another woke corporation making excuses to jack up the prices. Trump said China'd pay the tariff so I don't see what Walmart has to do with it.

Was this meme part of a contest to see how destroyed you can make a meme by JPEG compression artifacts? I've seen clearer images looking through a windshield smeared in vaseline on a cloudy day.

I'm with you, to a degree. If I see someone clearly acting in bad faith and/or trolling, then they are just wasting my time.

However, if we have a disagreement of opinion, I don't feel right about blocking that someone. This would lead to a lonely existence, because the odds of having someone that agrees with every single one of my opinions is pretty low, so that means over time, I'd have blocked everyone.

I didn't enjoy the comic. Coincidentally, the author may be female.

I really hate this "you're an outsider so you can't have an opinion". Am I only allowed to consider things in America?

I mean, what would that even look like? New "software communes" getting founded? I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I'm curious what that would actually look like on the ground.

I'm right there with you. A few years ago, if I got one interview I was guaranteed to be in round 3 or 4. Now, I'm lucky to get the intro call and then "we'll be in touch". If anything, my skillset is improved from a few years ago.

You aren't alone, many people from former companies I used to work with are reporting the same thing. Unless you have a buddy at a company that can get you in, people aren't finding seats nearly as easily as they used to. I'm saddened but I don't see an end to this anytime soon. To be honest, I wish I had chosen a different career, as I feel slightly held hostage now.

No one was harmed by the haka.

The vote was delayed. You also don't know the reaction of other parliamentary members. The context of the haka is a dance done to intimidate enemies. Maybe some of the other members feel intimidated now.

If I was a parliament member and stood up with 3 of my pals and loudly threatened another member, what do you think would happen to me?

"In January, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts that the company would make sales execution changes after the company delivered slower growth than expected in Azure cloud revenue that wasn’t tied to artificial intelligence. Performance in AI cloud growth outdid internal projections."

Translation: "No one gives a shit about Azure, except for the people we could hoodwink with AI."

This is a mixed metaphor. Women are kept out of frontline combat much like they’re sidelined to the WNBA: segregated under the guise of inclusion.

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Another "sovcit victory"