this is gold to countries that routinely fake other countries passports for "legends" (cover identities) for their intelligence officers working in "target countries".
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Just a reminder: the ICC was founded in the aftermath of WWII, when Jews had no voice and no one fighting for them.
Israel’s finance minister, one of the most senior ministers in the government:
“No one in the world will allow us to starve two million civilians to death, even though it may be justified and moral, until our hostages are returned.”
Israel’s defense minister:
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly.”
Someone should prosecute those bastards.
As someone living in a relegious country with religious parties in parliament, I see this as a slippery slope.
It's a way for religious groups to normalize forcing their lifestyle on the rest of society.
Religious mandates always tend to expand: what starts as "I don't care if you close your site on Sunday" can quickly escalate to "Why are you telling my wife and daughter how they should dress in public?"
Beware
I had a ZX Spectrum, and at some point my dad got me a C128.
I was taken aback by how poor its BASIC was in C64 mode, but on the other hand, adding sprites that moved freely across the screen without being bound to the 32x24 character grid felt like magic to me.
> - before 2012 there was no smartphone
- by 2011, 35% of US adults had smartphones, iPhone released June, 2007
I’ve been programming since 1984.
OP basically described my current role with scary precision.
I mostly review the AI’s code, fix the plan before it starts, and nudge it in the right direction.
Each new model version needs less nudging — planning, architecture, security, all of it.
There’s an upside.
There’s something addictive about thinking of something and having it materialize within an hour.
I can run faster and farther than I ever could before.
I’ve rediscovered that I just like building things — imagining them and watching them come alive — even if I’m not laying every brick myself anymore.
But the pace is brutal.
My gut tells me this window, where we still get to meaningfully participate in the process, is short.
That part is sad, and I do mourn it quite a bit.
If you think this is just hype, you’re doing it wrong.
Instead of obsessing with my rating on I just turned on Zen mode in lichees and hid all the numbers.
The game became fun again — Just "oh that was a cool tactic, let me try this weird opening, what happens if I sacrifice my knight for vibes?"
Turns out the rating was a distraction from the actual game.
Same energy as your point about "fucking around" being the point.
The elo was just making me miserable; removing it made me better anyway.
Of course he’s nervous - what else would you expect him to say?
If I’d pushed a little harder, would it have finally broken through?
Figma, Airbnb, and the other freak successes only exist because they didn’t quit.
Strange.
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For my high school graduation project, I wrote a full COBOL system to automate soccer betting odds. Long past its prime, but my school hadn’t quite caught up with the times.
It was hilariously out of place, but I loved every line of it. There’s something oddly satisfying about a language that whispers, “Remember punched cards?” as you type.
Google forces you to use their ever-changing, drama-prone OS-level components through their “official” libraries. These libraries evolve faster than a teenager’s TikTok algorithm, so good luck keeping up. Oh, and if you don’t update your app to comply with their shiny new toolchains and runtime? The Play Store will ghost you faster than a bad Tinder match.