The complaints about the arms industry/the cost of war has been around since recorded history.

AI server farms has only been around for a few years.

This wasn’t built to be a great service, it was built to be a French controlled one.

I had a guy buy me two drinks at an expensive Vegas bar. He didn’t really even want to talk.

It is the reason why Microsoft was able to gimp the Internet for so long with Internet Explorer. Companies couldn’t make money off of the browser, so Microsoft made a browser that helped defend the Windows monopoly.

Except during seismic events.

Depends on the sand.

That’s also generally more the geotechnical engineer’s call.

I’m a structural engineer. It is part of the job.

I’ve been mostly right.

I wished I worked out more right now. My problem is that I’m spending more and more spoons on my job and I don’t have enough remaining to exercise.

Public performance in general can be stressful; people get stage fright all the time.

Nah. I look at it more that you shouldn’t put off certain activities because you’ve got time in the future. You need to prepare for the future, but putting all effort into making the future better without enjoying the present is going to lead to a lower quality of life.

It feels less like “one big problem” and more like death by a thousand cuts.

A lot of sci-fi was generally written to play with a few ideas. I think it would be difficult to create a narrative around several problems with different causes and solutions.

I don’t care enough to have one.

There is currently only one recognized African country, Ethiopia, that recognizes Somaliland. Why only one African country? Because the others are afraid that a reevaluation of borders at best gets you something like the Partition of India at best and at worst gets you war between two countries.

This isn’t white man’s burden shit.

While there has been a taboo against the changing of borders in Africa due to legitimate reasons, it became accepted that South Sudan should be created due to the destabilizing force that the Sudanese government played in the local populace. While the southern part of Somalia isn’t a direct threat to Somaliland, it is obvious that there isn’t a central Somali government able to enact control over Somaliland and the Somaliland government doesn’t wish territorial expansion to become the legitimate government of all Somalia.

In these terms, I feel like the recognition of Somaliland isn’t destabilizing to the region and seems to be a better option than continued anarchy over a wider area.

I also feel like Djibouti is trying to fight against this recognition as this gives Ethiopia another path to sea access.

None at all.

They fry the burgers with mustard; add grilled onions, pickles and extra burger sauce.

I’ll eat at smaller restaurants if I get a chance. I’ve eaten at George Motz’s restaurant in NYC and liked it.

I’ll get an In-N-Out Animal Style Burger. I like it.

In-N-Out

I make it a point to eat there when I can when I won’t anywhere else.

Even if it is a bad choice, I’d rather be part of a bad choice than not.

Leaving them in place