Never read about SK or China (just not familiar, not to say it doesn’t exist) doing this but Thailand went all in.

https://www.foodrepublic.com/1318428/how-gastrodiplomacy-brought-thai-food-world-stage/

2014 article. https://slate.com/culture/2014/10/if-every-u-s-state-had-the-same-population-what-would-the-map-of-america-look-like.html

TIL!

I couldn’t stomach it.

those kids deserve a great teacher. sorry you live in such a chud-governed state.

I know a guy who repairs HVAC systems. He has a high school diploma and a bunch of technical certs. Handy with math but everything else is OJT and training certs. He makes bank. Same with a plumber I know.

in the US, at least, higher ed is a way to funnel people into debt, the military, both, or (if they fail school but still get the debt) - poverty. something tells me it shouldn’t be this way, no one would design a system to operate this way if the goal was producing educated citizens.

I’m not cynical enough to buy the ‘schools are just prisons for kids man’ - between the shootings, overreaching bullshit (10 commandments, fear of woke etc.,) and absolute hell for teachers, I gotta wonder: who does all this garbage profit?

some conservatives want stupid voters, sure, but they also need skilled workers…

…it is a series of tubes!

spin up 5 projects. hire devs from all over the world, make them work on site in person. people upend their entire lives for a chance at a stock option.

cancel 2 after 10 months.

cut the teams on two of the others.

cut the teams again.

and again.

oh wait hire like crazy and overcorrect so we can

cut the teams again.

Then cancel 1d3 of remaining projects, announce <OLD IP>REMASTERED

All devs cut never neared their stock vestment, all shares returned to the mothership, start to consider spinning up 5 more new projects.

cool cool cool.

now show me the NVGs for the horse.

priceless

for everything else there’s mastercard

indeed.

also, what if… they ate their own immediate family?

wait, which thread is this?

why should reporting be limited to immediate family?

if the neighbors see mr. jones take out a shrub or hop curbs the rest of the world ceases to matter, just immediate family?

typical boomer privilege - oh wait, now I’m old? no don’t test me…

god forbid we let people customize these things. we’ll jam AI into the fucking appliances before we let people have actual QOL advancements.

gotta call out the nazis at every turn otherwise the place will turn into a nazi bar.

Brogue

damn that brings back dnd.exe sessions

the devs have pursued every bad idea and settled on ‘child labor and exposing kids to fucked up shit seems profitable’ so yeeeeeahh… the game industry looks at them and hangs their head in shame

it’s certainly an interesting nuance. ty for the tip

was not familiar with them…

from their wiki - had performed at rallies for The Right to Work, Rock Against Racism, and the Anti-Nazi League. -

holy shit this is a ride

“The Totenkopf-6 is a slightly grinning skull, framed by a circle and a small 6 in the lower right corner. Death in June has, since at least the State Laughter / Holy Water 7″, used variations of the Prussian Totenkopf or “Death’s Head” symbol. Indeed, there is another explanation that has been given by Pearce, he has also stated that it symbolises “total commitment” to the group, akin to the total commitment of soldiers of the SS”

ah… getting to the shit that matters -

“The Southern Poverty Law Center considers Death in June to be white power music harboring neo-Nazi sympathies.”

yeeeaah this all fits

huntsville only existed and continues to exist because of their congresscritters kept the federal funds coming. There’s nothing intrinsic about alabama to the space industry.