Isn’t it pretty standard ? Finish high school at 18 + 5 years to get a master is already 23, so 24 would be a year late, that’s absolutely fine. Let’s say you retook a year to get better ranking, then spend a year as an exchange student abroad but failed due to language issue, it’s already graduating at 25. Let alone if you work aside the university which can mean you fail each year once.

Sometimes, I want to retry Stellar Crisis, at least for it’s historical value But feel like the era of small pb(e)m and similar is over.

Still consider trying the de profundis rpg, but it’s more a weird object on my gameshelves than an actual game

Kids born today will be 75 in 2100, which at the current state of things will be too young to retire.

Even if there is a major catastrophic, people in the Roman or medieval era made it to 80, it was less common than today, but wasn’t unheard of either

Many actually don’t, they don’t convert (much) the capital to money, so they avoid capital gain-tax (which tends to have exception for business owner and long term holder), often they use company asset (like an average worker gets a phone, a laptop and sometimes a car, but they get a boat, a jet, and a nice house on the company budget), borrow money against stock, and actually don’t need that much of their actual money (remember that a billion is huge we don’t talk about getting a nice house, and a private jet, but multiple airliner, and a brand-new top notch hospital in the centre of an expensive city, including all worker wage for a while).

This is why so many people support a net worth tax like if you pay less than 2% of your net worth in regular tax, then you get an extra tax to reach these 2%

Well it’s that time of the year where nobody works. Like offices are empty from mid December to January

In democracy, citizen decide how the tax money is spent by voting, usually it’s an indirect vote : you elect people to vote the budget, which makes sense considering the difficulty on the tax. But typically, left wing will put more money in education, healthcare, and rehabilitation programs while right wing will put money in police, militaires and supp rt outsourcing essential services to private corporations. Stuff can be complex as you need to pay pensions, state worker, fulfill international commitment (EU budget, NATO budget) and maintain all the existing infrastructures, and only then you can invest/re-allocate budget (which can trigger an outrage, cutting welfare expense or closing a hospital can have dramatic consequences for citizen)

If there isn’t enough money se government can borrow money, typically they don’t go the bank but say they need X billions for Y years and find investor ready to lend them this money (it tends to be quite safe, do you foresee US or Germany not paying their debt in 5 or 10 years?) alternative is to print money (aka inflation) or raise taxes. For structural investment that will bring monee, it makes sense to pay them over 10 years with the extra tax yield thanks to the new highway/university/dam. However, it also means that instead of “taxing the rich” you borr w their money and give them back, while us commoner do n’t directly see our tax money ney back

A 30€USB webcam can do it, or simply turning around the laptop. Moreover, corporate have nice video conferencing room often with multiple camera, so you can select what you want to show. Finally, when I want to show a prototype to management, I rather invite them to the lab, or take the time to edit a video (even a smartphone camera one) for people in remote. Avoids the pitfalls of bringing something to a meeting room and starting it on the fly

ability to take time away from work without pay

Tell me you’re a US American without telling me that you’re a US American

Obligatory reminder that highest paid athlete in(western) history is Gaius Appuleius Diocles a Byzantine era Chariotter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Appuleius_Diocles

The problem with horror games is that it depends on the GM and other players.

To be even more radical, I played an amazing horror larp, but it could have failed dramatically if a single player started to laugh, even if it was to release tension

While gold climbs well in time of crisis, I wouldn’t say physical gold is that of a great investment, stored at home it*s less secure than at bank, and unlike stock you don’t get yearly dividends but only expect the value to rise.

Main usage is tax dodging, where plenty of small shops would cash out your gold with not much questions asked, but this work for small amount not for gold bar

Well, it gives you an extra crochet sometimes an extra hammer or even a great stick for your car

Forcing players to basically not be able to win until they do arbitrary failures and reload would make for an annoying and frustrating experien

The thing is that is would be a better emulation of RPG if you couldn’t reload at every death. The main difficulty is to have multiple story path which would lead to different outcome rather than a real win.

Actually, life is strange turn the video game roload mechanics into the rewind power

Accountinq/management should adapt to the company way of working and not the other way around. I’ve seen project getting split in a way making no sense technically speaking, and product getting senseless names/reference but this is how SAP works, and accounting needs it that way

A big thing is that a high end ram factory has a crazy price-tag, I’d say between 100 million and one billion Euro, and it takes years to build. Noway to step up production overnight at no cost. And when we talk about big money like that, investor get pretty conservative

I get your point about full time school which may require 2-3 years without income (even though in some countries you may keep your unemployment rights). But often, especially for shorter degrees, there is options in evening classes, whith less hours (sometimes at the price of a longer time) some would even give you real degree. Moreover, if unemployed, sometimes a 6 month training can give you the basis to be hired, either in a manual job, or to fix a missing skill on your CV

There’s a stereotype of Chinese brands being “low quality” which obviously isn’t always true to begin with,

This was still debatable 10-15 years ago, but today? Huawei or Redmi do phone which compete in the same league as Samsung, BYD is leading the electric car market. (I even have a made in China Eastman guitar, for the price of the Taylor everybody has, I got a way better guitar, and that Taylor is damn great)

Sure, there is still tons of cheap, low quality stuff on Ali Baba,it’s great for hobby crafting but China has moved toward high quality products.

To answer your question, I expect to see a Chinese company entering the global Ram, FPGA and GPU market. Especially considering the US embargo forbidding Nvidia and Intel to export their high end products in China. Looks like a quick way to push China to grow their domestic production

Is it what i think it is?

There is relatively big ones including political organization who cover ads, or sue all ads not matching environmental laws, and a whole ad-free social media trend like for example Lemmy

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