I get that they think about going away from the combustion engine, but as a manufacturer of insanely expensive, loud and overpowerd sports car this doesn't make sense.

It's like if I as a software dev would be worried about the future market and suddenly advertise myself as a psychologist in search for clients.

Compilers got so good at optimization that there is little point using it.

If a variable is held in a register you can't access it with a pointer. So if your intention is it should be in a register you can't take the address.

You just need to add heat to the air at the point where the diameter is the lowest.

The russians are maybe using this idea for one of their new cruise missles named Burevestnik, although for them the nuclear emmisions are likely a positive side effect.

It is exactly as I said. Please don't spread misinformation.

I'm also a bit confused about how the people on the top think this will play out.

A long time ago there was a french saying "noblesse oblige", or the german pendant "Wohlstand verpflichtet".

I miss the old forums the most. The group mind on Reddit is just regression to the mean.

The rest I tried to cut back as much as possible for my own mental health.

I can't get of YouTube completly even though most of the time I hate myself after doom scrolling. Sometimes I still find genuinely interesting stuff there.

But if we start nitpicking the US also executes people all over the world without trial and has secret prisons worldwide where they put people (guess what) without trial.

Even for minor stuff like beeing addicted to drugs.

Looks pretty totalitarian to me.

In retrospective this looks like a depressing joke to me.

The whole society has lost its goal when the only target is to maximize money.

One overlooked problem is imo that you can't just waste their time with nonsense and get good results.

A lot of people in the education system are so full of shit that they believe it's good for children to sit there the whole day.

Improving exercises and lectures should be a priority.

You need some skill and patience to cut it open etc. without damage, so most people should probably go to a repair shop.

You can still torrent the books from library genesis if they succeed. It would be a bit of an effort, but free books are currently the only positive thing (for me) in the internet.