US foreign affairs are pathetic lately. They want crazy shit, all of it, and for free. It isn’t how things work.

Yes, as long as you’re vendorlocked in the Microsoft’s environment.

OpenGl is a standard.
Vulkan is a standard.
VESA is a standard.
Direct3d is a Microsoft’s vendorlocked bullshit.

DirectX

A classical example of Microsoft’s vendor lock.

Microsoft has never shown any respect for the standards. All they want is vendor lock. Fuck Microsoft.

P.S. And I’m not even talking about the obvious inability for Microsoft to make things that “just work”. Like at all. All their soft is a huge pile of unmaintainable clutches.

Shareholders: Google, be less evil!
Google: As you wish, muahahaha!!!

Progress is good, right?

Try again!

What a naïve Chinese students: “We hoped that Empire 1 would be very different from Empire 2.”

Do preemptive failure to avoid thoughts of failure!

Yes, we can count. I suppose the question was “So what? What is scummy in some viral post?”

Read even more carefully. You’re not careful enough. Don’t rush. Think.

Exactly!

Facepalm. Reread what I wrote carefully and in full. Pay attention to the word “too”.

So? Almost anything is. My statement was “Alcohol has some positive effects too”, not “Alcohol has only positive effects”

Alcohol has some positive effects too while PFAS is just shitty.

Poor kids. Teenagers need communication with other teenagers, or they would grow up crazy like you.

TLDR:

“There really isn’t a coherent science around it,” Benitez said.

A little more verbose:

who spend greater amounts of time in front of screens may be more likely to experience mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder, and related physical symptoms such as pain, dizziness, or nausea.

Actually those steam engines were able to immediately turn full reverse without losing the power.

That’s quite obvious. Every time new technology automates some work – consumers win and those who did that work previously – start looking for a different job. Why would it be different this time?

De facto – no. Research project.