Let's be clear. The US military is extremely competent. This is a fact whether you agree with what they do or not, they are scary good at what they do.
Yes. This is true. We did not lose in Iraq or Afghanistan militarily. We lost because of poor statecrafting ability.
I find the best way to start is to come up with the simplest project you can think of. Then when you get stuck, you can watch tutorials that help you figure that part out.
That way, you can actually put the tutorial teaching to use, and taking what they're talking about and applying it to your small project will really help get it to stick.
Yes. What the Ukraine war showed everyone was that defense treaties are meaningless if they aren't enforced, and therefore every country is on its own.
The best deterrent against an invasion is nuclear weapons, and so every country should stockpile as many nuclear weapons as possible.
That's fair. Appeasement worked really well for Neville Chamberlain, so we should follow his lead and just give Trump this one thing. I'm sure, based on his track record, he won't demand anything else.
This reminds me of this video from Climate Town that discusses how the Right can purposely (or accidentally) misinterpret data so that it better aligns and agrees with their pre-existing worldview.
Yes. It's extremely helpful when I'm doing a refactor and can just go TAB TAB TAB TAB Oops not that TAB TAB done. Saves me a lot of time with the boilerplate, but is very bad at the logic portions.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. It was an interesting and in-depth read.
I have moderate Linux experience. I used it in University and can do basic things in the terminal, but I don't have the best foundational Linux knowledge. My laptop is currently on Opensuse TW and was wondering if it was worth keeping it, or if my life would be simpler on an immutable distro.
I would like to use it for programming, game development (Godot) and music production (Reaper / MuseScore and Kontakt). Getting these working in Opensuse was finicky, but I got it done, and now I'm wondering if it's worth blowing that up to start over.
It doesn't make sense that this would backfire, because Trump and his supporters are perfectly capable of holding conflicting viewpoints like this.
It's totally reasonable to expect that this would be morally reprehensible when Democrats do it, but reasonable and a smart business move when a Republican does it.
Apparently that's something that Bill Gates is an expert in...