What does this even mean

Ignoring the fact that this conversation has been steered towards an explicitly liberal/market economics/consumerist framing…

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 66% of Armenians thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful

In a 2016 survey, 69% of Azerbaijanis believed life was better under the USSR.

In a 2016 survey, it increased to 53% of Belarusians saying life was better under the USSR

Another Pew survey, also in 2017, showed that 43% of Georgians thought the dissolution was a good thing, compared to 42% who thought it was a bad thing.

In a 2016 survey, around 60% of Kazakhs above the age of 35 believed life was better under the USSR.

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 61% of Kyrgyz thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 16% who thought it was beneficial.

A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 42% of Moldovans thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 26% who thought it was beneficial.[7] Regret about dissolution later increased to 70% according to a 2017 Pew survey, with only 18% saying the dissolution was a good thing.

Levada polling since the mid-1990s on the preferred political and economic system of Russians also shows nostalgia for the Soviet Union, with the most recent polling in 2021 showing 49% preferring the Soviet political system, compared to 18% preferring the current system, and 16% preferring Western democracy, as well as 62% saying they preferred a system of economic planning compared to 24% preferring a market capitalist economy.

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

Lmao I just watched the trailer for Monkey Shines. Rest in peace George, you legend.

Wat… The lone seeder is elevated to mythical status in torrent culture. People take great lengths to preserve old content - whether that’s by seedboxing, ripping physical content, or even the more backend stuff like trackers who have entire systems devoted to “reseed requests”.

long standing contracts

“Won’t someone think of the contractual obligations?? 😩😥”

Noooo, you don’t understand. Biden tried really, really hard to not send 21 billion to Israel. Trump wanted to send aid! Big difference, tankie.

If pointless noise on forums is one of the biggest downsides of LLMs, isn’t your whole spamming thorn game self defeating?

No reason you can’t use LLMs to write deterministic scripts. Handing off every task to an agent is a crapshoot, but they do help with some tasks. At the minimum - writing regression tests.

500 million could buy you a fleet of 150 buses to start a bus system for a small town.

Sure, it won’t buy you a coast-to-coast rail system, but no one said that was what the 500m was trying to afford.

The good part was the freedom

Except for the slaves, which as you know, are explicitly allowed in the constitution.

The rosewill 4u cases are cheap and fit eatx. I put some noctuas in mine, and it works great.

Good comic.

Unlike Radiohead. Whiny zionist babies whose meandering melodies never go anywhere. Nerds.

A reminder to those who hail steam as the savior: you’re gonna get bit.

If you think curves and pillars are hard to represent in software, you’ll be aghast how hard they are to represent with hand drawings.

Your typical architect or engineer of the era would need a kit of dozens of French curves to achieve proper specs in the drawing.

I think auto cad’s role in minimizing residential craftsmanship pales in comparison to pre-fab techniques, fewer craftspeople, high volume assemblies, necessity for faster builds, less old-growth timber availability, and a philosophical shift in the economics of home building that now lean more towards speed and mass production.

1-Million-Mile (1.8-million-kilometer) batteries

After 2 million kilometers (1.25 million miles), CATL’s EV batteries retained about 400 km (250 mi) of range. Competitor cells, on the other hand, retained considerably less, at around 350 km (218 mi) and less.

The data is based on 12 electric vehicles, 100 sample batteries, and real-world applications across four major cities in China. You can see in the chart from Morgan Stanley Research that Models 11 and 12, which use CATL batteries, exhibit considerably slower degradation than the other suppliers.

https://electrek.co/2026/01/06/catl-ev-batteries-significantly-outperform-rivals-degradation/

What leads you to believe that CATL has been unsuccessful at achieving a 1 million mile battery?

“If it only exists on your laptop, it doesn’t exist”

People often forget that ICE vehicles suffer from range reduction from the cold as well: ICE vehicles are up to 20% less efficient in the cold.

The Finnish Air Force swastika is such an interesting case to me, because the moment you do a google for “Finnish air force swastika”, you are blasted with rationalizations: “predates nazism”, “good luck charm”, “innocent”, “unrelated to Hitler”. You get blasted with rationalizations before you can even see the history: which is that the innocent wholesome chungus dude who brought the swastika was Hermann Göring’s brother in law lol.

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

God I fucking love his mustached, balding doofus.

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