Sure, but it ends up being extreme even for Reddit. There’s no discourse, it’s just everyone nodding along and agreeing.

lemmy.world is such a cesspool I don’t understand it

This is the only way to remain competitive when the US’ largest rivals are able to tap state funding for research.

You don’t see the military applications of large-scale supersonic flight?

Weren’t jet engines developed by the Germans to kill the Allies?

Your number is a bit off. It’s more around 569000 per person.

Isn’t most of this due to India and China?

China’s poverty rate fell from like 88% in 1981 to basically nothing today.

Associate with friends that also have good grades. You tend to take on the habits of your friends.

So… It can carry 10 people? Isn’t that only marginally more than a minivan? What the fuck were they making the old F-150s with that they were worse than a minivan?

Like 90% of the under-20 market…

Massa-fucking-chusetts.

Bad apples make the whole place suck ass.

Tell me you’ve never been outside your city without telling me you’ve never been outside your city.

A lot of US cities have really suspect lead pipes (Chicago, for one) and in general the water quality is highly dependent on the age of your building.

A shocking number of US cities also run their pipes through chemical spills (like Pasadena) and dilute the pollutants to below the legal limit.

A large number of “public washrooms” are tucked behind “please purchase to use” signs, even if they are de facto public washrooms.

The US has been shockingly and incredibly open with it’s racism in a way that other countries lack. Being from East or Southeast Asia is just begging to get screamed at in some neighborhoods. My fault for not being one of the “right” minorities, I guess.

Canadian living in America, and I hate it here. It’s not pretentious to say that America fucking sucks, because living in American cities objectively fucking sucks.

I’m sure small-town America is nice, though.

Shit country, great pay in a few fields.

If you’re skilled labour and not a software engineer, just move to Canada tbh.

Wasn’t all the “work” explicitly recorded for use as content? (And they hired a painter anyway)

Sounds like she got witch-hunted tbh. Management was unhappy with Linus hiring her without going through the proper channels and pushed her out.

I don’t think it’s fair to criticize his usage of employees… He’s operating a media company and all of his upgrades are essentially glorified media operations. Everyone on camera is a media personality playing a role.

The point isn’t to get cable installed, it’s to have an engaging personality on camera doing something interesting. Getting cable installed is a happy coincidence.