Then you should know that code not working is the absolute easiest fuckup to catch. It’s literally not one to be concerned about.

One in a million chance of an edge case that doesn’t throw an error at all, but does something unexpected? Good luck if you don’t know how the system works.

It’s slightly more complicated than that and in the case of most natively English-speaking countries you’d be wrong, so I’d argue that in terms of the English language you’re wrong

So in most of western Europe and most of South America, you’d be right as they use the long scale, but none of those are natively English-speaking nations. UK and Ireland use the short scale, as does the US, NZ, AU. Canada uses both, I’d assume the French speaking part uses long scale. Eastern Europe, Northern Africa, the Gulf states, and NW Asia actually use short scale with milliard instead of billion, and as you go towards south or east in Asia, you’ll run into completely different number systems, such as the funky Indian one that goes by hundreds rather than thousands as groups starting with 1,00,000 (1 lakh) and 1,00,00,000 (1 crore).

TL;DR: There’s no unified worldwide standard, but for pretty much all English language usage, you’d be wrong.

I can definitely tell you that food pictures look more appetizing if they don’t look like the food was exported straight from Blender into the ad.

I read that as wassabi* and was thoroughly confused for a moment.

*Yes I know it’s actually wasabi, that’s just how I read wabi-sabi wrong. As wassabi. Not wasabi.

In that case you still come after daddy’s money, but you’re daddy.

I dont think that is true tbh dads nowadays take care of babies as much as moms even after doing job and everything

If you’re ‘doing a job and everything’ then there’s an entire workday’s difference to begin with…

In the context of this thread, you’re very clearly saying that the mom is always doing more because the workday is a vacation for the dad.

If that’s not what you meant, maybe rephrase your comment, because that’s what it reads like and judging by the 10 downvotes (none of which was me), I’m not the only one seeing it that way.

Because ultimately the meme was about moms not getting a break, and if the dad works all day and then goes and takes over the responsibilities at home for the rest of the day, then the mom is the only one ACTUALLY getting a break on any given weekday. And that’s what most, though not all, young fathers seem to be doing these days. Maybe not in your corner of the world or when you were young, but as far as I can see, that’s how it is these days.

I’d never compare a Tesla with anything, it’s a piece of shit anyway. I’m pretty sure the $30,000 Camry has a nicer interior than a Model 3 lol. The Rivian’s cool, but not even being sold on the continent this article is about (which incidentally is also where I live).

I’ve only ever done EV to ICE price comparisons in a particular company’s range rather than between different manufacturers, and I’ve never particularly cared about anything in the super low end of the market (I’m sorry, but a Hyundai Kona is not for me, EV or not), nor the super high end (As much as the Mercedes-Benz S-Class is my favourite car in the world (older models, anyway - not a huge fan of the W223), I’ll never be buying one new or even lightly used). So it’s always been things like the 5 series, X5, E-Class, GLE, etc. Executive cars, essentially.

So 5-6 years ago, there weren’t many comparison points. But you could compare the EQC to the GLC and you’d find out that the minimum to shell out for a GLC was about 20k less than the EQC, but of course the EQC’s base model had better performance.

Now, Mercedes still makes their EVs more expensive than their ICE vehicles, but there’s finally another German manufacturer making decent EVs and that’s BMW, who will sell you a base iX for roughly the same price as the base X5 and again, the electric base model has much better performance than the diesel. They will also sell you an i5 for just 7 or 8k more than the base 5 series diesel, and that is actually the same model of car (iX and X5 are same size, but different platform).

You lose comparability again when you go to Audi because those bastards renamed their E-Tron to Q8 E-tron, whereas the E-Tron was actually a much lower-end model. They also haven’t made anything worth calling a car in 5-10 years unfortunately, EV or not.

Volvo still makes EVs look unfavourable in their lineup while also phasing out ICE vehicles. The EX90 starts at significantly more than the XC90 and the base EX90 is RWD whereas the base XC90 is AWD. There’s also a pretty big gap in favour of ICE in their smaller vehicles (XC40) and of course they’ve entirely done away with all sedans besides the ES90 and all wagons altogether, which is amazing, because the V90/V90CC was super popular here. 6 decades of great wagons and now they’re telling you “SUV or GTFO”.

Personally I actually cared significantly more on top of being the one who had to work a full-time job and side gigs, but my ex is a unique kind of piece of shit and I’m not trying to insinuate that this is a common experience.

But your original comment sounded like something my ex would say when she still allowed me to go to the office. “Oh you get to take a break for 8 hours.” No I don’t, that’s still work, it’s still very taxing mentally. If you work for 8 hours and then come home to take care of the children for the rest of the evening so your partner can have a break, there’s only one person actually getting a real break. Of course if you come home and drop yourself onto the couch and expect dinner to happen, then it changes who the person getting a break is, but IMO that’s not as common among young families these days, compared to a few decades ago.

Tim Sweeney’s on record saying he doesn’t see any point in making EGS any better since it’s “good enough” lol.

Out of anyone, they had the best chance to make it, with the budget they had, and the fact that so many people have their launcher installed for Unreal Engine or Fortnite reasons. Yet they put so much money into exclusives, and none into having a compelling UX.

Cartoons only happened in the morning here. In the mid 00s I’d get home from school and watch 2.5 men lol. A-team sometime before that. At some point it was Knight Rider too. Only had like 2 or 3 channels growing up.

That’s some AI focused scam company that’s only 4 years old.

This is what Boston Dynamics had 4 years ago already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

Are you implying that the workday doesn’t count for anything? Someone’s gotta bring home the bacon.

When I was in the office, I’d be there for 8 hours, then get home and take over, then also work at night with the baby monitor on. My ex-wife only really had to take care of the baby that 8 hours a day, I handled most of the other 16. Of course she complained that I wasn’t doing anything. So after that I started working from home for my main job as well. After that she only really had to take care of the kids (one mine, one not) for the 3-4 hours a day that I got to sleep.

Third. Daddy’s money comes before you as well, I’ve heard.

The price of the batteries is what will get you

Maybe make healthcare more affordable

It’s free, but I probably have to pay more taxes than you do. Nearly half my income goes towards taxes and then we have 24% VAT for most things, including groceries.

education more accessible

It’s free for most people, but that just means it doesn’t qualify a good enough income anymore. I earn about a fifth of what I could in the US, while our minimum wage is not much lower than the US, for an example. And a master’s degree doesn’t qualify you a job at McDonald’s either, we’ve over-educated our population. Result is that you need plenty of experience for your first job in whatever industry you studied for.

build some sort of safety nets for people

Well, they already exist? There’s unemployment, which doesn’t cover shit because we don’t pay enough taxes yet, as well as homeless shelters if you’re sober you can go to and even social housing if you’re destitute enough and trying to get out of it, but obviously there are waiting lines for those.

a living wage, whatever

Minimum wage rises annually.

But imo we shouldn’t go and try to create a world wherein parents are no longer humans but only inheritance dispensers

But it’s only fair given that children are legally mandated to take care of their parents in old age.

My ex is not going to leave either of her kids a single euro. She will probably cost them tens of thousands in end of life care because she opted out of pension payments and took out the funds at the age of 22 or 23. She’ll have free healthcare, sure, but old people’s homes cost more than the national pension. It’s 1500€ a month currently near me and if you rely on the national pension alone, that’s well under 1000€ for most.

Because I have never even wanted to own my own home. It has never been a requirement to live comfortably

Trouble for me is when I’m eventually too old to work or AI takes my job for real, I’ll need to have something I don’t have to pay exorbitant rent for. If that’s not a concern for you, you’re incredibly privileged, being able to piss away thousands or tens of thousands of euros a year for the rest of your life. As a software engineer, I can already tell you that this ladder’s been pulled up and nobody hires entry-level engineers anymore. Same for a lot of other knowledge work. Things aren’t going to be getting any better. Most people would rather have a home they don’t have to pay every month for when that happens.

It’s disturbing to me that many people apparently think that’s normal? I mean, don’t you love your parents and want to see them happy? I don’t get it. My parents were very young when I was born. By the time they die, I’ll be like 60 or (hopefully) even older. I can’t imagine waiting my entire life for them to die, just because I want their money. How fucked up is that?

Who’s waiting for the parents to die? I’m just speaking about generational wealth being a necessity in this world, because all the millionaires and billionaires are doing it, but the poor are just selling off their already small assets to the aforementioned millionaires and billionaires so they can rent them out to their kids and grandkids.

I can tell you from looking at my friends: Those whose parents gave them money to make a down payment on a first apartment started buying them in the mid-20s. Those who didn’t, were lucky to get their foot in the door at 30, some still haven’t. 20 years from now, those who can’t get a down payment from their parents, will not be able to buy ANY home unless incredibly lucky. Parents who don’t want to royally screw over their kids and also don’t want to leave their homes as inheritance, should just prepare the funds to get their kids a foot on the ladder when the kids reach their 20s. That’s what I’m trying to do, anyway. My parents didn’t, but they never had the ability and at least I have a house I can come back to when things go to shit (so can my mom, it’s not like I’d ever kick her out, she’s just living with her boyfriend right now). Estonia is one of those countries where people have to work for a living and when you’re unemployed for a long period, rent becomes kinda hard to afford.

And let’s go back to this for a moment.

Maybe, I don’t know, vote in people who actually make life more affordable?

Who do you think voted against those people in the OP? The kid who didn’t get a house, or the boomer parents who sold the house and wanted its value to be as high as possible? The same people selling their homes instead of leaving them to their children are the same people voting against anything that could reduce real estate prices. Because they’d be out of money then. If you’re looking to sell your home for retirement, it makes sense to vote for people who block new developments so housing is less affordable for future generations. Otherwise you’re profiting less.

Things are only just starting to go to shit. They will get a lot worse. And in most of Europe, most of us don’t really have guns either to Luigi the people who are guilty. Which is why I think anyone who’s having children in 2026 without a plan for how those children are going to be afford normal life, is selfish as fuck.

If you can’t replace explorer.exe with a third party desktop environment, it’s kind of part of the OS.

Setting up your machine as a proper development platform.

Well they can’t force everyone to install Linux unfortunately.

Makes the coverup easier for sure, but it’s not mandatory.

Depending on the market segment, the price difference even just 5-6 years ago could be a few grand, or it could be like 20k. Depending on your location, electricity might cost nothing, or it might cost nearly as much as fuel. Also a lot of early EVs sold in Europe were Leafs, whose batteries tend to fail prematurely since they weren’t cooled. A battery replacement is usually about half the cost of the car new (luckily nowadays, individual cell replacements are being done for at least some cars).

Also I don’t have an EV, but I’ve done calculations, and if I’d use public chargers it’d cost almost as much as driving an ICE vehicle that isn’t 20 years old (in terms of energy cost, anyway). If I charge at home, it’s much cheaper. I have that option, but a lot of people don’t.

Also the price difference thing is more or less gone now. EVs didn’t get much cheaper (other than the low end of the market), but ICE vehicles did get more expensive once they realized people are willing to pay more. A BMW iX is nearly 100k new, but so is a diesel X5 now, so you’re not really saving money on the purchase price by getting an ICE vehicle anymore.

The original Ioniq was a very different car with a tiny battery. The Ioniq 5 is a significantly improved beast and starts at 46k € where I live (we’re a lower income country within the EU so our car prices have been adjusted to be higher than many other EU countries, accordingly).