I mean, check it out just to rule out the possibility, I guess. The letter spells out how to determine whether this was the case or not - do a hand recount.

Stopping your finger from bleeding by cutting off the entire arm is not a particularly good plan.

Sure, inflation is down, but the absolute condition for the average argentinian is not strictly speaking great.

It’s clear that some form of change to stop the runaway inflation was needed, but this was not the way to go

Gotta make use of that Force Majeure-clause

The old rules don’t apply under Trump unfortunately

Barring societal collapse I believe I will be able to retire, but that’s only because I’ve gotten extraordinarily lucky in life.

Porn isn’t going anywhere. LoL

Give Project 2025 a read. Wild things in there.

Gay marriage? It’s already dangerous to just come out, let alone get married.

Thanks to who?

And contraception? They’ren already losing that one too in many states thanks to local governments anyway.

Literally a direct cause of the last Trump administration.

The absolute state of the U.S. A thousand years of shame would not be enough

It’s actually not legal in Utah! The Mormon church yielded after a lot of pressure regarding the practice and Utah then made it illegal.

For sure, this is a hard lesson learned for me - it doesn’t matter if you’re doing good work if no one knows about it, so if you want to be rewarded for your work you’ll have to spend less time actually doing it and more time doing marketing for what you’ve done.

Some forward thinking - which we all know is most definitely not a thing when it comes to suburban development patterns - would see these installed from the beginning to ultimately save money long term on maintenance and upgrades.

Since the suburbs are an unsustainable Ponzi scheme designed to cram as much money out as possible though, they will go for the cheapest up-front option, total lifetime cost be damned.

Get yourself a few bottles of caffeine pills. They’re really cheap and might get you through some tough times

The municipality I lived in previously had a really interesting project where they were trying to improve the lifecycle of underground infrastructure.

Instead of digging up the ground, putting in/repairing something/whatever, and then covering it up, they were going to install a permanent ‘infrastructure tunnel’ which could have installations and repairs be done without digging up and covering.

If successful, this kind of seems like what the shipping container did to the shipping industry, an incredible efficiency play.

I’m sure it’s possible to find some good places on the island, but in my opinion, why risk it? Thailand has so much other stuff to offer at way less of a risk.

Pronounced “poo-ket”, messing the pun up somewhat

Two of my least favourite places I’ve visited have been Cancún and Phuket. Both were minor stops in larger journeys, and I had fairly low expectations, but hot damn these places truly sucked ass. The countries they reside in have some truly great stuff, but you won’t find them in these places.

Based honestly, let’s make it happen

A surprising amount when it comes to Sweden, actually! I believe there’s a significant educational gap here, with CPR courses trying to spread the word about resources on how to locate your nearest AED.

This applies to urban environments of course, with suburban and rural being a different story.

To answer the question I think you’re posing - yes, this device could be useful in Sweden.

I don’t think you necessarily need to have studied a lot of math to be successful in programming, but you will need it if you want to get a CS degree, which in turn can be a good lever to a fruitful programming career.

My advice when it comes to math - math skills build upon the concepts you’re expected to have learned before, meaning that if you didn’t fully get everything in the past, then your foundation is not in great shape and you will struggle at higher levels. Going back and repeating the fundamentals just so that you fully understand everything is very helpful in my experience.

I also think that understanding math is rewarding in itself, for what it’s worth!

My housing coop fortunately already has one of these on site, as well as my workplace.

I browsed it all and I’m intrigued!

However, I live in Sweden so it’s somewhat less relevant for me. I’m happy that it exists though, and I’ll be interested to follow the progress in the future!