I don’t think babies are supposed to be profitable.

If you’re already gonna have a baby anyway, the 5k is a bonus. Otherwise it won’t do much for you.

Estonian here, similar, but two languages wasn’t actually an option at least earlier this century. I started my first foreign language in 3rd grade and the other one in 6th. Could’ve added a 3rd one in high school but didn’t feel like it personally.

Daycare isn’t entirely free but the fee is very small.

Hospital visits are 2.50 per night for inpatient or 5 euros a visit for outpatient I think. Without insurance most tests are still double digits, but major surgery can go into the thousands. Insurance is tied to having employment - but being in school, raising a child under 3, etc counts too. And so does registering as unemployed. Pretty much the only time you have no health insurance is if you’re a NEET and don’t register for unemployment.

And you can walk to places. In my hometown, we could just walk or cycle to the next town over. There’s a separate light traffic road next to the car road.

Thanks now I can’t get it out of my head

It’s mostly hipsters with modded iPods, everyone else just streams music. You can stream it in lossless quality on some platforms and download most played songs to your device if your mobile bandwidth is limited.

Hell I’m a weird hipster who likes to have local copies of things and even I’ve given up.

Russian talking heads? Sure. They always make fun of the west and western leaders. But does Trump speak Russian?

Anyway, while Russian media is all more or less under Putin’s control, that doesn’t mean they’re always necessarily saying the same things he’s saying. If Trump’s having 90 minutes phone calls with Putin, I’m fairly sure he’s not getting ridiculed. Likely Putin talks to him like an equal - to his face, anyway. And being seen as an equal by your hero can pretty much blind you with emotions.

It’s the age old principle of “If I can’t have it, nobody can” that I’m afraid of the most. Anyone reasonable wouldn’t go by it, but if Putin is afraid he’s gonna die, he might as well.

It’s 2025, videos don’t matter anymore, definitely not to Trump.

First off we’ve had deepfakes for years so he could just claim that. Secondly, and this is more important, Trump’s base wouldn’t care anyway. They’d start off denying the whole thing, and then if it’s proven to be real, they’d just say it’s not that big of a deal because dems do it more and it’s worse, until finally they’ll say it’s actually a good thing, but only when Trump does it.

Honestly, I think Putin might actually be appeasing to Trump’s ego. Seems like a much easier way to control him than holding something over him tbh. Remember, for Putin, total control of Trump forever isn’t necessary. Even if he jumps off Putin’s dick right now, he’s already achieved so much for Putin that it’ll have been worth it for him.

Honestly, hitting the Kremlin may actually cause nuclear escalation. Putin’s ego would not survive the hit. Zelenskyy probably realizes this too, he’s not stupid.

The house of Saud has a lot of money in renewables already for example. But they make even more money if we buy all their oil first, so that’s what they want us to do.

Yeah, having fabs in the US as well as other countries could pay off yuuugely. If potential fab customers are truly afraid of Intel copying their designs - Intel could enter an agreement with say Qualcomm that it won’t design any ARM CPUs for X years. Surely there’s a market for US made SoCs once you can assemble the logic board of a smartphone in the US, and a smartphone from parts. You’d still import some parts but shift production to the US for what’s possible - but you need to start with the end product and work your way down because otherwise you’re shipping components back to China for final assembly. And the more expensive the components you can produce in the US, the less you’re affected by tariffs.

Floorp is a nice one to use and deserves a mention.

Yeah for a long time there Intel was way ahead of the fabless AMD. Back then people were saying it was a mistake for AMD to split the fab business.

Because these comments or their sentiment are usually in the style of Arrested Development

The merchiest company in my country is one that does online casino software. Worst part is, they have the highest quality merch so people actually use it. I’ve seen the logo on like Thule backpacks and shit.

Hasn’t gotten me to go work for them, but they’re damn good at reminding people that they exist.

Would YOU want to keep on living if you had to speak to JD Vance?

So is slapping all your major trade partners with tariffs, but look what happened.

I’m not saying it’s a certainty, but it’s now a possibility that must be considered whereas previously it would’ve been unthinkable.

The Vienna Convention is what the US uses constantly to keep their people insulated.

Normally, yes. But at this point I wouldn’t be surprised to see the orange oaf ignore it and then try to muscle other countries into still respecting it when American diplomats are on the line.

Hell, I’m hoping that won’t happen. But personally, I’d be a bit skittish about traveling to the US right now as a diplomat. I’d also be very skittish about traveling to the US as a non-diplomat.

… What makes you think the US in its current state gives a single fuck about any convention, much less one named after the capital of another country? They’re exploring ways to circumvent their own constitution so they could send dissidents to CECOT for “terrorism” even if they’re citizens.

I mean the image generators can be cool and LLMs are great for bouncing ideas off them at 4 AM when everyone else is sleeping. But I can’t imagine paying for AI, don’t want it integrated into most products, or put a lot of effort into hosting a low parameter model that performs way worse than ChatGPT without a paid plan. So you’re exactly right, it’s not being sold to me in a way that I would want to pay for it, or invest in hardware resources to host better models.

Precisely.