The worst part (or at least a negative) is, I’m pretty sure Trump is bad for the military (just good for military contractors).

Is that 10-15 each day or for a whole week?

If it’s for a whole week, what are you eating?

How dare you expect someone to actually read the source!

Any halfway decent bank/credit union should be giving a decent interest rate given how high the national rate is.

For example Ally gives 3+% on savings accounts - https://www.ally.com/bank/view-rates/

Im fairly certain this is true everywhere, but your local laws should supercede any TOS.

I think you may have jumped the shark with the “loses 2.2% of its value” comment. I feel like most of the world doesn’t understand inflation / the difference of real vs nominal dollars.

I tried explaining it to someone once and they kept just saying, “but the money in my bank account is real”.

Wasn’t expecting Bigtop Burger to be called out on Lemmy. Digital Circus is definitely a different vibe than Bigtop, but it’s more of a slow exestential thriller compared to the zany humor in Bigtop. Definitely not for everyone, but it’s done really well in my opinion.

I ended up grabbing it and I think they did a pretty good job. Sometimes the angle or wall running feel a bit off, but for the most part it feels like more Super Meat boy (which I actually only played a couple months ago).

I did find that using the dpad was the best approach. Something with the joystick made wall running not work right for me.

The difference everyone always ignores is that most of Chinese infrastructure is new. For the US they’d need to buy people out of their land, build new tunnels and bridges, and disrupt so many things to implement high speed rail.

You can’t just leverage the existing rail network because they have curves and grades that are incompatible with high speed rail (northeast corridor has 30-40mph limits on some curves).

In addition you’re competing with airplanes which are already proven and support current travel demands. And even if you could get the rail implemented there isn’t any guarantee it’ll be any cheaper than flight (meaning low usage). As it stands today going from major hub on Amtrak can be more expensive and takes an equal amount of time (when accounting for security/etc.)

I feel like people forget how much infrastructure is required to keep high speed rail running. Not only do you need the stations, but the tracks (bridges, tunnels, etc.) all need to be maintained. Additionally, when doing maintenance you can’t run the line, so you either need extra capacity so you don’t disrupt service or you end up with times you have to shut lines down.

In comparison, planes just need a strip of flat land at takeoff and landing (you technically don’t even need an airport). You’re primary bottleneck is how fast you can get planes on/off the tarmac.

One of the other big issues in rail vs plane is that high speed rail only works at certain grade levels and turn radiuses. So for example, I believe you couldn’t convert the existing northeast corridor in the US to 300mph rail from end to end simply due to the geography. You’d need to create a new route. Looking it up there are speed limits around 30-40mph for Amtrak around Baltimore and Wilmington.

You make it sound like blockades are not common events during a war. Just cause the US is blockading the strait right now doesn’t negate their desire for free passage in the future.

Additionally, if people didn’t think Iran was justified in closing the strait (due to a war) then they probably wouldn’t be negotiating with them for access.

This is what happens during war, both sides look for ways to create pressure on the other to force them to the table. Iran is fighting an uphill battle so needs to turn people against the US by limiting oil shipments, but that doesn’t mean the US is just going to let them keep selling their oil.

Im surprised by the comments here, this was an obvious outcome of Iran dictating that only Iranian interests could use the strait. The only real move for the US is to block all traffic (or at least all traffic heading to Iran). Why would the US allow Iran to continue to sell oil while Iran is destroying other ships.

I’m sure the GCC have no issue with this policy, and it doesn’t really change the situation for most other US aligned countries as they weren’t buying Iranian oil for the most part anyways. No one wants Iran to be able to charge for access to the Strait and this would put pressure on the to find a more agreeable end to the conflict.

Not supporting either side, just stating that this is a reasonable strategic move for the US.

That was my concern having seen the trailers. It felt like they threw too many things in at once rather than slow rolling it to make three+ movies.

I was personally surprised myself, as generally Looney Tunes is considered superior to mickey mouse (in regards to older animation). However the country focused ones are worth giving a shot (especially Tokyo, Paris, and the Indian one [can’t remember which city]). If you like those, then you might like the rest.

That’s what I thought of the first one. Is it better or worse than the first?

You’re probably aware, but updating the model periodically is probably a good idea just because things do change overtime.

A model from two years ago was trained on data from at least two years ago. Meaning any technology, code, world event changes wouldn’t be reflected in the model.

The way Infinity Train was treated by HBO is so sad.

Also, I feel like Symbiotic Titan is hard to recommend as it was canceled after one season leaving the story very unfinished.

Ooh, I was thinking of some more modern stuff, but that’s a really good call-out. You can still see a lot of influences from that era today, not to mention that they’re still enjoyed today.

The newer Mickey Mouse series felt like a modernized take on that era. If you haven’t watched it I would give it a shot. The country-based episodes are all really well done and show how little dialouge is needed to tell interesting and compelling stories.

Or space!

I feel like that’s the reason people have been talking about space data centers. Once it’s up there it’s kinda hard to get access to it.

God I forgot all of those came out this past year. More surprising that superman beat all the marvel ones.

Also amazing that a part 1 movie of a series finale of an anime did so well in the box office. Although Demon Slayer has definitely been a pretty big brand for a few years now.