I live in Europe and regularly use rail transport here and love it… But even here we barely maintain what we have, almost never build more, and certainly build far more new roading projects than rail ones.

All Western countries can do this too, they just only do it for motorways to subsidize the fossil fuel and car industries instead of something which would actually be good for people.

This you?

If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.

Yes, that’s me. Maybe the bit you’re missing is that if you work at a company, the company’s products are your products.

So what you mean is “If you’re working for a major Western company, period, you’re in the wrong.” Since the list of Western companies that don’t do business with Israel is very small.

No, that’s not what I mean, and I’d appreciate you not putting words in my mouth. There is a material difference between providing Israel with military equipment and with some random consumer product that is just distributed everywhere. Sure, I’d argue it’s still wrong to do the latter, but it’s still a huge difference.

You could’ve just said “yes, I think that’s where the ethical line is”, instead of linking logical fallacies wikipedia like a fourteen year old atheist.

We haven’t moved anywhere. We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve stayed right there.

Why would that matter? You think it’s alright to work for a company supplying the Palestinian genocide as long as you’re not working on that specific product line? British aerospace is pretty directly involved there so I’d set my standards a little higher personally.

If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.

If you can’t tell, is it really the most obvious troll?

Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of wonderful things about it, but living there is much worse than visiting. It is very normal to have mould all through your house and have to wear your coat indoors in the winter because you can’t afford to heat and the house has no insulation, we have staggeringly high levels of poverty for a “developed” country. Yes, people are friendly, the nature is some of the best in the world, and the lifestyle is relaxed. But the disparity between incomes and cost of living means most normal people are really quite struggling to make ends meet, the health system is a shell of its former self, and things are just overall getting worse quite rapidly. I know that’s not unique, most of the Anglosphere has basically the same issues, but we already started at the lower-income end of that group.

I promise you you wouldn’t like living there as much as you think. I agree our immigration laws are really shitty though, and you should be allowed to come find out for yourself what a crappy country we are.

It could cost a lot of American lives. Could also save a bunch of Chinese ones.

It’s an American/British English difference

they haven’t been made by ibm for years and years

It’s both

No, whether you like it or not they are the same

It’s good if your examiners have a few easy things to pick up, makes them feel useful and stops them from finding nonsense just to have something to criticise ;)

In most places the defense is kind of just a formality. It’s an important part of the ritual and the process, it’s important to present your work, but nobody should be submitting unless they’re definitely going to pass the defense, or else their supervisor has really failed them

Because they just don’t write emails like this, it’s way more likely that some scammer fooled your friend.

its from my friend so thats all I need personally

You think it’s literally impossible that your friend would be fooled into thinking the email was from Microsoft when it wasn’t?

🎶tutira mai nga iwi🎶

Yes, the Planck length