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Not sure what the Martians have done to deserve that. Let's drop them off in Russia instead, they think it's so great there they can try living there.

I find the easiest way to forget C++ is to try watching CppCon on YouTube.

I've been doing C++ professionally since 1991.

But when I watch CppCon, what the hell are they gabbling on about? It's all complete gobbledegook! They may as well be speaking in an ancient Goa'uld dialect for all the sense it makes. These people are so far down a rabbithole I start to wonder if they've ever seen the surface.

I am therefore forced to the conclusion that despite 34 years of experience in C++ I don't know C++.

The way it works in the UK - very well by the way - is that simply being caught with a gun is enough to get you thrown in the slammer. Consequently crims don't go around armed, and for the most part the police don't need to be armed either. It was a real shock to me the day I walked through Heathrow and there was a pair of armed officers walking around; I think that's the first and only time (off-screen) I've ever seen a gun. If the police need armed backup then they have to call for a specially trained squad.

The only other armed units are the Services. We don't have any "militarised forces that abuse their power", afaik.

Guns for sports are allowed but there are extremely strict regulations around them.

Shootings here are extremely rare. Of course they still happen, no solution is 100%, but it's close, and a hell of a lot closer than the bizarre American fetish that the ultimate solution to gun violence is more guns and more guns and more guns, absolutely flying in the face of all the facts.

That Onion article entitled "No way to solve this, says the only country with this problem" is spectacularly on point.

Especially the one about same sex marriage!

Yes of course that'd be their primary source. But if that doesn't cover all the payouts then it'll lead to a general increase in insurance premiums for everyone.

That's Young Sheldon's neighbour on the right isn't it? And why is Mum holding that kid's crotch?

When I used to work at Oracle every so often a customer would call and complain some function was throwing error "ORA-00000 normal successful completion" and they wanted it filing as a bug and for us to fix it.

I was never quite sure how we were supposed to fix stupid.

Also Windows: "Ask your network administrator for access."
Me: "Well I'm my own network administrator so what questions do you want me to ask myself"?
Windows: "Enter network username and password."
Me: There is no network username or password. Sod it, I'll bung them on an external disk.

Well, no, it's all of us, because of how insurance works. Payouts go up, premiums go up. As long as the number of destroyed Teslas is a drop in the ocean we won't notice, but lots of companies love a good excuse to put prices up and this is just handing them a gold plated excuse on a silver platter.

I doubt it'll be any of the BRICS currencies, although my only knowledge of that stuff is what I get from Peter Zeihan vids on YT. His rather amusing take on that is that each nation only wants to be in it if they can run it, which obviously isn't going to work. The Euro is already proven to work across multiple nations and 32% more people than the USA, it's only idiots like us Brits that won't use it "bEcAuSe SoVeReIgNtY".

Watching the dollar crash will certainly be interesting...

And when the USM has no friends left we'll all know whose fault that is.

When the same happened to the Zimbabwe currency - I have a friend who keeps a trillion dollar note in his wallet - they switched to US dollars. When the US economy crashes out something similar will happen.