• Operation Condor: right wing dictators in South America repressing leftists with the support of Americans and possibly the French
• Gladio: Post WWII Allied Forces and then NATO intelligence operations to delegitimize and destabilize leftist groups in Eastern Europe from end of WWII through the 1990s
• Ranch Hand: US led effort to destroy the foliage and agricultural land in Vietnam to deprive the Viet Cong of food and places to stage attacks
• PBSuccess: CIA led coup d’état in Guatemala at the request of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita)
• Phoenix Program: CIA led effort to infiltrate the Viet Cong

Coming from the software development side, I interpret this statement a little differently.

I used to work with a team:

• 1 engineering manager whose sole focus was management, developing talent and problem solving around the organization
• 1 very senior engineer who could do the work of 10 ordinary engineers
• 2-3 mid level engineers who could work somewhat independently, as long as they were provided guidance to start
• 1-2 junior engineers who could only handle the most basic tasks and needed hand holding through most projects

Rather than working full tilt, the senior engineer did a lot of work pair programming and helping the juniors develop into better engineers. He accomplished half of what he could, but the team was better for it.

Fifteen years later, no one hired juniors anymore. We hire 1-2 seniors, 2 mid levels and that’s it. Everyone is expected to focus on developing software. No one cares about training or education.

The problem with this is we aren’t backfilling the ranks. If we don’t train juniors, they never become mid levels. Without mid levels, we won’t identify the best to become seniors.

In a world where game development happens on the fringes (indie studios or solo developers), who’s going to hire a junior that can’t contribute meaningfully to the project?

https://archive.is/2025.05.10-080733/https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/may/10/are-we-heading-for-another-world-war-or-has-it-already-started

People who like war thunder tend to be military folks. Some of those military folks have access to sensitive materials. Some of those people make bad choices about sharing sensitive materials

There’s a fascinating historical nonfiction book by Erik Larson that covers the early days of the American civil war.

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War is mostly focused on the soldiers and officers manning Fort Sumter in South Carolina, the site of the first battle of the war. But it also includes lengthy discussions of how Lincoln was vilified for things he never said and blamed for things he didn’t actually do.

The southern states, specifically the landed elite, were very interested in starting a war so they could maintain their wealth and power so they used Lincoln as a scapegoat to rouse the masses

That or you’re driving after dark with your lights off 😅

It’s like flashing your lights at oncoming traffic to warn them of a speed trap ahead

Gig nursing is different from travel nursing.

Travel nurses are paid much more than staff nurses and often receive travel stipends and housing allowances.

Check out Spiritfarer. I loved it

https://www.summarize.tech/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOHf20slZg

Or AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s from Bojack Horseman

Hilarious. Thanks

Examples?

The tutorial is quite long. After you have a ship, you can abandon the questline and just do whatever you want.

Requires reading the wiki a lot, but it lets you do whatever you want.

Gunship battles with aliens on the surface? ✅ Dogfights with pirates in orbit? ✅ Arbitrage and space merchant trading? ✅ Planet exploration and flora/fauna identification? ✅ Base building? ✅

The problem with China’s real estate market is that it’s entirely built on false promises and leveraged debt.

The government provides cheap loans to citizens to buy homes they will never live. All in an effort to drive the country’s GDP… but eventually you will either:

1. Run out of capital to fuel this construction
2. Rebase the value of these paper homes and the economy collapses on a scale 10x that of the 2008 housing crisis

This article has nothing to do with unhoused people, nor an overvalued housing market pushing out middle class buyers. The economics of the Chinese market are completely dissimilar from the western (US particularly) markets.

It’s entirely about how the Chinese government has an unsustainable market segment dedicated to building things that people don’t want or need… other than to have wealth on paper.

Bay of Biscay

1. SteamDeck
2. Switch with NSO
3. Xbox
4. PS5

Now you have literally everything?

Or just skip 2/3/4 and emulate

There are some options for Pis like unraid.

Honestly though, just pick one problem you have and solve that with docker.

Beat your head against the wall trying to figure out the virtualization, volume mapping, permissions and networking.

Then start finding other problems to solve.

I stood up a homelab for media storage and streaming… and it has now grown to 30-40 applications running in parallel.