DaDragon

New investors were covering existing loans you mean!
No Ponzi scheme here, nothing of the sort. Just good old economics!

But yes, they sold apartments and used the proceeds to finance existing, already sold buildings that weren’t built yet.

Which is pretty close to what they are! Although iirc biscuits are somewhat more crumbly

That’s a political win situation, regardless. What’s 10 million lives if you can claim that you successfully did the work that even the great leader Mao couldn’t achieve 50 years before?

It’s also cheap. Shitty suicide drones can be made for less than 1000$, why bother wasting expensive materials that don’t improve success rates?

The M2 is slightly different in that it’s been actively kept in service (like the mg3 or the m3 Carl Gustav), which the Maxim hasn’t been (that I know of). Plenty of other old weapon systems have been, though.

Just as there’s apparently still thousands of new-in-box lend-lease M1928 submachine-guns in storage. I’d wager a lot of large countries have similar stockpiles, especially places like Russia that can absolutely afford to just dump shit in random places.

Or you’d be buried by 300 layers of very similar open apps with different info loaded in each instance

They actually introduced pretty much that exact thing back in 2008, the Order of Parental Glory. Have more children to fuel the machine, please

To some extent, it actually does go over well, sadly.

Not to worry, there’s a construction site next to me. I’m sure they wouldn’t miss just one small little spool

I’ve turned to adding a ZWSP (no width Unicode) between the : and ) parts of the character, that works pretty well. It’s a bit of a hassle, of course

Because we’re the last of the old guard? I’m gen z, and honestly I still prefer emoticons, probably because I grew used to them before emoji

Ah yes, America, the land of freedom and of the free!

Freedom to be free from people you dislike, it seems…

I’ve gone through at least 5 or so Philips sonicare brushes, and it’s almost universally the linkage to the brush head that fails. Seems like they can’t handle the vibration for more than a couple years.

The buttons aren’t terribly insulated from water/other crap too, but honestly I’ve never had them fail, so it’s certainly not that huge of a concern

You could just as easily end up on the opposite end of the spectrum, no?

And, was he good at his job??

Exactly. Then it’s fine. He had his chance, he didn’t take it. Fair game

I think in the eyes of the Government it makes a lot of sense to act the way they do, it’s a great casus belli that has been dropped into their lap to ‘finally’ wipe out Gaza.

You then run into the issue of manufacturers not having enough time to roadmap/push prequels out the door. 2035 seems like a long time away, but realistically it’s 12 years. That’s just about enough time for a large manufacturer to push out a solid platform and ensure it’s good enough. Any less time and most legacy automakers probably wouldn’t make it.

Look at the i3 and i8 from BMW. The i3 first released in 2013. In those 10 years they barely managed to introduce a second generation of electric vehicles. Now I’ll admit they weren’t focussed on it, but development takes time.

If you’ve got a problem, it’s on you to solve

Isn’t that exactly what NNN aims to do, at a general level? A peer-pressured event to at least give most people a reason not to watch porn for a bit.

The same idea going for things like r/nofap. I’ll absolutely believe that the sub has become cult-like and incelfilled, as I haven’t gone there myself. But at least on the surface it’s a group of people trying to solve a problem they have, no? (And some people taking advantage of that, or of other issues the people there have)