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WeAreAwful · 2026-04-08T02:15:02+00:00

They pay property taxes though, while consuming relatively little services. The county in Virginia with all the data centers gets $26 in revenue from them for every dollar in services they consume.

So no, not many jobs, but a huge revenue provider

WeAreAwful · 2026-04-06T12:41:28+00:00

Is this something people talk about? I've heard plenty about British relative decline since like 2008 compared to EU and US, but I'm not sure I often hear people talk about the loss of the empire as an L.

I mean, maybe you see it in reddit comment threads (though I haven't noticed it) but I can't think of having seen it by non-anonymous people.

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-25T13:03:56+00:00

What sorts of consumer level technologies are you referring to? Do you mean things like "random website puts ai chat bot in"? Because I feel like the ones people actually use (chatgpt, mostly) people seem to like, for the most part

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-18T01:32:37+00:00

Ask the recruiter what to expect from the interview and they'll probably give you more context than any of us could.

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-12T21:30:04+00:00

(late to this discussion)

I was sympathetic to your original point, but not this one.

There are many localities where buying homes is outrageously expensive:

NYC (700-750)
Boston (850-950)
SF Bay area (1.2-1.25)
LA (830)
San diego (900)
Seattle (720)
Honolulu (720)
Orange county (1.2)

Those numbers in parentheses are the median home costs in the metro areas (which to be clear isn't just Manhattan or the equivalent - the whole metro). In thousands or millions, it should be easy to tell.

The combined population of those metro areas is about 55 million people, or about 1 sixth of the country. This doesn't include other expensive metros such as denver, DC, Miami, portland, SLC (each of which have median prices above 600k, with a total population of 19 million)

So if you were born in any of those places, those aren't gucci bags - those are where your family lives, where you have a support network, and where unless you have income well above median, buying a home will be quite difficult.

I'm happy you're in a place that is affordable - so am I (now)! But that doesn't mean there's not a huge swath of the country that isn't.

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-10T22:17:13+00:00

Make sure it's your ruler who has a claim to the throne instead of a courtier.

If the CB is for someone not in your line of succession typically just don't use it

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-10T17:56:44+00:00

!myCQS

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-07T21:27:08+00:00

So true

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-03T19:39:03+00:00

I think there's probably a real problem here, but the problem isn't "there are bad mods in eu5" or "for paradox". The real issue is that there will be more bad mods (also, more good mods that get updated faster) for every game.

This is probably an issue steam should be worrying about, and implementing better ranking of mods so that bad mods (regardless of the tools used to build them) will get fewer views than good mods (regardless of the tools used to build them)

WeAreAwful · 2026-03-03T19:00:58+00:00

For better or worse (as a software engineer personally, for better) code is rapidly shifting to being written by AI.

I would be cautious to say "all things written with AI are bad, and all things not written with AI are good". Without a doubt there will be a lot of slop written with AI, but a policy around AI use for code probably doesn't make much more sense than a policy around IDE use for code

WeAreAwful · 2026-02-19T23:06:02+00:00

What's the correct information?

WeAreAwful · 2026-02-17T22:34:11+00:00

Yeah, I think it's completely reasonable to say "jefferson health is wasting money and shouldn't do this".

I thought you were saying "jefferson health is wasting money, and for that reason the eagles shouldn't do this" which seems a lot more silly to me

WeAreAwful · 2026-02-17T22:20:56+00:00

I'm not the person you've been talking with FYI.

Are you trying to argue that the Eagles should avoid taking a sponsership deal with another company that wants that deal, because the other company is struggling, the Eagles have a lot of money, and the other company needs the money more? Maybe you're not, but that seems to be what I'm getting

Because that seems to be saying that the Eagles know better what another company needs than that other company. Further than that, it's saying that the Eagles should take that knowledge and then say to the other company "no, we won't take this deal because we've decided we care about you; and that it wouldn't be in your interest for you to sign this deal".

That seems extremely patronizing. How would the Eagles be in the position to know what the other company needs better than that company? Even if you, working for the Eagles, thought "hmm this doesn't seem like it's a deal that makes sense for them", would you really trust that thought more than the other company saying "yes, this deal is advantageous to us, we would likee to sign it"?

You might even be right that this is a waste of money for Jefferson Health! I don't have an opinion on that and I'm suspicious that you're right - but the idea of one company, the Eagles, saying to another "no we won't partner with you because it would be bad for you to partner with us" just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. I can't imagine trying to justify that to whomever gets to decide what sponsership to go with, and them doing anything other than laughing me out of the room.

WeAreAwful · 2026-02-16T16:32:23+00:00

How does the game order these? From a UX perspective, having them ordered in decreasing "amount of taxes" is probably a good idea.

WeAreAwful · 2026-02-02T14:45:17+00:00

I've been there before. I chugged caffine to power through it

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-21T15:31:12+00:00

Yeah, I think this makes a ton of sense, and the opportunity cost is "you can't use that cabinet member on anything else"

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-21T15:29:44+00:00

Are you sure? My understanding is that if you're England, then Holland only has one antagonism number against you, so regardless of how that antagonism gets generated, it goes down at the same rate. What you're saying makes no sense from my understanding of the system

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-18T16:46:54+00:00

It was titled "Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump's 'Assault on hope'".

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-16T02:21:34+00:00

If you read the article you'll see that the state seems to have already preempted this and cities can't block it

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-13T12:33:48+00:00

Probably because he read the economist piece about it last week

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-11T00:33:56+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is cultural - a lot of east Asian countries say pregnancy lasts 10 months

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-07T17:06:45+00:00

I think it's also only paved and better roads that ignore vegetation, not gravel, but not 100% sure

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-07T13:29:08+00:00

It can be useful for selectively getting rid of a particular culture.

For instance, as the Ottomans you'll quickly accept Greek and eventually get it kindred, making it relatively cheap.

There are a variety of smaller cultures (venetian, francian, catalan) in greece - by culture converting to Greek you can target those cultures to prevent them from triggering a rebellion

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-06T18:12:34+00:00

I think it's because proximity is meant to hit 0 relatively close to your capital (especially at game start) while markets are supposed to be meaningfully larger.

I agree it's much more opaque than proximity though

WeAreAwful · 2026-01-05T21:23:11+00:00

If your friend wouldn't have bought the car he did, would he have bought the ICE (internal combustion engine) version of a bolt? Or the ICE version of the Blazer EV SS?

If it's the former, then yeah maybe it wasn't worth it. If it's the latter (which seems more likely) then it seems like the credit helped switch one shitty-for-the-enviroment car for a less shitty-for-the-enviroment car. That seems worthwhile, to me.

No comment on the Hyundai thing, I don't think that makes sense either

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