Quantity is also important. We can’t just rely on a few high-tech systems, we need volumes of simpler equipment as well. These systems are good candidates for stuff we can mass produce right now.

But anon even said they were straight, so this might actually be the first true and straight greentext.

Exactly: I have friends that got a drivers license in th US, and the education/test is honestly a joke compared to what they require here, and it clearly shows in the number of driving-related deaths.

It is, in fact, very easy for them to tell whether you license specifies that you can drive a manual or not. If it doesn’t say anything, then it doesn’t qualify.

That’s exactly the point: If there’s no way to differentiate, the country is free to say “welp, that’s your problem. Your license doesn’t specify manual, so no manual for you.”

I would say that the “bad part of town” usually has overlap with the poorer part of town, regardless of what skin colour people have there. Of course, especially in the US, there’s significant overlap between economic status and skin colour. I just hate how the typical American view on “race” is projected onto other countries.

Americans typically have this hang-up on “race” that you really don’t find anywhere else. A lot of places you have talk about “ethnicity” or similar, but the American fascination with categorising people by their skin colour and then using that to make generalisations is pretty unique.

Drinking age is 18 in most of the world (with 16 also applying some places). Additionally, my impression is that it’s not as big a deal for 16-17 year olds to get ahold of alcohol in other places.

Where I’m from, the drinking age is 18, but it’s not uncommon or a big deal for people to get some beer or drinks for their 17th birthday party.

Luckily you can always fall back to a handbrake start if you need to, I’ll usually always do that if I’m driving a car I’m not at all used to and find myself in an uphill start.

You might want to check the details here: I know that in some European countries, you’ll have trouble renting a car at all with an American license unless you pass a driving test in a European country first to get certified. In fact, in several countries I don’t think an American license is valid at all until you pass a test. It’s probably worth checking out the details for Romania.

I don’t really think there’s any “generally” here: It differs quite a bit between countries. I believe in some countries they won’t allow you to drive a manual unless your license specifies it (i.e. an American license isn’t valid for a manual).

For that exact reason some countries (my country included) don’t accept an American license unless you do a test here first.

Though IIRC, that applies for both manuals and automatics, because American drivers education isn’t really trusted here.

I could definitely run Linux on the machine, no doubt it would work even better then. In fact I have an old Ubuntu partition on it that I haven’t booted in years, but which worked fine when I last used it.

However, the only purpose that machine serves at the moment is being an x86 Mac with a toolchain for compiling whatever, so that I can quickly compile distributables whenever I need to distribute something for x86 mac and don’t want to spend time setting up a full pipeline for cross compiling (once or maybe twice a year).

I have an old MacBook (2012) that runs macOS 10.13 (High Sierra, released in 2017) on 4GB RAM. I use it a couple times a year if I need to compile something for Mac x86 and don’t want to spend time setting up cross-compiling from my newer (M1) machine.

That MacBook is literally 13 years old, and the only upgrade I’ve given it is a new SSD back around 2018. It runs just fine.

Rip on the walled garden all you like, but if you want an OS with the stability and simplicity of a commercial OS, together with unix compatibility and a shell that lets you do whatever you want… macOS is your best bet. Using it literally feels like using a commercially polished and widely supported version of Linux.

With the drone drops usually being fairly accurate, you rarely get to see this clearly what the effective range of the grenades is. This really shows why stuff like artillery shells are regarded as potentially lethal to exposed infantry even at 100 m.

I usually make a point to take off my hood if I have one on, and generally lift my head and maybe give them a nod/smile, or otherwise indicate that “I’ve seen you, and I’m letting you see my face clearly”. If we’re alone in a dark, empty place at night, I’ll also make a point to cross the street away from them.

I’ve talked to some women about how they prefer men to act, and they generally said they think what I do is decent. Of course, that’s reliant on the whole “make eye-contact, nod, smile, and wave”-thing being done in a disarming and “I’m friendly and I see you, and I’m going to mind my own business”-way, and not a creepy way.

You could get it to run without a problem, but I don’t understand why they would portray macOS as having heavier requirements than windows. Of the two, macOS is an order of magnitude cheaper to run than Windows.

I know that Norway started training its standard infantry with light drones a year or two ago, I can only hope other NATO countries are doing the same.

I just want to underscore the crucial part of the monarch being apolitical. I believe the only Norwegian citizens that cannot vote are the royal family (whether by tradition or law I’m not sure).

I think it definitely has an effect of bringing cohesion and stability to a country that you have a formal head of state, or a “personification” of the nation, that is not tied to any political party. One thing is in foreign diplomacy, another thing is in bringing the country together during a crisis. In the latter case, the monarch is a figurehead that everyone can gather around, regardless of political affiliation.

It’s definitely true that most NATO troops have never trained for battlefield situations where drones are everywhere, and most current NATO gear isn’t built with the idea in mind that drones will be constantly attacking them from above. NATO definitely has a lot of adapting to do.

My point was just that light drone capabilities aren’t completely unknown to NATO, and that a lot of tech and doctrine had already been developed and implemented before the war. That should make it easier to adapt than if we were starting from scratch.

I can’t say anything certain, but I think it would be foolish to believe that the NATO militaries haven’t been watching intensely and working overtime on developing their own drone capabilities. Not to mention what they already had. A video posted years ago already showed an F16 (I seem to remember) that was equipped with a pod, from which it deployed a couple hundred drones that could be controlled simultaneously (i.e. a drone swarm).

If that’s what was shown off before the current war started, I can’t imagine it’s any worse now.

Not to mention that NATO militaries have been using various semi high-tech drones for years, so adapting to using a larger volume of cheaper drones shouldn’t be that large of a shift.

I honestly feel a bit bad for you if you’re actually this mad about someone making a joke about stereotypes and not just trolling… For the record, I’m not American, and work in an international environment where people make jokes about my language and culture on the daily. Life gets a lot better when you don’t take yourself too seriously and just have fun with the quirks and stereotypes attached to your nationality.

So I say again: y u so mad bro?

Regards, An inbred, rotten fish eating, mountain monkey