They had it, but WW2 did so much damage (WW1 contributed to this too) and the need to move workers around cheaply and reliably to rebuild gave them an opportunity to improve public transit and make it the primary focus for transportation infrastructure. Build the transit route into the communities or commercial areas, then rebuild those zones around it. By the 70’s it was fully modernized and a primary focus from governments. Without that destruction it may have just been city centers like North America does.

Perfect opportunity to build from scratch.

That’s a contributing factor. Their land mass, topography and general population density benefitted it highly as well, but the need to reconstruct their cities provided two problems that needed solving - fix the previous infrastructure and get the workers from outside the demolished zones into them. Trains existed for a lot of things already so it made sense to keep pushing them into the city centers. It was an inexpensive and reliable solution.

Yeah from a business perspective replacing hardware makes Load of sense but it’s not always because it’s problematic. We try to donate most of the systems we replace except for the hard drives. I’ve just shifted where the donations occurs a few times when needed.

We were active in both world wars years before the US was. They didn’t win a goddamn thing like they think they did. They’ve lost every war they started, they couldn’t even leave their base in Korea until the commonwealth came onto the field. We also had the special forces that were put at the top of the list for operations in Afghanistan. We did more dirty work than they did. They train in Canada because they don’t have a diverse enough environment for mountain and winter training. But sure, cut off your nose to spite your face, great leadership decision.

I work in IT and have admittedly taken some systems we’ve set for recycling to fill gaps or help people out.

The main reason public transit is what it is in Europe is because of how WW2 ravaged the continent. Maybe WW3 will do the same.

When I still used Facebook would regularly report imitation sites and posts pretending to be national news outlets as impersonation and misinformation. They would never do anything about it. On Instagram I’ve reported openly hateful accounts calling for violence against groups, as their account name or bio and it doesn’t violate their TOS according to the responses I’m getting.

Doesn’t seem to exist on the Canadian version.

I natively speak English. I used to be somewhat competent for my age in French because as a child I was in French classes, I gave those up at some point due to a lack of interest. I’ve attempted to learn Mandarin, Korean, and German without much commitment. Now I’m learning Spanish which is coming along, but I lack confidence in it.

I suppose I also know Newfinese if that counts.

DLSS - a solution devised by moronic suits to solve a problem other moronic suits created.

I miss when video games were made so we could experience the vision of the developers. I also miss when the games made were optimized (at least somewhat) for the user experience and not cranked out sloppily for investors.

double post by accident.

Generally speaking medical research in the US has been scrutinized due to the incredibly profitable privatized nature of it, so much so that people believe solutions are actively suppressed in favor of more expensive options. In the last few weeks after the US left the WHO a whole bunch of cancer cures started coming up. While probably a coincidence, after the last few months of conspiracy theorists being proven at least to some degree right it’s getting hard to ignore that this may not be a coincidence.

I have alternated over the years due to having various injuries and it’s made me change how I do it. Socks however have never changed.

Remember how now that countries have stopped recognizing US medial science we see cures for cancer coming out of the woodwork? Yeah…

As a Canadian, what I saw in that half time show and the few things I’ve seen him say elsewhere indicate he has displayed the values and mentality that I was told while growing up that America is all about. These values are not what I see perpetuated by a large portion of the American population.

I don’t typically like soulsborne games but Elden Ring got me into it for a few reasons. The biggest one was I had no requirement to beat my head against the wall to continue. If you’re having trouble fighting a boss or type of enemy go somewhere else and fight through that area. Sometimes it’s just good practice to get used to the mechanics, and it’s good for leveling.

Don’t worry about losing runes and dying. Those are two very common things. Experienced players do it all the time too. My gf is obsessed with souls games and sometimes she will lose a lot of souls/runes while trying to recover them after death.

When you die it’s best to try and recover your runes if you can, and it’s okay to run past enemies, you don’t have to clear cut the whole area because when you save or die they respawn. If you need to grind out runes for a level you can always reset an area by saving at a bonfire, that’s a useful trick when you find an area you can clear out efficiently.

The wiki is helpful, the game tells you very little about what is going on or what to do next. There are also entire areas you’re very likely to miss if you don’t know about how to get to them, so exploration and when you come across something you don’t understand don’t feel stupid looking up a guide.

I built a dexterity oriented build and used Bloodhound Fang for almost the entire game and it worked out great. Unless they’ve nerfed that weapon it’s still very good for less experienced players. The game has a lot of information to learn, it’s overwhelming, but you’ll pick it up as you go.

While I may be wrong it sort of looks like Control.

Ahh I see sex ed paying off.