You would have to have an incredible grindset to become a decent engineer without actually enjoying any of it. You could become a shitty one just by passing tests, I guess. (And probably many people do)

Shit, I wrote that wrong. Trying to do too many things at once.

Wow, I’ve never had this problem. The tricky one is Australia vs. NZ.

I mean, every dialect is just a bastardised version of an older dialect, including your own.

The name might well have come from the community, since the whole app store model is as old as the modern smartphone, and downloading a different way is new, while possible, was always for power users.

If there had been a more normal software ecosystem from the get-go that would have been nice. Actual regulation to enforce device freedom would also be good.

You could in theory make a channel with a bunch of different stable whistle frequencies, and add some other aerodynamic feature that kicks it through them. I doubt you could reasonably do more than a few notes that way, though, and you probably have to hit them in order.

More likely it’s just multiple bullets, as the other reply said.

I’m going to guess the military wasn’t the main audience here, but rather your typical gun nuts.

Come for the jokes, stay for the unprompted washing machine reviews.

Yeah, an actual African would use wood for the replacement stock, because why not, and they have enough practice fixing their own shit with hand tools it might look exactly like the original.

That Russian сок birch sap drink. It’s super hard to find in Canada but nothing hits me quite the same way.

Israel’s encroachment into the area is more modern. There was a couple of iterations of Assyria and I don’t remember how they both ended off the top of my head, but Persia definitely did extend that far West at times.

Do people still do that? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it IRL, but then again I don’t live somewhere that’s known for it.

Uhh, Pakistan still has a bunch of nukes, Kazakhstan gave theirs up at the same time as the other two, and South Africa had them and gave them up. Also there’s no war in Pakistan, and only war at a low level in Belarus (and they’re the aggressor).

TBF lots of countries think everyone having nukes is a bad idea. It’s just so nice to be one of the few that does…

Because I maintain that if the US govt disappeared, all the entities you currently consider “US-based corporations” would not disappear.

Publicly traded corporations wouldn’t really make sense or exist anymore, but certain private ones in the right industries might manage to go oligarch, and become/set up a new government. Most would be hopelessly unprepared and would be overrun, though. In my own answer there’s an anecdote about this.

People know what the Sinaloa cartel is, and might not know about the nuances of corporate structures, or even what a share is, but do have a vague idea corporations are complicated, and very dependent on law enforcement and litigation to function. I won’t argue semantics.

This is an arbitrary list of things and I don’t agree that all corporations have all of these

I’m curious why you’re willing to call them businesses but not corporations.

It’s definitional, a corporation is a specific legal structure. A single trader is not a corporation, but is a business. Ditto for Rome, which I’ve never heard called a corporation even though it was all about money.

They compete with rival cartels in all the same ways corporations would if they could (or already do when they can get away with it).

Civil war. In case you aren’t following the relevant news, the Sinaloa cartel is fighting with itself. A corporation can never do that - government laws set out very clearly who controls what.

And, that makes a huge impact on what kind of people run a corporation, and how they go about managing their business. Managing the loyalty of underlings is of little concern, while it’s about the only concern for a warlord. If a VP tried to run their own business with company assets, they’d just be jailed for breach of trust.

That’s nowhere near Rus (if the Viking thing even happened). It’s a particular Finnic population.

You going rainy and depressing, or Russia?

Wow that’s a trip. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

There is one difference, though. If you look closely, the raft is laying mines, and probably has the gun just in case. Now, being swarmed by cheap platforms is everybody’s main fear.

Drug cartels aren’t really corporations. There’s no formal structure, shares or board meetings, and sometimes they do just descend into civil war (like in Mexico right now). They’re businesses, but in some ways Rome was as well. The thing that makes them a funny historical edge case is that their primary business is transport rather than theft, and that’s down to the massive US/Canadian demand, the wealth behind it, and the inability of any recognised state to join the drug trade in their place and get away with it.