it’s like the dark ages where Europe was doing nonsense while the rest of the world was doing stuff
Lemmy.world would be PISSED if they could see this
lemm.ee would be PISSED if they still existed
During the Golden Dome announcement, Trump gloated about how the USA had supertechnology that no-one else does
My buddy is a brilliant structural engineer that could be building incredible infrastructure in a cool country. He is in the midwest so he builds plasma centers instead.
Well…at least it’s not prison architecture.
There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.
Ehh, it is not really different.
Blood and not energy I presume?
Yup. Blood plasma
There’s a place here with a big sign saying “Turning plasma into hope”, and I wish it was CERN’s slogan.
makes sense, i’ve been starting to see guerilla advertising for selling blood plasma on tiktok
I considered doing an engineering degree but decided against it because I didn’t want to build car infrastructure and shit like this for a dying empire.
Tbf god’s train-building record is pretty shit
playing devils advocate here, but having tight constraints does make engineering more difficult.
chinese engineers have it easy because china actually wants and funds good trains.