It's about Russia and it's militarist expansionism, not about Trump.

This is EXACTLY how it went for me when I moved from a Physics to an Electronics Engineering degree at University.

Also, the trying to understand how the various circuits worked from the point of view of "electrons moving" was a hard to overcome early tendency (even simple things like LC circuits, for example, are only really understandable as ressonant stable states and for complex circuits you really have to go higher levels than "electrons" to be able to understand then in any reasonable amount of time).

On the upside when we got to things like how tunnel effect diodes worked, the whole thing was just obvious because of having had an introduction to Quantum Mechanics in the Physics degree. Also the general stuff about how semiconductor junctions work is a lot more easy to get if you come from Physics.

(In summary: Physics really helps in understanding HOW the various components in Electronics work, but doesn't at all help in understanding how to use them to assemble a complex structure to achieve a given objective. Curiously this also applies to Mathematics and Software Development)

I've been avoiding travel to the US since the Patriot Act that followed 9/11 started that kind of shit and more in general the US started moving away from Democracy and into Autocracy.

Last time I felt like traveling to the North American continent I just went to Canada instead for a whole month - sea kayaking in British Columbia, hiking in the Canadian Rockies, sightseeing in Quebec . Highly recommended by the way.

They need to look at the bright side: Russia will be saving a lot of money from now onwards on strategic bomber maintenance costs and bomber launched cruise missiles.

It's becoming like Facebook, which is were people's parents, uncles and aunts and even grandparents (as well as technically inept organisations) are, but you yourself either moved on or are too young to have ever wanted to be there ("because nobody my age is there"), only whilst Facebook is merelly a Propaganda outlet for the Far Right, Twitter is openly Nazi.

Food for thought: a sufficiently tall and narrow burger ain't a burger anymore, when it's roughly spherical rather than roughly cylindrical it's also not a burger and if it's large and brick-like it's yet something else.

So burger is a geometrically bound dish definition.

You need one of those even more for Israel, but the British political elites are active and willing accomplices in that specific Genocide.

One rule for some, another for others...

Hypocrisy is very much the core trait of the British upper classes.

He had punishment options other than Assault: for example he could have kicked her out to the showers, kicked her out of the team, possibly even all the way to getting her kicked out of the school.

You know, normal tools for coaches and teachers in highschools to deal with serious pupil misbehaviour.

This ain't the 1920s and physical punishment isn't acceptable in schools anymore.

He is easily the worst person there is to ask for it.

The local TV here in Portugal also did the whole saying "that some consider a Nazi salute" thing in their news segment about this ...

... and then showed Elon's salute and a bunch of Nazis doing Nazi salutes as examples, leaving nobody in the audience but the blind in any doubt that Elon's salute was the same as the salutes that the Nazis did.

Nowadays very few people in this side of the pond think Europe is worst than the US, and I'm actually living in a country which is pretty much at the tail of the EU wealthwise and hearing that viewpoint from people who old enough and from humble enough origins to have lived in actual misery when this country was a Fascist shithole. As far as I can tell most people around think that at the moment EU is the safest and most prosperous place to live in the World.

People did use to look up to the US maybe 2 decades ago and before, but then the long-term results of Neoliberal Capitalism started to reveal themselves and shitstains like this guy and Trump got into the scene (gleefully followed by the rest of the Republican party and even the Democrat party leadership) and the perception of the US went from "Prosperous Land Of Opportunity" to "Dangerous and Decaying Country".

The American Dream has been murdered and people like Musk are just plunging the knife a couple more times into its already cooling down corpse.

• Don't break the Law for the company or the boss.
• Keep the company shit in company devices and your shit in your devices. That means company computer and phone for their stuff and your own for yours. If there's ever any Lawsuit or Criminal investigation on the company they won't take your stuff as evidence if you don't at all use it for company work and won't intrude in your privacy if the company stuff isn't used for your own stuff.
• Even if it's totally legal, if something that your are being ordered to do against your better advice might come back to bite you (i.e. you might get blamed for the negative outcome you predict will come from it), get that order in writing.

Even your direct lead can't be assumed to be your friend (no matter how nice: niceness is easily and commonly faked) until you've gone through some proper shit together and he or she has shown themselves to be somebody that will take the hit rater than "blame their underlings" - trusts is earned, not due.