I'm an agnostic, but when I read about what he does, it makes me devoutly wish that hell exists. He has made countless people's lives hell on earth, and he doesn't care at all. No one is holding him accountable in this life: it's inconvenient for those in power.

It's a systemic issue, not due to one man.

What gets overlooked here is the US IC itself being a probable cause: the habit of "housecleaning" by killing individuals suspected to be possible (even only prospective) leaks of inconvenient information is very real.

The recent cluster of weird deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to secret military research has a similar pattern to it: a statistically highly unlikely density of "suicides, accidents & mishaps".

The assumption, those actions were "justified" somehow is entirely baseless: there is no transparency and no effective oversight. What is supposedly being kept secret there might simply be illegal corruption or embarrassing and inconvenient to those in power.

Almost every discussion here on HN about those "deaths and disappearances of scientists linked to secret military research" has been about how, when you actually dig into the data, they have been very statistically likely.

Calling things "systemic" is unfortunately often just a way of offloading the problem into the pile of Things We Can't Fix. It removes individual accountability, in an era where we are increasingly able to assess the effect an influential individual actually has - because their dialogue is public and recorded, and the consequences of that can be studied.

I think there are plenty of individual men who are absolutely responsible for things becoming worse, and we do the world no favours by helping them shrug the burden of their actions.

There are long standing systemic issues, and then there's also one man making things dramatically worse in new, stupider ways.

So have many others before him.

The only difference is, is that before him we had "Iraq has weapons for mass destruction! we must attack them, before they attack us, we're in danger!", and now there's "we're going in and we're taking the oil!".

So from "we can do whatever we want if we lie" turned into "we can do whatever we want", not really relevant to all the people killed.

But hey, some americans would say that "It's worth it" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_VnVlFhXU

Nobody is holding up those other guys as shining paragons of virtue either.

“Other people did it too” is not an excuse for immoral behavior.

I think the parent and I basically agree.

But pretty much every US president did something like that, killed people somewhere, usually half the planet away. No US president is in jail for that. OP above me is just blaming this particular one for something that everyone has done before, and many of them even got reelected again by the same people complaining about.

Trump attacked quite a few countries in his first term, even killed the Iranian general (Soleimani), and you guys reelected him after all that. You guys clearly weren't bothered by that enough to vote for someone else.

If nothing else, Iran has learned that they really need those nukes, because you guys will never leave them at peace otherwise.

They are probably using the Norwegian flag, that doesn't necessarily mean they are importing oil to Norway, only that the owner and crew use the flag.

Yeah, but no one want's to buy a mom van </s>

That's right, gotta buy that brodozer and show everyone what a real MAN you are!

So I guess that any article from the Guardian is automatically flagged, no matter the subject?

Natural selection only favors adaptations that help us create more surviving offspring to spread genes to the next generations.

MuseScore doesn't work with NotePerformer (yet?).

One of the main advantages I find in Dorico is it seamless use of NotePerformer. I like MuseScore 4.4 that came out a few days ago, but it's lack of NotePerformer support makes it extremely difficult to fiddle with to sound balanced. Even if the UI is easier, the playback is most important to me.

Making playback sound pleasant, even with their excellent new integration with sound libraries like Spitfire's, is not easy without tweaking notation.

I hope that the MuseScore team fixes this soon. They have been improving very fast.

They are desperately trying to regain trust by appearing impartial

While hobnobbing with billionaires and saying the unspeakable thing aloud: their secret desires to turn America into Gilead.

Have you heard it in Queen's "We are the champions"?

"No time for losers, for we are the Champions" ... etc

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I noticed that and asked a friend, and they didn't see it. To me, when you consider both how it sounds and the theme of the song, it has to be intentional.

Queen has to be one of the winners in terms of shortness of the message required, you can probably get by with just a STOMP-STOMP

Scale models, Vitruvius, oral history, geometry (an applied math)

Also massively overengineering things and wasting a lot of time.

It is completely possible to build stuff without any math whatsoever if the community of builders copies what they did last time, makes minor adjustments when it doesn't work and keeps an oral history.

Of course, the constructions will be overengineered, not really of industrial volume and the community will believe a lot of things that are not true. And any attempts to be innovative will usually be expensive disasters.

Don't forget all the unstable buildings fell down a long time ago and we don't remember them.

At least three pyramids in Egypt had major structural failures. There was a lack of understanding of how the weight on top can produce an outward push below.

So...maybe it's that there's a lot of jobs where nothing of value is produced? Or at least, nothing of value to the employee, only to the owners?

Yea I’m sure there’s plenty of jobs where nothing of value is produced.

Think about all the startups that fail. People work really hard for two years, and then the whole thing fails with nothing to show for it.

In the grand scheme of things, no value was created, even though each day the people worked, value was created.