Thoughts and prayers 🙏

Have you considered a doctorate?

You are probably underestimating your abilities.
People that worry about overestimating their skills mostly underestimate their skills.

If someone says they are "good" at something, I take it to mean competency and some enthusiasm.
They might make a mistake, but they won't (or at least will rarely) make it twice.
They know how to find the solution to something within that domain of knowledge. It might not be the best solution, but it will be a solution that works.
They are also aware of what they don't know in within the domain. So, they can do C++ but know they can't do embedded programming. Or they can do C#, but know they can't do game dev.

And I would take them at their word for that, until they prove otherwise.
If they are below where they claim their skill is, I would try to help them learn (unless they show no interest in improving).
If they are above where they claim, I would tell them this.

It's always hard to judge our own skills.

US arms should be considered compromised.

If they didn't already have a backdoor, one is being engineered into a "mandatory" update.
US already have an off-switch. Or US will have an off-switch.

Such a shitter that the us became - essentially - a compromised nation. They were such a powerhouse.
They could've remained as a dominant faction. Seems like there are going down the russia-path where they truly expose their inner self, and suffer because of how inadequate they are.

I agree, and it is possibly the only good thing to come out of AI.
Like people asking "why do we need to go to the moon?!".

Fly-by-wire (ie pilot controls decoupled from physical actuators), so modern air travel.

Integrated circuits (IE multiple transistors - and other components - in the same silicon package). Basically miniaturisation and reduction in power consumption of computers.

GPS. The Apollo missions lead to the rocket tech/science for geosynchronous orbits require for GPS.

This time it is commercial.
I'd rather the power requirements were covered by non-carbon sources. However it proves the tech for future use.

For a similar example, I have a strong dislike of Elon Musk. He has ruined the potential of Twitter and Tesla, but SpaceX has had some impressive accomplishments.

Google are a shitty company. I wish the nuclear power went towards shutting down carbon power.
But SOMEONE has to take the risk. I wish that someone was a government. But it's Google. So.... Kind of a win?

That's fascinating! You should update the Wiki on trebuchets.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

Clearly someone has pulled a Scots Language Wiki and has been writing bullshit on that article for years

And there have been 5 people banned from GitHub due to racist and homophobic slurs, which violates Godot CoC and GH ToS.
I don't think these users were providing valid criticism. Never mind the fact that GH issues are not really the place to complain about some twitter drama.

https://beehaw.org/comment/3969324

It's sad. Also, not really surprising. KSP2 has had a very rough development cycle, and a very rough release.
Do they still support KSP?

She’s just been through her junk email folder and found a “We’ve noticed a new login” email from instagram yesterday

The junk-ing security notices is so common.
A few months ago, my dad said "uh, I got some email from my bank, and now my credit card doesn't work".
The email was describing some problem with his account which would have been so much easy to fix before they cancelled the card.
Similarly, I lost a domain name because the registrar notifications for renewal ended up in my junk mail.

It's probably quite a significant issue. Companies can go "well we tried to contact you" and wash their hands.
Doesn't matter that they also spammed bullshit marketing emails from the same address that issues security/renewal notifications.
Doesn't matter that spam email has been such an issue it is near-impossible to host your own email server (and expect delivery) for a decade or so now.

Good work doing what you can!
Dodging shitty companies is difficult.

For example, I'm personally of the opinion ...

Are you replying to the correct person?

ISO8601 all day, every day