Well, it’s easy enough to check, but I imagine that it does. Most countries don’t honestly have that many peacetime soldiers (though wartime is going to affect things). If you’re North Korea, maybe, as they have a very large military.

kagis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces

In the US, even if you counted every single active-duty person in all of the armed forces as a “soldier” — which I’m sure is not actually the case — you’d have 1.3 million people.

The smallest category in the chart I listed was office clerks, at 2.5 million.

goes looking for North Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Army

North Korea also has 1.3 million active-duty people in its military, but it has a far-smaller population than the US does, 26 million instead of 340 million. So in North Korea, if you counted “uniformed services” as one profession, it’d be easily higher than any occupation as a percentage-of-population than those listed above for the US. The largest category for the US — the home and health care aides — has 4 million, so 1% of the population. The active-duty military would be 5% of the population for North Korea.

Relevant:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters_by_Occupation

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters_by_Occupation

Ant-Man as a Baskin-Robbins cashier?

Of the things listed so far, I think that that’s the most-common, at least by US standards. By descending size:

https://www.bls.gov/oes/2024/may/area_emp_chart/area_emp_chart.htm

Largest occupations in the United States, May 2024

• Home Health and Personal Care Aides
• Retail Salespersons
• Fast Food and Counter Workers
• General and Operations Managers
• Registered Nurses
• Cashiers
• Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
• Stockers and Order Fillers
• Customer Service Representatives
• Office Clerks, General

I think that if I were a Chinese multinational company and it becomes a problem, I’d probably just set up an R&D office abroad in a suitable country that doesn’t have the degree of political resistance.

Probably still slightly bad for China, but I don’t think that it necessarily is going to be some insurmountable problem for Chinese firms.

At this scale of immigration, what matters is going to be the individual’s skillset. They aren’t going to measurably bolster the country’s population. Doesn’t really matter that much whether they settle in China and raise kids and such.

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My guess is that the administration backs down. Maybe they could lose some of those, but if they can’t even get Fox News and Newsmax onboard, they’re just basically shutting down their media coverage.

EDIT: Also, I’m amazed that the administration managed to dick things up to that degree. I don’t have a very high opinion of Hegseth, but if there’s one thing that you’d think that his experience would be relevant for, you’d think that he’d at least be able to handle media relations with Fox News. The guy spent the last decade there.

You probably don’t want Iran to have jurisdiction over your dot-com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Iran

Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran.[2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution;[3][4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion; apostasy; blasphemy; extortion; counterfeiting; smuggling; recidivist consumption of alcohol; producing or preparing food, drink, cosmetics, or sanitary items that lead to death when consumed or used; producing and publishing pornography; using pornographic materials to solicit sex; capital perjury; recidivist theft; certain military offences (e. g., cowardice, assisting the enemy); “waging war against God”; “spreading corruption on Earth”; espionage; and treason.[5][6] Iran carried out at least 977 executions in 2015, at least 567 executions in 2016,[7] and at least 507 executions in 2017.[8] In 2018 there were at least 249 executions, at least 273 in 2019, at least 246 in 2020, at least 290 in 2021, at least 553 in 2022, at least 834 in 2023,[9] and at least 901 executions in 2024.[10] In 2023, Iran was responsible for 74% of all recorded executions in the world, with the UN confirming that at least 40 people were executed in one week in 2024.

Frankly, 4chan users or operators would probably have violated some of those, were they under jurisdiction of Iranian law.

The number of kidnappings of South Koreans in Cambodia has soared in recent months, prompting national security adviser Wi Sung-lac to form an emergency task force for the swift repatriation of citizens affected by scams.

Victims of scams are typically lured with promises of high-paying jobs before being confined in compounds and forced to participate in online fraud operations, particularly voice phishing scams, according to multiple sources, including Yonhap News.

Who in South Korea is going to Cambodia with the intent of getting a high-paying job?

goes to dig up per-capita GDP numbers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

$34,642

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia

$2,870

South Korea is over 12 times as high.

4chan also faces potential arrest and/or “imprisonment for a term of up to two years,” the lawsuit said.

You don’t want to be locked in a small cell with 4chan for two years.

At least she had the good sense to call for help.

I mean, imagine that a copy of your dog just showed up at the house and started doing dog things.

I mean, if I understand aright, if he resigned now, there’d still be deadlock. Like, it wouldn’t really solve the three-way split in the legislature.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Jeep/comments/194cbbj/turn_offdisconnect_remote_access_to_my_2021_gcth/

I just got a text from my dealership saying my oil light was on. Super pissed off about it… When I got the Jeep 2 years ago I asked Jeep to turn off ALL remote access/phone home capabilities to the vehicle. I was on the phone for a couple hours with them until I finally got someone who said they did it.

Weather alerts, contextual ads on my console, distant recording of my travels, whatever, I wanted everything off.

It has a 4G cellular module in the head unit, which connects to a separate 4G antenna via a port on the back of the head unit. Unplug the antenna from the head unit and it cannot communicate to anything. Obviously you have to remove a bunch of trim and the unit.

Now, it’s possible that during maintenance, the process might involve uploading or downloading data to/from the manufacturer. That’s hard to avoid.

I think that there are at least a few accounts that I’d say are paid and aimed at influencing people. “Astroturfed” may not be the right term for that.

The great bulk of users are, as of 2025, I think, “real”. As in, people who are here because they want to participate in discussions.

Some of the saving grace is that the Threadiverse is just so small, at least now, that you can get so much more bang for your buck on influence efforts elsewhere. We’re tens of thousands of active users.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/

Facebook has ~3 billion monthly active users.

The rise in sales comes before moves by the EU to close a loophole that allows packages worth less than €150 (£130) to avoid customs duty and some border checks.

Ah, so the EU is ending de minimis too, apparently, like the US. Didn’t realize that. Though the EU’s limit would have been considerably lower already. IIRC, the US limit was $800/package.

EDIT: If this also applies to the UK, I remember a lot of news stories about retailers talking about how Brexit increasing shipping costs was going to be a problem for their businesses, where before they’d ship small shipments directly across the English Channel, and now would have to ship larger shipments to a distributor. I’d think that this would exacerbate that division, make it more important to use bulk import/export companies and distributors.

EDIT2: Ah, yeah, they mention the US eliminating de minimis as well, and that it was $800 there.

since I can’t replace it any more.

There are small numbers of used Steam Controllers on the market.

https://www.google.com/search?q="steam+controller"&udm=28&shopmd=1

checks

I don’t own a Deck, but Wikipedia does say that the Deck has HDMI out. I guess that having the Steam Controller available would presumably let you use the Deck as a console — plug it into your TV, pair a Steam Controller, and then you get a big screen and a lighter controller.

“Stay tuned! After our commercial break, we’ll be talking to Mike Evans, a Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, to get his take on both the women-excluding Muslim group and the trans-exclusionary radical feminist group.”

I kind of wish that Valve had kept producing the Steam Controller.

It really made sense in the context of sitting on a couch and playing mouse-oriented games. And when the Steam Machine flopped, that kind of killed a lot of reason for it.

But people also did find a use for them, and there isn’t a real alternative.

EDIT: Well okay, there were those mods that involved tearing up a Steam Deck and using the components to make a DIY controller, but the price and technical barrier-to-entry there is gonna exclude most people.

Kellie-Jay Keen, founder of feminist group Party Of Women, said: “Banning women and girls over the age of 12 from a public charity event is plainly unlawful… and reinforces regressive sexist attitudes towards women’s place in public life.

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, I kind of wouldn’t be surprised if the Party of Women does things that exclude men.

kagis

Ah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Women

The Party of Women (POW) is a gender-critical[3][4] and anti-transgender[5] single-issue political party in the United Kingdom, which opposes what it refers to as “trans ideology”.[6][7][8] It was founded in 2023 by Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (also known as Posie Parker) and registered in February 2024.[9]

Is it just a Wikipedia editor beating up on them?

checks website

No they appear to be pretty explicitly upset with trans stuff.

https://www.partyofwomen.org/about-us

Kellie-Jay Keen founded Party Of Women to make sure that people can safely say

No woman has a penis

No man has a vagina

There is no such thing as “non-binary”

And “transitioning” children is abuse

reads further

• Repeal the Gender Recognition Act (GRA)

The Gender Recognition Act 2004 enables individuals to legally change the sex marker on their birth certificate.

• Repeal the Equality Act 2010

• Withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

The ECHR has become a tool for imposing ideological interpretations of “rights” that conflict with national sovereignty and women’s protections.

We will:

Withdraw the UK from the ECHR.

End the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights over UK law.

Yeah, I dunno how sympathetic I am to that group either.