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From a physics perspective, devices that create heat are by definition 100% efficient. Where else would the energy go than into heat?

I don’t want to be rude but the way you phrase your questions sounds a lot like you have a certain opinion about Russia and China that you want us to confirm.

I don’t think we have an expert on Russian and Chinese law here so all we can do is google stuff for you.

From the Wikipedia article it seems like at least Russia has a functional legal system (though one that works slightly differently from the ones we might be used to). The expectation that the government decides who is guilty regardless of the truth sounds like an exaggeration born out of an „us vs. them“ argument, similar to „democrats kill babies“. I‘m not an expert though, so don’t listen to me and instead look for independent sources.

Wikipedia has an article about this topic. In both China and Russia, the conviction rate is over 99% although this seems to be a quirk of the respective systems. In both countries, it seems to be common to dismiss a case (before or during a trial) when an acquittal is likely. For Russia this brings the overall conviction rate down to about 70-80% which is similar to the US. I‘m too lazy to find numbers for China but I’m sure if you follow the sources in the article you can get there.

The expectation that people in office jobs can be productive for 8 hours per day.

I get it when it's a 20+ year old game where the remake just has modern graphics, some quality of life upgrades and maybe content that was cut in the original. That way, the new game feels more or less like what we remember from back then.

What I don't get is remakes of games that are less than ten years old, still run well on modern platforms (i.e. PS4 games on PS5). Often it's a matter of taste which version looks better and the new one has bugs and performance problems that the old one didn't have. Looking at you, Until Dawn remake...

Probably a cheap 3D printer

Hours? I would give up a week of lunch for them to only cancel stuff that I needed hours to code. My personal record is over a year.

While what you're saying is true, getting the raw text is only a tiny part of the job. More importantly, for good subtitles you need to:

• account for bits where the actors and editors have deviated from the script
• decide if lines need to be shortened (reading is sometimes slower than listening)
• decide if long sentences need to be split into multiple subtitle lines (so not too much text is on screen at the same time and information isn't given too much ahead of what's happening on screen)
• decide if background conversations, music and sound should appear in subtitles
• get the timing right (everyone who has subtitled even a short youtube video knows how much work that can be)
• probably more

I haven't worked in the industry myself so I don't know how these tasks are distributed between multiple people but I think you get the point.

Which makes it even more crazy to me.

I live in a very Protestant area in Europe. In fact, many of the Protestants who got driven out of France around 1700 have settled around here, so roughly a similar timeframe to the ones in America. And we turned out entirely different. Here, Protestants are considered the "technically Christian on paper but probably hasn't seen a church from the inside in a decade" kind of person while (some) Catholics are the conservative hardliners who want bibles and crosses in classrooms.

I never understood why Americans do that. For international events where the anthems of both teams are played, sure. But otherwise? Do you guys forget which country you are in?

Either that or you're making assumptions about OP while repeatedly refusing to answer questions that challenge those assumptions and accusing people who ask those questions of making bad faith arguments. You see the problem, right?

I don't even want to accuse you of doing that on purpose. Confronting and correcting your own assumptions is hard.

You did:

You didn’t read the part about wanting her current partner to watch?