“This complicates our plans for a land bridge to Kaliningrad!”

How long before Iran is sending missiles toward Israel that are equipped with anti-anti-missile missiles? Then it’s an anti-missile arms race all the way down.

You’ll notice that the report doesn’t estimate whether they died before or after Israel’s incursion.

Ain’t no party like a 50 cent party 'cuz a 50 cent party don’t stop.

No. Humans in aircraft are on the way out. Drones are the future. When the drones are significantly cheaper than the missiles used to shoot them down, logistics inevitably wins.

China is having massive economic problems currently. Who is OP trying to convince otherwise? Ignore the cape. Watch the bullfighter.

Uh, have you seen the Chinese economy recently?

Also, when your economy is doing so poorly it’s easy to do better. When your economy is doing well, it’s more difficult to improve.

Mathematically, if I give a naked homeless person with no worldly possessions a sandwich, they have infinitely more wealth. It’s still just a sandwich though.

For anyone who’s been following along, Russia should have been able to take Avdivka over a year ago. For it to have taken this long really says everything. If this is a “turning point” in the war, there is still quite a lot of room for optimism.

We should go back to this. I want to ride on a subway with everyone shouting “Meet hot singles in your area! Improve facial skin with one simple trick! Secret and confidential. Eyes only!”

Those countries can’t swing Florida election results

Yes, the vague equivalent would be for the Native Americans to reclaim the United States via superior force ~1800 years from now.

It would put Israel “on the back foot” in regards to the conflict. Israel would be tied up negotiating for hostage release which is exactly where Hamas wants them. It stops being a question of who is winning a battle and turns it into “how much is Israel willing to sacrifice”.

“European settlers” in the sense that they hadn’t been in Israel since the Romans kicked them out in '65 for causing too much trouble with all their messiahs and religious zealotry.

There’s a whole conspiracy regarding Covid that RFK Jr. is blathering about. Supposedly this data breach targeted Jews and Chinese folks. I’m assuming that it’s related in some way, but it’s not clear how.

There’s going to be a lot of conservative men clamoring for UBI, or more likely, cutting off their own nose to spite their face.

The whalebone hoop-skirt industry would like to vociferously disagree!

I was at Buckingham Palace watching The Queen’s ghost welcome a diplomatic party of chupacabras from Jalisco. I didn’t even take my phone with me. I’m that stupid.

You’ll get no disagreement from me!

Yes, and in reality. When you charge more per item for goods and services so that healthcare is included, they cost more.

They settle out all of the heavier radioactive elements. They then dilute the remaining heavy water with additional water to drive the level of tritium to an acceptable level. It is then dumped into the ocean and rapidly mixes with the surrounding seawater. If you were to look at a map of ocean currents you’d see generally where it would go from there, but it doesn’t really matter because tritium isn’t really a significant concern. If they were dumping significant quantities of cobalt 60 you should care more, but they aren’t, so you shouldn’t.

The radioactive component is mostly tritium. As long as they get almost all of the heavy radioactive elements, the hydrogen isotopes are basically harmless in the quantities we’re talking about here. The ocean is a very, very big place.

No, you’d leave the store having paid $120 for groceries with no wellness fee tacked on.

Competency tests for everyone!

“These are librul questions! The test is BIASED! The hollowcost is a lie! Ain’t no Jews get killed in WWII!”

I think you know what he meant, or are you claiming that the “someone” was part of a secret US military program and died in action?

The alternative is that they just jack up the menu prices to accomplish the same thing. This is just the equivalent of pricing things at $19.99 because people don’t understand that really means $20 which sounds like a lot more money.

Beyond just trying to maintain a reaction, we’ll need a design that allows for the extraction of working energy. At present, all designs require tons of additional energy to keep them cool. We’re very far from any design that is power positive in a real sense. Any time you ask one of the fusion fanboys about this there’s a lot of hand waving, but I’ve never seen any actual proposals to extract working heat from the reactor. Any designs that require supercooling are especially problematic. It’s really difficult to extract heat capable of turning a turbine through the supercooled magnetic containment.

Fusion will happen, but not before a whole lot more money and time (in decades) disappears into the money pit.

When websites start blocking clients that don’t implement the wei handshake, you’ll be forced to use one that does if you want to visit those sites. Firefox will either adopt it or become a second rate browser.

Ah, but this is on a different scale than in countries without a free press. The press in the US is free to ignore the government’s information or to run a counter message. This happens every hour of every day.

Where? What media outlet? Give a specific example.

Show me an example of US state authored or propagated propaganda. How many people does the US have that are employed by the state to manipulate public opinion online?

I do not know why they do not import more food

Food costs money and they’ve chosen to spend what money they have elsewhere. It is a matter of priorities. It’s ok, they don’t have to worry about being voted out of office over failing the public.

US uses far more energy per capita than most countries

Incorrect (for a while now). Did you follow the link in my message?

Good luck squeezing blood from that stone.

One thing I find interesting about the fediverse is that it is so empty that you can occasionally see honest-to-God pro-NK propaganda. NK lost a quarter of a million people to starvation in the 1990’s and are on a fast track to repeat the past. So glad you have access to the internet. Good for you.

His comedy was largely a stream of consciousness type of thing. I’m fairly sure that he only realized that some of the joke he told were stolen after they’d left his mouth. He wasn’t the type of comedian who worked from a “tight 15” on a regular basis. It was more that he’d discover that an audience member was half German, half Japanese and would then go off on a spontaneous stream of WWII jokes about their ancestry.

Of all the countries burning fossil fuels, why does the US get singled out for reparations other than it’s a popular punching bag and the “face” of western capitalism? It’s not like the US is sitting on stacks of cash. Quite the opposite…

https://www.unep.org/explore-topics/climate-action/what-we-do/climate-action-note/state-of-climate.html

The kiwi ones have little poppy(?) seeds in them mimicking the seeds in an actual kiwi. I’m not a fan.

Some number of these are bots making fake accounts look like legitimate users. Eventually they’ll be making pro-China/Russia/Israel/Whatever comments on political videos.

I’ve been looking for a way to attach my Bose Einstein condensates together and it looks like I’ve finally found it.