Oh, bullshit. It's there along with all the other buttons.
Hell, even in America it's rare to find a building when originally designed had an elevator with no 13 button. I remember my Dad pointing one out when I was a kid.
In China they execute government officials who do this.
Nobody has been arrested for the California theft and nobody ever will be.
Good guy CPC.
Remember: America innovates,China duplicates and Europe regulates.
OK, explain why the Prsident of France called the US 15% tariffs a "dark day" for Europe.
It makes zero sense. Trump the stupidity president fucked AmeriKKKans over with an additional 15% tax which they will pay, not Europeans. So how's that a "dark day"? I don't get it. Usually when we AMeriKKKans score an own goal(which is often) Europeans respond with a chorus of laughter and mockery. Remember when Trump, during his first term, demanded NATO stop rippping us off by refusing to pay their fair share? Their response was to LAUGH IN HIS FACE! An the laughter was general throughout Europe or the next week or so. "We won't pay and you can't make us" was the attitude. So why aren't they laughing again now? Europe isn't paying these tariffs. Where did the laughter go? I don't get any of this, maybe someone can explain in small words, so all us stupidity Trump voters can understand. Maybe with a puppet show?
binning it and taking the tax writeoff - I've seen what were probably far better films binned for this reason.
Maybe the "big beautiful bill" had something hidden in it that changed that? It always seemed odd to me. One gets to write off expenses for tax purposes anyways, I never understood how not releasing a film would increase them.
Now, the anticipation that marketing and releasing the film would cost more than the expected revenue, I can see, but streaming services are cheap, they don't even need to especially advertise it, and it would theoretically still bring in some revenue. Like the old direct to video model but even cheaper.
Playing around with copilot and chatgpt:
I'm always sad that I can't sort for lowest price by quantity rather than just lowest price.
So ask it to find me the cheapest blue paper shop towels by sheet or square foot:
Suggests 5 different options, but included a $20 single roll from Walmart. Wasted some time figuring out that it wasn't a multipack.
Searching some myself, got a set of 6 rolls for just over $2 a roll.
I ask it why it included such an expensive outlier. "I wanted to give you something to contrast it with!"
Had to get a TPMS sensor replaced. Can't do tires myself (balancing properly takes equipment), so took it to the shop. They of course tried to sell me a comple brake job including rotors, saying the rotors are grooved.
So asked for examples of rotors grooved enough to need and not need replacement so i could compare. No real luck. Took four tries to get chatgpt to give pictures of actually bad rotors, and even then some were iffy. First try gave brand new rotors. Though uploading a picture of one of them to chatgpt had it note that the grooves aren't deep enough, that as long as it was still thick enough and I wasn't getting brake shudder it was still good.
Which isn't bad, but do I really trust it? Again, more information from different sites, like that the groves need to be deeper than
So that's $150 saved per tire (Tires plus really likes their rotors).
Do you realize you just made that up in your own mind?
And then wrote it down?
Or do you not realize that?
This is textbook Trump Derangement Syndrome.
You are arguing with yourself. And losing.
Do you realize that you are having an argument with intrusive voices in your own brain? Or not?
I notice this all the time with TDS sufferers: they invent something and rage against it.
Epstein ran a child rape ring against Americans for Israel. If the truth ewere known, the existence of Isreal would be threatened. Isreal requires an external sponsor to exist. That sponsor is the USA, and if it weren't us, it would be Russia.
Israel has a right to exist!
Don't drive them into the hands of Putin, antisemite.
Besides according to the Left, MAPs are just a sexual orientation like gay. Oppressing them is fascism.
I'm getting $389.99 w/free shipping though. Might be your location?
You're right that "easy to handle" is actually a pretty big concern for rockets, which is why we're moving away from hydrogen and more towards methane.
Methane doesn't require anywhere near as cold of a temperature as hydrogen, meaning that a lot of concerns about things like freezing the oxygen goes away, such that while theoretically a hydrogen engine would have more energy and thus thrust by mass, in practical terms, methane often beats it because the rocket itself can be simpler and lighter.
As far as N6 goes, the trick with this would be that it is a "monopropellant", IE you only need to pump one tank to a thruster to fire it. With hydrogen, methane, or kerosene, you need to pump an oxidizer there as well. So the engine can be drastically simplified because you only need one intake.
However, with energy density there's the critical difference between a monopropellant (a TNT powered rocket engine would technically be a monopropellant, because it carries its own oxidizer), and rocket fuels like methane and kerosene, in that for a rocket, you need to add the mass of the oxygen back in. For RP-1, for example, that's around 2.2 (they usually run a bit fuel rich over stochiometric* because it improves thrust). Yes, it turns out that most rockets carry more LOX by mass than fuel.
For those interested, actual figures:
TNT: 4 MJ/kg
N6: ~8 MJ/kg per the article.
Methane: 55 MJ/kg (15 MJ/kg including oxidizer, ratio of ~2.7 to 1)
Hydrogen: 144 MJ/kg (21-24 MJ/kg, ratio of 5-6)
RP-1/Kerosene: 35 MJ/kg (10.9 MJ/kg, ratio of 2.2)
(Oxidizer ratios pulled from actual rockets)
Given the number of practical rockets (for example, Falcon) using RP-1, 8 MJ/kg for a monopropellant that only puts out N2 would be very interesting.
From my reading, low molecular weight in the exhaust is a good thing (but relatively minor factor compared to other stuff). Which might also by why hydrogen rockets are a thing despite the hassle of H2.
N2: 28 g/mol
H2O: 18 g/mol
CO2: 44 g/mol
CH4: 16 g/mol (running rich, remember? So it is in the exhaust)
H2: 2 g/mol
RP1: 321 g/mol (which might be a reason to run O2 rich for these rockets)
O2: 32 g/mol
*stochiometric: The ratio to completely combust both chemicals. Running fuel rich means some of the fuel remains unoxidized.
I don't know if this would be called theater, but in my case, I decorated my masks. I'd take a sharpie and draw teeth, sometimes shark teeth, sometimes rotten teeth, sometimes The Rolling Stones lips and tongue logo, I had fun with it.
Indeed! I saw plenty of skeletal jaw/teeth masks, floral prints, don't remember seeing the rolling stones one, but wouldn't have minded one bit.
I wear print T-shirts all the time, so why not?
Just don't go with the heavy iron-on type decals if they're too big, stick more to tie-die jobs that still let the fabric breath. You are trying to suck air through it.
Many of the people religiously wearing masks during the pandemic honestly believed that wearing a mask would keep them from contracting COVID rather than preventing them from spreading if if they were contagious.
You know, this is almost like one of those equations where you have a factor, but as you work through it, the factor is neutralized, turning out to not matter in the end?
Remember how I said "If getting non-infected people to wear masks despite the minimal benefits gets the infected to, it is worth it."
I mean, if them wearing masks makes the potentially infected maskless uncomfortable to the point that they put on the mask, then wearing it is actually still protecting them, just from secondary effects.
Plus, while the effects are minimal for a cheap reusable mask compared to a N95, they still protect the wearers some.
Everybody wearing their masks thus does indeed reduce the chances of them getting COVID.
I'm still going to disagree - masks helped reduce the spread. That's very much public health, because public health worries less about the individual and more the group, the "public" part. Fewer people infected is good, thus not theater.
Theater was things like the people wearing masks with holes cut in them.
From a public health standpoint, keeping asymptomatic carriers from infecting others is very much NOT theater. Anything that reduces the infection or spread rate is an effective control. Whether it is cost effective is a different matter, but cloth masks are cheap.
If getting non-infected people to wear masks despite the minimal benefits gets the infected to, it is worth it.
And COVID doesn't have spores.
We don't 'spin' scientific stuff as a certainty without decades or even centuries of work. We can be very highly expectant, but we have those 95 and 99% certainty bars for a reason.
If you took it as a certainty, that is on you and not the scientists. Best we had was "by what we know right now" and that changed over time with both knowledge and supply availability.
And things like wearing masks was a public health issue. It is like forcing you to have liability insurance to drive, to protect others. Why? The cloth masks didn't really protect you from being infected if you wandered around infected people without masks, but if an infected person wore a mask it really reduced the rate of them infecting others.
(And autocorrupt tried to change with into without. Why?)
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
