I’m not a huge trek nerd, but recently watched the whole series, and the two main irritations were the blatant/unnecessary/annoying/offensive sexualization, and the theme song.

It’s easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.

They figured out how to resolve it weeks ago.

It has taken this long to implement the results, and to get usable data flowing again

All this tells us is that Russia has literally zero anti-aircraft/intercept capability — even for national-level strategic sites.

They keep getting their turds pushed in by radio-controlled light civil aircraft pottering in thousands of km at highway-traffic speeds.

Pitiful.

As an army veteran, I have always found the naming of military facilities for shitty racist losers to be blatant pandering and a poor consolation prize to the wounded sensibilities of ‘the lost cause’ etc

There was nothing noble about any of that shit, it was 100% about slavery and to be fair, more or less the entire country had been implicitly or explicitly involved in the practice from colonial times.

So perhaps the consolation prizes and TYFYS-ism of it all was warranted for a period. But that period is well over by now.

How is this a “bombshell”??

No shit Sherlock there is intel that’s not immediately shared, or is shared with conditions. In fact, virtually all shared intelligence comes with conditions.

I came to the comments because of that discrepancy

Someone has no idea how memes work

And this is related to the relative capabilities of USA vs Russian in terms of logistics.

The Americans can generally afford the fuel, and the logistics tail to keep it flowing.

Russia cannot.

How well the M1A1 serves Ukraine remains to be seen, but so far they’ve gotten pretty fantastic performance out of every weapon system they’ve been given, from Javelins to Patriots.

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One of the two men you mentioned will win – barring a death before the election, either Biden or Trump will be elected.

All the wanking in the world isn’t going to result in a third option with even the remotest chance.

I think Signal shot themselves squarely in the dick by removing SMS functionality.

Previously, you could use Signal as the primary SMS/messenger app. Any conversations with other Signal clients secure. Conversations in SMS/MMS? Marked as not-secure.

But, out of some purity concerns, SMS functionality was removed and the dev team focused on adding useless shit like “stickers” and then the pin-code harassment.

Signal adoption plummeted as intended (?)

Easy! Just replace their usual SMS app with Signal, and then every contact they have that does use Signal is private and secure!

Oh. Wait. That’s exactly the functionality that Signal removed in their effort to ensure that Signal is never widely adopted…

Facesitting porn (of adults) is illegal in UK for the reason that it’s potentially dangerous

Ehhhh im currently driving a Gen 1 Prius (2003) that I bought at auction for $500.

I have less than $2000 in it all-in (everything except fuel and insurance, even oil changes).

I’ve put about 55k miles on it and it pulls a steady 43-44 mpg

Hysteria over battery issues has turned out to be exactly that — these 22 year old batteries are fine. Being used (within the design tolerance) keeps them fresh.

And it just links to a Twitter post as far as I can tell

self-deprecation or delusion?

Yes!

Hemlock Society recommends an oven roaster bag (like for turkeys) and a bottle of inert gas (usually helium is easiest to get) and just flow enough in to keep the inert atmosphere in the bag “fresh”

Also, there is ‘gas stunning’ which is used in Europe for slaughter. There are some practices that use CO2 for this, but at a nearly 100% level it is pretty instantaneous, much like HS2 – which you can’t even smell at high concentration, because you’re dead already.

Point, there is some state of the art around using gas to kill; it’s not a brand new concept.

So,.like — was this guy in a relatively large volume chamber/booth and they just trickled the N2 gas in?

If there was enough volume, it could take a long time for the O2 levels to get low enough for him to pass out… BUT does a human body produce enough CO2 to fill that space to the point of triggering the suffocation response? Seems unlikely…

OR did they just strap a rebreather mask to his face and turn on a few l/min?

Were any specifics about the actual setup published?

But – nitrous (N2O) is more fun and has just as little usable oxygen – zero

For easy access to an inert gas at-home, try a helium tank from the Party Store

Doing something about International Law on international waters is a totally different matter than within the the borders of a sovereign nation.