Did you comment in the wrong thread? Am I missing a parallel?

Thanks for the tip regarding Fossify, they do seem to have a nice clean set of apps!

We should ask the Kremlin.

Meh. He only had $23.50 in his account.

Terminus.

I’m all for the “SLEEP 8 HOURS” bit though. I need more of that in my life.

'twas a smidgen wilder than usual, frankly.

Bottle caps are stored in big bags of some sort before being placed on bottles.

They have sharp edges and they scratch each other’s paint as they shift around in the bags.

The scratching produces a fine dust of plastic/paint particles. The dust covers all sides of the bottle caps in the bags.

The caps are placed on the bottles. The dust goes into the liquid inside the bottle. People drink it.

Initial analysis suggests that the object – referred to as TWA 7b – could be a young, cold planet with a mass around 0.3 times that of Jupiter (~100 Earth masses) and a temperature near 320 Kelvin (roughly 47 degrees Celsius). Its location aligns with a gap in the disc, hinting at a dynamic interaction between the planet and its surroundings.

Debris discs filled with dust and rocky material are found around both young and older stars, although they are more easily detected around younger stars as they are brighter. They often feature visible rings or gaps, thought to be created by planets that have formed around the star, but such a planet has yet to be detected within a debris disc.

Once verified, this discovery would mark the first time a planet has been directly associated with sculpting a debris disc and could offer the first observational hint of a trojan disc – a collection of dust trapped in the planet’s orbit.

TWA 7, also known as CE Antilae, is a young (~6.4 million years old) M-type star located about 111 light-years away in the TW Hydrae association. Its nearly face-on disc made it an ideal target for Webb’s high-sensitivity mid-infrared observations.

Yes. So many people are misunderstanding this article… The microplastics are on the inside, in the drink, and they are bits of the paint from the exterior of bottle caps that stuck to the inside of other caps when the caps were all jumbled together in big bags before they were placed on the bottles.

There’s a region around the handle where you can grab it to slide left-right but also be scrolling the page up and down, defeating the attempt to move the finger out of the way.

The first time I tried it I kept hitting that region, but I see now that with a bit more precision you can avoid the up-down segment.

Also, having the handle on the middle of the picture instead of underneath is awful on mobile where you can’t see anything because of your own finger.

You take out a third of our airforce? Haha! Watch as its place is taken by TWO remaining thirds!

Yes. Doesn’t mean it’s a bad strategy.

This is not a one-round game. Elections happen repeatedly. If you show someone you will punish them for bad behavior even at cost to yourself, it might teach them to change their ways. On the other hand, always minimizing your losses in the current round (i.e. having no memory or vision) makes you a perfectly predictable and exploitable player.

What we’re talking about is a game between two players: democrats and their potential voters. It is totally a valid strategy in game theory to punish the other player when they’re not cooperating. If you’re always cooperating even when your opponent (i.e. your preferred political party) isn’t, you’re just encouraging them to continue to not cooperate.

Try out this interactive page.

That’s not how it works. Using that logic voting for Himmler would be the right thing to do because at least they’re one step less awful than Hitler. Fucking demand that Himmler change his ways or a better candidate is allowed to run.

A lot of countries have political theater instead of actual politics, but the US is really deep into it.

I wanted Starship to happen too. Wanted. Not anymore. And I suspect a similar change happened among Musk’s engineers. They’re gonna bleed him dry and let someone else take the lead.

There are multiple reasons. Raw materials or chemicals feature lower profit margins than end-stage weapons. They also leave massive environmental footprints, particularly of nitric and sulphuric acid, which are key to making everything from nitrocellulose to RDX.

That is just right-wing disinformation:

The right-wing opposition has questioned the Socialist-led coalition government’s phase-out of nuclear energy and reliance on renewables, saying they made Spain more vulnerable to blackouts.

But the government says there is no evidence to suggest “an excess of renewables or the lack of nuclear power plants” caused the crisis.

Two percent of the population is actually pretty huge. Historically, 3.5% has been the threshold after which change has almost always happened.