2nies

“Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.” (Shakespeare)

So, one of government’s undisputed obligations is the protection of its population from hostile nations. NATO better be willing to step up and proactively protect the member states and their population.

At what point do ‘minor’ transgressions become actionable? Like, if Russia was told by NATO reps that the next time any citizen gets assassinated and it is proven they are responsible, or that a Russian damaged NATO cables or whatever that an immediate response will be enacted. Notice I didn’t say ‘proportional’.

Cable snapped and Russian captain who did it? Tomahawk to an airbase near St. Petersburg. Don’t want to go to war? Cut the shit. Period.

“Отсюда я вижу свой дом!”…

Joaquin Phoenix for Worst Actor>. /doubt

Haven’t seen the movie but he’s always been more than adequate with his performances. My guess is it’s either bad directing, editing, or both that he’s taking the rap for.

JFC. I read the title and said ‘they cannot be serious’, then saw the community <phew>

Aliens

It doesn’t matter how the electricity is made. Heat pumps are crazy efficient. What matters (for the typical consumer) is how much it costs to heat up the home via traditional methods vs that in the electricity of heat pumps. That said, your toaster, or electric oven/kettle all generate heat at ~98% efficiency with some energy lost as light and due to resistance in the wires. A heat pump transfers heat at well over 100% efficiency. You get more heat energy than it requires in electricity. 💪

Efficiency degrades the colder it gets though which is its only drawback. Some places are too cold and would require deep deep monster backyard installations to work well, but here ‘too cold’ is ~ -16^oC.

A side benefit of heat pumps using electricity is that it can be supported with modern green energy tech. Don’t want to be dependent on the grid either electrical or gas? Add solar panels to your roof and boom you’re good to go (this is obviously reductive).

Edit: I’m talking about direct home heating/cooling solutions. I know nothing about industrial grid energy production. For me the benefits of heat pumps are clear particularly for individual purposes.

Finally, a programmer joke I get!

Zelenskyy clarified that he does not manage or oversee humanitarian funds or programs tied to US external aid but assured that Ukraine’s critical military needs are being met.

“No new funds shall be obligated for new awards or extensions of existing awards until each proposed new award or extension has been reviewed and approved,” said the memo

Stuff already approved and at least transferred on paper would still be otw and could be the reason for the contradictory statements.

Instructions unclear: stuck hand up pussy and got voted in as President

Ah. Even though Moscow is west of the Urals Russia is usually considered Asia afaik. Geography is not my strong suite though so I don’t get why other than it isn’t fully encompassed within Europe’s borders.

The Ural mountains and river are considered to be its eastern border, which is NNE of the Caspian Sea.

What are you trying to say?

Threatening dudes presumably equipped with body armour and AKs with a pistol. Begging to be pooped on.

Apparently the water supply in my town is dosed with sleeping pills.

They “nuh-uh’d” this in Enterprise. The inventor of the technology is introduced and basically says the people who propagate that theory are a constant thorn in his side, despite having no basis for it in the reality of that universe.

You’re welcome to believe the inventor if you wish, but I’d ask if you also believe the CEO of Boeing when he says their planes are safe…

They also show people experiencing, and reacting to other things in, the matter streams during longer transports. Kind of hard to do if you’re dead.

Yeah I can see why this’d be confusing. Keep in mind the transport process at the referenced time periods takes ~ 6 seconds. 3 to dematerialize, near instantaneous travel to the destination, and 3 to rematerialze. It is that part in the middle which makes it clear the person has died. Being conscious in the matter stream and hence thinking you’re the same person is the result of it being a near-perfect copy.

There are far more examples that refute the inventor:

• Dr. Mbemba kept his daughter stored in a transporter buffer for months. She retained no memories of during her storage. Her brain and heart both stopped. This is clinical death by definition. Thus,
• every time the transported are held within the buffer completely for any period of time (seconds while they disarm weapons, or decide what to do with them on screen) they are clearly dead and a floppy disk is being discussed.
• Thomas Riker’s accident creating Wil’s duplicate. People are almost literally photocopies of a destroyed original by this example alone.

IIRC there are 3 different methods seen for food creation in Star Trek.

Protein Resequencers (ST:ENT, ST:TOS): which presumably take stored amino acids and combined them with supplementary minerals and flavouring into nutritious cubes that look like marshmallows.

Matter Recombinators/Food Sythesizers (ST:TOS): capable of taking stored matter and producing ‘simple’ foodstuffs like drinks, iced cream, slabs of protein similar to chicken breast or steak, etc. I think these were sometimes called replicators but the distinction is the production is done elsewhere and the food delivered in seconds on request.

Replicators (ST:TNG +): I swear they described this as direct energy to matter conversion but I can’t find the source for this. The seemingly ridiculous energy demands this requires can be justified by the fact they use matter+antimatter reactions for energy supply. A cup of water would take a cup of fuel give or take. (edit: To confuse the issue, it’s also described in Discovery that waste matter is broken down and used for things like replication, but matter=energy so it is all the same in the end).

Transporters: it’s been clear from the beginning the matter is being deconstructed into energy and sent to the destination where it is reconstructed using the original’s pattern. The ethics of it are dubious because every time you see someone transport they are being literally killed in front of your eyes and a new copy created elsewhere.

… and lookin like Robert Deniro to boot

I’d hit it