Perhaps a sonic weapon at the right frequency could crack the wires?

Can we exert more influence over China if we work with them?

We thought the same thing back in the late 90s and early 00s. It didn’t work out very well for us. It gave them the economic and technological means to surveil their people and build up their military, while we benefited from cheap goods, but at the cost of losing our manufacturing base and electing someone who probably has serious brain damage. Who will now run our country into the ground.

All in all, I expect serious damage to our country, and China to go after Taiwan with their considerable military to grind up their young men, who have no chance of ever having a family after the one child policy screwed up their gender balance so badly.

If you have to hitch yourselves to another state, I recommend Europe over China.

That’s why ebikes are considered better than analog bikes by some metrics. Outside of electrified trains, there’s pretty much nothing as efficient as an ebike for distance /calories burned + electricity usage (minimal, compared to EVs)

https://youtu.be/HW5b8_KBtT8

This is why I started ebiking. I’m usually going up steep hills, or hauling groceries or other stuff. Having an ebike totally changed the math on whether I need to actually drive or not.

You guys gotta be more like America on the bike lanes one.

Just have crippling, insane traffic, where it takes you three hours to move five (5) city blocks (this has actually happened to me).

Suddenly, a new bike lane gets you across the city in 26 minutes.

It made the bike lanes very popular, haha.

Monday? I’ll see you in two hours! xD

The entire plane has to be redesigned from the ground up, that’s what he’s explaining. The F-35s are caked in sensors like a valve index. They have special paints and materials that absorb radar, making the radar profile look more like a bird than aircraft-sized hunk of metal, which is useful against Russian and Iranian anti air SAMs, the same ones taking down Ukrainian jets. But that also includes the body shape, the engine intakes (even engine blade materials), everything.

Can the Europeans create an F-35 class platform? Absolutely. But you can’t just retrofit your way out of a brand new generation of plane. It’s like trying to retrofit a Ford F-350 super duty to conform to Japanese Kei truck regulations and weight classes. You end up redesigning the whole thing.

Honestly, probably a good thing, politics aside. These areas are all ones that are gonna get fucked by climate change tomorrow. My only hope is that it’s blackrock’s stupid “”“investments”“” getting destroyed in a hurricane or getting turned into a desert.

You need to pick them up and hold them like a baby :)

All guns should be surrendered and destroyed en masse. They are fun, but society would be happier, healthier, and with far less suicides and DA without them.

I’ve seen too many close calls to consider them safe for society at large.

Looks like he’s on that new shit, lol.

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It’s a very good game! I loved Subnautica too :)

The last one is merry-go-rounds :)

Balatro!

Edit: inscryption is WASD +spacebar only, if you can do that with a slight seating adjustment. It’s great for planes. The post game content might be even better than the game content, haha.

Perhaps it’s different where I live, but when one of my friends asked me out, I just told him that I unfortunately wasn’t interested in him, but I still wanted to be friends. We stayed close friends, and I actually introduced him to one of my other friends. They hit it off and are still together seven(ish) years later :)

They live in a different state right now, but we still have yearly get-togethers. I miss them and hope they can move here soon :)

Oh man, I’d say just the opposite! Date your friends! You know them well, you become good friends before you ever even start dating, which is great for pacing, and you both probably share a lot in common.

There’s nothing quite like holding hands with your best friend, or quietly reading together. Or going skiing together ❤️

It’s how long term relationships have formed for a handful of my buddies. And it’s also how I met my spouse :)

While not everything works out, having a rock solid friendship can lead to an extremely strong relationship.

I’d let it offgas for 24-72 hours at least. It smells awful. It’s probably something awful like VOCs, lol. Definitely keep a window open until it gets less stinky.

Weren’t they sending soldiers to Ukraine to protect them?

And when is Ukraine gonna join the EU, as promised? If you are gonna promise things, you gotta do them. I’ll believe any of these when I actually see it. :P

This is mostly true, haha. Though…

I held open a door in Canada and got berated for it by someone in their 40s. He wanted me to slam the door in his face, which I get if it was an apartment on the east side of Vancouver, but this was not the case, lol.

I’m always amazed that Canada has more extreme personality types than where I’ve lived in the US. Generally people are more nice, but the mean ones are jaw-droppingly mean, lol. Always gives me a bit of culture shock whenever it happens, which is probably once every 10 visits or so (I visit often).

The most recent one was someone who was extremely bothered that we rented out a space for a wedding and admonished the groom that he was using a community space an hour before it was set to open (we got permission from the landlords to use it as such.)

All that aside, Canada is not for sale, Fuck those cunts in the Trump administration, and you guys were fully justified for what you did in 1812. 😎

District level heating is actually pretty efficient, some universities do the same thing on purpose to save on bills. Our relatively young city does it with the downtown skyscrapers for the same reason.

The other nice thing is that when you upgrade the heating system to be less carbon intensive, you can instantly have a ton of buildings all jump instantly to fewer emissions too.