I’m just quoting the article. Sounds like you have more to add, care to comment on what IS ‘the real factor’?

Classic Xmas Song!

I’m pretty sure we could all have quite reasonably expected rising costs, destruction of science, frittering of international standing, increased morbidity and mortality, etc.

"The US tariffs imposed on China on 1 August 2025, played a substantial role in the increase in DRAM prices. " DJT say he gonna lower prices on day one. NOPE.

Funny how both T and P want to destroy the USA as well.

Que Viva Elbakyan! It works pretty well: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=sci-hub&ia=web

So they won’t be using the Baikonur Cosmodrome?

“On 27 November 2025, one of the cosmodrome’s launchpads sustained significant damage following the launch of the Soyuz MS-28 rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station.[27]” from Wikipedia

And ‘hybrid warfare’ anchor dragging across international telecom cables, etc, etc.

PDF Link: Closing America’s Fiber Intake Gap: Communication Strategies From a Food and Fiber Summit https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6124841/pdf/10.1177_1559827615588079.pdf

“Fiber intake recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) range from 19 grams to 38 grams per day, depending on gender and age.” 9. Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes: Energy, Carbohydrates, Fiber, Fat, Fatty Acids, Cholesterol, Protein and Amino Acids. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2005.

Beans

Hybrid Warfare: “The party’s members have made more than 7,000 attempts in the past five years to unseal this kind of secret information, according to one analysis.” (https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/afd-reichte-seit-2020-gut-7000-sicherheitsrelevante-anfragen-ein-a-a6d2fedb-6830-426f-a5cc-1153d188d530) AfD is acting like some of US GOP, hmm…

NOPE!

most of them are pretty small.

The last two paragraphs: "According to the Interior Ministry, 599 smugglers’ balloons and 197 drones have crossed into Lithuanian airspace this year, disrupting 320 flights, affecting 47,000 passengers and causing nearly 60 hours of airport closures.

Weather balloons launched by cigarette smugglers in Belarus have disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport more than a dozen times in recent months and once at Kaunas Airport."

I have one of those “Qi Charger” induction chargers in my EV. My phone heats up something fierce if I use it, making me assume there’s some inefficiency in charging as the process is generating heat whilst charging my phone. If using USB ‘wired’ charging, there is far less heat generated. Good for them designing and building new methods, and I’d like to see higher efficiency before I would adopt this method.

Ok, Legislative Branch, you’ve got the purse strings. Whatcha gonna do about it?

How about money for reparations, and cede Russian land to Ukraine for starting all this bullshit.

Aww

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Life_Day https://www.starwars.com/life-day https://www.yourdictionary.com/articles/life-day-wookiee-holiday-meaning

“I was feeling a little nappy, and that wooden box seemed so cozy.” Eep!