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  • In that case, Krasnodar and Rostov to Ukraine as buffer zones - maybe Belgorod and Kursk too?

  • I think there was a time when he could have apologized for a dumb mistake and everyone would have moved on. It is world news now because HE chose another and unfortunate path - which probably has no route back to the sunlit lands.

  • You don't have to use Google at all. They are pretty ubiquitous, so you have to make a little effort - search with another tool (I find duckduckgo to be quite satisfactory). Although Youtube has the lion's share of the video, there are other places to go. It is the same with all Google products.

  • You can count on this though: spending on something will be way up.

  • You are right about one thing, the US does not yet have a decarbonization strategy - it is like a motor that is not quite starting; banging on a cylinder here or there but not yet running (may this analogy be completely indecipherable in another generation). But maybe things are starting to change a little?

  • You know, just wearing a seatbelt is not enough to keep you from being killed in a car wreck, so might as well not wear it, eh?

  • Engineers describe heat transfer with a "heat transfer coefficient", and the rate of heat transfer is this coefficient multiplied by the temperature difference. So you can calculate what the heat transfer coefficient must be by measuring room air temperature initially, water temperature initially, and then running your system for a little while and measuring the room temperature again. The smaller room area you can cool the more accurate this will be. You will need to look up heat capacity and density of air (easy to find), and the temperature change of the air with the volume of the room and the temperature change will together give you an amount of heat you removed from the air to the water. Simple!

  • It can be a hard road to stubbornly refuse to follow the path of least resistance. But it is vital that as many as possible forge alternative paths or the path of least resistance (Chrome) can become the ONLY path.

  • It is entirely logical to nationalize package deliver! We should have an organization that follows regular routes all across America and delivers whatever packages, etc. people need! We could call it something like UPS; maybe USPS?!

    I get about as many deliveries by parcel post as by UPS. Nothing can stop the US Mail

  • The problem of democracy has always been the short attention span of the electorate. People make emotional decisions; "throw the bums out" - which of course it is sometimes right to be frustrated and take a new direction - but sometimes cooler heads must be allowed to prevail. We democratically chose to have that non-democratic institution, no different than various other government institutions that we put in authority over our day-to-day activities (police, and a whole range of other government "services", even the IRS!).

  • You would think "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." -DJT Jan 2016 would have pretty much filtered the US population into two camps long ago. The "swing" population that is reflected in every poll since then is a gaggle of . . . I don't know . . . forgetful? inattentive? I am trying not to be invective, no matter what.