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Bet you could've stopped that if you had some highly trained guard dolphins posted up around the area.

Sure. It's certainly not impossible, just unlikely when we consider all the possibilities.

Just adds an extra, unnecessary step. It'd be like if you had billions of grocery stores to choose from and went to the one crawling with ants.

Also just doctrine being subject to rapid change to suit changing realities during times of war. As an example, we can look to WW1 to see rapidly changing doctrines as it became understood to be necessary, like when the maneuver warfare of the Napoleonic Era quickly shifted to trench warfare.

I think it'd be much smarter to simply use the piece of equipment when its capabilities suit your needs, than treat it like a weirdly-shaped ICBM.

You think they just sit on the runway until someone needs to drop a nuke? So, when Trump redeployed our B-2s to the Indian Ocean, he must've been preparing to nuke the Houthis?

The idea of imbibing potions whose recipes predate our awareness of things like radium or mercury toxicity somewhat disturbs me.

Probably not.

I also don't see why any spacefaring civilization would have any interest in colonizing inhabited planets. It would just be more hassle for the same resources you could get on lots and lots of planets. If they have the technology for interstellar flight, they can probably extract whatever they want from wherever they want. Regarding living space, you wouldn't even need planets, there are far more efficient structures you could devise when you don't have to limit yourself to only what nature has provided.

It makes more sense with restaurant reviews. The business environment is so intensely competitive that any restaurant actually deserving of 1-2 stars would be much more likely to eventually go out of business.

So, over a long enough period of time, you'd wind up with mostly 3-5 star places, with some exceptions existing for restaurants that can survive without the benefit of repeat customers. (tourist trap places, places operated as some kind of money laundering operation, etc)

Maybe, but we also got Reaganomics and the beginning of that cultural shift towards greed being good. I suppose you could make a case that we also had HW Bush, the last repub afaik to actually raise taxes on the wealthy, helping Clinton balance the budget in the 90s.

Also had the Satanic Panic, though that seems to come back around every so often no matter what.

I like to set my tent up in the lowest elevation spot I can find too.

tbf, a play would be the ideal format for it. Can't do screwey camera angles for no reason 24/7 with a proper stage and actors.

Nothing wrong with it as a method, so long as it makes some predictions we can then test for.

Despite all the fearmongering, it's so far proved unnecessary. Ji is going to look at it in terms of cost/benefit, and as things sit, the costs are high and the benefit of getting a leveled Taiwan is minimal. The diplomatic costs in particular are fairly prohibitive, with China investing so much recently in trying to be a predictable, stable and peaceful world power that other countries can feel good partnering with.

It would be vastly preferable for all parties involved to maintain the status quo and continue to work towards peaceful reunification in the future. Assuming Taiwan doesn't do anything stupid, this patient approach has no real drawbacks. It did work several times in the past, after all.

Not off the top of my head. Cooking is frequently a recreational hobby though, it's essentially an art form. So I think it's about equally likely that dancing, painting or making music fade away.

Most generally useful single ability? Probably the Flash's speedforce. Being able to get whatever you want done in a fraction of the time has broad utility. Plus you're well equipped for any supervillain attacks.

Yeah, made the hair on the back of my neck stand up a little bit. The fridge door would function here as a large lever, and a cat's arm is not particularly sturdy.

There's a reason so many poker players wear sunglasses.

Anyway, try to preempt your emotional reaction. There's always many different flavors of reactions we can have to something really negative, which normally depends heavily on mood. By default, this all just runs unconsciously, but it doesn't have to. Of the many potential options, like anger, sadness, condescending disdain, arrogant bemusement or surprise, you can try to consciously pick one and channel your feelings towards it instead of just letting your feelings run wild.

Or you can just practice a proper poker face, but that can be really hard. Doable though, just takes a lot of practice. Playing poker would be an effective way to get that practice.

Is there thinking among the locals that a big war might break out? Or do more people think it will just be small border skirmishes?

You know getting a progressive President wouldn't have gotten us any closer to abortion rights? Unlike Trump, we actually follow our separation of powers principles, which means the Pres has limited authority. You expect us to just ignore court orders and the legislature like Trump does or something?

A law enshrining abortion rights would require a filibuster-proof Senate majority and control of the House.

I'm all for being critical of the DNC, but we should be clear-eyed on how governing actually works. Also, pretty hard to say Harris was less progressive than Obama, her Senate voting record was pretty damn progressive.