GreyEyedGhost @ GreyEyedGhost @lemmy.ca

Posts

1

Comments

1,782

Joined

2 yr. ago

Western Oregon and Washington? Give the rest to Idaho?

If by recent you mean at least a third of America's history (longer if you count the complete lack of change in the south as a failed outcome), then yes. Recent.

It's surprising how well the Steam Deck plays new games and how much support has been added to older games for something with a form factor similar to the Switch and a price point that is lower than most computers or consoles with similar capabilities. It's a big change to the cost/benefit calculation.

Just to give you some perspective. One hundred million dollars in 100 dollar bills would be a pallet stacked about 4 feet high. A semi trailer could hold about 56 of those pallets, or $5.6B. As of today, Forbes says Elon is worth $384B, which would be about 68.5 semi trailers full of $100 bills.

But I'm sure more would materially improve his life.

Sources:

Visualizing f a billion dollars

Forbes real-time billionaire list

"Hey, little guy, is an asteroid gonna kill us all?"

Cluck cluck!

Canada doesn't need to pick up the slack. The rest of the world, including Canada, needs to pick up the slack. This could take a while, but there are drug researchers in Canada and Europe, and other parts of the world. They are being presented with an advantage when Trump incentivizes investment in their existing pharmaceutical industry. Ramp up time may be an issue, especially if investors think America is going to return to its old behavior within 4 years. If they don't believe that, they may well invest heavily and early, which could be a win for all of us.

(2 of the 3 first COVID vaccines originated outside the US.)

Well, there were a lot of fundamental steps that had to be completed first, not least of which was a high pressure vessel. This all took a lot of materials science, advancement in seemingly unrelated fields, etc., etc. Not unlike fusion technology... The difference is we have 2000 years more advancement than they had when they invented the steam engine.

It was about 1800 years between the first steam engine and a practical steam engine. I'm sorry that one or two generations is too long for you.

I'm supposed to believe at least two people read the article?

And im perfectly fine with this use case. I'm not impressed with the idea of changing prices from day to day, and certainly not throughout the day.

That's exactly what I said.

I'd agree that unnecessary contracts are subsidies but then that just pushes your point down the road a little bit. I'd say that maintaining the ISS isn't unnecessary, for instance.

It's a sandbox survival game. So, the first step is to survive to the point where you can start making choices, the next step is to figure out what you want your goals to be. Then, the hard part. How will you achieve those goals?

You disappoint me. You had engaging metaphors that had me amused even while disagreeing with much of what you said. But then you refuted someone else's comment referring to the clink of champagne glasses with the sound of a till and went right back to champagne! Do keep going, it has been entertaining, but only if the consistency is held to the highest standards.

Given the context, I choose to believe smth means "shaking my tiny head".

Likewise, but I still go to reddit via searches if the other results aren't helping me out. At this point it's more an act of desperation than desire, though.

I don't have a problem with them changing the theme. I have a huge problem with them not allowing me to change it back, especially when it serves no practical purpose (other than, "sign up for our Windows

<insert version here>

Even solids are mostly nothing. This is why neutron stars are so dense - there is a lot less nothing between the neutrons, largely due to gravity.

Here's another way to think about it. A gas is like a bunch of balls bouncing around a room, hitting the walls and occasionally each other. A solid is like a ball pit, but the balls are vibrating. There is still a lot of bouncing, but most of themstay together.

While you're aren't wrong, what do you think we can do militarily to stop the nation with the largest nation in the world, 10 times the population, and one of the largest economies in the world? I don't think we can get out of this by spending more on our military. Spending more on our militias, and include unconventional warfare training? Well, I don't think that would stop the invasion, but it would make the occupation a nightmare.