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"cargo" rockets you say... presumably to deliver "packages?"... from the Pentagon...

Unless it's more Hegseth leaks, I'm going to pass. I think refusing delivery in this case might be difficult though.

I've never had so much joy filling in a mad-libs blank with so many different and fun answers. That was supposed to be a mad-libs right?

About a third of the price that any reasonable rent would be, then you can just get 3 and actually have some decent square footage to work with.

I'm happy I can now hope for a second spiritual successor to KSP being developed. As awesome as KSA looks, the RocketWerkz guy seems a bit unpredictable at times and I'm afraid of pinning all my hopes on that one even if he does have a pretty solid track record.

I keep telling people things like this. We always vote like these problems are because of one specific political party or political philosophy, but these problems are happening around the world, all at the same time, in countries with wildly diverse politics and histories and economics. It has little to do with the specific politics, at least not within the range of choices available to us. It is not the government we choose or have chosen that is the problem, it is the people, who are being beaten down by brutal economics, by an overwhelming wealth gap, by social media and traditional media relentlessly battering points of view into our faces. We are causing these problems, we are creating them, and we are enabling them. We are becoming the problem, because we are being made into the problem. Governments do have some responsibility to address this, but so do we. And we can't trust the government to act on it, so we must. We must become political. We must not be afraid to speak up and speak out. We must be willing to put in the work, to do the leg work, to do the research, and sometimes just to show up. Even just to do the bare minimum is sometimes enough, when so often we choose to do nothing, not even the bare minimum. Learn what's happening, form your opinion, and say your piece. It is your right, but also your duty.

I'm not going to tell anyone how to vote, but I am going to tell you that you are ultimately responsible for the media you consume, and that you contribute. Angry rhetoric typically leads down a deadly path. Reject it. Embrace honesty and kindness whenever possible, if you are trapped in this flood of disinformation and you don't know what point of view is true anymore, don't reject them all, and certainly don't just pick one, instead try your best to thoughtfully consider them all, weigh their importance yourself, and try to take the emotion out of the analysis. Especially negative emotions like fear and anger. They're what are being used to manipulate you.

The French nuclear doctrine limits the use of nukes to only if France came under attack.

I thought Macron had now extended the French nuclear umbrella over all of Europe.

Not only should we accept this deal, we need to partner with SK on making nuclear subs, which is something they want, and potentially Australia will also want since the US Virginia-class deal appears to be increasingly in doubt for them. We need them domestically for arctic operations, and nuclear technology would also be a huge benefit for the icebreaking fleets that we also need. This is an area where Canada could leverage our nuclear expertise and become one of the world leaders. Maritime nuclear power is an area we can expect rapid growth in, China is even attempting it for superlarge civilian container ships. The only major players in this field at the moment are the US, Russia, China and France. That only leaves one reliable supplier, and as much as France might like to they can't realistically ramp this capability up quickly enough to corner the whole market. We should step up to be the alternative.

More than 100 presumably-Linux-users seem to have upvoted my comment, so, that seems more like 100 people all actually recommending the same thing. Your assertion doesn't seem to hold water.

Yeah there are (and always will be) a lot of people who will shout noisily about their (current) favourite distro and how great it is and assert that everyone should use it, but the world is full of people like that. If you don't learn to ignore them you'll never be able to get a useful recommendation for anything.

Honestly proton running the windows version under linux is typically better polished, better performing, and more compatible than the "official" native linux version that most publishers put out, except in very rare circumstances where the developer actually understands and uses Linux and makes it a primary development focus. It's counterintuitive, but proton actually is that good (also most official linux releases are pretty lazy, like "console ports" if not worse).

Nowhere near a majority if you include all the people who didn't vote. Low voter turnout, combined with prolific gerrymandering and targeted attacks (like the 200 election day bomb threats closing polling stations mostly in Pennsylvania) means small minority groups can coordinate their actions to take over the government. Which is what has happened. The silent majority does not support Trump, and it's well past time for them to remember they are in fact the actual majority, and they had better not remain silent much longer or else they're going to find out that the cost of speaking will get higher and higher the longer they let these criminals run their country.

Mint would still be my initial choice, unless you're really intending to dive right into playing the latest AAA games in which case Bazzite might be a better starting point.

But it's really easy to install both. You might even prefer to have both. You can install Mint on a disk partition with only 50-100GB or less. Most Linux installations will work fine with about the same. It's only once you start installing games that it's going to consume tons of disk space.

Please give me a moment to warm up my steamroller.

How do I self host these? I tried docker run liquidtrees it didn't work

Basic human psychology has been weaponized against us, and they've been getting better at it faster than we're getting better at resisting it, for decades.

No, it's not just about the government not putting pressure on the media. Laissez-faire attitudes do not protect press freedom. Indigenous communities still need equitable press representation even if they cannot afford it or do not have access to the necessary resources or education, capitalism will not magically provide it. It must be actively supported. Press freedom and representation are responsibilities the government is expected to ensure, not to simply take its hands off and hope it happens. From your comment I have to assume you are the kind of person who would assume state-run media is automatically bad, when in fact state-run media like the CBC is actually one effective way of promoting and accomplishing that goal, but there are other approaches too.

No matter how you choose to do it, press freedom must be actively and intentionally distributed equally to all, like voting is. We do not say a country has democracy by having a show of hands of whoever happens to be around when the government decides to have an election. There's actual work that has to go into it, processes and systems need to be established, developed and protected, it will be expensive to do and there's no one-size-fits-all solution, it is a dynamic environment and difficult problem to solve. And the actual details of how you do it will be judged by people like the democracy index. The same goes for press freedom, and the press freedom index is in the same position to judge exactly how we do at it. They are judging us because we deserve to be judged for the things we are doing (and more importantly aren't doing) to preserve press freedom. I value their criticism and I hope we strive to do better.

Mark Carney's commitment to re-fund the CBC and increase its mandate to provide more local coverage is a step in the right direction, but as the index shows, we still have a ways to go and the government is an integral part of making the necessary changes.

I think what you're describing is a "duvet cover". A "duvet" is a two part comforter with a bulky padded insert and a thin washable outer shell. There are a variety of types of duvet covers available in all kinds of different materials and many of them would essentially match your description of "two sheets sewn together" but they can also be significantly thicker and heavier weight materials, they still would be thin and won't have the padding of a comforter though as that would be what the insert is normally for. The giveaway would be that there's usually a zipper or button flap somewhere to insert the comforter insert into, and there are usually buttons or ties on the inside as well to keep the insert from bunching up.

You could just get one of those and skip the insert. I often sleep with just a duvet cover during the summer.

I think there's a lot of Protestants who simply respect the Pope in general and this Pope in particular as a "good person", the same way Mother Teresa or Gandhi became culturally revered for their deeds not merely their position. They might also extend some of the same respect to Catholics in general (or they might not). Also a lot of them are not very critical thinkers and often don't have much of an education in theological matters (or at all).

I'm gonna have to go super old school on this, because I think gradually games have gotten progressively better about this as the art form advanced. The absolute worst for this that I know of for this has to be "Below The Root" which, despite this point of criticism was a mind-blowingly advanced game for its time, arguably the first real open world CRPG. I have no idea how anyone could've legitimately completed the game without either using a guide or playing it over and over for years to learn every possible route of progress. I think the confusing nature of the world was in fact simply because nothing of that scale had ever really been attempted before and there was absolutely no precedent for how to adequately guide players through it.

The world was, for its time, truly immense and sprawling with a multiple screen interiors for most buildings, a full cave system hidden underground, ladders and secret platforms aplenty. You could converse and trade with various NPCs in houses and wandering around on many of the screens. And when I say "screens" you have to keep in mind I'm talking about something this size. That is not a lot of context to work with for navigation.

It's also full of secrets and hidden things, and like many games of the time you will need to find and use pretty much all of them, in pretty much a specific order, to actually complete the game. I can't even describe how insane the sequence of events you need to do to actually complete the game is, this guy uses a guide and save states but I think it illustrates the general lack of clear guidance in almost all cases. Combine that with the fact that you "die" easily, your inventory is extremely limited capacity, and did I mention you're on a time limit? Because the "goal" of the game is to rescue a guy and if you take too long, he dies and you can't win anymore!

Many naive players (myself included) weren't even convinced it HAD an ending and just kind of played it endlessly like it was some early version of The Sims.

You certainly can say it, but I'm going to have to mostly disagree it's a good example though because I felt Half-Life was very linear. What it did do a good job at was creating a convincing illusion of non-linearity, which I can certainly see some people getting lost in occasionally, but probably briefly (unless you have particularly poor navigation abilities which some people definitely do). It can be especially bad once you get to Xen, which felt deliberately confusing and not really the greatest section of the game for a lot of reasons.

Windows interface is also stuck in 2005, and the evidence suggests most people prefer that. Many people claim they want modern interfaces, but then people get literally angry whenever Microsoft tries to update it and almost nobody ever uses any of the "modern" features they add. Mint is a perfectly fine choice for most people, who are perfectly happy to be stuck in 2005.