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So you asume Rocketboy also sent the units tasked with operating his nuclear arsenal to Ukraine?

In principle, I agree. However, in detail there are the same issues and more as when everything was outsourced to China:

• While there are stable and democratic states in Africa, a lot of the resources for manufacturing might will come from not so stable parts. I am looking at Congo as an example in particular.
• If you think about it, it is Colonialism 2.0: Cheap labourers turning basic resources into goods that are too expensive for them to buy themselves, which in return are sold for cheap in relation to local production costs in other countries.
• Exporting the environmentally harmful jobs elsewhere makes us look good on paper, but has drastic consequences for locals.

While China has until recently and to a significant extent been able to turn the second point around, the environment is where this whole plan might come apart before it even can be put into practice: The African continent is possibly most directly impacted by climate change. In the past, present and future. Don't get me wrong: We are all going to suffer. But the African combination of geolocation and political and social stability is a powder keg.

Don't get me wrong, I do not want to leave Africa and its people in the dust. If we can build a relationship on a basis of mutual trust and long-term benefit, let's go for it. However, I am highly sceptical that in our current political climate the EU and its countries or, let alone companies, would be going to invest more than the absolute minimum to get any form of production going. And investing the absolute minimum to extract the most benefit equals colonialism 2.0.

Well, that's the magic of open source 🤷

But it's such a simple and easy solution to our problems! /s

Well, since the only persons on his mind appear to be Trump and himself: Yeah, everybody's cheating.

Fair.

Also have you ever seen someone arrested just for wearing a clown costume.

Nope, but that might be because 17a (3) says it does not apply to common public festivals, which Carnival certainly belongs. Also, there is no general ban on masks in public. Only at gatherings.

The specific law does not specify against whom the masking may or may not be targeted at. It expresses a general ban on masking yourself at most public gatherings.

Yes, turtles are probably faster (especially in water), but I'm talking about Hermanns's tortoise.

TBH I'd cancel independently of what printer you get as replacement. Only way to reach these companies is by cutting into their revenue.

Unfortunately, it is not my opinion that is decisive here.

Well, they have a right to protest as well ...

I just think it's quite telling that half of Nazis appear to wear some form of masks, which is illegal at protests and has been used frequently in the past to justify breaking up left protests.

Tortoises are fast. Though most of the time they just have no reason to and conserve energy because they are cold blooded.

Also, those fuckers can climb! You got no idea how many times we had to pick up one of my mothers tortoises from neighbours because they found another way to sneak out of the enclosure we build outside.

There is a correlation, but not a causation. On the other hand, short interupts of breathing which are also audible are sure signs of sleep apnea.

Probably yes. But in case the Poles are serious this time, we have to talk about the Ostgebiete as well.

On a more cynical note: Ukraine grows a lot of Russian obituaries, which the EU doesn't have to, should they try to invade the Baltics once they are successful in Ukraine.

Well, Christianity started as a doomsday cult. So I guess old habits die hard.

Except they won't because the gravitational pull generated by a human body is so low that the gases expelled are likely moving faster than escape velocity.

Engines in space don't produce visible smoke because A) they are precision engineered to burn 100% of the fuel they are supplied with, and what is colloquially known as smoke is unburned particles. All this awesome smoke that engulfs rockets before they take off? Most of it is vapour from water under the platform, protecting the structure from melting. B) Thrusters in general are build to expel the reaction mass as fast as possible in order to go as fast as possible with the least amount of fuel.

So yeah, you are trying to compare what happens in a cars' engine with what's going on in the exhaust: It's the same stuff but under very different circumstances.

No, I am totally not. You are hung up on the part where you think that for something resembling smoke to exist, an atmosphere is necessary. Have you never seen RCS thruster being fired in zero gravity?

Yes, there won't be fields of funnels causing smoke clouds that block the view from Earth. But exhaust products being expelled into the vacuum causing measurable dimming effects? Certainly at some point.

But the moon has its own gravity field. Just not enough to keep a permanent atmosphere. Also, not having an atmosphere doesn't mean the space above the surface is devoid of matter. In fact, even in interstellar space, you can find particles. And an atmosphere is not something that's holding particles in. An atmosphere is made up of particles in a dense field gravitationally bound to a celestial body.