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It's another "Russia, if you're listening". He's trying to call in the favours he's owed by Barrett and Kavanaugh. Probably Alito and Thomas too, although he didn't handpick them.

I wonder if they're willing to let him rot now they already have what they want. I have no clue if Trump has any leverage left there.

Why are you so invested in this website and SpaceX satellites that you keep posting this link everywhere and keep making accounts to do it after you're banned? Do you have some sweet crypto malware running on it or something? Because that might explain some of the fervour.

It is possible to do something cool and something that furthers science at the same time. Deep down, doing cool stuff is probably why most research scientists exist. Because it isn't for the mad stacks of cash, I can promise you that.

Let the science people do their pew-pew-pew thing with the fancy toys and pretend they're in Star Trek. At least they're enjoying themselves while helping the rest of us out!

As a total stranger, thankyou for looking after Gabriel, even after being so mistreated yourself. You clearly have a lot of compassion and kindness to offer the world, even if it's not always respected by its recipients (although it sounds like Gabriel may not have had the skills or ability to fully comprehend it). I hope you're in a much better place and able to extend your kindness even further and without neglecting your own needs in the process.

43 shipments of reflective license plate sheeting over 2 years
54 total sanction violations
$10,000,000 fine

Alibaba suggests it's about US$6 per metre square for reflective sheeting on the slightly pricy side. Let's say it costs US$5/m^{2 for 3M to make their fanciest sheeting and pay all costs associated, which is a total guess probably overestimated by 10 times at least. 3M has 50 yards per roll maximum 48" width, which is 55.7m}2 and therefore costs 3M $278.5 maximum per roll.

Resellers are charging about US $1500 retail for one roll of a different less fancy sheeting, let's say 3M is giving a great bulk discount to their Iran reseller and selling the fancy ones at $750 per roll.

If each shipment is one 40' shipping container, that's about a thousand rolls per container or US$750,000 gross revenue and $278,500 cost, which leaves a profit of $471,500 per container.

43 shipments × $471,000 = $20,274,500

Therefore the fine is maybe a maximum 50% of their profits from breaking sanctions. What an incentive to not do it again.

I have both a pre-existing endocrine disorder that I (partly) actively manage, and long covid (and some other stuff that isn't relevant). This aligns with my experiences extremely well.

Completely anecdotal, I know, but I've had to deal with hormonally-attributed brain fog and fatigue for decades. Covid fatigue made the normal fog markedly worse, to the point where It was terrifying knowing that I might not be able to rely on my own judgement to know if I needed to call an ambulance, because simple actions like making food were extremely difficult. I would forget what I was doing halfway through anything simple eg. "Get spoon from drawer", for every single action. It was what I imagine Alzheimers feels like. Thankfully the peak of that only lasted for a few days, but it also never completely stopped.

Additional hormonal disregulation would also explain the early pandemic numbers showing people with my condition were at much higher risk of hospitalisation, severe infections and death. People really underestimate how much hormones influence everything in our bodies.

I wonder how long this can be detected in the blood afterwards. I'm glad I might be getting some answers, maybe even help later on.

So, I believe you, but the bad news is that you could replace archaeology with just about any other discipline and it would be just as true.

Seizure warning for the above link

It's a nice video, but I can't watch more than a few seconds because of the flashing lights.

recitation of a previously unknown extinct language. The language was hidden on a cuneiform tablet containing a ritual text written in Hittite. The Hittite ritual text refers to the lost tongue as the language of the land of Kalašma, an area that likely corresponds to where the towns of Bolu or Gerede in northern Turkey are located today.

Very very cool. They know it's indo-european but not much else.

Thanks so much, this is extremely helpful. I've been separate from the entire Windows ecosystem for a long while, so a high level overview like this is perfect. I now have all the acronyms and names I need to research further instead of trying to figure out what acronym is responsible for what, which is always the most tedious part.

American government to businesses after loaning them money during covid: Oh, don't worry about paying it back even though you just bought new cars with it instead of anything you were supposed to do with it, we forgive you.

America government to vulnerable people after overpaying them: WHERE'S THE MONEY, LEBOWSKI?!

Thankyou for answering some historical mysteries for me. It has always irritated me that I didn't know why programs only sometimes drained battery while asleep - but it wasn't always like that, and I couldn't find a pattern in what programs affected it, and I didn't know why a Linux dual-boot on the same drive didn't cause the same issue. The backstory of this makes a whole lot of experiences make sense now.

What is involved in an app being S0 aware and running on DRIPS? Is this a badly-educated-developers-requiring-permanent-network-connections issue or a Microsoft-proprietary-certificate-bullshit thing or something completely different? I'm mostly curious for if I ever dive into desktop application development what performance optimisations I should be keeping in the back of my mind.

Goodness that is too precious. I'm not sure if I'm more jealous of you or the cat, being bundled up like that looks very comfy

I try to keep it honest and accurate, I would hate to spread more misinformation accidentally. If only my long-covid memory were a little more cooperative!

Hormones can definitely influence hair growth and texture, but... neither of those have anything to do with OP's inconvenient dilemma or incomplete traction alopecia information.

two brands of baby food containers made of polypropylene and one brand of reusable food pouch

These choices aimed to showcase diverse types of baby food packaging

3 brands, two of the same overall declared material, and no reference to manufacturer formulation safety data. If this is an American paper, the FDA requires substances that come into contact with food to be vetted, so the information should exist somewhere if these are legally sold. Which is obviously not guaranteed. This is not giving me much hope for this study.

Oops, my mistake. I've been looking at too many acrylics and polycarbonates for use in a non-food setting. Thanks for the correction!

I have huge news for you about invisible and less visible disabilities.

What makes him the naughtiest? He's also adorable.

Fair, I was too casual in my assessment of Bon Appetit. I have nothing against food blogs though, for what it's worth.

I should probably have said: "I don't think that Condé Nast food and entertainment magazines containing Amazon affiliate links are necessarily a great source for the latest accurate and objective health and science information." I would read a recipe on their site though.