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She was going to win it. Comey dropped his letter saying that an investigation would be reopened right before voting. That probably cost her the election.

From what I understand, the West has specialized more in precision ammunition, whereas Russia leans far more on dumb bombs. The industrial capacity is there, but the specific capacity needs adjusting. The West is seeing the first war in a long time involving a near-peer adversary running itself as a war economy, so this is also about getting production lines and supply chains up to the task. During WW2, the US was involved in production on the side of the allies via the Lend-Lease Act before it officially entered the war, so there was time for it to specialize. Not that I am in favor of a world war or escalation, but I don't think it's good to be a sitting duck.

For so many artists, they'll have a single hit that survived the test of time and most that didn't. We hear the one song that not only topped the charts but continued to be remembered. I tried going back to the top 100 songs of the 50's. Some of them are good (Hound Dog), but others frankly just aren't very good. Contrast that with the modern day, I had a neighbor growing up who is a professional singer who has better original songs.

Then you just get the factor of time itself. Old includes all surviving music before the present day. When you have centuries of music (if not more),

But at the same time, a lot of those deaths and shattered defensive lines were because of a lack of supplies. I'm not going to make any claims on how much, but when the Russians are firing 5 shells for every 1 shell the Ukrainians fire off, that changes things.

Much of that was because the US House of Representatives was sitting on its ass for the past how many months? There have been widespread reports of Ukraine rationing ammunition, effectively forcing them to cede ground. The recent passage of aid will start getting basic supplies in quickly. Don't write them off yet.

How'd you do? I

See you met my

Faithful handyman

He's just a little brought down because

When you knocked

He thought you were the

candy man.

What exactly are these quotes supposed to prove? This was what, a few months or a few years after reunification? Any social change that large is going to cause some turbulence. And of course Parenti has an agenda, so he wouldn't include someone lauding their new experience.

So I'm going to put that on a really low probability. Even Texas, which has long had a political faction that talks big about succeeding, isn't close to majority support, let alone the necessary overwhelming support. Compare that with Ukraine's 90% approval of independence in 1991. Social, economic, and foreign relation factors just make it a tough sell here. People move around a lot, so even someone like me with a medium number of connections knows people across the US. The single market provides US businesses an enormous market of hundreds of millions of people without having to deal with trade barriers, so the business community would be dead set against it. And of course a large country has more luck throwing around its weight on the international stage than 50 small ones.

So you might have a non-negligible minority approval rate for succession when people are poking buttons in a survey app. Even less so when they have to actually make a tough decision and are shown the pros and cons.

It has outputs through USB-A, USB-C, AC, and DC-vehicle (whatever it's called). I think the AC inverter was off, though I had been using it earlier. I was definitely charging fully through the USB-C output. Good point, though.

Remember the Oklahoma City bombing? My uncle is a retired lawyer in OKC, so he was in that building frequently when it was still standing. If memory serves, it still blew out the windows in his office.

You would think, but we went directly to bed with as many blankets and coats as we could find. Just plug it in and let it charge. The phone has a maximum power draw of maybe 20W when speed charging. Not exactly boiling water.

Did you find it was connected to temperature or other drop offs in capacity?

That's the thing, it wasn't. It's an Ecoflow Delta Power Station, We tested boiling 1.5 liters of water off it and it used 15% of the capacity. Meanwhile, charging the phone overnight drained 30%.

It was slightly above freezing in the house, so definitely not operating at peak efficiency. From a brief search, it looks like sodium-ion does have a similar temperature sensitivity, though it may be to a different degree.

I'm curious what the temperature resiliency is for sodium-ion batteries. I had a power outage recently where I was relying on a lithium-ion battery. As the temperature in the house plunged, it because so inefficient that charging a single phone overnight drained a quarter of the battery.

Are you actually modding conversations you are directly involved in? When I have done modding, that would usually be discouraged as a conflict of interest.

It's the same with many infrastructure problems. You hear about some interesting infrastructure project that's going to transform regional travel, improve transit, make biking/walking safer, or prepare for future natural disasters. Then it takes forever for them to go into place because it takes a long time to plan, do the legal work, and build. But then the infrastructure goes into place and no one thinks twice about the long process behind it.

socialist states are “authoritarian” against capitalist interests

The problem with this claim is that the USSR was quite authoritarian towards everyone. The Gulags were a place merely of political repression. Political jokes that are part and parcel of American late night comedy shows would get people harsh labor sentences during certain periods. The claim that this had to happen to protect the working class seems thin.

Oh yeah, I've been meaning to give Yerba mate a try. I've been staying away from green tea for the most part because apparently it's pretty bad about tooth stains.

Eh. "A Majority of

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I actually think a more notable statistic in this poll is the Republicans at 23%. That tells me that reactions to what is happening in Gaza has had a bipartisan effect, which has often not been the case with Israel.