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Its even more ludicrous than that.

Not only are there a significant amount of American Christians who... believe that Trump is a / one of the AntiChrists / Beasts from Revelation...

I have actually met some who believe that, and still vote for him.

Much of American Christianity is a literal apocalyptic death cult.

Many Christian Zionists are actively antisemitic, yet at the same time, vehemently support Israel... because they believe in some rough variation of the plot line from the 'Left Behind' books/movies.

Israel has to be wiped out or under serious threat of that for their preferred version of the apocalypse to take place, and they cynically support everything that makes that more likely to occur... so that Jesus can come back.

1I don't really know why <> was chosen as the old school 'not equal' for the SQL syntax... I just know it by way of having been working with/in various forms of SQL for... 20+ years?

If I had to guess, it may have something to do with keeping the character set down to a bare minimum.

SQL is fucking old, its been improved and modified and evolved over the years, but, it was first invented and formalized back in 1973, when you still had computer (storage) memory as basically giant spools of magnetic tape, personal computers didn't really exist yet, having 8 KiloBytes of RAM would have been considered astoundingly powerful, years ahead of its time.

Thats uh, 0.0000076294 GigaBytes of RAM, or I think about 512x less than what a basic Nintendo 64 had.

Most American Protestants do believe in it.

Roughly 40% of Americans believe we are currently living in the End Times, ie, the Rapture could happen at any moment.

https://baptistnews.com/article/4-in-10-americans-believe-we-are-living-in-the-end-times/

You may also note the Baptist author of this article is suprised these numbers are not higher.

Those things, and needing to prop up the commercial realestate market.

Elon's Boca Chica launch facility is a nightmare of violating all kinds of environmental and safety regulations, going way beyond the scope of what it was originally permitted and cleared for.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-BavKuMDed0&list=PL-eVf9RWeoWEfSK9mjKe4E67IK1-1vZxB&index=24

This is from 3+ years ago now, and most of the shit brought up here got poo-poo'd online by ravenous Musk sycophants, and seems to have just led to nothing actually happening in terms of some kind of a lawsuit or punishment for Musk or SpaceX...

... and of course, its all only gotten worse with more time.

SpaceX launches showering debris over the Caribbean, latest rocket being prepped to be the next IFT launch just fucking detonated while being fueled, damaged much of the rest of the complex... and the complex itself is now a bunch of very densely packed storage tanks, which easily could have also all blown up if that most recent on pad explosion played out just a bit differently, or maybe a landing capture/catch attempt goes wrong.

Musk's whole... reason for having the chopsticks catch system is that he doesn't want to spring for a larger launch facility with things safely spaced out, he doesn't wanna pay for something akin to the giant NASA crawler vehicle that moves rockets something like a mile or so from the VAB to the actual launch/fueling site at Cape Canaveral.

There's no actual compelling reason for the lower stage, Booster, to not just have landing legs, like the Falcons. Its not going to get 'refurb, refly' times to even within two orders of magnitude of what he's shooting for. The fastest ever turn around time on a Falcon is like, 3ish weeks... and he's talking about launching multiple Starship+Boosters in a single day now.

To date, no Starship nor Booster has ever been re-used without suffering a catastrophic loss on that re-use. He is no where near a re-usable fleet of these things.

Err, well, there is actually a real reason for the chopsticks, and all the rest of his nonsense: His engines aren't as powerful or reliable or fuel efficient as he said they were for years.

But he can't actually directly say that or else SpaceX probably goes bankrupt or at best gets pared down to just running Falcons.

He recently revised Starship+Booster down to only being capable of 50 tons to LEO, not the long touted 100 tons.

He then proceeded to have ... 2, 3? Catastrophic failures on 'test' launches where the claim is that they're being done for the 'data', when the obvious fact is that no almost no useful data of any kind is being gained from all this.

Whats going on is quality control sucks, Musk/SpaceX have no idea how to actually properly assemble these things, oh right and the design is fundamentally flawed, but its fine, because Starship 2 and 3 are gonna come out... some time later.

You know, like how Roadster v2 is gonna come out any day now, for the past decade, how all Tesla cars will suddenly become perfectly fully autonomous, any day now, for the last decade.

From the article:

Kevin Bagnall, a lawyer representing Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, also wrote a letter to Paxton’s office arguing the emails should be kept secret. He cited one main reason: They contain “commercial information whose disclosure would cause SpaceX substantial competitive harm.”

Most of the rest of Bagnall’s letter, which further explained SpaceX’s argument, was redacted.

Musk and representatives for his companies did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

imo, Abbot and Musk are and have been colluding to maunever around SpaceX's frequent and flagrant violations, to get investigations stalled, to get authorizations rubber stamped... so they communicate outside official channels to pull this off.

=D

The uber baby boomer steals his literal participation trophy, to make everything all about him, while angrily rejecting all criticism and calls for accountability for his many crimes.

He really is the perfect boomer.

Run them in a test sandbox environment, maybe run some network analytics to see if weird outbound or inbound calls start getting made... hope they are not more clever than your sandbox environment.

For APKs specifically... official support for Hypatia from the original team ended last year, but a 'MaintainTeam Organization' seems to be attempting to pick up the slack, and keep updating with new malware signatures.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.maintainteam.hypatia

https://github.com/MaintainTeam/Hypatia

... not sure if its... actually getting regular updates though.

EDIT: derp, yeah

Also, as upstroke says, do a hash comparison from the actual proper source to verify you aren't getting a malformed or spoof version of whatever APK.

<> is 'not equal' in SQL syntax

!= is another one for 'not equal' in SQL, and a good deal of other languages, but I went with <> because of the ls and Is, <> is more visually distinct.

https://www.iop.org/events/24th-international-conference-general-relativity-and-gravitation-16th-edoardo-amaldi

If you happen to be in Glasgow today, maybe you can ask them?

In seriousness... I don't think anyone actually has a rock solid theoretical explanation of how that uh, works.

Best I can give you is... maybe they vaccuumed up some other stuff in the process of merging?

Beyond that, or 'error bounds', I defer to the IOP, lol.

Yeah, but then you can point out that the 'super powered/divinely blessed, abandoned child/orphan' trope goes back waaaaay farther than when the myth of Moses originated.

...

Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, is made into an orphan when Seth (Set?) kills Osiris, Isis goes off for I think years to find Osiris' body parts to be able to do a necromancy spell, Horus spends a lot of time on his own, but eventually grows up and avenges his father.

EDIT: (so, ok, this one in particular is ... variable, because it is so old and there are many variants of it. sometimes Horus is alive before Osiris is killed, sometimes he is born after Osiris is resurrected, sometimes he spends a while alone, sometimes he doesn't, sometimes it isn't clear, he avenges the death of Osiris in different ways, etc)

Herakles, son of Zeus, orphaned demi god who is a social outcast for his freakish strength and rage, who accidentally maims and kills people ... eventually grows into a heroic and beloved figure for his ability to solve problems no one else can.

Ion (from Euripedes), a bastard son result of Apollo raping the daughter of a King, left in a basket in the wilderness, expected to die, but is guided by Hermes, goes through many trials and tribulations, eventually ends up with Athena declaring him the rightful king and founder of Athens.

Enkidu, a beast-man created by the Sumerian gods, abandoned to the wilderness, whose astounding physical strength proves to be the only existing match for the 1/3 divine 2/3 human tyrant Gilgamesh, who then befriend each other and go a'questing, slaying terrible monsters, seeking magical treasures... which has the neat bonus effect of 'now Gilgamesh is away from his realm, so he is no longer raping every woman or girl he fancies.'

Sargon the Great, Sargon of Akkad, seems to have actually been an orphan in reality, but was greatly deified by the Sumerian religion of the time.

...

I am fairly confident all of these stories temporally preceed the story of Moses, and there are a good number of ancient near east literature scholars who believe at least some of these stories were drawn on by whoever originally wrote the Exodus story.

Its really simple:

If you are a Zionist, Israel=Zionism=Judaism.

If you are not a Zionist, Israel<>Zionism<>Judaism.

The non Zionists are objectively correct, but Zionists are extremely good at intentionally not understanding this.

Its really no different than any member of any religion that cannot concieve of a non-objective, non-universal morality system.

They are brainwashed, propogandized, and cannot divorce the concepts, because they've been so strongly confounded and confabulated together in ways that are actually not logically consistent, but held together with an explicitly irrational faith.

This does get confusing with say...

"A/An herb."

Because different dialects pronounce herb differently, sometimes the 'h' is pronounced, sometimes not.

I know you specified American English, but even within American English, you can find areas that differ on this, and I'm sure there are other words where this kind of thing crops up.

Also, I guess this may be worth mentioning as well:

Though this no longer seems to be as common as it was 10-20 years ago...

"An hero."

Sometimes, either an unintentional misuse of this a/an rule will be ironically copied, and more widely used, essentially to either mock the original usage/user...

... or the a/an rule can be intentionally misused, as a way of infantilizing yourself, trying to come off as cutesy/ditzy, or maybe play up your own awkardness or inexperience, something like that.

Somewhat ironically... actually using an Alcubierre drive has been theorized to...

...well, basically, when you 'come out of warp speed', turns out you've been accumulating, and energizing, a whole bunch of exotic particles and radiation along the threshold of your 'warp bubble'...

... so when you uh, decelerate/stop fucking spacetime so hard... you spew out an immense amount of exotic particles and radiation.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.5708

So you wouldn't even have to nuke it from orbit.

You just have to come out of warp right next to your target planet, and that'd probably boil off a good portion of its atmosphere, and give everything biological on the side facing you lethal radiation poisoning.

Yep, you got it!

There indeed are older kinds of weapon tech, ... but yeah, they havent't been widely used for like... thousands, tens of thousands of years before the Battle of Yavin 4.

It does indeed end up being a sort of... largely post technological progress setting, most things are ossified... almost everytime something is doing something 'novel' with tech... its basically been done before, or its just outright a 'find the lost relic' scenario, and yeah, you do run into weird situations where 'ancient relics' can actually be quite useful in more or less rare and specific scenarios.

Hell, you can even say that... the Force itself is roughly analagous to the Warp, in many ways.

Welcome to Fight Club.

Thought you were getting a mostly dumb, dude bro story about guys in an underground fighting ring?

Surprise!

Our trailers were intentionally deceptive, we had to trick you into consuming something more cerebral, that may actually cause you to have a complex thought.

Yep, I was very dissapointed as well, having read both books after seeing the first movie, lol.

Yeah, if you didn't know, the whole movie franchise is ultimately based on the book, Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton, who I honestly feel does not get enough credit as a genuinely compelling sci-fi thriller style of author... all the way back in 1969 he wrote Andromeda Strain, he's written a lot of ... yeah, sort of gritty, dense, thriller sci-fi novels.

The original series of movies... well, the first one is a pretty good, pretty faithful adaptation if you're going for a wider, more family friendly audience... some characters are kind of merged together to keep the plot simpler to follow... its a reasonably faithful adaptation in terms of sticking to the exact contents of the novel, and of course, just a wildly succesful and beloved movie.

Crichton wrote Lost World, a sequel to his book... but the movie sequel Lost World... is basically an entire alternate timeline, a totally different story, only vaguely sharing some similarities with the book Lost World.

Then, every movie after that is just fan fiction, utterly diverged from the actual way the characters are portrayed in the books, plot is completely different, only really just keeping a few characters from the older movies around, but they're no longer anything like they are in the books, and of course you've got all the new characters just shoved into this completely divergent timeline... bleck.

I would strongly encourage you to read at least the first book.

Either every, or nearly every chapter begins with a sort of... disembodied, tangentially relevant thought from Malcolm, who is often relating whatever is roughly going to go on in that chapter to the actual mathematical principles and formulae of chaos theory.

The book functionally gives you an actual 'Intro to Chaos Theory 101' lesson as you read through it, with many of the chapters serving as an example, in at least some analagous way, of the concepts in these sort of disembodied, psuedo narration blurbs from Malcolm.

Its some of the best ludonarrative, or maybe... meta, self referential at another scale, consistency, and depth that I can remeber reading in something that is also paced so well that I again call it a 'thriller'.