Trump has played one side of Kelogg’s plan, cut off aid to Ukraine if they dont move toward peace. Now lets see if he follows though with the other side of it and dramatically ramp up aid to Ukraine if Russia dont move towards peace.

I hope he does but I’m not holding my breath.

He served five terms because he was so good he was massively popular, the conservatives paniced and pushed for term limits afterwards as they were scared of the idea of people running with policies that benifted the majority of people repetedly getting long periods of power like that.

No I’m not, I’m just not assuming immigrants have 0 buying power, which your post implicitly was, yes supply increases but demand also increases. Beyond that you get into the realms of having to do empirical research as to which is more (which is difficult).

More people also means more demand for things that require labour to create however. Your position is referred to as the lump of labour fallacy

That’s interesting, though their own map benefits from their definition of B (the number of boundary cuts an arbitrary line segment needs to cross), because this metric does not take into account how far away the elements on the map are from each other. E.g. the cuts going from northern to southern Africa count as much as a “distortion” as the ones separating Indonesia and South America.

Ultimately, “objective” best depends on the metric you choose and that is a subjective decision.

I’m not sure where you got that from, the moon absolutely is gravitationally bound to the earth, so much so that it has become tidally locked.

E: from your own link https://youtu.be/KBcxuM-qXec?t=182

Thats a meaningless distintion, the moon orbits the earth with an elliptical orbit in the Earth’s frame of reference, or an eliptical orbit with fairly large, low frequency oscillations in the Sun’s frame of reference. The same is true for something in LEO except the oscilations are smaller and shorter period.

This is exactly why its such a bad word to use to describe this, it automatically puts people on the defensive and needs to be explained to people that it doesn’t mean what the word means (rule of the fathers).

Of course you’d need to stabilise it somehow, maybe also have a shoe that drops off after the high speed thrust?

Old and infirm people existed before cars did, and also I’m pretty sure they are not banning ambulences.

Use milliseconds instead: a million milliseconds is 17 minutes, a billion milliseconds is 12 days, a trillion is 31 years.

No, less is perfectly acceptable. GoT is very annoying for turning people into grammar pedants for a 18th century style suggestion.

They tried that method with the steam machines, it didnt work. A bunch of companies put out half arsed cash in versions and it went nowhere. By putting Valve’s whole weight behind one platform that they tested extensively they got a great product that has made waves. Opening it up now that it has momentum makes sense, but they absolutely made the right call making the steam deck the focus rather than making it hardware agnostic.

If only there were companies (perhaps even the ones you bought furniture from) who had speciallist delivery vehicles for the twice in a decade time you need to move funiture.

Alas it isnt to be.

I mean there is, its the old Soviet block countries, its just not really relevant anymore.

A gradient is fine and even desirable for a small number of groupings like this, and allows you to see what order places are in without reference to a key. You just need to pick one created by people who know what they are doing rather than pulling colours out your butt.

Its not that its first that is surprising, its that with one exception its only them.

I was so sure this map was wrong showing nothing in the UK in the first map, but civil unions came in in 04 not 03.

Also its crazy how this is almost entirely limited to Europe and places with strong historical ties to Europe (with the notable exception of Taiwan)

The focus on construction is a distraction, the point here is that men of lower socio-economic status in the US are killing themselves at a horrific rate. From the actual paper this article is based on:

The overall suicide rates by sex in the civilian noninstitutionalized working population were 32.0 per 100,000 among males and 8.0 per 100,000 among females.

Major industry groups with the highest suicide rates included Mining (males = 72.0); Construction (males = 56.0; females = 10.4); Other Services (e.g., automotive repair; males = 50.6; females = 10.4); Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (males = 47.9; females = 15.0); and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting (males = 47.9).

Major occupation groups with the highest suicide rates included Construction and Extraction (males = 65.6; females = 25.3); Farming, Fishing, and Forestry (e.g., agricultural workers; males = 49.9); Personal Care and Service (males = 47.1; females = 15.9); Installation, Maintenance, and Repair (males = 46.0; females = 26.6); and Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media (males = 44.5; females = 14.1).

To put this into perspective, current petrol prices are hovering just below £1.50 per litre in the UK, that’s $8.64 / gallon