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It's the same everywhere in the American political system just the GOP is the best example. Institutional Democrats spend insane amounts of time and money blocking competent intelligent people who would threaten the status quo with their policies.

on Calm down Poland · c/european_memes · 4 pts · 14h

Buffer zone (dumb but legit motivation for Russia)

Cutting off other NATO allies or NATO aligned nations like Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania from land reinforcement.

Being a dick (most important)

Securing an invasion highway that could be used against you (buffer zone again I guess)

Making an example out of Poland

Being a dick

on me_irl · c/me_irl · 5 pts · 21h

The area under the curve above 65 vs the area under the curve below 65 is the issue when combined with all of our institutions and social contracts being designed for endless growth

50% of all new homeless people in the US are above 55 years old which should tell you how this is going to go. It's not going to be like Japan for most western nations. Japan is the best case scenario.

Not OP but the pension system was built when 3% of people or less made it past 65, and everyone was having 5 kids that all moved out, got married, and were supposed to have 5 kids as well. We don't have enough young kids to pay into the system to support the tsunami of old people forced to retire soon, and our young kids make fuck all to pay for the system for 20 years because the job market and TFW programs ate up all the entry level jobs they could have gotten valuable work experience with and cut their teeth on.

That also doesn't even begin to touch all the other ways the older generation have stolen the future of young people, but it's the one that affects old people the most when the system implodes.

I wonder how this works. Maybe it only functions when it detects the wall has 120V power? If it backfed during a power outage it would be like plugging a generator into your house with a cheater cord (never, ever do that) which can step your generators 120V back up into 12-25kV through your local transformer and zap the linesman working to fix your outage on the neutral (a generator backfeeds onto the neutral not the "hot" sides of the circuit. I.e. the "safe" wire suddenly has thousands of volts on it)

I remember as a kid one ball pit had a cleaning station and the kids (myself included) worked as a team to feed the machine and watch it work. The water in that thing was filthy. But we kids yearned for the mines and sunk that energy into doing free work for the play place.

It was called transpirational cooling and it would have required 50kg/s of coolant for 5+ minutes of reentry heating i.e. 15 000 kg of spare methane or water which acts as dead weight that could have been payload. An ablative heat shield literally weighs half that at least not counting the transpirational piping and pumps and sensors .etc that balloon the 15 tons even higher.

There's a reason NASA and the USSR never seriously considered actively cooled heat shields and instead let ablation do the cooling.

Yeah that's very true especially since rocket scientists use metric for all of their calculations so the target audience speaking in nm is basically just pilots

It's because if you travel at one knot for an hour you'll travel a nautical mile. Still dumb but that's where it comes from... And of course knot comes from knots in a rope tied to a board or bag dropped off the side of the ship to measure it's forward speed.