I don’t think NASA sells their research, pretty much anyone can take it and make their own variant. So it’ll probably be an aviation startup that will try to run it like a tech company, collect a billion dollars and deliver vaporware (or if we’re lucky, something extremely dangerous like the oceangate sub) before eventually going bankrupt.
This is the focus of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, so it’s not like NASA isn’t working on that problem too for what it’s worth.
If it’s just a newsletter I would set up a mailbox filter that just sends all of their mail to the trash. GMail makes this pretty easy (highlight a spam message, select “filter messages like these” from the top menu), but idk how to do it on other mail servers.
75F basically all the time, cooling only no heating. I also always turn it off at night and open all the windows/vice versa in the morning to save energy. I’m not a dad but this is totally a dad thing that I started doing when I turned 30.
This is in the southwestern US.
If you don’t change the economic system then you’ll just run into exactly the same problems as we already have. The one year term elected officials will be handed pre-written legislation by corporations, they’ll be heavily incentivized to pass it, if they don’t it’ll be a short turn around before the people with Capital can try again, and if they instead try to pass their own legislation that Capital doesn’t approve of it they’ll get the next person to undo it.
I’m in a job that’s good enough that I may be able to buy or build a small house of my own in the near future - but first I have to wait for everyone who is currently selling their houses to panic for no reason in particular, plummeting prices, kicking people out of homes they’ve lived in for a decade or more, and causing all kinds of mayhem. And then when I get a place of my own I’ll be subject to this absurdity directly every five to ten years like clockwork!
You didn’t even mention the funniest part. We know that raising the fed rates can hurt the poor by reducing their access to money, but we don’t actually have any compelling evidence that it reduces inflation. It’s literally the modern equivalent of the ancient Romans or Greeks sacrificing an animal for a bountiful harvest.
BRICS+ is announcing payback time for a few millenia
ehhhh I don’t think this is remotely true. Literally every single country in BRICS is still trying to maintain good relations with the US, the main thing China wants to do is create an alternative to the US-centric global trade network and the main benefit this brings to other countries is that they can’t be sanctioned as easily. “Payback time” won’t happen unless a majority of the world signs on and they all agree to sanction the US and Europe (which would be hilarious but is never gonna happen).
D&D 3.5 got me into both kinds of gaming. I remember me and some of my friends wanting to play it, and I remember tracing characters from the dot hack manga for our character sheets and playing the starter set. Later on I found out my friend had an old computer in his house (I think it was an Apple II?) and one of the Gold Box D&D games, and that ended up being the first computer game I spent a ton of time playing. Before then I had played SNES and Genesis a bit but they weren’t really a focus for me at that point, but then when I got Morrowind I was fully bought in to video games too.
Hexbear has so many good ones, I’m quite fond of 
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But I also grew up on Battle.net playing Starcraft, so I often resort to kirbys. t(" t) (> ")> <(^o^)> (g ")–o
sovietsteeds.com It’s a really niche forum that was made in the distant past and then stubbornly refused to change, much like the motorcycles they ride.
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I’ve fucked a lot with language generation. I’ve never been able to generate anything that isn’t uncanny in some way, but with the right prep you can get a language model to spit out a lot of text that almost seems like it’s from an actual work of art.
The article also says this guy was recruited from prison, something Wagner’s been doing from the start. AFAIK this is an actual “both sides” thing, and I’m sure that both Ukraine and Russia are guilty of more than we currently know as a result of this practice.
Portion sizes. Your mom isn’t controlling you so you gotta do it yourself.
I think a basic insurance pool makes sense, but big insurance companies are quite far removed from being basic insurance pools. The whole industry exists to get people to sign up for policies they don’t need, deny coverage to people to who need policies, and when someone actually makes a claim to find any and all possible ways to deny it.
I’m gonna get in big trouble with work I’m not supposed to make copies of those.