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Outside of the USA there still seems to be some competent politicians. Whether there are enough, in the right places is a different story.

We can at least hope for the best. There's not much else we can do.

We do, light travels 1 lightsecond per second.

Oh, and 1 lightpicosecond is around 2.998mm.

100 lightpicoseconds is also very close to 1'.

Last year, a house near me had a hotdog cooker going. It was an absolute hit with the kids (and parents!)

FYI. Chamberlain's appeasement was actually quite calculated. Britain couldn't stand up to Germany, and knew it. Appeasement brought time. It let Britain build fighters and tanks. To set up its radar defence net. To prepare for a major war.

When it failed, as Chamberlain knew it would, he fell on his political sword. This cleared the way, and let Churchill take charge, with a clean slate, and a functional military.

I'm hoping that current politicians are half as competent as Chamberlain was with his appeasement.

While there are a lot of parenting books, it's only in the last few years that it has been properly studied, scientifically. My generation of parents is one of the first to be able to truly make use of the advancements.

Basically, it wasn't that handbooks didn't exist (when the episode was made), but that they contradicted each other.

I've found comparing it to email works well. It's about the only (mostly) decentralised service that most people have used.

"It's like Reddit, but is decentralised, like email is.", "This makes it far harder to manipulate to hide information."

Humans evolved to be in nature. We can function without it, but it's very easy to throw our minds out of kilter. Spending time in a natural environment provides a mental reference. It's a level and type of stimulation we are optimised for. It's a lot easier to later hang onto that balance, back into modern life, than re-establish it under those stresses.

The question is, would the 2nd head be an independent personality, trapped inside the horse, or an extension of the outer horse's senses?

I believe that was Lorenz, not enigma. The higher level code. Basically Hitler and his generals only.

An operator missed a letter in a message. He then reset the machine and re-encrypted it. 2 almost identical messages like that were enough to figure out how the encryption operated. They didn't see a physical Lorenz machine till after the war.

In their defence, Queens English (Kings English now?) or RP was what most (older) Brits grew up hearing from news and documentaries. I'm still conditioned to give more weight to an argument given in a formal accent.

Though I do love how shocked Americans are by the range of British accents. E.g. the pirate, in "Treasure Island" was using a particularly thick West country accent.

Also see "Hot Fuzz" for the best play on accents!

I suspect Russia is worried about how well their nukes will work. The small tactical ones (battlefield nukes) are the most complex and so most at risk of a maintenance failure.

Russia's worst fear is deploying a nuke, only to have it fizzle. At this point it's strategic or nothing. Deploying a strategic nuke would cause massive political fallout. Far more than Russia could cope with. No-one, including China and India, want that genie back out of the bottle.

The momentum matters when you hit something. A large truck has a lot more momentum than a small car. If it hits something it needs proportionally more force to stop it. Since forces are equal and opposite, that means the hit object has to absorb more force. Basically thing of the difference between someone dropping a marble on your head from a balcony to doing the same with a bowling ball. It's the same with a child hit by a vehicle.

For passengers, only their mass matters. Whether you're in a car, a truck, a train or an ocean liner, all that matters is the person's mass and the rate of change.

I thought they put it in, but accidentally reversed the sign. Instead of slowing, they actively accelerated.

It was back when it was a street racing game. The idea was that cops would box you in, and slow you down.

It's more the power that can be applied. Most people capable of getting a pedal bike up to those speeds also know how to read the road for safety. Even then, bikes can basically disintegrate in a (initially) minor accident.

A powered bike is capable of destroying itself if misused.

It's often one way or the other. "Get away from me!", or "more babies!" Pregnancy hormones do a complete number on the mother. That's before having a parasite attached to you near 24/7, demanding your attention, day or night!

Interestingly, her pheromones can do a similar job on any males around her (both human and dog). That was an interesting surprise.

That's a trick many/most breeds of dog can pull off. It's amazing how well a wet nose, and a slobbery smile shoved in your face can break a bad cycle.

There's a reason they are used as emotional support animals so often. They can guard us from ourselves almost as well as this dog did the sheep from coyotes.

It implies the trend is likely to continue. That the searched areas and the unsearched areas are nominally the same.

E.g. An inspector saying they have found 20 problems, this far, while 50% finished implies they expect to find 40ish overall.

Finding zero problems thus far implies you are not expecting to find many/any, if the trend continues.

Not quite.

Yet implies they expect to.

Thus far is more neutral, erring towards not expecting to find anything.

I was talking to a trans friend about this.

Apparently men and women seem to feel emotions at the same rate and level. The difference is that, being female (at least hormonally) massively drops your ability to suppress emotions.

• Both feel equally.
• Women tend to vent little and often. This leads to better emotional management.
• Men can suppress for a long time. However, when they blow, it's like a pressure cooker exploding. This leads to more emergency venting, and poorer management.

It's far from easy. That's partly why it's so important. They instinctively want to make you orbit around them. Without your combined strength counterbalancing this, they have no true reference to grow around.