Tar_Alcaran

The current administration prefers to call Russians who copy your secrets anything from “trusted partner” to “good friend”, depending on the size of the bribe and/or the number of skeletons in the closet.

Especially on 5 times a normal dose. ESPECIALLY especially for a guy with a nuclear launch button in reach.

Does a tabletop game with an AI video DM count as a video game?

you mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek%3A_The_Next_Generation_Interactive_VCR_Board_Game

Granted, it’s not AI, but this is basically what that scene was based on.

It’s a RUSSIAN FLAGGED ship. This isn’t “grey fleet” under the guise of a “neutral” nation or anything like it. There is no deniability, this is literally just a russian vessel.

It’s also waaaay outside turkish national waters, which end (if you’re feeling generous) at 24 nautical miles.

Russia should just call their insurance. And then watch what’s going to happen to their premiums now that it’s russian-ship-season.

Yeah, assholes and idiots are pretty uniformly spread through the population.

Only if your room is really really warm

The latter. Mercury bromide is highly toxic (I’m pretty sure all mercury salts are highly toxic). Its also a solid, not a liquid.

But mercury and bromine are the only two liquid elements at room temperature in their elemental form, which is why they’re “water”. One is silver, the other reddish brown and syrupy.

in response, affected communities have been staging protests and calling for an end to EU exports of cyanamide-based products.

Or… Protest your government? Or the importer? Or the vineyard? Or hell, the guy who owns the vineyard?

It was very much sarcasm. But yeah, there’s probably people who actually think this.

Agreed, 11 year old girls should be free to smoke, drink and be on social media if their parents want them to be

That’s apparently not true, since the majority of you did vote for them.

I mean, I know how hard it sucks to have that keep happening. I know the only thing worse than having a shit Government is knowing that your idiot countrymen actually want it.

This is why cows kill so many people. Its really easy for an animal five or six times your weight to kill you just by interacting the same way it does with its own species.

That gets worse as the animal gets bigger.

And cows are basically calm little angels compared to say, hippos.

Luckily you have a couple hard copies of your journal paper and an inked up copy of your thesis after reviewer number 2 decided to no longer like his own suggestions on how to graph the mass accuracy

I hate this because it’s true.

Wait, are people checking out books, bringing them home and then… Just putting them on the shelves again???

Yep, Submarine launched ballistic missiles from Arianegroup, which is joint venture by Safran and (surprise) Airbus.

And air launched missiles by MBDA. Which is a joint venture of BAE, Leonardo and I’ll let you guess who the remaining 37% share.

So, nobody was guarding these sites???

I think there’s a word “paying into the budget in exchange for closer ties and access”.

It starts with the letter M, I think.

Z values are measurement of how many standard deviations something is from the mean. 95% of your values fall between -2 and +2. Most “interesting cases” are about outliers, something that’s very uncommon. If it’s common, you don’t tend to write a paper about it. Nobody cares if someone had a slightly above average tumor, but if they have 50kg tumor, that’s publishable.

The survivorship bias plane shows a world war 2 chart of where the bullet holes were on planes. The conclusion famously isn’t to armor those parts often hit, but to armor the parts that weren’t hit, because no planes hit there returned to be recorded.

Blaming someone else what the US did wrong is a proud US tradition!

The signs were placed by the Dutch. The signs were removed by order of the US government.

As a reference manager? I just use sticky notes that I place on a second monitor.