The frustrating part is that it’s just a giant fucking advertising billboard when they aren’t hosting events inside.

I think the question being asked was more whether or not the Ming treasure fleet undertook blue water voyages, and as near as I can tell, the portion of the Indian ocean that they sailed across doesn’t really meet the criteria of “open ocean” (but my interpretation could be very wrong).

Whereas Columbus crossed the North Atlantic, which is very much open ocean.

Ship design varies based on the types of voyages made. The reason a lot of WWII-era USN and RN ships have a sharp upturned bow is to better weather the rough seas of the North Atlantic. If voyages are going to be more commonly close to shore, then the ships can be larger and flatter-bottomed, because the swells and waves won’t be as brutal as in the open ocean.

You can 100% get a clearance if you’ve smoked within 7 years of applying for one. Hell, you can get a clearance if you smoked within the last year. You just have to a) disclose the fact, b) be able to show mitigations as to why smoking weed won’t be an issue while you have a clearance, and then c) not do it while you have a clearance. It ends up being not so much about the fact that you smoke weed as it is that you’re not following the law, and that’s the real clearance risk (from their POV). Getting a clearance is really about proving you’re trustworthy to the investigator.

I think it’s also possible to push the old style plows. It just really, really sucks

I know they’re not new; that’s just what they’re classified as on Wikipedia. It is “new” compared to Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, etc. The distinction is that the Unification Church came about within the last 75 years, and so is not one of the “old” religious movements.

Shinzo Abe was assassinated over his ties to/support of a New religious movement in Japan. Put your tinfoil hat back on and go to your room

I will admit, I think I’m coming from a place of zero trust that anything musk has his hands in has any amount of safety or redundancy built in, because that might hurt the bottom line

It’s a lot easier to warranty a phone screen than it is brain surgery. That’s why that expectation was acceptable for screens.

Also the timeline that’s expected to happen on. I’d be pretty fucking mad if my phone had dead pixels less than 6 months after buying it. 10 years, not so much.

Likewise, I’d be pretty mad that if a reportable amount of my brain electrodes detached within the first 6 months of having them, but I’d be less mad if it was a few years down the line (not that I’d ever be fully okay with it. This is my brain, after all).

He was also sent by Admiral Rickover to help Canada recover from the Chalk River nuclear accident in 1952.

The key word in the guidance is “persistently” misgendering. So if someone gets the pronouns right 95% of the time, that’s hardly “persistent”. These guidelines target employers/people who willfully and purposefully mis gender/discriminate. If you’re trying to claim these rules make you afraid to talk to trans people, you might want to take a long hard look at your own biases/phobias.

See, it’s all planned, because they then arrest the criminals and ship them right back to the front! So efficient!

Damage is damage. Anything that keeps those ships in yard and not useful to the Russians is a good thing. Especially because now Russia has to sink men, money, and time that they may not necessarily have into fixing them

Knowing the houthis, someone on board probably used the letters “I S R A E L” in conversation at some point, and that was as good a justification to launch some missiles as any they’ve ever had

If it’s gonna take 10 years to get approvals done, start the process now! Sooner the better

Nuclear is slow to develop and construct, but also the densest form of green energy generation we have. It will be critical to our future. That doesn’t mean throw all our eggs in the one basket, however. Push forward on solar, wind, tidal, etc. to get us off fossil fuels for good.

Not even the Colonel knows what those two bonus herbs and spices are.

I’m betting whimsy and wonder

At the same time, the world can’t just roll over and let every tin pot dictator do whatever they want just because they have a nuke.

“Sooner or later this will end in agreement,” was Putin’s message, arguing that Nato was coming to realise that defeating Russia on the battlefield would be impossible.

Does Putin realize that NATO is effectively fighting Russia with both arms tied behind it’s back right now? We’re funding Ukraine (who are doing a phenomenal job, fwiw), but we’re not even giving them the top of the line hardware. If the US actually got involved, Russia would pretty much instantly lose any glimmer of air superiority they have, and Ukraine could advance all the way to Moscow under NATO air cover. Like, the only reason Russia still exists is because NATO hasn’t even tried to fight Russia on the battlefield yet.

Everyone loves sodium cooled reactors until they have to deal with a loss of coolant casualty.