Yeah, and we didn’t start the fire.

It’s Springsteen, not Billy Joel.

TLDR: Hard disagree on almost anything you just said

Well historically it is not a terrible system, it is very stable and tends to not self implode regularly like democracy does.

Yeah if you ignore for example wars of succession, because of incestuous family ties, arbitrary rule, repression and exploitation of its citizens, one could call it stable… Although the escalation and tyranny unfortunately are baked into the system.

if you look at monarchies historically they tried very very hard to avoid having rebellions in their hands and usually worked in the interest of the nation, as the interest of the nation was the interest of the monarch.

Have you ever read history books? Sure some rulers may have had that kind of view but theres also plenty of megalomaniacal, terribly violent and unjust rulers in those big ol books of history. And since it is an imposed rule of tyranny there’s really only violence to get rid of an unjust ruler, you know a neat thing about democracy? Violence is the last resort to getting rid of rulers because we can vote! Crazy right?

So if a democratic nation seems headed towards anti democratic rule, it would seem to me that a better goal would be to install a monarchy instead of a fascist.

In that case- what’s the fucking difference? Oh, to avoid an autocracy let’s install an autocracy with cherry flavor… Great?

Ah, okay the only time I saw that movie I was high as a kite, that explains why I don’t recall.

ESPN 8, “The Ocho.”

Those are words… I think. I think it never made it quite to Europe, I only know the meme.

That’s the first time I noticed that this is Jason Bateman on the right… How could I miss that all those years?

I was there with KSP from the early days

Same, I am still so mad about the whole ksp2 fiasco that I block all of take twos games on steam, they ain’t getting any money from me. I am so glad I didn’t buy it in EA although it looked promising.

We just use a neck roll placed in the lap or on the stomach to rest it on while playing. It is a bit on the heavy side, but it is the first generation consumer handheld with that kind of power so I can excuse that.

The EU started negotiations for a free trade agreement in 2015 during Obama, then the orange threw the proposal out in 2016. Now in 2025 he imposed the tariffs, then announced he’d be willing to negotiate new trade terms and the EU opened the drawer and got out that proposal from 10 years ago.

Basically what the EU always wanted in the first place.

High pitch noise like from hard drives, typically in the 5 to 15k hz frequencies generally can be dampened quite a bit with pretty simple solutions like accoustic foam. Since it’s probably not that loud you won’t need much material to achieve a bit of reduction. Only thing I’d worry about is temperature management, keep an eye on it. Afaik there are also special desktop PC cases that are insulated, for like sound studios and such.

With low frequencies, where it is hard to locate the source of the sound anyways, it works well, even without carefully arranging the distances, higher frequencies get trickier and you’ll likely get good cancellation in some places and a terrible mushy noise in others.

That’s not entirely true, cancelling sound waves can also be done on a large scale. I’ve seen it on festivals or other open air venues, where they stack two rows of subwoofers behind each other in a precisely calculated distance to cancel out the bass notes towards the back of the stage, meaning walking in front of the subs you could hear it normally, walking behind them and the bass notes where very faint and clearly coming as a bounce back from walls or the like. So they effectively cancelled out the frequencies towards the back.

But that doesn’t help OP since that works way better on lower frequencies, with higher notes you’ll need the precise localization you’re talking about. So the high pitched noises from a hard drive probably won’t work.

So now he thinks he can make demands extraterritoriality

To quote the grandmother of a friend: “Wish into one hand and shit into the other, see which one is filled first”

“I’m just asking questions!”

Best explanation!

Orbital mechanics can be a bit counter intuitive.

To raise an orbit you need to speed up, but your overall orbital speed will decrease, since the distance grows the higher the orbit gets. So you’ll need to speed up to reach escape velocity to escape Earth’s gravitational pull, once you managed that, you enter the orbit around the sun. To lower an orbit you’ll need to lower your speed, while your orbital velocity will increase, since the orbit gets smaller.

The “fuel” of a space craft is measured in Delta v, which describes the ability to change the velocity of the vehicle, the unit is m/s or km/s To reach a low earth orbit you need around 10.000 m/s Delta v, if I’m not mistaking another 9.000 m/s to escape velocity, then you’re in a sun orbit, I don’t know how much you need from there, but id say at least another 15-20km/s

You can look up escape velocity which is the velocity required to exit a gravitational body completely.

That’s also what makes getting to the sun so difficult. At first you got to speed up to escape velocity to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull, then you enter an orbit AROUND the sun, where you will have to slow down by a lot to lower your orbit enough to get into the sun. Miscalculate and you’ll fling yourself out of the solar system.

I also recommended ‘Dave the diver’, had a jolly good time with it.

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Anyone that says it wasn’t a Nazi salute is almost certainly a Nazi.

And it doesn’t even matter if it really was or wasn’t. If you make that gesture for whatever reason and you don’t bend over backwards to make clear it was a mistake or a bad joke or whatever and you don’t position yourself clearly against it, it doesn’t matter if it was or wasn’t a Nazi salute. Because the right (wrong) people heard you.

Conservapedia views Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity as promoting moral relativism

I just spat out my coffee :D utter lunacy