Police here (Denmark) is seriously understaffed, I don’t think they do much unless they see a pattern and suspect it’s organized or a repeat offender.

But at least we can call the police without fear of getting shot when they arrive.

Buildings with just one emergency exit stairway are capped at three stories in San Francisco. Anything taller requires two stairwells.

That text makes little sense, because if there is only one stairway, that’s the friggin stairway, and not an “emergency” stairway.
I know most American buildings have elevators even if they only have 2 floors, but it’s weird to call a stairway that is often faster to use, when it’s just a few floors, an “emergency” stairway, just because it’s the only option when the elevator doesn’t work.

Especially if the elevator and stairway are in connected shafts, it’s quite obviously not enough to only have 1 stairway, there needs to be a 2nd stairway with it’s own separate shaft in case of fire, because you can’t jump out the windows at 4 stories height.

AFAIK it’s not uncommon for a small upstart company for instance, to rely on friends, because friendship helps working together.
I know it can smell a bit like nepotism, and we know that’s bad.
But there are actual good reasons people prefer to work with people they know. So I think it will be just fine, as long as you are not fighting over the same girl. And as long as you are not trying to exploit the friendship to gain advantages at work.

The headline is untrue. That’s just propaganda for the Russian people. The truth comes a bit down the article:

The war in Ukraine has become existential for the Kremlin.

Problem for Putin is he can’t admit defeat, because it will probably mean the end for him.
There is no way the Russian administration can still think they can wear Europe down.
They thought so initially with the gas, limiting supplies to show Europe the consequences of helping Ukraine.
Now it’s pretty obvious that Russia was depending way more on European money than we were dependent on Russian gas.
The cost for Europe aiding Ukraine is peanuts compared to the resources we are allocating to build stronger military force in Europe now.
Russia is practically broke already, and the government is essentially cannibalizing everything they can. so they have very few resources to build their economy, and no good options to borrow. Every major branch of the Russian economy is running at deficits. The government, banks/finance, the entire energy sector, Weapons industry. Agricultural production is failing, and industries in general are wearing down, because they can’t afford to invest, because profits are low and interests are high. The government can’t afford to maintain infrastructure, so literally almost everything is being worn down now because of the war.
There will also be very little help from outside. So the Russian economy will suck for a really long time after the war, and it will probably take more than 2 decades just to get back to where they were before the war. And EU has decided to continue boycotts even after the war.

There is no way the Russian administration and Putin don’t know these things, and they also know that the countries that support Ukraine have nowhere near similar problems, and Ukraine too is doing way better than Russia. With lower inflation and interest rates, better government finances, and industries that actually make money.

Russians have only recently begun to feel the effect of the war on their dinner tables, but the harvest this year is predicted to be way below average for many reasons like using lower quality seeds, worker shortages, and poorly functioning infrastructure.
So Russians can look forward to wildly increased food prices, in part due to inflation, and in part due to failing harvest.

Russians are said to have high capacity for suffering, and they are going to need that.

So really? How likely is it that Russia truly still is on a “break Ukraine and exhaust the west strategy”?
Isn’t it more likely just propaganda? And the administration just doesn’t know what else to do to survive a little longer.

reached an altitude of 890 feet

300 meters.

The efficiency of this is amazing, instead of actually sending it up, and waiting for it to blow up, they have figured out how to blow it up on the ground BEFORE launch. This is the kind of efficiency we need in government programs.

😀 👍

I am ABSOLUTELY not praising SpaceX, I’m just using them as an example of how scale makes all the difference at least for some of the components. And being able to launch a small rocket is evidence they can launch a big one too.

I know I am, which makes it even more important to stress that this little girl is used to push Israeli propaganda. And you should be careful not to fall for it.
It’s not that I have much sympathy for Iran, and I know Iran is an enemy of Ukraine and Europe by helping Russia. But this war was as clearly started by Israel, as it was clear that Russia started the war in Ukraine.

I never claimed it isn’t. But it’s Israeli propaganda to distract from the fact that it was Israel that bombed Iran.
Israel is doing to Iran what Russia is doing to Ukraine. So although it’s sad that a Ukrainian girl is harmed, this is 100% on Israel.

As sad as it is the girl was caught in the crossfire, this is Israeli propaganda showing an obviously innocent victim, to give us the impression Israel is a victim too by proxy, and to distract from the fact that it was Israel that bombed Iran first.
Israel is NOT the victim here, but they are damned good at making propaganda to make people think that.
Israel is doing to Iran what Russia is doing to Ukraine.

Edit for clarity.

What a loaded anti EU article! Is this Russian propaganda?

You are missing the point that size makes a difference. Obviously SpaceX has the technology to do what Honda did, but SpaceX can do ti with a real rocket.
But they can’t do it with the bigger Starship rocket. Scale matters.

Hypothetically, we could terraform Venus.

Mars is the best option we have, which is why I mentioned that. Venus already has selfenforcing runaway global warming, and we can’t even land a probe there, because the environment is extremely hostile.
Mars is by far the easier option.

Whatever they tested it’s probably proof of that, but such a small rocket and only 300 meters means that a lot of things were not really proven, because scale is a HUGE issue.
Just ask Elon Musk / SpaceX, the Falcon rocket is fine, but Starship is horrible. And the difference is scale.

So what’s the punishment considering it’s wartime?

The law enforcement notified the organizers and participants of the fraud of suspicion under parts 4 and 5 of Article 191 of the CCU (misappropriation, embezzlement or acquisition of property through abuse of office, under martial law or a state of emergency, on a particularly large scale or by an organized group).

At least it appears It is very much taken into consideration. So they probably won’t get off easy.
Congratulation to the Security Service and investigators of the National Police for uncovering the corruption.

There is nothing open about openai, and that was obvious way before they released chatgpt.

This wasn’t much more than a toy rocket:

6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter,
The test was completed successfully, the first time Honda landed a rocket after reaching an altitude of nearly 300 meters.

But still they were successful on their first try, so we will have to see where they take it from here. 🚀

It’s the only planet we can terraform (As in repairing some of the damage we’ve done), we are nowhere near able to terraform Mars, not even theoretically and disregarding cost.
Maybe in a century we can. But only maybe.

Pixel phones were never bleeding edge performers, so I don’t think that’s the only problem.
I’m guessing there is more to it than the article is mentioning.
Maybe Google was getting huge discounts, and even that wasn’t enough to keep their business.
So my guess is the problems with value is not just the yields and performance.
I’m sure Samsung is very well aware of the differences between TSMC and Samsung 3nm process, But they probably miscalculated the value of their own process, and they may already have production running at a loss, for sure their margins must be razor thin.