Please. People say they’re too big now, but there has to be a right size. In Canada, at least, hate groups are always too popular and established to challenge, or too small to bother with.

Pakistan literally wasn’t a thing before that. Muslim vs. Hindu is older, I suppose, although some might pick a bone about if the Mughals count as “ancient”.

There is really no connection between Ur and like, Saddam or Otzma Yedhudit. It’s had just as much history and as many eras as the next region (actually more).

I mean, there’s a bit more nuance to it. The Middle East has changed dramatically several times in the last century. If you put it that way you make it sound like the Crusades are still going, which is not historically accurate.

The jist that everyone’s memory selectively extends back to the last time they were wronged is correct, though.

De-escalate, everything goes back to normal is looking pretty viable, actually. Or at least was a couple weeks ago. Israel is the only one that wants to have a regional war right now.

That would mean Netanyahu goes to jail for corruption, though, and he doesn’t feel like it. And America doesn’t feel like stopping him.

And continue the chain back 70 to (less credibly) 3000 years. Welcome to the Middle East.

If it were anywhere else, the world would insist everyone to calm the hell down and negotiate, but the white guys vaguely in the Bible are involved here, and America has feelings about that.

Yeah, their momentum is no joke. This may accelerate the shift towards Linux somewhat.

Kind of the same story for the Fediverse.

I’ve actually heard mostly positive nostalgia for Vista recently. I think it might have been a situation where they released earlier than they should have, and so only the later versions were worthy.

But also, do you even Linux, bro?

Edit: Other comments are saying it just had really high hardware requirements.

Interesting that they’re pumping back money into traditional radio.

The letter argued that Canada’s radio regulations were designed to address the problems created by its vast geography, its “linguistic duality” (English and French), and the fact that space on analog radio is limited, making decisions about what gets broadcast necessary.

Gee, that’s not the history I remember. I’m not super familiar, but wasn’t it about holding back Americanisation? (We have radio band allocations separately)

I see no problem here.

Well, assuming you see having domestic content as a valid goal, anyway, which isn’t necessarily a given.

They still get very hot, though.

Another example: Every incandescent lighbulb. The filament is stupid hot in there, under a rough vacuum, and doesn’t melt. I would be surprised if 1 bar even amounted to a full degree of change in melting/freezing point.

Water is volatile, and so it’s a better example of variability at familiar scales. You’ll notice the freezing point is pretty much vertical at 0C on the phase chart until 100s of bars. (And then gets lower because pressure pushes matter towards denser states, and ice I is, unusually, less dense than the liquid)

The triple point shows up when the boiling point lowers to meet the melting point, and liquid water ceases to exist as a stable substance. It’s at ~0C.

Melting point doesn’t work like boiling point. Otherwise, what would we make rockets out of? They get really hot in a vacuum, but need to (and do) stay solid.

If you go to really high pressures like in an ocean trench or deeper, melting points will raise too (or lower, in water or silicon’s case), but 1 vs. 0 atmospheres is negligible. I haven’t seen it even mentioned in any vacuum engineering stuff.

Ditto goes for most alloys. Glass-like properties aren’t typical, otherwise metal blowing would be a thing.

There might be alloys that can do this, but not the usual ones. Some of the low-melting ones can be gooey-seeming, off the top of my head.

Things still do cool in shaded space, though, it just takes longer. The James Webb took like a month or two to get down to cryogenic IIRC.

I have a feeling OP was worried about gravity, which isn’t usually helpful here, but isn’t actually a dealbreaker. Glass is heavy too.

That’s pretty much how the Russian economy works right now, in a nut shell. To stop emigration caused by the expensive war, they’re giving away a ton of expensive handouts.

The interest rate is at 19% and counting. Very cool, very sustainable. I have a feeling “the last laugh” will be yours, OP, even if they win in Ukraine.

How sure are we that it’s not?

Yeah, money talks. China has a non-negligible amount of it, and very, very delicate feelings.

If you’re also not familiar, in it’s plain http glory: http://www.coboloncogs.org/

That is indeed very cool, and falls squarely into the second case.

Edit: Or maybe the first? (A joke about how insane it would be counts)

It seems non-serious, given the lack of downloads and snail mail as a contact method. If they actually made this, though, reenactment.

Yup. China might go for Taiwan if they’re sure they can get away with it, but that’s all. I don’t really expect them to dick around with MAD; they’re rational actors, at least at this point in history. Russia’s goose is already cooked, and I doubt an order to attack NATO out of the blue would even be obeyed.

Edit: The article talks about a cluster of unspecified regional wars, which seems much more likely, though.

I mean, if escalation goes all the way there’s not much use to a conventional army anymore.