You are probably right. Still, I guess China would count on pubblic perception being against fighting for different foreign countries at the same time. People don’t like war and if you want to start a war you want to make sure the allies of your enemies are as less likely as possible to intervene. Of course that does not consider the incredible strategic importance of Taiwan

You forgot Taiwan. As Zipitidew said below, China is happy that NATO is sending so much material to Ukraine that they cannot send to Taiwan in the event of an invasion. My guess is they are not ready yet, otherwise the start of the war in ukraine and in Israel would have both been good moments to start their, when everyone is occupied with other affairs.

Divert all available power from life support to warp drive

So, assuming the guidance system worked as expected, the bomb was guided to that particular house right?

We need to, because they are the only ones fighting against Chrome monopoly. It’s so sad to read news like this

I have a small candy tin that i brought around to keep small toys when we travelled across countries with my family. Every couple or so years I open it and it still smells of strawberry after 15+ years, and I immediately run through my childhood travels

The Kelvin line of movies is 100% non canon in my head. It’s good they made a separate parallel universe, so I can pretend it never happened and just go on enjoying the rest of the trek

Which fuckup, except for DIS season 1?

*unless it’s to return to their home port, but then they also cannot reenter. I think that most of the non black-sea fleet got out before the war or just was not in there at all

You can’t expect every single person that didn’t left Russia to want ukrainians to be murdered and tortured. People there are poor, their entire life is there, their country makes everything to prevent them from escaping and other countries are wary in their regard. You can’t make it that simple

There’s a middle point between “the dictator is the only bad guy” and “literally every person on a country the size of a continent is the bad guy”

Did they ever explain why it was supposed to be illegal?

Litography technology is only the first part of the deal. You need an incredible amount of knowledge to design processors, use the technology and have a working and reliable product. Manufacturing chips is difficult, you also need to source good qualitt silicon

Russia’s what? Excuse me?

More launchers with less ammunition could be a good deterrent. You can cover more area and launch less missiles becuase the enemy would just avoid more area. Also they can be useful spares in case of massive attacks.

That, or maybe the purchase also covers ammunition. I expect they come with technical support and maintenance service, so why not supply service?

Maybe they decided is was not worth it and they prefer losing refineries and fuel storage rather than using jet hours

They have supersonic jets. How difficult would it be for a Su27 to intercept a driverless sport plane?

What works for me is: lay down and relax, close your eyes, but try to not fall asleep, think about stuff you did, about stuff you want to do, whatever, just don’t fall asleep. If you manage to maintain a good balance between not relaxing too much and not stressing too much (that’s the tricky part), you’ll stay in a semi-awake state. Rest like this for 20-30 minutes and you should feel better

We did not invent words to carry knowledge and improve oir culture, we invented writing, and guess what, alphabets and words only came in thousands of years after that. Before it we had cuneiforms and various forms of pictograms, so don’t assume the superiority of strictly alphabetic languages over other forms of communications.

Let’s take english as a language, its capacity to convey emotion is quite limited as it was not born a language for literature. Language evolve, new forms of communication are born and merge with existing ones and together they are more powerful. It’s not like we will switch to emoji only, altough if an emoji only culture existed, they would frown upon our “inexpressive, needlessly verbose weird letters” just like you are doing. Don’t underestimate the scare of cultural changes over convention choices

Added sugar is bad because we don’t need all the sugar we tipically consume.

Eating fruits is healthier because you eat other nutrients (such as vitamins) and fibers that fill you faster make you eat less (while providing other benefits to your gastrointestinal system). A pure friot juice is more filling, contains more nutrients and less calories than sugary water with fruit additives and colorants, because as other said pure sugar is pure energy but doesn’t have nutrients, only calories. If you consume very little it’s the same (only as in calories) as eating a larger amount of fruits, but the little part is the problem usually.

Eating too much fruit is also unhealthy, and can still be diabetic, it’s just much harder, more expensive and less convenient to consume unhralthy amounts of food rather than sugar.