Well, yes. I just mean that the only people who would make or go on such a thing are people who have a problem with anyone not white, so it isn’t a surprise it ends up being that way.

If you don’t care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there’s options like GrapheneOS.

TIL.

Delivery would be an issue for sure. Then again, if the potential target is America “guys on quads” would work. If the target isn’t America, America will do it for us.

I mean, they’re not wrong, they could get away with a lot less without the nukes.

North Korea will fall to something other than invasion now. For example, things usually don’t go too well for female monarchs, because the men around them are dicks.

Actually, Canada got in on the ground floor and we have everything we’d need. They say we’re about two months out at any given time, going the plutonium route.

Then again, we’re pretty used to the luxuries of not being an isolated pariah state.

And on top of it he could have retired like 10 years ago. Just having to retire now is getting off lightly.

The fact that’s definitively a war crime is only a problem if you lose, after all!

For those in the know, it was a good easter egg, just a lot less colourful and fun than the ones the bunny leaves.

Honestly, that’s great, but you might as well cut to the chase and switch ROMs as well. Google isn’t going to budge.

It’d be surprising if we haven’t either ruined ourselves or achieved an actual end of history by 2300. So, that.

The savings from completely ignoring space aren’t what people think, though.

Depends on how far you’re thinking.

Nowhere else in the solar system is anywhere near as habitable as Earth, and there’s still lots of empty space to fill on Earth. Consider for a moment how much easier a self-supporting city on Antarctica would be than a city on Mars. Human space travel is done purely for science or recreation, at this point, not for growth.

If you want to “disperse” in any significant way, you have to start looking at exoplanets, and it’s going to take centuries to get there, and we don’t have the technology to survive that yet. Once we do, there’s a strong argument for it, because our planet and solar system will only last so long.

True. A sufficiently low-pitch sound will travel just fine. In neutral gas, it only breaks down as the wavelength reaches the mean free path of the particles.

On top of that, space is usually filled with ionised gas, and sound could travel electromagnetically. Actually calculating what that looks like in near-Earth space is beyond me.

Which is actually surprisingly little! Just by random chance there’s no human body part that bursts in a vacuum. You inflate a bit and pass out due to partially boiled blood, but accidents have shown that if pressure is restored quickly a fit young person will get away with sore ears and nothing else.

It probably comes down to being the majority race/ethnicity/whatever. I’d guess a Japanese-only site in Japan would fill with raging bigots pretty quickly, too. Like, there’s no innocent reason to go on WhiteDate when every dating app is the white dating app. (And FWIW JDate allows gentiles)

Journalists using data obtained by other people’s illegal acts is nothing new, and has saved democracy’s bacon in some cases. Nor is whatever news program doxxing wrongdoers.

Not surprising. This would be the moment to do it.

If they want to destroy America, the Bin Laden gambit is proven to work.

Soil is chemically unable to burn.

I’m going to cut to the chase and just say it: this is the press release equivalent of “well we’ll bomb you infinity plus one”. All it really says is that they have morale and will keep going.

the aforementioned potato cabal (it really exists. Theres a fun Half-as-interesting video on how it affects the price of fries)

Farmers do love a good cabal. Here in Canada there’s literally a state agency that does all the buying and selling of dairy products. Drives the Americans crazy.

Insane chip profit margins, because of the consumers’ willingness to pay. Consider a meal containing meat. Sure the manufacturer is making a profit, but can you imagine how much more profit they would be making by selling you a meal with the same amount of calories, but made of potatoes or corn? The consumer is willing to pay, say, $10 for a simple meal containing some meat, but what about half a meal? Maybe $3-5? Well, here come potato chips. They act like they’re half a meal, but they’re actually just cheap oil and a spud. The consumer will still pay more for it, so the companies can charge that much and make a huge profit from the willingness to pay of their dupes.

I mean, you can go and look at how much money they (Utz for example) end up making. It’s not different from the next publicly traded corporation, so there’s got to be expenses somewhere in there.

One thing that would have been really tough would be high-temperature pressure vessels, like for heat engines. Other materials with good tensile strength exist (as do wood skyscrapers!), and so do refractory materials, but if you need both at the same time you’re looking at either high-tech ceramic composites or metal.

Does silicon even form metallic bonds?

Uhh, not sure. The band structure of the crystal lattice supports conduction like a metal, but not without an impurity to introduce the initial carrier, which is the whole thing behind why it’s useful for electronics.

IIRC bond type is kind of a continuum.

Yeah, exactly. Why use your limited large munition stockpile.

No, it’s not. Although honestly we’re reaching the end of my knowledge about potato chip factories. And orange juice. Obviously the inputs to the process have to cost less than the outputs, but it does get pretty cheap.

Why would you waste a big rocket on something a small one could do, though?