Yeah, which makes the burn story kinda flop at the end. It was a good idea, a resource everyone has become dependent on becomes scarce. There was a lot of untaped potential there IMO, but a great premise. Then it gets turned into this asnine root cause. They could have done so much better. Imagine if they turned it into a tragedy of the commons. A warp superhighway wore a crack in subspace and that interacted with a nebula or something. It was a death of a thousand cuts and everyone ignored it. Maybe Starfleet even knew it could happen but ignored it because that’s how they have always done it, and even if Starfleet stopped the cardasians and the gorn etc would still be using dilithum based warp bubbles (excuse after excuse)… Heavy handed, maybe, but more meaningful.

What’s going on in that second picture?

They used to have a reputation for employing smart people… Dumbass middle managers took over a while back and started making the stupidest decisions.

It’s harder to get people in favor of something than it is to point to something/someone and convince them they are an enemy.

This is a truth known for a long time. I think it is linked to our tendency to lose aversion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

Both parties are speaking to us about what we are going to loose it the other side wins. For Biden he is claiming (probably rightly based on the recent Trump supreme court decisions) we are going to loose democracy if Trump wins. Trump is claiming we are going to loose America, the real America, if Biden wins. What real America is depends on who he is talking to.

I got a 250 gallon tank. I don’t have it hooked up to my grill, I just use the 5 gallon tanks for that. It’s more of a pita to hard plumb that than it’s worth, plus if I forget to turn the grill off I’m out 5 gallons, if I hard plumbed it to my main tank…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic_acid

Looks like you can create acedic acid from alcohol but you need a catalyst and carbon monoxide, not oxygen.

Or an environment without bacteria. I don’t think the wine will ‘oxidize’ without the bacteria, correct?

Oxidization is not the process that turns wine into vinegar, it is a secondary fermentation by bacteria that does it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_of_vinegar

Do you want the Unabomber? Cause that’s how you get the Unabomber.

Interesting! It seems to be German sellers, not sure if they would ship to the US…

With so many ingredients I would suggest using the taguchi method for experimentation.

I really like how this video explains it for those not familiar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oULEuOoRd0&t=0

He has some wild ideas. Inventing new math ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdxpwOEC4fk&t=1

Remember when pundits used to talk about Donnie was ‘playing 3d chess’. They were trying to project he was this super smart negotiator, etc.

Funny how we don’t hear those claims anymore, dontcha think?

Are we talking like literally human feces or like a glass of water?

They clearly weren’t marketing to existing smokers to move away from a harmful product, to something slightly less harmful.

I paid for AMdroid because I can set profiles, Geo fence, have math problems to turn off alarms, fade in music, turn on my flashlight… All the bells and whistles. I would love a FOSS version, but many try to be single feature. I like all the things.

Mind me asking what you do?

Honestly if they jailed Pelosi I wouldn’t cry. As long as it’s true, don’t pick and choose, throw em all in jail. I’m rooting for Menendez to wear some orange. Still want Trump to see time.

I admonished someone else for using tankie too loosely earlier, so I feel I should do so again.

Calling them an apologist is maybe more appropriate in this context. They are not actually making a tankie argument (one involving force), just spouting low level propaganda (I do not know or care how accurate).