Car thermostats for the radiator. You don’t want the coolant flowing when the engine first starts, because it will run like shit. So you have a cylinder filled with wax that expands with heat. That controls a valve to set the flow of coolant. Low tech, works fine, no particular reason to change it.
That sounds like how the zombie apocalypse starts.
Sauces, too. You want a fat as a base in many of them, and mayo is a pretty good way to get it.
Maybe don’t eat the mayo in the doomsday prepper bunker.
An adblock doesn’t necessarily help here. Those work by blocking pictures from being loaded from domains that usually serve ads. Here, they’re likely hosting the download link images on their own server, but they’ll send you someplace you don’t want to go.
The number of distinct values are what matters.
There should be a Poison Ivy movie of basically that.
Is this what it’s like being a Canadian watching America right now?
Possibly the opposite.
There were plenty of little Nazi groups around the United States before and after WW2, but they weren’t allowed in polite company after the war. Not even among conservatives. Some of them stuck around using anti-communisim as a cover, but they were usually asked to leave if the mask slipped too much.
The Greatest Generation fought Nazis, and they weren’t going to let overt ones have any political power. They may not have had sophisticated ideas about what a fascism is (Ur-fascism wasn’t even published until 1995, most people still haven’t read it, and it’s not even the final word on the subject), but they weren’t going to ally themselves with overtly ideological ones.
The Greatest Generation is also dead enough that it no longer has much political power. Just the situation the mask-off fascists have been waiting for.
Depends on how many states we’re talking about and their geographic distribution. 1M isn’t enough to hold the whole country. It probably can’t even hold New York City. It could probably hold New Hampshire.
Current US military doctrine suggests you need 1 soldier for every 3 people you’re trying to occupy. This is especially true when you have to assume every civilian is a potentially armed insurrectionist, and the US has a lot of guns in civilian hands. That said, fascists tend to throw out hard won wisdom like this, and tells the army they aren’t trying hard enough. For as much as they drone on about how they’re a bunch of tough guys, they are complete shit at actually fighting a war. Here’s a former US Army intelligence officer talking about the numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyBIqRunQ5Y
Oh, and while the existing military might follow orders to take over states “in rebellion”, they’re going to be doing a lot of malicious compliance. The way they did Trump’s birthday parade proves it. They 100% phoned it in on purpose.
One of the side effects of Trump trying to move so fast is that he doesn’t have time to purge the military and refill it with loyalists. That would take over a decade. Stalin did that to disastrous effect; the Winter War was only a technical win with catastrophic losses, and the later German invasion was barely held back. Hitler didn’t really try to purge the Wehrmacht, with the Night of the Long Knives being mostly a purge of their own SS people.
Trump therefore has to rely on already loyal people with guns, which is mostly ICE, local sheriffs, and police. None of them are big enough to hold the whole country, either, or even a major state.
Welcome to everywhere. 3.5" disks in German are called “dreieinhalb Zoll Disketten”, and in Dutch “drie punt vijf inch floppys”. Both of those translate roughly to “three and a half inch disks/floppies”. Everyone borrowed US computer terms and translated them directly.
No country uses the metric system exclusively. None. You will find exceptions if you look for them. This isn’t some kind of moral failing, it’s just practicality. Look at how car tires are sold for one example that’s nearly universal due to industry standards.
This is why for retro computers, I tend to prefer CompactFlash. IDE->CF adapters are cheap, and the cards are much higher quality. They effectively become an SSD that works on old stuff. (Just because I like retro computing stuff doesn’t mean I want the whole experience, like waiting for disk heads to move, or worse, tape drives to finish reading. I’m old enough that I remember dealing with it and I don’t need to deal with it again.)
Not a lot of call for them otherwise, though. SD cards have gotten increasingly good bandwidth, which means they’re good enough for a lot of higher end cameras. CF is getting squeezed out.
How airtight is airtight? Cheap Ziploc bags or Tupperware won’t be enough in the long run. Maybe if you used a pressure sealed preservatives jar. Those will need to be heated up in a pressure cooker, so butter will melt and reconstitute.
Sorta. Anything fatty tends to pick up flavors from the environment. Now, in the cold, those chemical reactions are slowed down, but they’re not stopped. If you leave it there for a while, it’ll pick up off flavors. Still generally safe to eat, but you won’t like it.
Human anatomy took some strange turns in the Star Wars universe. There was cross breeding with the Killik back when everyone was slaves of the Rakatan Infinite Empire. Now human females have an ovipositor that rips right through thin plastic bags.
There is so much more context behind that. The two are not at all comparable.
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.”
You’re completely ignoring what happens in the first paragraph of NATO Article 5. The Security Council only comes into play if they get off their ass. The Security Council rarely gets off its ass, because too many countries that hate each other have veto power. NATO will continue operations for the defense of its members regardless.
None of that is true of the Budapest Memorandum. They bring it up with the Security Council, and that’s it.
Are you going to keep digging this hole?
Nope, not at all comparable. The US does not puppet master the UN Security Council. It can bring the matter up, and it has. Russia has veto power on the same council. Nobody expects anything to come of that, but the requirements were met.
Not at all. You clearly haven’t read what’s actually in there.
Clinton didn’t think Congress would ratify strong guarantees. Ukraine itself wasn’t in a position to ask for much more, because it didn’t have the economy to afford to maintain nuclear weapons. The result is an agreement that aggression against Ukraine would be brought up with the UN security council, and that’s about it.
In providing military aid, the US has exceeded what was promised.
Fucking NAT. Never should have been allowed to escape from the lab.