Joint drills are good and need doing, however, there is a war on; anything short of large donations of arms to Ukraine is pussyfooting.

I’m happy it didn’t start with a 10 paragraph story vaguely related to the article.

Most news articles can be a paragraph or two.

Man, I would love if the software project I worked on had this few bugs. Need to add a couple more orders of magnitude to reach the same ‘heights’.

Abstinence only education doesn’t work. Gun safety training is critical for safe use.

Being against gun safety is an extremely counterproductive position.

100% behind phone lockers, but, I do agree the price seems too high for this specific implementation. Looks like those hold ~250 phones each and I’m going to guess should cost $500-$1,000 per locker. A school should only be spending $5k-50k on these lockers.

Yep. Someone safely using their gun and teaching others how to safely use theirs can easily go through thousands of rounds in a pretty short time period. Someone murdering with one only needs a few rounds ever. Restricting ammo sale quantity only hurts safe and legal users.

You are talking about input materials for reactor fuel. We are told almost daily about how bad climate change is; why would new fuel inputs be anything notable as nuclear power de-carbonizes the grid?

What is extra frustrating is I have been hearing "we should have done it before, it’s not a good idea anymore” for literal decades now.

Best time to build is 10 years ago. Second best time is today.

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It’s a 4-digit number, even today, to build a 50tb local backup box. Absolutely nothing to a company. They were simply lazy and didn’t do the bare minimum.

If a doctor points their personal smartphone camera at a patient during an exam, as the doctor in the OP did with their camera, that is a massive issue. Why are you defending blatant violations?

I know Nord lets you choose which country to connect to. You can also specify the city if the country has multiple endpoints (like the US). I’m sure others have this feature too.

Trades pay very well and don’t require expensive schooling. Inexpensive cars can be readily found (you don’t need a new car). Credit cards don’t charge interest if you pay them off every month (or if you simply avoid them). You don’t need the phone upgrade and eating out is a special event thing, not a regular thing. A house is the only thing you need to go into debt for; and the interest rates for those are much more reasonable then for all the other crap above.

Don’t fall for the keeping up with the Jonses crap. You don’t need whatever it is most people consider the must have or must do.

Yeah, an inexpensive, reliable car is wildly cheaper than living in a city. Rent alone blows the concept of ‘saving money by moving to the city’ out of the water.

Voices should be audible in stereo, the most common setup. They are free to add 5.1 and 7.1 as well, but 2.0 and 2.1 need to work.

That is one of the very few movies with English audio that I had to enable English subtitles in.

I have no clue why they wanted nobody to hear the characters in that movie. Why did they even bother giving them voice lines?

VLC has a Volume Normalization setting which everyone should turn on. Helps dramatically with the plethora of badly mixed movies.

I hope not. Based on her position and him constantly being on the other side of it, he would be bringing her down.

The US was paying them to build wind power projects in the US, now the US is paying them to build gas power projects in the US.

Lasers and anti-air drones are the future of anti-drone weaponry, both of which are needed in addition to existing air defense solutions like CIWS, Patriot, and THAAD.

For the lasers specifically, it makes a ton of sense powering them with a nuclear reactor which mandates at least a battlecruiser sized ship. Powering them with diesel generators is just not realistic.

With all that said, lasers currently aren’t ready for prime-time; I would like to see the Trump battleship money put into laser R&D, anti-drone drones (like Ukraine has), and small frigates, a ship class we are sorely lacking on.

Once the lasers are close to fully operational, we can revisit nuclear powered battle-cruisers to power the lasers for fleet defense; as it might make sense to simply go with more nuclear powered carriers with lasers on them instead. In fact, the Ford-class carriers we are building have about double the power budget they currently use, precisely for future upgrades to radars and lasers.