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justThisGuyYouKnow 3 points ago +3 / -0

I argue this is not the case. What you see from Europe is the messaging of the elite. Speak to anyone on the street and the majority is still Christian and the majority cherish family values.

It's like asking Americans about these issues and extrapolating from LA to the whole of the USA.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 1 point ago +1 / -0

Are we sure this is not just an excerpt from a company DB?

I have used similar databases to do research in client acquisition. I know from every company I contact how much profit they make, how many workers they have and their bank account balance.

In other words; this compensation, is it paid by USAID or is it the documentation USAID has on TP USA?

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justThisGuyYouKnow 1 point ago +1 / -0

In Germany and Austria it has been after one year. I think there should not be any capital gain tax.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 3 points ago +3 / -0

European here. Many reasons. First; subsidies are gone. Second: devaluation is insane on EVs. Hardly anyone wants a second hand one. Hence no one wants a new one.

I don't think many people refuse to buy a Tesla because of Musk and not agreeing with him.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't know if there is a connection, but I know there is a strong genetic component to it.

I once passed a gall bladder stone at work and I felt I was going to die. The most horrible pain ever. Sweating. Not being able to sit still on the toilet. It took 10 minutes. Then all went back to normal. It was strange and I did not connect the dots (2 family members had had their gall bladders removed just years prior).

A few months later I had a really spicy meal and the next day woke up and my morning stool was completely white. It had the consistency and color of bathroom silicone. I knew what was up and went to the ER immediately. I told them it was my gall bladder, but they wanted to do test and see if they could crush the stones, etc. A few hours later, intense pain started. I got morphine, which helped at first.

Another 10 hours or so later, shortly before midnight, the morphine was no longer really helping. I spent until about 1 am in intense pain. I have never felt any pain like that before or after. I was then operated upon. My gall bladder was removed. It was full of stones almost the size of golf balls. I still have them. The surgeon had never seen anything like it and I was kind of proud and of course very relieved :-D After just three days I was sent home.

I have not had really big problems since. Once a year for a few days, I feel a little pain there and I know what I have to do; I eat the fattiest, meatiest meal I can find. 10-15 hours later I have a bowel movement that is full of bile and then I am good for another year or so. I think it is just tiny crystals or some blockages that build up and have to be flushed out by the bile, which is produced when you ingest large amounts of protein.

Eating a meal like that is actually a test that some doctors perform and it can force the passing of a stone or escalate the situation to a point where the doctors know operating is unavoidable.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 29 points ago +31 / -2

Trump should declare the Freemasons a terrorist organization.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 5 points ago +5 / -0

Schnitzel, actually, but I was born where a boy put his finger in a dike. A real one. Not the obese one with short blue hair.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 1 point ago +1 / -0

I agree. But 1) make the executions public and 2) use the same means they used on their victims, 3) make it slow and barbaric.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 1 point ago +1 / -0

He should be vaccinated every single day while we dance around the bed he is strapped down to and sing... dressed like the punisher.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 2 points ago +2 / -0

Looks like aluminium to me. I have accidentally melted aluminium frying pans in wood fires. Not hard to do. Radiators are typically made of aluminium.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 2 points ago +2 / -0

Vaxx pusher. He really messed up his legacy.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 8 points ago +8 / -0

The wires would melt and not conduct heat further than a foot or two.

Molten copper on concrete does literally nothing. It solidifies immediately. I doubt wood would even burn if you splatter the volume of a foot of thick copper wire over it.

Wood chars and charred wood conducts heat very poorly. Also, it radiates heat away very well. This is why building a wood fire is not that easy. It takes tinder or fuel to get it going before it becomes self-sustaining.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 17 points ago +17 / -0

I am sorry, but as a scientist with a degree in EE, this is nonsense.

The heat from a burning battery would immediately melt the copper wires and the heat could not be conducted from one house to another (convection is wrong; an entirely different process) or even within the house itself.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 5 points ago +5 / -0

I have worked as a scientist for over 20 years. My area of expertise is imaging, robotics, computer vision and AI. I have worked on a few projects involving satellite imagery.

Here's my take.

Weather satellites come in two flavors; polar and geostationary. The geostationary ones revolved around the Earth at the same rate as the Earth rotates, meaning they "hover" above a fixed point above the Earth. These satellites give you a multi-spectral image every 1-5 minutes. The resolution is typically not very high as these satellites are about 36,000 km out from the Earth (the position where the orbital velocity is such that the satellite orbits as fast as the planet rotates). I would typically work with images that had a maximum resolution of 1x1 km. Some channels (water vapor) had a lower resolution of 4x4 km. Some of these channels would work in the thermal region of the spectrum (true infrared) whereas others would be in the near infra-red spectrum (wavelengths only slightly longer than visible red). Could these satellites register an infrared laser? This depends on the wavelength. Most of the infrared part of the spectrum is absorbed by the atmosphere, meaning you could only use wavelengths closer to visible light, perhaps NIR (near-infrared).

From a resolution perspective, it is very unlikely you could observe such a laser beam with a geostationary satellite. If the laser wavelength is suitable and the light scatters enough for the sensor to pick up the light it is possible. (Think shining a laser in a dusty room; you can only see the beam when light deflects off of smoke or other small particles) I would have to look at the numbers on how much lasers scatter at those wavelengths. I think it is unlikely.

Now, with regard to polar satellites; these are satellites that are in a much lower orbit, typically only a few hundred kilometers up. They orbit from pole to pole to pole... etc. in around 90 minutes. (Lower orbits are always faster; if you speed up in a lower orbit, you reach a higher orbit. If you slow down in your orbit, you get into a lower orbit (here's the counterintuitive part), making you orbit faster.

Polar satellites cover the complete surface of the planet eventually, because the planet rotates "beneath" them. In 24 hours you would cover the planet in about 16 equidistant parallel strips. (Imagine taking a beach ball and wrapping a ribbon from top to bottom and back while rotating the beach ball slowly) Depending on the width of these strips, you could theoretically cover the whole beach ball. Typically, however, these strips observed by polar satellites are not very wide, because we want a high imaging resolution. Typical polar satellites cover the entirety of the planet's surface in 3-4 days.

Here we immediately see the trade-off between polar and geostationary satellites: One makes it possible to observe the same location continuously, but at reduced detail. The other allows for much higher detail levels (down to 3-4 inches), but you can not observe all of it at the same time. The solution is of course to have many polar satellites to cover all of the surface within a day or less.

Could you observe a near-infrared/visible laser with a polar satellite? If the satellite is positioned correctly (luck) and the scattering of the laser beam is high enough for the imaging sensor to pick up, then yes. Again, I am not sure if the scattering would be high enough.

However, I know thermal imagers exist that use infrared wavelengths from between 3 to about 600 µm.

I would need to have a look at the source data to find out more. Particularly the directionality of the beam would be of interest. Perhaps, given the time of recording, one could match the beam to a known military satellite.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 5 points ago +5 / -0

I agree. Please stay in your hemisphere and withdraw the 85,000 troops from Germany and the other tens of thousands from the Baltics. We can deal with Russia on our own. We want cheap gas and normalized relations. We do not want the deep state to destroy European economies.

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justThisGuyYouKnow 25 points ago +26 / -1

Just as sidenote: it's equilateral.

But yes, arson. Very clearly. Not even an accident, dropped cigarette or something. Planned. Executed.

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