Trump should declare the Freemasons a terrorist organization.
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.
Send illegal immigrants to the Vatican. These people need to step up or shut up.
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.
He should be vaccinated every single day while we dance around the bed he is strapped down to and sing... dressed like the punisher.
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.
Vaxx pusher. He really messed up his legacy.
The point is that the copper WOULD melt at the terminals. There is no chance of any conductivity of heat.
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.
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.
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.
Pedos should get instant public execution.
Now giving someone a meal and a hat is EXTREMIST RIGHT-WING xD
These people are despicable.
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.
Just as sidenote: it's equilateral.
But yes, arson. Very clearly. Not even an accident, dropped cigarette or something. Planned. Executed.
These are the same people who call us CIS gendered. xD
That is the way to do it, but only if you can spare the 500.
I put 100 euros into DOGE right before Elon started talking about it. I sold at triple the price. It's the little things, sometimes xD
I am not sure how chickens are kept in the US. I just know in Europe there are basically two types of eggs; There's the "free range" ones and there is the "ground kept" (loosely translated). The first means the chickens live outside mostly and have a coop to sleep and lay their eggs. The second means the chickens are kept in very large halls at ground level. The first kind is only marginally more expensive; I pay about 3 dollars for 10 "ground level" eggs and about 4 dollars for 10 "free range" eggs. They both taste the same. I think the indoor chickens feel safer.
"Cage free" has been a thing for a few decades in Europe now and eggs do not seem to be more expensive here.
First off, this is not financial advice. I am not an expert.
Whatever you do, make sure every dollar you invest into anything is a dollar that you can live without. I never invest any money that I could not lose. In fact, as soon as I invest, I consider the money "lost".
Here are my (messy) thoughts.
If you have any credit, try to pay off as a much as you can. Car. House. Stuff like that. Interest rates are falling, but only very slowly. If you think you can beat the interest rate on credit by investing, then of course, go for investing. Also, I think the world will be in a better, more stable place, as soon as Donald John Trump takes office, which could reduce the likelihood of wars and crashes. However, perhaps you should consider spending some money on making sure you can survive hard times. Canned goods. Armament. Munitions. Physical gold and silver. Razors. Toothbrushes. Lighters. It's stuff like that that were very valuable during for instance the war in Yugoslavia.
Now, if you are adamant to invest; It all depends on your situation. If you have young children, you can do long-term investment reducing risk. If you want to take more risk, you should really time entry right. I am not sure a crash is coming, but certainly there are bubbles. Depending on where you live, obtaining a secondary property could work for you. In some countries, there are many plots of land next to cities that will be developed within the next 10-30 years. Those offer very real possibilities of high returns.
I have always liked investing in commodities, because I found it easier to think about their price dynamics. For instance, there appears to be a mismatch between the prices of gold and silver. Some people claim silver is priced too low. Others claim gold is too high. I think gold and silver are always good investments, certainly long-term. If at all possible, physical gold and silver are good options.
A few years back, I invested in oil right before Russia invaded Ukraine. Also wheat and corn. Those were good investments, but timing your exit is difficult. I have also noticed that cocoa has a fairly obvious seasonal price swing, but overall pricing depends very much on the size of the harvest (weather). I found it difficult to get good returns on it. I think it is best to observe for a long while, before entering with small amounts.
When it comes to crypto, I am weary. I have been mining my own for a few years with good returns, but then completely stopped as energy prices went crazy where I live. We have seen BTC crash and then regain value. It is now priced high, but may it still be undervalued? ETH is no longer mineable. I haven't even looked into how staking works... Trump has said he will make sure the US government will buy X amount of BTC and stable coins such as XRP. Will their prices go up? Probably yes. Will people cash in at some point? Probably yes.
I have, in the past, invested in anything to do with the "energy transition"; I am not a fan of it, but in market terms, interesting things were happening, at least for a while. I put money into lithium mining corps. That got a bit of a return as well, but since then I think we have passed the lithium-bump and the future of battery tech is in solid state batteries. I think I should really invest a few thousands into those companies. Solid state batteries hold more energy, are more stable and are not affected by temperature as much as lithium-ion batteries, so as soon as production ramps up, I think they will displace much of the lithium-ion batteries, especially and firstly in the EV-market. This may even make EVs a viable mode of transportation, which, in my opinion, right now, it isn't.
Companies like nVidia, Intel and AMD are always safe bets to maintain value, but Intel has suffered from disastrous CPU-sales as their latest two generations appear to show catastrophic deterioration of the silicon, making the CPUs go bad within a few years. This has motivated consumers to move over to AMD. AMD is doing well. However, Intel have recently launched a new line-up of GPUs that have a superior performance per dollar compared to AMD. I think Intel could recover somewhat. The price of nVidia stock is very much linked to AI; as soon as that bubble bursts, I think nVidia stock will go down.
When it comes to Meta and Google, I am skeptical; Google is under threat of being broken up (a good thing). Sometimes your own opinion about a company should certainly determine your willingness to invest in said company. I find Alpha/Google completely uninteresting. Meta put all its money into the Metaverse; An idea which has since died. I think they will find it hard to come up with something new. The new thing is obviously AI. Google is doing well in that regard. Meta may follow. Both companies just are not to my liking and I refuse to invest any money into them. Apple is a dud in my opinion. They seem to have lost their innovation power. They VR-stuff is very limited and very much overpriced.
With regard to the general market. We may face a crash still, but I think the crash we will see will mostly be limited to AI. The AI-bubble has been going on for a while. As much as the consumer-applications of AI seem to be great (chatGPT, audio, video), people are getting kind of tired of AI's products and no one is going to pay for AI-generated content. It is a gimmick. I for one have completely stopped watching AI-voiced content. Authenticity is key; I appreciate natural speech with all its flaws. I think in this regard, I am weary of investing in AI companies. There are simply not enough business models that can even work in theory, let alone in practice.
Apparently, China is not doing so well. China has of course had very real problems in the housing market. They can't really make good gas-powered cars, but their EVs are doing well. However, I think we have already passed the EV-bump as subsidies and thus reality, has been setting in. Now, what would happen to the world economy if China's economy crashes? I am not sure. Would we see a limit to the flow of cheap consumer goods going to the West? I don't think so. Could we possibly see a revival of production of such goods in the US? Maybe.
PS: Forget about Microsoft as well. Windows 11 is making a lot of people move to Linux.
Don Lemon rubbed his fingers on his balls and made people sniff them.
Just for that he should be locked up for life and beaten to a pulp monthly.
I have saved and backed up any document, video and podcast.
People who deny what happened should slowly be tortured to death for all the world to see. No mercy for these people.
More like economic fall statement
Thanks for delivering my new dinner plates!
Hacking... it's just a progress bar :-D
Dudes and dudettes, calm down. The Iranians have a few people who know how to use Blender.
There is only one Mr. Whitehouse and that is Our President Donald John Trump.