Venus is slightly smaller than Earth.

Well, rage is cheap, and mostly exclusively online. (Which also shows how much anyone actually cares about Palestine, or whatever other issue)

The actual thing to do, if you do care, would be to lobby and get involved with local political causes, and read whatever news presents the facts neutrally and accurately.

Less upset would be good, in general. 98% of the people on here just go on the internet and get upset. That’s not noble, that’s masturbation.

This is just as trash as whatever Fox News article.

Generally, soldiers are trained to shoot at centre mass, so they don’t miss.

It’s just not a relevant detail, unless you’re trying to create emotionally-charged imagery for clicks.

An article phrased to make you angrier, at the expense of actual reporting, is rage bait.

Rage bait is dumb, and makes you dumber.

Just the head, never any other part of the children?

Basically, it’s a rage bait headline.

Which it absolutely will, at least in the sense no part of the ellipse is lower.

Depends what new orbit a given piece of junk is in. It could be mostly higher, only approaching the old one at it’s semiminor axis.

It’s not as bad as blowing up a higher satellite, but most antisatellite weapons try to capture rather than destroy to avoid the question entirely.

Maybe you’re getting at the one big army concept, but it’s not really politically possible, at this point. In practice, it’ll be a smattering of the large nations, with cooperation from smaller nations. The French will probably be key for satellites in specific, because of Guyana.

Military satellites are almost entirely US right now, as well. There’s a gap in AWACS and similar, but it’s closing.

In theory, it should just be a matter of reorganising for the rest of NATO to do their own military logistics. We have the basic equipment and expertise needed.

Does anyone believe Iran went according to plan, besides the people who believe anything Trump says?

Isn’t there a way to manually whitelist modified software on your AV, if it’s your own machine?

With modern software, there’s also the problem of just learning whatever weird stack the game is running on, to know where to look.

Yes. Assembly is barely abstracted from the actual machine instructions, to the point where the process of translating it is easily reversible. Reading assembly code is a thing all on it’s own, though.

There’s specialised software available for this kind of reverse-engineering now, too, if you’re doing something more complicated than just looking for and cutting out a system call.

Depending on location they can all be illegal. Firecrackers specifically are illegal in my region, IIRC.

Are they really cheap socks, at least?

It’s… just an order. Letters could go diagonally or back and forth, as long as everyone knows how to follow through them. It doesn’t matter where they are on the page, and yeah, you can do that with Latin text as well.

Logographs do carry information more densely, since they’re not constrained by actual speech sounds, but I don’t think that’s what you’re talking about. (They’re a lot harder to learn than a sane alphabetical system, as a tradeoff)

Yep. All of the sudden, the “great satan” stuff seems a lot more credible, and anybody who was calling for detente with the West looks really foolish.

On the other hand, there’s a lot of fresh faces at the top of the hierarchy now. Maybe gradual reform will be more possible, whenever this chapter of history ends. For now, 74 lashes for the celebrity, so nobody forgets who makes the rules.

Yep, it’s definitely not in the American national anthem, and they definitely don’t like calling people redcoats still. /s

74? That seems like an example is being made.

Hey, they never said they had a problem with it. They just asked for a connection back to the subject.