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Various reports have stated that because of the way Russia does meat assaults it is more like 990 dead and 110 wounded. There is of course no way to know for sure (at least not public information, who knows what classifed data shows).

There are also an unknown number of POWs and surrenders that are not in the 1100 number.

I’m one of the lucky few who have a pension. I do not have enough savings to last until the pension kicks in, and in any case the pension is less than my current income, but I could live off my pension and social security alone.

Nearly everybody who speaks English is rich. We just have no clue who poor other parts of the world are and so think of ourselves as poor.

They make that impossible. they track surveys of how much ai helps - but the lowest grade possible is 0-5% improvement. No way to mark that it cost me time vs writting code by hand. If you can’t measure it you can’t improve it - and they are not allowing measures

China was a really backward country 50 years ago. I expect that China has paved a lot of roads which are still in good shape. Europe by contrast has had paved roads for a long time and those older roads via normal wear and tear are wearing out. The question then becomes when do you patch, recover, or replace - this is in order of both cost and how nice the road is after. Give China a few more decades and their roads will become less smooth because it isn’t worth the cost to make them perfect.

good tents are worth the money. The heavy canvas ones are great if not too far from a car, but too heavy to carry far.

Depends on the tent. Some stakes first some last. Dome tents stakes last, most everything else first

At the time germany was hesitating to send their tanks which would be more useful. This gave cover that it would be escalation

The Abrams tanks were sent in large part knowing those objections, but by sending them it encouraged sending other tanks that are more useful.

I have a tuner app, drum machine, and recording apps on my phone. I like to pretend I can play trumpet, mandolin, piano, hammered dulcimer… which means I practice something nearly every day.

If you don’t have a sensor then that is cheaper in the short term, but it quickly wastes a lot of energy running when the humidity is under control. For a dehumidifier you need more energy to get lower so the room well generally will be fairly consistent not too low humidity even as outside humidity changes, but you will use a lot more energy than a system that turns off when humidity is good.

there are purely mechanical systems that used to be used. However they have some weird machining requirements so it isn’t clear they are cheaper than a digital system (this partially depends on volume - make more and the machining gets cheaper per unit). The digital system is as we already have established is very cheap and lets you put buttons and LEDs on the unit for a few cents more - this is far more valuable to marketing than the possible savings (if any!) from a mechanical control.

Almost no cars, trucks, or tractors are steam based anymore. I believe most ships are ICE as well, not to mention rockets, and animal/muscle power. As such I’d need a very deep analysis of the situation to believe any claim. (deep because in an ICE a large part of the power comes from burning fuel producing steam, so we can start debating how much of an ICE is steam - have fun).

In any case my local electric utility generated more power from wind than all customers used last year, so I can make a good claim most of my power isn’t from steam. If your utility isn’t in the same situations or close you should be demanding they get with the times.

they do open windows. They also close them. When they do that depends on the situation.

livewise they sit outside at times. They also sit insides.

There are many different hot climates with different situations. You cannot make a blanket statement. And you cannot look at what they do today when ac is common to figrue it out (where at is common)

Your safe following distance on gravel at 50mph is more than that. 3 seconds is your minimum following distances on normal surfaces (used to be 2, advice has changed), you should have a 4 second following distance on gravel. https://www.drive-safely.net/safe-following-distance/

The term is classical liberal. Capitalist is a strawman used by Marx to be some unrealistic thing they can knock down. Minimum wage is not compatible with the deep freedom message of of classical liberalism.

And mostly nobody is fighting minimum wage because it isn’t a factor - you can’t find someone willing to work for that anymore in most places anyway - which is to say supply and demand is working. They will fight increasing it because that is against the rules of supply and demand and ends up hurting the people who are the most disadvantaged.

Classical liberals were starting to fight against slavery before Mark was even born because it is not compatible with their freedom message.

Businessmen were against slavery before Marx was born as well - slavery is inefficient to a business. It is much more efficient to pay people to work and let them figure out how to get their own food and shelter. Slaves need to eat even when you don’t have work for them to do. Because of this the classical liberal message of freedom was an easy one to sell to business owners since there was no cost to them anyway. (many businesses are of course inefficient and so you can find businesses that had slaves)

Look at old hot climates.

notice the afternoon siesta. Sleep in the shade in the hot of the day and work (play) later into the night.

notice large covered porches around the house. Spend more time outside in the breeze and shade.

notice the large windows and doors. When you are inside get plenty of ventilation-

notice the ceiling fan (often slave pulled). Be glad we now have electric fans.

notice the folding hand fans. Portable fans exist, though most of the time the hand fan is better - get one.

They were mostly had such poor insulation as to be not worth having because of the losses in winter. There is a good reason most people hove tore them out when they get ac.

No tides as a large moon would knock any other moons out of orbit - this means the moons are too small to support a tide.

I almost never order delivery, so I’m asking out of confusion on why someone who does use it does if they are that bad.

I do tip delivery because as I said it is expected. However I still contend it is unethical.

there’s things like being able to find an apartment or navigate competently on the roads, both of which I’ve seen drivers struggle with thanks to gps-enabled apps.

Why are you ordering delivery if your life is so empty that you have time to watch what the driver is doing. Just go yourself. If delivery is so bad that you feel a need to watch it like that, then it is unacceptable. This is just baseline competence - you shouldn’t be handling this with tips, their manager should be firing someone who can’t figure out how to navigate after getting training (Which they should provide before a driver starts!)

thinking to grab condiments/napkins, and other little niceties that go above the delivery itselff.

That is for the store to put into the bag, not the driver to deal with. Even if the driver puts them into the bag, they are standard baseline and the manager should do that.

I’ve had enough bad experiences that I appreciate when I don’t have a shitty one, like food that’s been clearly flopping around in the car or a driver too lazy to use a hotbag to keep stuff warm.

Those are things you don’t find out about until the driver has left your door with the tip.