The Thai and Korean “spicy” levels are NOT standardized in any way whatsoever.

And you must learn this on your own.

You’re right. The criteria for law enforcement is lower. They take the military rejects.

Yes. By necessity. The grid has to be kept in sync within a fairly small frequency range to operate. Every generator that is grid connected, is spinning at the same frequency. It is a small enough window that you can use it as a reliable clock.

Every time the power load changes they have to compensate with increasing or decreasing the power available to balance within the small frequency window. A deviation as small as 0.5 Hz can cause some protective relays to trip and bring down sections of the grid.

This is also one of the major reasons why it takes so long to bring the grid back online after a blackout. They have to balance power output with the load in each section as it is brought online so it doesn’t just disconnect itself again immediately from an imbalance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency

One of the many Easter Eggs in the Series. Just like ET’s species being in the galactic Senate.

Britain also has a fairly unique relation to the area, having massive influence on the original defined borders, resulting in nearly constantly contested borders. In classic British Empire fashion, ignored realities of the region like local ethnic and religious politics, nomadic tribe lifestyles, etc.

Most likely that decision was made because it was a Hanukah event.

I mean, it was a Jewish festival. It might not be specific to the Palestinian/Gaza genocide… But it’s definitely related.

“It would appear that this was motivated by Islamic State ideology,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said of the shooting attack at Bondi Beach on Sunday.
Albanese continues: "The ideology that has been around for more than a decade that led to this ideology of hate, and in this case, a preparedness to engage in mass murder.

folk who can’t tell the difference between a Jew and a Zionist Israeli.

That’s the design. The Israeli government has been trying to blur the line between the two since the Gaza genocide began. They don’t want the average person to be able to make the distinction between the teo. The zionists want to hide behind general “anti-Semitism” phrasing.

The real world result is that because the distinction is hard to make, every Jew is now a target. And they’ll point to that to justify the general anti-Semitism claim as well. Creating a loop that enforces their own artificially created narrative.

Don’t know why. Even his wife stopped giving a fuck a couple weeks after.

People claiming a personal relationship with the goddamn creator of the universe are hella conceited.

I’d say even prideful, you know one of the 7 deadly sins, often considered the worst of them and even the root/source of the other 6. The sheer hubris needed to believe you have a personal connection that others don’t is ridiculous.

You are not wrong. It’s not even a theory.

Studies have shown that most corporate CEOs exhibit many psychopathic tendencies. It’s how they are able to rise to the top, they don’t give a fuck about anyone else, so it doesn’t get in the way.

Then they use the money from those positions of power to try and manipulate whatever sociopolitical ends they want. They buy media companies to manipulate what narratives are told to the public, and how certain situations are covered, spun, or ignored entirely. They use those companies to create artificial campaigns turning certain groups against each other as distractions. If people are arguing about “small” things, they don’t have time to notice the big things being done.

Well considering the article is about a product launch in the US… seems relevant. Carrier locking isn’t illegal at all in the US.

They didn’t even used to have to unlock it once a contract was over, not that most carriers at the time would allow unlocked phones on their network anyway, they do at least have to do that now.

Granted this was 15 years ago. The market was a lot different than it is now.

That being said, most people still buy their phones through their carrier. So whatever the carrier sales reps get paid the most to sell is what they push people towards.

Eh. Apps were still fairly new in 2010. It launched around the same time as the iPhone 4. Heck, the iPhone was still officially only available from AT&T at the time.

It looked like a knockoff iPhone 3G with a slide out keyboard, so it was at least twice the size. Lack of apps and social media weren’t what killed the Kin.

So did anyones live get saved by his action?

Yes actually. Insurance companies across the board suddenly started approving claims at a noticeably higher rate immediately after. A large enough increase that it was immediately felt by consumers and the media even covered the change. Thousands of lives were demonstrably improved by not having to deal with bullshit fights over claims being systematically denied by default like they had been.

Oh look a Canadian that can’t see their own descent into the far right fascist rabbit hole on the horizon. Somehow even watching the US, you seem to still be headed that direction as if it couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Because… reasons?

We look like fucking morons on the world stage.

The only sort of solace to this, is that many other countries are clearly following the same path, so its not something inherent to just the US. Idiots are everywhere, and they vote.

Everyone is pointing to the US, but the same initial precursors are happening under their own nose.

And yet Proton is Swiss.

the asker must know and trust the one providing the answer.

This is possible if there’s a central authority for that that everyone can agree to trust, like the government records directly. The issue is ensuring the rest of the chain remains anonymous so the only thing the authority gets is the request that an undisclosed service is verifying John Doe is 18+ and nothing else. And that’s not something many governments are going to want to allow with the increasingly alarming amount of authoritarian leadership.

Note this is not ICE. This is the Diplomatic Security Service, the State Department’s agents.

It’s not just ICE that get the dipshits nowadays apparently.