Just like in China, Russia, the USA,…

You could always create a device that scans the skin and adjusts the measurements accordingly.

There is one point that the statistics don’t grasp: the question whether a ban is used to “hold someone accountable” or because the mod just did not like a certain opinion or person.

The original statements stand. This statistic is solely about the amount of banning, not about the quality.

The moon does not change color. The atmosphere does, though.

Keep in mind that the Chinese scientists have a lower pay than their American counterparts. And that sourcing materials in China is usually cheaper. So even an equal amount of spending already means a lot more research in China.

Aka a staggering number of people are stupid, or at least undereducated.

And now they need a few years in the special effects department to apply the classical 8bit charm.

Well, someone has to pay for the bombs on Iran, and social security and medicaid is already earmarked to finance tax breaks for the ultra-rich.

Evolution tests many paths and takes the one that benefits the species in the long run. Simply by the better equipped producing more viable offspring.

An immune system on permanent alert probably makes autoimmune problems worse, and may exhaust all kinds of resources. Both would have to be balanced with the benefit of not having a runny nose.

It is not actually a vaccine. It just puts your immune system in high alert.

If this was beneficial on the long run, evolution would have reached this point long ago and kept the immune system on this level on its own. The simple fact that it does not tells me that there are probably disadvantages that outweight the benefits.

My guess is that this stuff also raises autoimmune issues and allergies.

Well, yes, it is. It is amazing how Americans overrate their own country because of unfounded assumptions that break down once confronted with facts.

And again, the US ends up with third world countries. Makes you think…

They said it took the star three years of getting more and more intense in the infrared, and then it vanished. What they didn’t say was how long that collapse took. Was it months? Weeks? Days? Hours? Or even faster?

Randomly tag things, or choose several, even contradicting options.

Looks like it’s time to shop somewhere else.

And now analyze their work experience. Probably most of them are “Career Politicians” who never worked a honest job in their lives.

But he is not selling the gold reserves off, he is using them to plate his Throne -ehrm- Ballroom.

Yep. It really depends on if you have to replace some basic hardware like pipes, tanks, and valves that you can do with sheet metal and a welding tool, or if they blew up the control center with the computers and the specialized hardware. Or maybe some of the specialized pumps and valves. Those are expensive, and so nobody has large quantities lying around.

When the Russians hit the Ukrainian power grid, the Ukrainians can get replacement parts from all over Europe and the rest of the world. But Russia has the problem that those parts are high up on the embargo lists, so they have to get either Chinese parts (which may need modifications on them or the controlling software), or smuggle the original items.

The number also depends on whether you consider “short term” vs. “long term”. Maybe it is 38% down at the moment, but they have spare parts to get some of it back up.

But they’ll run out of spare parts rather quickly if Ukraine keeps up the speed. And then it gets interesting.

“Unfinished” as in “We have not installed the counterweights/ballast pumps yet”.