If you have a beard and don’t trim anything, it looks bad anyway. You should be trimming the neck or other stray hairs to make it look clean.

Some people’s beards don’t grow in well everywhere, so it looks better than a scraggly mess at the cheeks.

It’s also just a style, so it doesn’t have to make sense.

I 3d printed a dongle that has a Logitech receiver in it. All their design files are online, so you can make your own pretty easily.

My county flipped blue. Democrats didn’t even have someone running for the house seat here, it was uncontested.

They probably wouldn’t have won, but they didn’t even try…

This is why he moved to Texas

https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI

New math came out of it, they figured out more and more efficient ways to figure out the solution to “is this prime?”

Those same math techniques can be used for other problems, and possibly learn something that solves a problem you actually care about.

Research is important because you never know what weird problem someone is working on might solve. Maybe it will provide a new math solution that creates better CGI, maybe it’ll finally create a technique to solve fusion.

Maybe it’ll just be something that we know now that we didn’t know before. There are FAR FAR FAR more wasteful things in the world than some nerds trying to solve big prime numbers.

Why is anything worth the effort?

Cause research into primes makes computer security stronger. Cause research in general can make new discoveries that can lead to unexpected improvements in life.

Cause we need to know the answer to everything.

Cause it’s better than mining crypto or doing AI training models over and over.

It does show how dystopian Star Trek kinda is tho. Nobody consumes any media composed after around 1900.

Apparently copyright destroyed art and it’s no longer able to be created, except what was already in the public domain starting around 1960’s.

The research backs up your statement. Especially if you yourself are genuinely interested in the conversation, and also willing to update your own thinking, along with helping get everyone in the conversation to start understanding the real answers.

In case you haven’t listened to it, the You Are Not So Smart podcast covers the topic of how to get people to change on a pretty regular basis. It’s a great podcast that talks a lot about conspiracies, misinformation, and how to combat them.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/podcast/

My favorite part of this podcast is that if you listen to it from the start (nearly 300 episodes at this point), you can hear him slowly become very jaded and pessimistic, but then as the podcast goes on, he starts turning around his opinion and gets exited and optimistic about all the progress that is made. It’s a really great podcast and makes me excited for the future.

He’s the governor…

Dolly died due to a lung condition. Currently no one linked her death or aging to being a clone.

Similar diseases were shown in other members of the flock, and it was most likely due to being kept indoors for research and security reasons.

If you want to print pictures to hang on your wall, ink printers print much better color quality.

If you want flat graphics to print on a document, laser is better.

Just depends on what your use case is.

A lot of training that you have to pay a lot of money to get, then more on the job training that you get paid (relative) peanuts for.

A lot of other countries have better support for people during these training periods, so the US equivalent takes on a lot more debt and a lot more risk to attain these higher salaries.

If the barriers to entry in the medical field were lower, the salaries would be as well.

Depends on what you mean by “own”

You can build a building as tall as you want, up to the limit of local codes. So you can’t build a 3 mile tall building, no matter how well engineered, because it won’t pass local zoning laws. Nobody can build a building that overhangs your property, because they’d interfere with your personal property, and it wouldn’t pass local zoning laws.

You can’t interfere with airplanes flying overhead, because that’s an issue with the rights of the government to allow passage and commerce through “your” airspace.

It gets tricky with people flying balloons, kites, or drones through your property, but typically several hundred feet over any structures are considered shared airspace.

Of course if they’re flying a drone over your backyard to photograph you in places that would be considered private, that would be a violation of completely different statutes.

It can be more complicated than that depending on exactly what the breakdown is for senate and the house.

Historically, if a senator is from a swing state, they’ll need to compromise a little more than one from a more uniformly political state. So if it’s a very close senate split, there wouldn’t be so much deadlock.

If the Senate had 60+ from the opposing party though, then basically they can stop everything. They would have a supermajority and wouldn’t need to worry about filibustering, and moderate senators could still vote against the party line safely for questionable votes.

Then there are situations where upcoming elections can change voting strategy.

Really, the question is extremely point in time and can’t be answered on a general sense. Just compare the end of Obama’s term to the end of Clinton or Trump to see how different splits and political climate can have wildly different outcomes.

Doesn’t exactly answer your question, but the folks over at Donut bought a cheap truck from China and had to deal with the logistics of getting something shipped over. I think it’d give you at least a high level idea of how to coordinate getting things put in a shipping container and getting it sent over, and then receiving it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRG0Wai4sR0

It’s interesting seeing someone coordinate all of this, and how expensive it gets

You missed the “for circumstances like this” part. There were certainly other uses of the draft for other circumstances that are looked at poorly.

WWI and WWII didn’t have a direct US invasion, and we’re also looked at positively, but is out of the scope of the discussion.

Just be careful after updating qBittorrent, sometimes the update resets the network binding and you have to go in and fix it.

Probably missed a checkbox to keep settings or something, but it’s better to confirm after upgrading, then miss a change and have your torrent run in the open.

I bow to your trek knowledge

TAS was great for what it was. Animation at the time was super cheap and outsourced, so you can’t really put them blame on them for something that was pretty standard at the time.

One of the neat things about Star Trek: The Animated Series is that they were able to have crew members and aliens that were more than just humans with a couple of prosthetics. Aside from the Horta, and a couple glowing space things, basically every alien in The Original Series was a quickly painted extra.

You’d be hard pressed to find someone who says TAS was their favorite Trek, but it’s probably in my top 4 Trek series.

We’re past the reducing emissions stage.

We need to BOTH cut emissions, and find a way to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere to get to a healthy planet. Not all the CO2 traps are going to be the right way to do it, but we need to research and figure out how to sustainably pull CO2 out, stop methane emissions, switch to a carbon free grid, and… everything else.