Shouldn’t have fired Gareth

I support the use of partisans

I just highlighted the text in the image on my phone and ‘Translate Text’ came up. I don’t think I have a plugin installed.

Firefox translated it as “Media Al-harbi Yemeni” so I think it’s just the media outlet stylized similar to the banner.

Just looked at the history of Diego Garcia… why am I surprised?

Hell yeah.

Also Zulfiqar was a specific famous sword that had two blades or two points. from my knowledge it’s unclear whether the blade bifurcates side by side or front to back, there are interpretations from many periods with either.

An excellent straw hat

you can leave out the first fuck and it still stops the AI. But you will have no fucks

There’s no way that few balloons could do anything meaningful. I’ve designed a moored balloon system for a lighting truss and we could barely get it to work. A balloon that could lift that destroyer would cover the bounds of this photo.

Here’s my mostly conjecture answer, based on a) being a structural engineer with no experience in Naval Architecture and b) watching lots of videos of boats go sploosh:

Boats are usually built in large buildings or outside, on level ground. Drydocks are sunk below ground, and they’re expensive. So using them for the long process of building a ship is a hard sell, both for opportunity cost and getting people and material to the boat.

Boats are heavy, so you can’t just take one off the floor and lower it into a dock. That’s why they don’t use drydocks for the first launch of a boat.

There is an alternative, called a marine railway. These are huge rails that slope gradually into the ocean, which you can launch a boat stern in, instead of side in. TBH, I don’t know why side launches are chosen instead of stern launches with marine railways.

Counterpoint: tall ships are cool

Portland is great, and while the PNW is expensive, it’s a lot cheaper if you can live without a car, which is easier in Portland than a lot of west coast cities.

I worked for 11 years as a structural engineer, and am now in software. I will say, while the work is fun, it is not well compensated for the level of anxiety that comes with designing structures for human habitation and the abysmal level of technical review given at most companies.

There’s also a bit of a slump on right now, since people don’t know if steel is going to double in price or not. But that shouldn’t be a concern since hopefully all that will be sorted by the time you graduate.

• The top 1% have 31 times the average wealth
• The 49% below them have 1.37 times the average wealth
• The bottom 50% have 0.04 times the average wealth

(All calculated from the chart itself)

That seems like the top 1% are the bulk of the problem. If our richest had less than double what the poorest have, that would be a pretty good start.

I agree, there are a lot of people in that middle band who are not going to give up their 37% extra wealth, but I’m not sure this point is worth making. I’d rather get the lower half of that middle band to understand that they are not much better protected than those below them, than to tell the bottom band that they have nothing in common with half the country. Let’s draw a new chart with a top 10% or a top 20%, it will make this fight seem more possible.

I just got an email from Nol Collective, a clothing company out of Ramallah, saying every checkpoint is locked down.

It is largely due to seismic requirements, yes. Platform framed wood construction is very good in an earthquake. Brick sucks for seismic, and concrete or concrete block can be good for seismic loading, but is expensive. Concrete might pencil out if you were building apartments, but that’s usually illegal in most parts of a west coast city.

If this were meaningfully true, I think we’d remember that having happened already. If the universe has just as much infinite time before now as after now, I’d already have lived, died, and been born again. If this has happened, and I don’t remember it, what is the use of saying that that person and I are the same?

That one time my sister got diagnosed with ADHD in the same month that I did

Oops, sorry. This outlet is worker owned so I wouldn’t want to bypass that.