Haha I have similar tastes, love a kebab.

Maybe those foods seem overrated because they are so accessible and easy to cook (few ingredients)? Easy things to start with if you’re learning to cook.

Are you someone who likes sweet stuff more than savoury? I’m not into sweet stuff and don’t get the fuss about chocolate, but a nice savoury salty or spicy thing does it for me.

I guess everyone has different tastes.

I get your point but hydrogen isn’t just sea water, you’ve got an awful lot more energy to put in after the “tank is full so wrap up the hose and drive off” stage to separate the hydrogen from oxygen to get the fuel. The difficult bit comes after “get water”.

On the one hand, this is embarrassing for Russia, but on the other hand the UK’s Trident nuclear deterrent failed a couple of times in a row over the last few years, so I’m not going to get too excited about it.

It could go that way, but on the other hand they could be more like MorningLightMountain in Peter Hamilton’s Pandora’s Star, i.e. fascists who exterminate every other organism that competes with them for resources.

Great book if you haven’t read it!

To be fair, she is relatively unknown.

Especially when you consider low information voters (which I expect have similar knowledge to high information voters from other countries).

Her honeymoon period will end as soon as she sits down and does a few serious and unscripted interviews about policy, which she has managed to avoid so far. At the moment it’s pure vibes, but at some point you need to get into the business of explaining what you would do and being challenged on it. That will generate lots of attack angles and media stories, both good and bad.

I’m not going to get into the technical details of manifest v2 and v3, as I think it’s beside the point.

I think we can agree that given Google has announced the end of v2, recommending uBlock Origin on Chrome right now would be pretty mad, right?

Ublock on Firefox. Remember Google just kneecapped adblockers on Chrome!

KISS is great if you want something really simple that works well.

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Well it does seem that more people would vote for trump against her as well as more people vote for her. So maybe it’s legit?

Is this a thing in America?

Are you taxed based on your yearly income, or month by month?

Breasts are often measured in cups

Don’t most Americans look like this?

Slightly tongue in cheek, but also not…

Sleep Token

These guys have an incredible range and mix up different styles in a way that is quite unique. I’m not normally someone who pays that much attention to drums but their drummer really is amazing. The singer can do both clean and ‘dirty’ vocals.

First time in ages I’ve been excited about a new band!

Chokehold

The Summoning

Take Me Back To Eden

Hypnosis

The Offering

Vore

Those fenders would have done basically nothing for a ship of this size. You’d be looking at a 20m diameter cofferdam full of concrete to be able to take a hit like that without failing, I did some basic calcs and the ship was about 100,000DWT so the impact force would be in the order of 315MN, absolutely huge.

Yeah, you’d struggle to design a foundation that could take a hit like that, it would be something like a 20m diameter cofferdam full of concrete. The ship that hit it was about 100,000DWT so the impact load will be something like 300MN.

The bridge did have some small dolphins / navigation guides in front of the piers but they were likely designed for a very small impact load from a small vessel losing control.

That ship was about 100,000t.

There’s a fairly crude equation in the American bridge engineering standard that relates impact load to the mass of a ship, which is:

P =√(DWT) ±50%

Where DWT is the deadweight tonnage, and P is the impact load in meganewtons.

So in this case P=315MN ±50% which is 315000kN or 31500 tonnes of force…

For comparison, I’m working on a project where we’re going to build a new concrete bridge on the ground next to where it needs to go (under a railway) then wait until we have a planned week with no trains running and push it into position using jacks. That bridge is a 60m long 20m wide 8m high concrete box with 1m thick walls and top and bottom slabs, and we think we will need about 30MN to install it (one tenth of the impact load from that ship).

So yeah… that’s quite a hit.

Some Old Hag Cracked All Her Teeth On Apples.

Hope that clarifies everything sufficiently!