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At this point I'll be surprised if he's still alive.

The immediate effect will be to knock away much of the moral ground Washington sits on in this war.

Seems like a bad take. Making Ukraine whole is the greater moral priority.

Per the article, Russia and Ukraine have already been using cluster munitions with a 40% dud rate (unexploded ordinance being picked up by children being the major concern here) while the US cluster munitions under discussion have a 3% dud rate. These are not the same.

Yes it sucks that these will all have to be cleaned up afterwards, and there is a risk that some will be missed. But this isn't making the problem substantially worse than it already was, and Ukraine needs these for the success of its defense.

We use a custom one that's just 'ACK'

It's also a way for employees to under-report their income on their taxes, which is a perverse incentive.

This sounds more like a capacitor than a battery. Also: that's a lot of current to dump into an energy storage device in a short period of time. There's no way you're going to be able to do that at home without major overhauls to the last mile of the electrical grid. (I also question whether dedicated charging stations will be able to do it either, without some sort of serious on-site energy storage/buffer to moderate the spikes in current draw to the broader electrical grid.)

I don't think I've ever tried Osmow's, but it's hard to throw a rock here in Ottawa without hitting a shawarma place. The flavours of a shawarma are truly amazing; it's miles ahead of any other fast foodstuff. (provided, of course, you like garlic.)

Tom Scott covered this a few months back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcp1BfPUeOc

I'm hopeful that the approach will be closer to how Minecraft works, now that they're under the same umbrella. But it seems more likely they'll just monetize things heavily and push creators to monetize. (e.g., mods over a certain size require a minimum payment amount to 'recoup bandwidth costs')

I am shocked, shocked at this outcome..

I'd suggest that the right way to handle this is, if the "Hide adult content" checkbox under settings is checked, it should prevent this from happening. (Currently it makes no difference, afaict.)

It's gonna take a bit for me to get used to the new font for Store/Library/Community/...

The store description says it will be a refinement of Stellaris, which.. honestly sounds great. I wonder how heavily they'll dip into the lore from the TV show in filling out the events, races, etc. I hope for a very full and diverse metropolitan universe.