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And the majority of that weight will still stay in your body as water.

Dunno if it's the Metformin.

I am thirstier, but I'm also on jardiance (and ended up in that quite quickly). So I've never been on normal blood sugar without jardiance

Oman also has a long history of relatively stable rule where the ruling regime (a Sultan with absolutist powers) has balanced repression with social&economic reform (human rights are not great, but from a political perspective they're sufficient to keep protests from becoming violent).

Relatively large oil incomes vs a relatively small population certainly helps in this regard (it's easy to be generous when you've got lots of money).

Om det här är i enlighet med Älvkarlebyns riktlinjer för färdtjänst så borde någon ta kommunen till förvaltningsdomstol för brott mot färdtjänstlagen.

"Pretty much eliminated the need for battleships" is a strong claim that does not rhyme with the fact that the battleships that were built late in the war stayed in use for decades, and during WWII battleships formed a key part of the fleet groups (although primarily as a resilient AA platform, being one of the few platforms almost impervious to Kamikaze attacks).

If the US navy didn't see a use for battleships they would have been scrapped by the end of WW2 instead of kept in service for 50 years. It's expensive to keep a battleship, even in reserve.

While carriers supplanted the battleship as the premier capital ship and the offensive arm of the navy, I'd argue that the battleship still served a role until cheap precision munitions enabled other weapons to deliver that kind of heavy bunker-busting firepower from relative safety. The missile, the drone, the glide bomb.

And I have no idea how they managed to fuck up the Constellation.

Like, looking at the italian ASW-variant of the FREMM frigate it's more than capable of close and long range air defense, submarine hunting, fending off drones&speedboats etc.

Just lengthen it to squeeze in a bigger VLS battery, americanize the gear (guns, radar, missiles, helicopters) and you're set.

You can construct a missile or glide bomb that's sufficiently resilient against lasers to break through a laser-based anti-missile defense. In the worst case scenario the projectile doesn't care if it was accelerated to mach 10 with a railgun or a missile. The missile-accelerated warhead is more expensive but can be fired from a tiny-ass frigate.

Overall though, Railguns right now are a solution to a non-existent problem.

Even Carriers are of limited usefulness unless you're trying to conduct an intense bombing campaign very far from friendly airports. With aerial refueling capacity the only limit on aircraft range is the endurance of their crew and turnaround time.

The only powers with modern carriers are typically powers which consider it vital to contest very small islands very far from friendly airfields. Plus China, who want to be able to contest US airpower over the pacific. With the exception of USA+China even those powers have downscaled their carrier force to a near token capacity.

You still need a navy, but size is a liability (the bigger the ship, the juicier the target). Unless it's an aircraft carrier most navies only build frigates or destroyers. Which, to be fair, are the same tonnage as WWII cruisers but still nowhere near the size of a battleship.

Battleships still proved their worth through out WWII (primarily as a protected platform for serious AA defenses) and even later during Desert Storm where battleships were used to pave the way by dismantling Iraqi defenses (delivering enough 16-inch shells at targets needing that kind of bunker-busting performance to justify their cost). They just weren't useful enough to build new ones.

So, semi-obsolete in that they weren't building any new ones. Not obsolete in that the navy didn't exactly have a hard time finding use for the ones they had (with Iowa-class battleships participating, in an active role, in every campaign between 1942 and 1991)

These days though drones, missiles and glide bombs do the same job at a fraction of the manpower and risk (if they need a bigger kaboom they can design an even bigger JDAM).

I'm not sure aircraft carriers did, but missiles and drones definitely did.

Whatever battleship you build you can build missiles capable of taking it out at a fraction of the cost and manpower.

In the current Industrial ecology, yes. The extra weight means more CO2 equivalents in fuel for transport than what's used for the plastic packaging.

That's just a general rule though and it depends on many things (how clean is: electricity, transport etc)

Part of their popularity is because they're "limited". By creating a false sense of exclusivity McD leverages the "Fear of Missing Out" to both generate sales and customer visits ("We have to go NOW. Or we might not be able to get the McRib")

That's what they're for. Strong sunlight+snow is a bad combo for your eyes. So if you're traveling in the artic or across a glacier you need eye protection of some sort if the sun is high and the skies are clear.

Except it doesn't work like that.

The reason why you can donate a part of your liver and not bleed to death is that the liver has what's called the falciform ligament that divides the liver into two main parts.

By cutting along this ligament the liver can be safely separated, but once one lobe is transplanted it doesn't regrow exactly like it was, it enlarges the remaining lobe. So once a transplant has happened it's one big lobe that fulfills the same function that the two lobes did before.

Your main premise is wrong. Soap isn't designed to kill germs.

Soap works by tying together fat and water molecules. So when previously water would just wash over, now it allows the water to grab the bacteria and wash them away as well. Anti-bacterial soap also has ingredients that allows it to dissolve the biofilm that bacteria use to protect their colonies. This makes soap even more effective at getting to those bacteria and dislodging them from where they're attached to your skin.

Antibiotics on the other hand. Those aren't designed to clean, they're designed to kill bacteria.

We have yet to find an antifreeze that isn't extremely poisonous to mammal biology.

Left: Sleeping Dogs

Right: Fallout 76

Or the preliminary meetup spot for a (possibly illegal) road race. Because that's a lot of cars with hood scoops and oversized superchargers.

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In order for something to burn it needs to release energy by reaching a new lower energy and more stable bond..

Water is the result of hydrogen and oxygen reaching that lower energy level. So normally water cannot burn because it's already the "ash" of the oxidation process.

If you want it to burn you need to break that bond by either adding energy (breaking apart hydrogen and oxygen again through thermolysis or electrolysis*) or providing something it wants to react with even more.

Both things are possible.

• Water reacts very violently with alkali metals (lithium, sodium, potassium), because oxygen really really wants to bond with those metals instead of hydrogen. That frees up the hydrogen which can then react with new oxygen.

• Many types of metal fires burns hot enough (once it reaches that white hot stage, somewhere around 1800-2000 degrees) to break apart water molecules. Once the fire becomes that hot aiming a stream of water at the fire is just providing it with a super-concentrated stream of oxygen. As such metal fires cannot be fought by water, and instead need to be choked with sand or specialized Class D extinguishing powders that accomplish the same thing.

*-lysis kind of means "breaking something down with...". So thermolysis is breaking something down with heat, electrolysis is the same with electricity. Other forms of -lysis also exist, especially in biochemistry with for example hydrolysis (breaking things down with water) is an important part of many biological processes.

Especially since if you have the energy you could use readily available materials on the moons surface to create rocket fuel (Liquid Oxygen-Liquid Hydrogen) and the moon could be used as a staging point to assemble rockets that don't have to fight their way out of earths atmosphere/gravity.

Although it's not quite at the "the solar system is ours" stage just yet. If you want massive amounts of power on the moon you either have to assemble big ass solar panel/battery combo (which is possible with todays technology, but cumbersome) or figure out how to get Helium 3 fusion working.

Mild steel is vulnerable to corrosion and heat strongly accelerates this process when it comes into contact with oxygen (especially if it's at the same time exposed to sulfur and hydrogen rich gasses/liquids. Which happens when wood burns since wood is mostly carbon and hydrogen, but also includes low levels of sulfur which turns into SO2 when the wood burns)

It's the quality of the metal. Not if it's wrought/cast iron. You don't expect your cast iron pan to disintegrate if you use it over open flame (and a high quality cast iron pan won't. Generally they've also added some silicon to the alloy to increase that resistance).

Mild steel is generally somewhat sensitive to corrosion (heat accelerates that and also reduces the effectivness of some of the methods use to make steel corrosion resistant), so if you want to make the grill from steel you should use one of the 300- or 400-series steels (where you can find steels which resist sulfur-corrosion and oxidation even at fairly high temperatures).

In an LCD (Liquid crystal displays) the individual pixels do not send out light on their own. Instead the light of each pixel is determined by sending light through a sandwich of screens which block light. Close all screens and the pixel is dark, close screens so that only red light shines through and the pixel is red. The light, and the majority of the power consumption, is instead provided by a backlight that shines through. Darkening individual pixels doesn't change this power draw.

For OLEDs on the other hand each pixel creates its own light, so they save energy the fewer pixels are lit up.

There are several species where conjoined twins is as common as it is among humans (cattle, cats, sheep, many types of snakes and turtles).

However, only in turtles and snakes do they survive for any long period of time, and usually it's a case of polycephaly (multiple heads), as more severely malformed animals tend to be unable to care for themselves.

• Too much presidential power (at the expense of the parliament)

• Low government and political legitimacy (frenchmen do not trust the government or political parties. Nor do they take an interest in french politics).

Not even brand new F-16s can match Rafales or Gripens for operational readiness.

They're just more modern aircraft with better design fundamentals.

Sanctic Psyker works really well with Officer as they both like resolve and they both buff resolve. Then Purge Soul or a psyker staff allows your guy to kaboom pretty much anything.

You're about 25 years late there buddy. The Venezuelan oil industry was nationalized in 1976, under Perez. Chavez didn't take power until 1999.

There were expropriations in 2007 under Chavez, but it wasn't until Trump (in 2017) that the US actually engaged in sanctions and embargoes.

Mainly because Venezuela (back in the 90s) had made it very clear to US companies that if they were going to get back into Venezuela to exploit oil it would be on Venezuela's terms. Neither Bush Jr or Obama wanted a second Cuba-scenario, especially when it was known from the start that the investments were high risk.

Främsta argumentet för att det existerar filosofiska zombies.

It's expensive to provide clean drinking water, and especially so if you don't have a clean source.

Ideally you start with water from a clean lake or aquifier, and in some areas that's not available (like the Indian subcontinent or SE Asia where the ground water is frequently contaminated due to arsenik-rich soil). In those cases you might have to bring in drinking water from far away while the tap provides water for cleaning etc.

Right-wing populist accused of pro-Russian policies decides to gradually distance himself from supporting Ukraine after being elected. Say it ain't so.

[insert surprised Pikachu meme-image]

Missed opportunity to extend your pinkie (because the burn looks slightly like a hand with an extended pinkie and thumb forward along the hand).

It's not really a full circle. Because The Principality of Moscow (the origin of the modern state of Russia) only adopted the title as the King of the Rus for their propaganda war to take over Ruthenia (Kingdom of the Rus) from Poland.

The title had previously been held by the Kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia, which had been absorbed into Poland. And Galicia-Volhynia had only adopted the title of the kingdom of Rus to establish itself (post-Mongol invasions) as the successor-state to the Kievan Rus (a collection of Principalities located along the Dnieper and Lovat rivers which shared descent from Igor I, the first historical king of Kiev).

All of them claimed Rurikid dynastic origins, but by the time Moscow started calling itself the Kingdom of Rus that claim was about as meaningful as being a british descendant of Alfred the Great (as literally all of the eastern slavic princely houses had some rurikid ancestor by then).

About 70 000 people killed by the eruption. Massive ash clouds. Explosion heard some 3000 km away.

It means the CV90 can handle cold, wet and snowy conditions.

Turns out that a lot of Europe needs IFVs that can handle lots of mud&snow&rain, because it's a muddy place (even more so the further east you go).

Originally the CV90 didn't have a very good AC unit (which would have been a pain in desert warfare). In the upgraded versions they fixed that issue.

Ajax is a repeating failcascade while CV90 has successfully fielded about 10 different versions (original 40mm, two upgraded versions of that, 30mm in a few different versions, 35mm, 120mm mortar turret plus 120mm test turret and a test turret with 30/35mm + AT missiles).

The design fundamentals are just better than the Ajax Trainwreck.

The only fail so far is the AMOS turret (advanced stabilized dual barrel 120mm mortar), as they just couldn't bring down the weight enough and still retain capability/reliability.

Only a low pressure 120mm. That's good stuff if you're planning to lob HE or HEAT rounds, but when firing Sabot you've got barely more punch than the old soviet tanks (which had low energy since the old autoloader could only handle rounds of a certain length. As a result, until the T90 russian Kinetic projectiles had about 2/3rds the energy of a 120mm L44)

If he's visiting the US military base, then they can't kick him out due to the basing contract. If he decides to visit Greenland's various settlements, then theoretically yes.

It's also a highly adaptable platform. The turret ring is built to handle a big turret (so you can put almost any autocannon in there), both engine and suspension are built with upgrades in mind and the electrical system is robust. On top of that it's well protected, only drawbacks are the mine protection (which is just "good") and it can't swim

Growing living creatures is a VERY complicated series of instructions created by trial and error.

Growing just a kidney is like looking at a 1000000 line instruction sheet that's encrypted and you have no idea which line says what.

If you follow the instructions from start to finish you get a complete human being, but you have no idea which parts interact with "and here is a functional kidney"

That said, being able to grow organs from scratch (without growing a full clone) is the holy grail of transplantation science as it would solve both organ shortages and compatibility issues and many ethical issues

That was at least what the spanish crown considered the Inquisition useful for, and why they gave it their patronage.

If you were accused of being a witch you were LUCKY if you ended up before the Spanish inquisition.

Torture was not viewed as a reliable method of interrogation (which in turn meant that trials under the spanish inquisition didn't have the kind of cascade effect that witch trials in norther Europe could, as victims gave names to avoid torture) and the rate of acquittal for Witchcraft in particular was very high (the spanish inquisition didn't really believe in witchcraft. For the roman inquisition this depended on who was in charge, as power shifted between the Theological faction and the Political faction. Pope Innocentius VIII for example was, on the matter of witchcraft, a raving lunatic and generally considered ignorant by the educated elites. He got his position mainly due to political connections).

Still, approximately 700 women (mostly) were condemned for witchcraft (or heretical beliefs described as witchcraft), though this is a very low number compared to the for example 4000+ women sentenced to torture and death under the Scottish Witchcraft Act of 1563 (and Scotland had less than a million people compared to the 8 million in Spain) or the tens of thousands of women (again, mostly) sentenced to death in the German states.

Now, if you were on trial for Heresy on the other hand... Regardless if you were a Conversos (jewish convert), Moriscos (muslim convert), protestant or one of the various "heresies" that flourished in southern europe (like the Cathars, Waldensians etc)...

Spain was notably intolerant of what they viewed as Heresy, and although the intensity of the spanish inquisition was relatively low (Queen Mary for example executed 3 times as many for heresy during her reign as the Spanish inquisition did under an equivalent period) it was under an exceptionally long period of time. Torture was still used, but only once the court thought they had proven guilt, to extract a confession (as this was viewed as paramount for saving the soul) and only using a few approved methods (designed to avoid permanent physical harm*) and for limited amounts of time.

*If you dive further into the subject you may recognize many of the methods from the "enhanced interrogation" protocols under the US "war on terror". "Enhanced waterboarding" etc.

More like 80 years (Veracruz has been continuously inhabited since 1519)

It's a mid-stage in that it's a highly vascularized bladder rather than fully developed lungs, although more advanced oxygen uptake than the lung/swim bladder of the Bowfin.

The evolution of lungs is actually a very simple process. And we can still find the "mid-stage" today in Lungfish.

Lungfish have honey-combed and vascularized* swim bladders that helps them not only hop over land between pools of water, but it also helps them if the water they live in becomes oxygen poor.

*Lots of blood vessels.

And the answer is probably typewriters. Typewriters have a very limited amount of characters, even more so than movable print, and the manufacturer has to choose which to include.

This has killed a number of symbols and letters in various languages.

Note that high-heeled shoes also accentuated calves, and at least between the 16th and 18th century well-developed calves were considered sexy because it showed that a man was an experienced rider. To the point where not only high-heels but also padded inserts were used to accentuate, or give the illusion of, well-developed calves.

Your two unknowns are:

• Harald Vilimsky, MEP för FPÖ (austrian far-right party) and VP of the far-right political group in the EU parliament.

• Andrej Babis, new prime minister of the czech republic.

Which is why both have air refueling capability.

Europe will absolutely move away from US arms.

1. Produce weapons in house and you get some of that money back from taxes. The more you spend on weapons the more advantageous this is. The amount of spending necessary when the US can't be relied on means that Europe will absolutely get into the territory where you 100% want to be in a position where you get a piece of the cake. Europe will spend more and more of their budget in-EU and more will either be license produced or locally assembled.

2. Unless you have no other choice, you only buy weapons from friends. Otherwise you're asking to be stabbed in the back when it's politically convenient. Big reason why for example Sweden had almost all of their gear home-brewed or license produced until the end of the cold war.

It's a pretty dumb choice. It means that Europe are going to divest themselves from buying american weapons.

The European market has been worth a hundred billion a year to the US arms industry (money which ended up in the US economy), and much of that is because European nations wanted to be compatible with US forces.

While European nations are still buying some american weapons right now (quite a lot due to the rearmament), that is going to dry up as EU nations develop local options and divest themselves from being reliant on an undependable nation.

It's not like Europe would just sit in a corner and go "save us". Europe had a combined standing army of over a million troops, 2000-ish combat aircraft (and three times as many military aircraft) and hundreds of naval vessels.

However, the assumption up until 2016 was that the US was Europe's ally, and combined there would be a relatively painless victory unless Russia decided to use nuclear force.

That was by design, as while European forces were smaller by relation they also subsidized US R&D by purchasing a great amount of military material from the US MIC. Only really France and officially neutral powers like Sweden went all out (or nearly all out) on their own locally produced equipment.

China sees Europe as:

• A competitor for markets&resources in Asia and Africa

• A threat to their territorial ambitions in the Pacific (China are in conflict with Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and probably a few more states around the South China sea)

• The worlds strongest proponent of international law and minority rights, which makes Europe a threat to China's internal policies.

• A threat to Russia, which China views as an important partner/pawn in a potential conflict with the US.

All of this means that they're very busy busy undermining Europe economically, politically and institutionally (for example there is a reason why Europe avoids chinese telecom like the plague when it comes to government equipment and strategic infrastructure). They've also on several occasions stated that they "cannot allow Russia to lose the conflict in Ukraine", a statement which does not exclude getting involved directly in the conflict (just like China ended up involved in the Korean war).

People in their 30s-40s saw the collapse of the old cold war order. In their teens Russia was a washed up alcoholic that could barely keep their nuclear submarines from rusting apart and China seemed more focused on trade and making money than military posturing.

That shit changed. Invasion of Georgia in 2008, the election of Xi Jinping in 2012, the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 (followed by a decade of "little green men" operations and finally war in 2022), the election of Donald Trump in 2016 (completely overthrowing the idea that if war happens then the US will have our backs).

There are two central statements to the new order. Europe is under threat. Europe stands alone.

Lots of caveats to those two statements. Russia isn't seriously capable of taking on Europe as long as we stand united and take the threat seriously. Europe doesn't really stand alone (several non-European security partners that we can still rely on, like for example Canada). But the complacency of the 90s and early 2000s is over. Has to be over.

SF = Special Forces. Can also be written as SOF (Special Operations Forces).

Almost all special forces teams tend to have a team that consists of 4-12 guys who are both highly trained at the killing&infiltration part of soldiering AND has a second specialty, like communications or sniping etc...or combat medic. Pretty much every team that's designed to operate behind enemy lines has a combat medic trained to a higher level than normal, since by operating behind enemy lines they will be cut off from the type of combat support that most military units can expect (like golden hour* evacuation). So their combat medics need to be able to do a number of procedures that normal combat medics are not required to do.

SOF combat medics are not the only people who go through this exercise. Lots of Combat medics from many different units have an exercise where they need to save a pig/goat that's sedated and then shot, in order to simulate battlefield trauma. SOF medics are probably the only guys who do it multiple times (for overtraining purposes, an important part of SOF training).

*Golden hour is called that because the gold standard for medical care&evacuation is that a soldier injuried in combat should ideally be evacuated and receiving advanced medical within the hour. This drastically lowers the number of soldiers that die or are permanently crippled from things like bleed out or infection.

The only thing that Ember and Temple&Uriel have in common is that they primarily deal heat damage.

While they're nice frames they're nothing like Ember except in that they deal heat damage. If you know how to build Ember they're not better either, Ember's passive and Augments means that there are a number of wiiiild builds for her.

At least three manufacturers (Amneal pharmaceuticals, Auro Pharma and JAMP pharma) have blackberry flavored metformin.

Much relates to the Hoxc13 gene. Hoxc13 is a very very ancient gene involved in developing the fins which would eventually become the tetrapod legs, but in early tetrapods it also became involved in the development of keratin. In reptiles/birds/mammals this controls nails/claws growth and in mammals it's also involved in the creation of hair.

In Amphibians it's a vital component in the growth of toepads and, in clawed frogs, claws.

Some amphibians do have types of claws (like the african clawed frogs). They're not true claws (like those found on all amniote descendants) but they're claws and the same genes are involved in the development.

So while true claws developed in amniotes, the common ancestor of frogs and amniotes probably had some kind of claw-structure to help it move on land.

Note that birds, reptiles and mammals have claws/nails. Frogs&Newts also have the same genes for claws, but in amphibians (frogs, newts, caecilians and many extinct groups) those genes (primarily the gene Hoxc13) are mostly inactive.

So basically some early ancestor of all now living tetrapods (animals with 4 limbs and sometimes a tail) developed something like claws and ended up quite successful because of it. Amniotes (the ancestors of reptiles, birds and mammals) retained that trait and developed it into true claws while amphibians did not and most of them in fact lost their primitive claws.

The earliest archeological evidence of claws comes from 350 million year old reptile fossils, but the origin of the genes for claws probably dates back another 30-40 million years (380-390 million years ago) with the crown tetrapods (the common ancestors of frogs and amniotes).

They are actually holding their head still while their body moves. Mammals have tiny muscles in their eyes that keeps the eye fixed on a target when they move, but the way a birds eye is constructed they need to keep their entire head still.

This is a drawback with bird eyes, but it's a construction that allows birds to have bigger eyes and sharper focus at long distances.

Det odlades aldrig tillräckligt med Humle i Sverige, inte ens innan 1860 då humleodling var ett lagkrav. Efter det släpptes det lagkravet och Sverige slutade att odla humle då inhemsk odling hade så dålig avkastning att det var billigare att köpa tyskt.

Hälsa är den nya statusmarkören. Väl bemedlade lever i snitt längre än medelsvensson (har alltid gjort det) och för att leva länge nuförtiden så måste man träna så att man håller det kardiovaskulära i bra skick och inte blir för fet.

I do open history books a lot, and unless you're willing to kill everyone then bullets&violence frequently just create more enemies. 10 insurgents minus 2 insurgents equals 12 insurgents.

Lots of military campaigns (occupations in particular) have been lost that way.

UK operates the 6th largest military (in terms of manpower. Italy, France, Spain, Poland and Germany have larger ones) and one of the most powerful navies.

France does have a larger military and navy, but France is generally not as eager to commit resources to the defense of allies. In Ukraine, to take an example, the UK committed earlier to Ukraine's defense (with for example NLAW launchers even before the war started) and have contributed both more and a larger share of their economy (19 vs 8 billion € in absolute numbers. 0.68% vs 0.29% of GDP).

France is also viewed as "difficult" when it comes to military cooperation, while UK tends to be easier to work with. Both on a political level and on a "boots on the ground" level.

France problems though are not on the same levels as those of Germany and Spain (out of which Germany's problems are the most embarrassing as they have no economic excuse to be as trouble-riddled as they are).

When it comes to Poland. Absolutely, they're rising quickly as one of the key partners in European military cooperation. They're mainly limited by not having the same economic power (right now the economy of Poland is only a bit larger than Sweden&Switzerland, countries far less populous, but somewhere in 2035 the Polish economy will pass by that of the Netherlands. Still nowhere close Europe's economic giants, UK/Germany/France/Italy.).

By:

• Freezing about 210 billion € of Russian assets

• Driving the Russian economy into a freefall with sanctions

• Providing training for over 85000 Ukrainian soldiers

• Providing 188 billion € in aid (military, financial, humanitarian)

Det förutsätter ju att rymmaren inte blir infångad? Men om han inte blir det så får han ju inte något straff i alla fall.

The only other animal I know of which belongs to its own order is the Tuatara. which looks like a lizard but is the last survivor species of the once successful Rhynchocephalia (an order of reptiles).

It kind of did. WWI&WW2 were bloodbaths...but not compared to the sizes of the populations and economies involved.

Vi har haft godhets-signalering, ondhets-signalering och nu...Anti-miljö signalering.

Medans myndigheternas resor inför jul är en droppe i havet så är det verkligen ett stort finger åt miljöpolitik.

Detta är genomgående för Tidölagets politik, och med utsläpp därefter (där årets utsläppsökning är en av de största på flera decennier).