Look at European democracies where coalition governments are the norm, where the system is designed to prevent any one party gaining complete power. Planning is longer term, and there is more certainty in future policy direction.The only certainty in Europe is gridlock, and a nearly religious adherence to half baked Green policy ideas.

Now we got to the time of the cretinous people who honestly believe "the five scariest words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help'". This means that instead of trying to ensure that their government is doing sensible things and ensuring that their country develops, they instead set out to destroy everything. Not cretinous, they just can't count(it's nine). Anyways, the modern equivalent would be I'm a consultant, and I'm here to help fix your diversity problem.(See Sweet Baby Inc, Codes of Conduct etc). Also the classic the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

This is very important. There's a light-year of difference among a typical scholarly article, a physics paper, a math paper, or some kind of incomprehensible humanities bafflegab that no sane person could comprehend. The former, if it's not too technical, should be readable to the average undergrad. The second and third might not be because there are so many specialized concepts and so much specialized language. The latter (and I'm not indicting everything coming out of the humanities, but a lot of it) is incomprehensible because it literally doesn't make sense.

Did they take into account that most countries drive on the right? If you're walking the perimeter of a room counterclockwise, it might be because you are staying on the right.

I'm really shocked over everyone screaming over here, apparently defending telecoms selling your location data.
This is merely evidence of hyper-partisanship, in this case TDS, but yeah, Trump could cure cancer, and some people would become pro-cancer just out of spite.

Pedantic correction: Nebraska has a unicameral legislature thus cannot be a trifecta. Also how does Ohio fit in West?

there is no reason for ag engine makers to target California It is a massive market.
Not for corn. You don't replant almond trees every season, Plus California loves using people(typically migrant workers) to do the work of harvesting.

Stargate effectively had a single gimmick, the underdog vs incredibly powerful enemies and somehow winning. This resulted in a trope I called "Stargate Syndrome". The Underdog, in order to beat the uber-powerful enemy needs to become more powerful to defeat them, once this happens they need to create another, even more powerful enemy which the heroes need to become more powerful to defeat and then they need an even more powerful enemy to keep the series going, so on and so forth. SG1 started fighting fake gods with high tech and ended up with all the tech fighting almost literal gods.
Yes, power-scaling is a problem and the Stargate Syndrome was first seen in StarWars books(EU, now decanonized). It's why all of them involve Luke being taken out off screen, b/c a Jedi Master really solves a lot of conflict very easily. DBZ had the same problem once you defeat an enemy that can destroy a planet, the next enemy needs to be to destroy 2 planets, until it becomes a galaxy-wide threat etc. But the Stargate as a literary device, allowed for interesting examinations of what if and the human condition. I am surprised the current activists at Amazon did not see it as a great way to shoe horn in some political messaging w/ all the subtlety of a brick through a window.

Ukraine has already "gone to Moscow" with drones and missiles. They can hit targets over a thousand miles into Russian territory. Apparently they've also cut off Crimea. That's the actual target - not Moscow. No telling how long it will take for them to gain operational control of Crimea, but the groundwork is being laid now. Crimea is all but cut off from resupply, and now it's just a matter of starving out the Russians while picking away at their remaining defenses.
Drones and missiles don't hold land, the way armored columns do. As for Crimea, say the Ukrainian's retake it. That doesn't solve Russia's warm water port problem, so expect them to fight over it again. It's happened before.

Several years ago Ukraine was talking about going all the way to Moscow, so this isn't a new thing. They've always planned on winning.
As long as Russia has nukes, there will be no "Road to Moscow" moment with columns of enemy tanks driving to Red Square. The Russians remember what the Red Army did at the end of the "Great Patriotic War" and have no desire to see it visited upon them.

There are also paint types (the chemical used, not the colour) that are high reflective and drastically reduce ambient temperature as they absorb infrared light and reemit it as visible or ultra violet light.
That's quite a trick, perhaps I can use it to power my perpetual motion machine. B/c the usual trick is to capture higher energy photons and reemit lower energy photons.

How did you "just get" something that has yet to be released?
You saw the second part of the grand parent's post and you did not think they were lying? What part of " I am in Europe and our economy is not systematically being destroyed." rings true to you? Unless somehow the Russia-Ukraine conflict is over, the neo-caliphatists have returned home, and the greens have ended their suicide pact against industry.

I wouldn't mind if it were a static image, but it's that Gemini ad that's constantly writing and erasing text. It's definitely cut down how long I stay on the site.

No, those are the words of someone who has seen nothing but slop for more than a decade (OK, there were a couple of exceptions), and has reached the point where there is no expectation things will ever get better. I have also given up hope that Star Wars will ever be good again.

I expect your opinion, which I share, is a majority opinion. Star Wars is almost nothing but slop now.