I am sorry, I just found this thread (i have been less active online since i got employment, sorry). I have heard some bad stuff bout you bud, but in all my interactions with you have been great. we may have some political differences on some things (not going into that intellectual masturbation here), but I do mean this sincerely - thank you.

as someone who was just involved in a electrical fire in lab, highly recommend this (once you get out of shock that is, i got out in cough3 hourscough 2 mins, easy)

not sure what they were alluding to, but my guess from first look was all the double bonds (represented by 2 lines parallel) on a single carbon, and those 2 double bonds being bent (i am not getting into sp carbon hybridisation, and specifically double double bond sp), but that is basically not possible (alost no amount of streic hinderance can do that).

definitely would like some explanations and sources. I am guessing plutonium must be used as a nuclear battery, but 1/2000 seems too high a chance for explosion considering how safe they usually try to go with.

size of animal which is feasable in a environment is determined by largely 3 things (besides general genetic limits) - climate, food availablilty, and any predators. within tundras it is very beneficial to be big because your surface area to mass ratio would be less (you lose heat through your surface, and the total heat you produce is roughly proportional to your mass). So most tundra animals grow big.

my guess with dogs being prefered is that 1) they are available, 2) humans have history of collab, 3) they are also predators. last is important, as 1 of the reasons to go out is to catch some prey, and dogs are good predators. goat might fit other 2, but does not fit 3 (their pray is usually very sparse, and almost always ‘vegitative’). In areas where there is hardly any other pray (like himalyas), dogs are not raise because their hunting skilss are useless. Yaks (fancy bulls) are raised because they can carry load, and also you can use their “side products” (hair in summer, and milk more generally)

I do not find this post uplifting. Is this like some thing I do not get because I am not american? cause this seems to be just a product launch

sorry, completely went past my mind. I read a peaceful scene and just stopped reading for some reason

sorry i did not quite get your point.

i guessed horses wer not available because of the great war, and hence I went to straight human plowing, but yeah, i guess most able men were also conscripted

til. I knew of the hairstyle, but did not know it was a law. I probably guessed that it is something that royality does, and rest of people just try to mimic it, but never quite thought of why everyone would do that.

forgive my ignorance, but why? was belgium (or this particular region or this person) a cattle-poor nation at that time? I understand dog sleds (well wolf like, but sure) in tundra, because there aren’t any cattle like animals, or horses. maybe yak in some places, but belgium is geographically flat euro land (so a bit cold, but definitely has cattle). Like my problem is not specifically why no cattle, but why dogs? because dogs are fairly weak for plowing, and human plowing is very much a thing. It is definitely labor intensive, but human would be faster.

any idea what is happening? on the right side a person is either measuring something around head, or some other procedure (but does not seem like a barber), and also there is some registeration or something going on in the middle, so is this outside some court (as in royality) or like a hospital?

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from the little that I know of culture of mid-west asia, eagle-falcon-hawk family are kinda treated very special, a bit like royality. and often it would be believed that such a “majestic” bird perching on someone’s hands would be a divine gesture of some person’s abilities. hence lots of military figures are depicted with such birds. it shows their bravery, and also roughly their royalty.

Geographically speaking, I am not very far of from karachi, and can tell you first hand - outside temperatures are in high 40s, and we still have not reached peak summers. 2 years ago, 55C was recorded. the only somewhat saving grace is that moisture levels are not that high (<30% for most of the day). But people are dying just of heat strokes.

something lazy but also something warm. rest of days I can not eat with my family, so on sundays, we have often have a savoury pancake like thing made of gram flour.

i understand the conclusion that you have come to, but it is the exactly same thing, since nazis had lead with nuclears, us had to make bombs first, since us had them russia had to one up them with fusion bombs, being jealous of action, uk had spies in us, and france also somehow got them. apartheid south africa and israel got them just to one up all of arab states. china did because us was basically on their borders with nk-sk border. history proves that one upping your armory does not make you powerful or safe, it just pushes the conflict to future and more deadlier. at some point we have to realise that their is more to life than one upping your opponent. I know it is much easier for me to act all holy and wise and suggest stuff with perfect hindsight, and hence I am not very harsh on any leaders involved in this shit, but today we must realsie and denuke. I am a proponent for nuclear power, and would uch rather prefer if we can make power instead of bombs.

As a indian, I agree, we should have not done that. that is a major reason among many for why pakistan developed them

I had been working on a project for some time (months) and this week we got some positive results, so happy because of that.

and just now I upgraded my phones os (went from lineage 20.x to 22.x). My phone stopped recieving official updates 5+ years agoo, and lineage support (official) was down since 2024 (and even then it was at 18). few months ago, I tried to find unofficial builds, found for 20.x, 21.x, 22.x, but i could only install till 20.x, because of some issues with recovery. I had been delaying figuring it out, and did that today. NOt quite the latest lineage version, but very close, so i am happy

that is what i thought, but then reaalised this photo being taken in 1874, and exposure time was still in hours, so he likely got very stiff holding it so could not hold out correct posture