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I have one with a small solar panel for scout camp. It sits on my tent all day and I can get a charge when I happen to be by. earns the kids some green points in the daily inspection

I've seen engineers no be promoted for complex code. Not all managers are stupid

A 20% jump in something that is only 5% of costs is not a 5% jump. It will hurt but not kill most.

above water perhaps. Underwater is different - water jets can get through and cause a lot of damage. Air jets don't work nearly as well.

Fuel is a tiny cost of restaurant meals. It isn't zero, but it is much less than 5% of the costs. So even if prices are going up, it is easy to hide them in the profit margin in the short term. Long term of course it affects more and more things indirectly and eventually something will give and raise prices forcing something else to give.

Pull out is only useful for a couple that wants to have a kid or two in the near future, but wants to space them out. If your goal is a few kids, but not the 15-20 your body could produce with regular unprotected sex it is great. For everyone else it is terrible for all the reasons others have mentioned.

those contract workers will be eating at the local cafe for the duration of construction. 200 staffers seems high, but 70 sounds about right - data centers need a few people to replace old racks, clean the walkways (bathrooms...), maintain the HVAC systems (in a data center this is a full time job) and other tasks, and 70 is the number I hear. Though maybe this data center is bigger than the ones I've heard of.

Got called to sit in a courtroom for several hours - the defendant saw all the juriers coming in and got scared and agreed to the plea bargin offer at the last minute. Never saw jury selection, just 40 of us waiting for things to happen. (i was on call for 3 months and only had to appear that one time - tiny county I'm told federal trails in the nearby city you are on call for a week)

China has been planing to reunite with Taiwan for decades, and they are clearly building a military capable of that. The US has committed to protecting Taiwan. That is the US has been planning war with china since not long after WWII. It hasn't happened yet, it may never happen, but it is planned for and one of the more likely wars the US could get involved with.

If your country doesn't have a plan to go to war with every other country in the world (separately) your military leaders are incompetent. Most counties far away are very low risk and so the plans don't have to be well thought out, but you should have at least the start of a plan. The more likely war is the better you plans should be.

General advice is smart switches, dumb bulbs. Switches mean that you can control the light without getting out your phone, or whatever it is you use to control the bulb. Sure HA can talk to many bulbs, but only if the switch is on. Guests will not have the ability to control your bulbs - either there is too much work to install an app for a short stay, or the system is a security nightmare (often both). Use a smart switch because they have a control on the wall that guests can use to get what they want done without having to worry about apps.

Most often you can choose bulbs with the right color temperature, but if not some dimable bulbs change color temperature. If this is not good enough two lights: a general room like, and a separate special effects light, don't combine them (HA can control both, but they are separate systems generally not used at the same time)

Anyone can say anything. What are you going to do about it? (Hint: nothing - this was a waste of time and money for everyone involved)

Didn't Butin offer to stop doing so a few days back in return for the US not helping Ukraine? (I don't rememper details but the US refused)