During time travel incidents, members of Star Fleet must not fuck Mr Spock.
(Can't find the meme this is from, but it was targeted at both Jadzia and Biomlier)
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Direct aid has happened under Trump.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/trump-administration-boosts-immediate-military-aid-deliveries-ukraine
President Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte announced on July 14 a new delivery mechanism for sending weapons to Ukraine. While much is unclear about the new policy, it appears NATO member states will send weapons from their stockpiles to Ukraine and buy U.S. replacements.
Which is referring to what you're talking about, but there's also:
Separately, the Trump administration this week announced weapons sales to Ukraine totaling $652 million under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, adding to the $310 million in FMS approved in May. Every additional shipment helps at a time when Ukraine’s cities are being attacked nightly, and the Russian ground offensive continues day-by-day.
So yes, the US is still sending direct aid to Ukraine.
He probably does, but it also doesn't matter at this point.
Trump has vacillated on Russia just in the last year. There's a chunk of the MAGA base that wants to stop all funding to Ukraine. Trump started down that path. Then he tried to negotiate a peace deal with Putin and got snubbed because Trump has nothing to offer. Then he started up funding to Ukraine again in retaliation.
Now he needs a distraction from the Epstein Files. He's been desperately asking for ideas around the White House (we know this because this White House leaks more than Trump's bladder). He thinks selling out Ukraine will be it.
Whatever blackmail Putin has at this point is immaterial. Whatever it is, Trump will just call "fake news" and it'll be in the news cycle for a bit, and then go away. Trump is following what he thinks is in his own best interest regardless of what Putin has.
At least Ford seems like they have some kind of plan. Chevy is waddling around, and Chrysler wants to know why they can't put in a second V8 to run the windshield wipers.
There's a lot to it. The campaign consultants who keep losing on a "don't rock the boat" strategy keep getting hired for the next campaign. Doesn't matter how many times they fail.
James Carville has made a career out of winning an election where the Dem was considered an underdog. Others have been trying to copy his style ever since, but it doesn't work.
Jokes on them. Poly guy with a vasectomy.
If it came down to it, I'll take a DNA test if you want, but there isn't a lot of doubt in the outcome.
That is some proper xkcd black hat guy shit.
Diablo has better cut scenes than the Bible.
The story went that human women were so sexy that angels fell from heaven to fuck them. They weren't allowed back into heaven after that and became demons (that part isn't actually in the Bible, but it's a common belief).
If you give it the level of seriousness it deserves--the same level as Greek mythology or the works of Tolkien--Genesis mythology is fun. Tolkien has more consistent world building, though.
They're pointing at the Nephilim, the angel/human hybrids that were walking around smashing everyone's stuff before Noah's Flood.
Yeah, I don't think these people should be allowed near the power of government, either.
Their fabs are useful to someone at some price point. The microcontroller that runs your dishwasher doesn't need TSMC N3. Now, the investments Intel has made into their fabs probably can't turn a profit by selling to other customers, and nobody wants their CPUs.
Note that Intel Core Ultra processors aren't on Intel's own nodes, but rather on TSMC N3B. The AMD 9000 series are on TSMC 4nm. Intel is technically on a better node, but you wouldn't know it from any benchmarks on speed or power usage. AMD has a fundamental engineering advantage in CPU design at this point, and they're able to overcome a transistor density disadvantage.
Nor does anyone care about getting an x86 license. The companies that want to build top end CPUs on their own are looking at ARM and RISC-V. Someone could have bought Via if they wanted an x86 license. Nvidia could buy it with loose change Jensen found in his couch. Nobody cares.
So that leaves the manufacturing nodes as the major asset anyone would want, but it has to come at a discounted price for the expected discounted revenue. Intel does some other stuff, too, of course, but nothing that can prop the whole company up. Current Intel shareholders will never see a return on investment, but fabs are still useful.
It was just because of regulations. There were a few years in the US when they had to have either automatic belts or airbags. It took a couple of years before the manufacturers got their shit together for airbags, so they had these things. Once they all had airbags, these went away.