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It’s a fruity note… inhales deeply … reminiscent of… fir with notes of cinnamon.

Fire isn’t a concern, really, the temperatures are low enough that it starts slow. Rest it on wood and you’ll have time to wonder why you smell wood smoke, then wonder why it’s inside, etc. before it burns down.

I guess now we find out how defensible the strait

If Iran can close it thoroughly, they can also keep the US Navy pretty busy. How many Shahed does it take to disable a destroyer? We will find out.

It’s gonna need to be expensive for a couple generations to fix American suburbia.

Nailed it. Jericho was supposed to be the first step in annihilating the occupants of the “promised land”. As I recall, there are Jewish prophets who claimed the various setbacks were due to the incomplete genocide.

Netanyahu thinks he’s finishing that work.

I wonder if the black panels increase the urban heat island effect.

I have memories of stuff falling down in the gap where your arms go through because they’re not exactly snug against the hips. But my work tends to be dirty.

I just wear work pants. Suspenders are my next move.

“Joint venture” wherein the USA saves a few trillion dollars by standing down in Iran, and Iran tolls every ship that passes.

Art of the Deal.

It’s fully within the territorial waters of Iran or Oman. I’m not an international law expert but it seems that it’s a practiced convention not a legally enforceable rule.

Besides, international law is about who has the bigger stick.

They’re pervasive in an annoying way, and the boosters are using them for utterly ridiculous things.

They have their very limited uses. For short things they can be useful, within reason. “How do you take these results and transform them into X in Python” then take a very squinty look at it and figure out where it went wrong. Then, try asking a couple follow-ups and the code just scrambles.

For writing I’ve found they're pretty useless, because I can’t figure out how to prompt them to not sound like they’re in the marketing department and blowing smoke.

But they can be a good starting point for finding information when I’m looking for something that’s really a Reddit question, rather than something I can summarize into keywords for a search engine. Still, too often useless.

I recently had someone send me “is it cheaper to air bnb or get a hotel at $destination” and it was absurdly incorrect, as in off by a factor of two. When it would have taken mere seconds more to get correct information. I have relatives who work in professions which literally define accuracy (accounting and law) and they rely on them for stuff like that, and it’s so provably incorrect

All that is overcome in transmission lines (which are aluminium); just design properly.

Sure, defer until genocide is out of the news or it becomes completely untenable to support Israel