No one wants the ugliness of a war over NK, but everyone wants their natural resources, estimated to be one of the largest deposit of minerals in the world.

And this goes back to the Cold War, which goes back to WWII, and the politics of the president and military commanders, specifically MacArthur, who wanted to continue north and take North Korea decisively to keep the Soviet Union and China from controlling it before it could be reinforced by Chinese soldiers.

At the time, North Korean soldiers were outnumbered by UN forces 3:1, with far more tanks, etc than NK had.

The UN waffled, and by the time they decided Korea should be reunified, China had shipped in nearly 300,000 troops, and an unknown amount of matériel.

Fuck the UN. It’s their fault this is still going on.

The thing is that with progressive bifocals, and the right size lense, this is rarely an issue, as you choose the focus you need by simply moving your eyes and head. When setup properly I rarely need to move my head at all for normal day-to-day stuff, as we naturally put what we’re viewing in the center of our vision.

For example, when looking far, we tend to look upward more, so naturally use the upper portion of a lense. When on a computer or reading, we tend to look downward. Driving is a great example, we look forward and up while driving, down to see the dash, and progressives cover that with no problem.

The only time I run into “problems” is when doing really close work for an extended period, like stuff inches from my face. But for those times, I just switch to readers only while I’m doing that work. These glasses could maybe work there.

I’ve fired 45 and 50 cal pistols, they have quite a kick. It’s pretty interesting to go to a range and start with a 32, then 38, 9mm, 40, 45, and then 50.

40 isn’t much more kick than 9mm (for one round - shoot a few and you notice the difference), but 45 is noticeably more, and 50 is, as they say, “a freakin’ hand cannon”, in a much heavier/longer gun to boot.

So a double 45 would probably be more kick than a 50, though I’d have to look up some numbers and do a little math, keeping in mind a small increase in kinetic energy translates into noticeably more kick as your hand/arm have to control peak acceleration/momentum.

So it would be every bit double the energy of a 45, in the same grip, so would likely feel a lot worse.

I can only imagine what firing that would be like.

Hahahahaha, damn you!!

Dog is not permitted on sofa.

And RDA’s aren’t really useful in the first place. They’re from observational data, not analysis.

Plus not having to conform to .999 uptimes makes a huge difference.

This is nothing new in the west - plague has always been rampant in prairie dogs, yet people complain about efforts to control their populations.

Don’t fuck with prairie dogs, bats, armadillos, etc.

These things happen every few years, there’s no vaccine, this has nothing to do with RFK.

A kid in the southwest nearly died from plague ~5 years ago, I guess what RFK does is retroactive?

Again, plague is rampant in wild animals in the west/southwest, it’s not a new issue.

That’s incredible

Had a friend apply, he passed the test but didn’t get hired because he scored too well in certain areas (he’s too independent a thinker).

Would’ve been a very good cop, doesn’t react to being goaded, or to stresses, great negotiator, physically in great shape and a big dude.

I’ve never had any youtube subscription.

Why would I pay for that garbage?

Glad you got away from it.

It’s to deter people, that simple.

Dietpi.com

They have images for all sorts of devices, and for virtualization platforms (I run mine in VMware).

I ran a different one once before (built a Linux VM, installed Pi), this one was much easier, and it just works.

Oh, Syncthing? It could definitely do this, I’ve had it happen.

Once files are deleted, ST will have the deletion in it’s database. You can recreate the files all you want, ST is going to delete them.

Haha, I wondered why he looked familiar!

Well done, bravo.

The same problems exist in the fedivwrse, so it’s not because of profit.

Profit makes it worse, but the real problem is humans can be shitty - all of us - at one time or another.

Progress will eventually happen. Choosing to place progress first risks enabling smaller groups to concentrate power.