Tuna steaks, well done

Some of this is respect for the cost: you could have had canned tuna, but decided to spend a lot of money to turn a good fish into something like canned tuna

Thanks. I’ll take a look for it. Not listed as an e-book at my library so I might have to look for a physical copy

Good point - I’m probably remembering fiction, but also Soviet Union attempting to target the aircraft

…. And we have the incidents of overflying Swedish airspace, and I think Danish

Didn’t you hear? The war is over. We “won”…… TACO sez, “ I didn’t say it, I declared it”

Satellites do have such restrictions. While you may expect the angle to be higher than for an aircraft, a satellite will not be directly overhead most of the earth. You’re still limited by angle and shadow, as well as time and frequency. Unless the target is high enough priority to reposition the satellite, it will be an oblique angle at a predictable time. While that angle will on average be higher than an aircraft, the aircraft can find different angles, at different times, with as much frequency as you like.

Perhaps some things are more visible to an aircraft from the east than a satellite from the north, or perhaps the target has camouflage procedures at the known satellite schedule but an aircraft is more likely to catch them operating

Going by the way my brother describes his company’s products …. They start by defining the labor costs and profit: those don’t really change regardless of the product quality. The price is already mostly defined. Ingredients are dirt cheap, so they’ll add just enough ingredients of just enough quality so you’ll buy it

a truck pulled out in front of them illegally.

Without knowing any real details, this is a type of accident where the perpetrator may not be held liable (because accident), and there’s really no technical solution (except maybe self-driving). Pulling out without seeing traffic is far too easy for a human to do by mistake, and no amount of road engineering or stop signs can change that

(Certainly roundabouts can help, and getting rid of stroads, but there’s still “pulling out”)

It’s also critical to understand the datasource. If we’re computing average by crash data, I’m sure I’m not average, but also “know” more people who have died than I am aware of

If their data was from personal surveys, my answer might be 2. The real number is likely higher, and the average is not predictive

Same definition. While i didn’t see a definition, they talked about each person knowing an average 611 people.

The first one that I was aware of, was in high school. The father of one of my friends did not wear a seatbelt while driving in an open jeep … until he no longer was in the jeep

The second was a few years later in college. My middle school bully was driving his motorcycle at ridiculous speeds through town and missed the road. I was not upset

To speculate further, the stated reason for attacking Iran was nuclear weapon development. Perhaps there are sensors to track that, that can’t operate from satellite

During the Cold War, it had to overfly Russian airspace to be able to see far enough. They were within their rights to shoot at unauthorized aircraft in their airspace.

However, it could see a lot higher percentage of Iran without overflying, and Iran can’t legally shoot at something in international airspace

We know that NASA is doing research on both supersonic and hypersonic airflow. There are extremely few existing aircraft they could use for hypersonic testing

It’s fun speculation to assume this is for military reasons but remember nasa s a civilian agency. Perhaps it’s connected to their research on supersonic and hypersonic flights

Satellites are too predictable, plus too infrequent. If there are two spy satellites that cover Iran, for example, Iran can easily know when and what direction, then presumably take some effort to cover whatever they want to hide.

A reconnaissance plane can show up without warning, any time, loiter for at least minutes, take pictures from different angles, in addition to sharper imaging. We can speculate they may also have sharper non-optical imaging, such as thermal or radar

My bachelor slop today was sort of similar but much less photogenic

Throw in the crock pot

• baked beans
• kielbasa
• sauerkraut
• corn
• onions
• hot sauce (is that a vegetable? lol)

Then eat with butter bread to sop up the sauce

I see it as the invite was deleted because I resolved it by accepting or rejecting. While I admit I occasionally wish I had the invite back, I am almost always happier that something is deleted from my inbox

You have a good point that there needs to be a way to set priorities. For people with many meetings, responding as accept, reject, or tentative is not enough choices

Don’t you check upcoming meetings? Such as at the beginning of the day?

Once accepted, why would you care when any specific meeting is, just which ones are coming soon?

Granted I track things requiring significant effort through other mechanisms, so my meeting prep is more typically checking statuses and collecting data/summaries

I don’t know what to say: I can’t believe it either. Granted this is from a white male perspective and I realize I’ll never even notice most of it, but wtf?

• Before the current MAGA, I hadn’t seen blatant racism in many years, not even private jokes, we seemed to be making progress on systemic racism, and in general had a more diverse, healthy society (obviously I’m not claiming racism didn’t exist, just that we seemed to be making solid progress, from my privileged viewpoint)
• Now blatant racism is popular? We’re reverting any recent progress? We’re saying the quiet part out loud? Even the worst parts of humanity are encouraged to speak up _and find people not ashamed to support it? And people get elected despite that? And the only federal agency with a massively increased budget seems based mostly on racism?

I used to believe conservatives were just people with different ideas how to make things work better for all of us, but wtf? How did this happen?