I’m just amazed by how narrowly targeted this joke is: the setting must have seemed so relatable and ubiquitous at the time, but is almost indecipherable now…

Is this a joke about motor brushes and electromagnetic interference?..

Need to color in square nr. 8 I suppose:

Both are admirable aspirations! And remember, if one doesn’t work out, you can always try the other.

It’s more complicated:

In his song “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” songwriter Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf explicitly name several things the singer will never do.

Lie to you
Forget the way you feel right now
Forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight
Do it better than I do it with you
Stop dreaming of you every night of my life
See that it's time to move on
Be screwing around 

Meat Loaf explained in interviews that because the line “I’d do anything for love” is repeated several times right before the final refrain, listeners simply forget the specific preceding line (“I’ll never stop dreaming of you”) that defines “that”.

Nice! I’ve never seen anything like this before. You can really tell where all the contentious peoples liked to content.

Nice. Thank you for summarizing it!

Fedorov on the conflict with Syrsky: It’s not personal, but a difference in worldview

Former Minister Mykhailo Fedorov says that during his tenure, the Ministry of Defense did not block a single decision made by the General Staff and then-Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi, and he denies having a “personal” conflict with the general.

Ah, you’re right, I misunderstood. A different article makes it a bit clearer that your interpretation is correct:

an open domestic auction in Moscow on September 9 for natural diamonds weighing 10.8 carats (2.16 grams) or more.

Although the wording is not that different… I just misread, I guess.

I’ve heard (in an older YouTube video that I can’t find anymore) that this is not as bad as it sounds. Radiation limits are, supposedly, ridiculously low right now because of public perceptions/fears of times past. As in, they are uselessly low, way below what people in many occupations regularly experience with no measurable ill effects, but the limits incur large costs and complications.

Take this with a lot of salt though, since I have nothing to back up my vague memories of this.

10.8 carats worth of diamonds is almost nothing for a state. Half a million USD if it was all one single stone, but probably in the tens of thousands USD for multiple stones, I believe.

the LITAVR interceptor drone could lock onto a target by itself during the final stage of flight

Sounds like a classic ramming. I think drones are still too battery-constrained to become reusable.

“These planets were always going to be hostile, because they’re really close to their star” said Byrne, “Even the outermost planet orbits ten times closer than Mercury orbits the Sun. When you’re that close to your star, and have such little gravity, your atmosphere just gets blown off.”

The researchers say that the planets could have held on to their atmospheres for at most two billion years – much shorter than the system’s 10-billion-year age. Their results are reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Being so close to the star has another consequence for the planets: the researchers found that the planets are all tidally locked. In the same way that the Moon only shows one face to the Earth, the Barnard’s Star planets each only show one face to their star. As a result, each planet has one hemisphere locked in eternal daylight; the other, eternal night.

E’s not dead! Just pinin’ for the fjords, you see!

What are you talking about, he’s totally alive. He can even wave his hands for you. Wave your hand, Mitch! There, see, he waved!

That orbital photo seems to be a photoshop of a Mount Etna eruption: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-etna-smoke-seen-from-space-169274368.html

I wouldn’t have guessed it either! I had to move around the room before I could triangulate where it was coming from. And it was surprisingly loud (well, relatively) for how small the little chewer was…

I had a wild baby snail as a pet for a brief stint, and one of the things I didn’t expect was that at night I could actually hear him munching on the cabbage leaves I left for him. It was a periodic scruunch scruuunch scruunch.

I believe they eat by rubbing a sandpaper-like surface of many teeth on the food, but it still sounded like he was chewing with his cheeks full.

Tl;dr:

Taiwan, by contrast, has treated its defense as something to be supplied rather than constructed.

A lot of people are saying it!