Common courtesy is to not even link to paywalled articles… The publisher has already made it clear they are not interested in public awareness of their content.
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.
Common courtesy is to not even link to paywalled articles… The publisher has already made it clear they are not interested in public awareness of their content.
I’m honestly surprised that the US cares about it… There’s near zero economic or strategic concerns left in that region for the US.
And the outlets don’t make the connection that their readers are telling them to stop shoveling AI-generated garbage at them?
The charged particles that affect our electrical and electronic systems have mass and therefore cannot travel at the speed of light… We can see the visible light effects of a flare and know that the slower-moving particles that will cause actual damage are on the way.
It’s not propaganda when it’s true.
And SLS is hideously expensive compared to every other launch vehicle in history.
Brave essentially has done this all along.
WTF is up with the random preview images anyway?
Flying out of Moscow and the plane goes down… what are the odds?
Assuming the maintenance crews haven’t already been mobilized and sent to fight in Ukraine.
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I have no idea if either is more effective.
I’m just used to every little town having a handful of local cops to handle local matters because that’s how it was in the very rural area where I grew up. Neighboring towns and counties did coordinate with each other for assistance when needed, and meet daily to discuss ongoing matters (they tended to each have somebody gather at the same place for lunch), so I expect the overall effectiveness is pretty similar… it’s just independent departments working together while primarily covering their own local areas rather than one giant department directing them all across a large area.
See the second part of my response, above.
The rural US is often very empty with long distances of pretty much nothing between towns. If those towns want a reliable, responsive police presence, they have to provide it themselves. Keep in mind that average population density is the US is about 1/4th of that in Europe… and it’s far lower than that when you get away from the North-East.
Revenue-generation from traffic tickets, if the town is along a major highway.
In other cases, it’s usually because the towns are just so far away from anything else and you can’t always wait 45 minutes for a cop to drive out from the city.
Well, it is still better to get hit with a dozen Hiroshima-nuke-scale impacts than a single dinosaur-killer-scale impact.
Statistically, the majority of them should hit ocean anyway.
They don’t have boats and really don’t care for going to the beach.