06/01/2024 12:32:02 PM PDT
· 36 of 114 jdege
to janetjanet998
You mean like when he instructed the jury that they need not agree upon which crimes he committed, that it was enough that they each thought he was guilty of something?
05/30/2024 12:52:51 AM PDT
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to Cronos
$100 placed at 7% interest compounded quarterly for 200 years will increase to more than $100,000,000 -- by which time it will be worth nothing. -- Robert Heinlein
On May 4, 2023, Ukraine used a U.S.-supplied Patriot battery to down a Russian Kinzhal missile, which Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced in 2018 was a “hypersonic” weapon that could overcome all existing air defense systems. Russia’s state news agency tried to maintain this claim by arguing that the shootdown was a fake report. Yet just 12 days afterward, Ukraine shot down six Kinzhals that Russia fired in an assault on Kyiv. Both shootdowns have been verified by U.S. government sources. Is this story, in which a Cold War-era defense system defeated one of Russia’s most advanced conventional systems, a sign that the hypersonic hype bubble has finally burst?
05/20/2024 7:01:55 AM PDT
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to FLT-bird
We tend to think of natural gas as a fuel, but it’s also the primary feed stock for most chemicals and plastics. Most of Germany’s industry was based on cheap Russian gas.
And over the last few years, the major German chemical companies have been busy moving their facilities to North America, where natural gas is very cheap.
05/18/2024 1:37:44 PM PDT
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to silent majority rising
Israel doesn’t have much of a capacity for force projection. They’re a small state, and they’ve not wasted resources on capabilities they’re unlikely to need.
So as tough as the IDF may be, they lack the ability to support large scale operations more than a couple of hundred miles beyond their border.
Israel could reach Turkey with air strikes, but they’d never be able to put boots on the ground.
05/11/2024 2:43:45 PM PDT
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to where's_the_Outrage?
Currently, workers pay Social Security tax on only the first $168,600 in wages received each year. That number is adjusted for inflation every year.
And benefits are tied directly to the amount contributed. Raising the maximum tax would also raise the max benefit paid, and would do absolutely nothing to improve the finances.