Rutte is an artist at that, but to be fair that is his job. “The Germans down and Americans in” I believe was the expression.

Android emulator on your computer?

Public costs and private profits eh?

I think even a general strike would fall short as an action.

Oh. I don’t doubt that, I was taking the shadow fleet as a commercial fleet like the Russian one is. I have zero doubt about all non landlocked countries using civilian registered vessels for at least signal intelligence and special operations forces.

I don’t think calling the western fleets shadow fleets is really accurate, but you are right about the issue: in lawlessness everyone is an outlaw.

There is a reason why western countries care about maintaining maritime law and it is to maintain freedom of navigation for themselves.

The big question on security guarantees is how to enforce them. Ukraine already has security guarantees from US, UK and Russia, but look what happened. Nobody cares.

The promising part about this proposal is, that it proposes a tripwire force, but is that sufficient?

How much is one of those fancy pants laptops?

I can barely tell the difference between 720p and 1080p. I will probably never buy another TV.

Maybe I need glasses?

I don’t know if the same applies to sodium batteries, early indicators are that they are less sensitive to depth of discharge as a degradation driver.

Still, the expected lifetime is going to be at least between 4-8 times NCM (traditional li-ion), which is massive.

Less than 200k to have a presidential aide spy for you sounds cheap.

Conflict.

Turkey did it and look what happened to them!

Their airspace was not violated again.

Yea, I agree with you… But sadly the likely way out of that line of escalatory path is a civil war.

Whenever the US makes a mistake of any kind, Sanders is there pointing to morality like a compass.

We have a concept of word inflection, which can be used to replace a lot of words that English would use to denote something being a question, ownership markers, causes and effects etc.

Compounds are fun too, since you can do chaining:

Viskibassokitaravahvistinpiiri

Whisky base guitar amplifier circuit

Epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydelläänsäkäänköhän.

It’s the longest word you can make in Finnish without using compounds, which can be infinite length.

It means, very loosely translated "I wonder if the outcome was a result of their lack of ability to cause others to be disorganized. "

I know, Finnish is an enviable language.

Safer, very high power to weight ratio, better self discharge stability and good temperature range performance are the advantages. The most important one is of course the lack of massive environmental impact of water hungry lithium mining in dry environments and the geopolitical challenges evident in lithium sourcing.

There are a few electric vehicles with this chemistry and I predict it will replace lithium based chemistries in lower cost, smaller vehicles.

Sodium batteries are already commercially available and although their volumetric energy density and round trip efficiency is lower than lithium I think they are a promising alternative to lead acid and some lithium applications.

I stand corrected, it does seem the more appropriate term.