Nah, it’s like salt - vampire would stop to count and read all entries and scroll to the bottom.

Are you implying it’s one per voter?

Technically, I have PhD in Chemistry from Rice University, but things are waaaay more complicated.

France has large scale high vacuum gear, Finland makes all for ALD (and I tried to sell chemicals for it, to no avail, as expected). Swiss and Germany have fine robotics for backend welding, Poland is good at making casings, Hungary and Bulgaria are good at putting this stuff together. Random shots, there is more and more, and our friends Ukraine and Israel have almost all of this themselves. Team power!

And design will just immigrate, that’s the simplest part. We have some, but we’ll have all of it soon probably.

Aaaand, one very important thing, - if, for some reason, regular chips would become unavailable, there is a chance that new, arguably better - but certainly better in some applications - machinery might emerge. Like proper photonic processors! I had a dream vision of photonic logic and even power lines, with smaller losses and better wireless transfer, safe sockets (due to total internal reflection in absence of matching prism), low crosstalk and signal leakage, no corrosion, etc. And very, very fast chips. To cross the death valley, competition with transistors should be won, and that’s no small deal, unless something happens.

Just end of dumping from other manufacturers relying on less ethical labor and/or subsidies produced by less ethical labor than we have. Most of equipment for those fabs is made here anyway, one way or another. And we have plenty of people who know exactly how it is done, including me (yeah, I had 8nm tech in my hands before Intel, and they didn’t hire me, so if you manage to get the economy of this - you know where to find me). Once we are ready to start paying fairly for things (from food to chips), they become local. Magic!

As native Russian speaker, this is terribly rarely used in this full format (and it’s one among many), but genuine, I’ve heard it IRL.

“Тебя не ебёт, так не подмахивай”

This is highly and universally derogatory, you could expect to hear it from lowlife/criminal, which, unfortunately, is what most russians are lately, though. For russian nazi population, this implies that you are gay or a slut, depending on biological sex, and that’s close to your life worth nothing. For the rest, this is just something nazies would say to insult you.

The first part alone, though, is quite socially acceptable and overused. I guess, because it’s lost the whole lore behind it, and showing your knowledge of whence it came from kind of reveals that it’s not just an empty word, but you mean it.

I’m a bit hyperfocused on swearing, am I? Was one of my childhood’s special interests.

Honestly, “mind your beeswax” is also a rare gem, but not quite so rare.

Mighty Shai-hulud!

They can’t; government here is mere servants of society. We’ve seen socialists dropping welfare when it was needed, now this libertarian government raised VAT. No matter what ideas drive the party, they actually listen to analytical people doing their math. And of course they’ll be replaced in a few years by some kind of reds (maybe with greens, maybe with something else), similarly powerless, as any government should be.

The only strong power in our politics is Swedish language party that always has 5-10%, any coalition, and just one line on agenda - swedish language. Awesome mockery of serious politics IMO (and at the same time more serious politics than most).

One surface, one edge, one gender

It is unregulated capitalism. That’s the idea of the ruling party now. Of course, they are very limited in power.

Finland. It’s full of paper machines constantly on sale as market goes down since fall of USSR which consumed most of paper at some point. There are so many companies here that I can’t name one lol. Not clear how to get the good stuff in retail, Finnish companies suck at marketing worse than you can imagine.

This is local US issue. With your firepower, sure, nothing is local, but yet.

Finnish government is quite libertarian now, - it sucks, as any modern government, but it doesn’t suck like DOGE. It doesn’t suck like most. It’s actually ok-ish, as long as it doesn’t mess things up, and it doesn’t; it doesn’t do much besides allowing more alcohol in supermarkets and forbidding russians to cross the border at will to fuck things up. Borders are bullshit, but then it’s more like front line between us and totalitarian hell here.

It’s very complex academic question we have no answer to. I like to listen to all points of view, even those I do not support and those I oppose, to understand them, thus I have some kind of explanation here.

As I understand that, it’s matter of resource management. There is huge ancap movement to replace monetary market with another form of social consensus, something like multi-money (some tokens to account for various resources and mechanisms to settle imbalances), or reputation engines (giving people with better chances of serving the common good more resources). “Good” ancap comes so close to other reasonable anarchy schools, that it totally sounds sane. It’s a rare thing, often found only among the most educated capitalists and sympathizers.

Then there is just notion of understanding that imperialistic capitalism where resources concentrate in few actors hands sucks, and with better economical education The Free People should naturally resist it. Or die trying, well, naturally.

It is indeed a complex academic problem; yet I see popular ancap bs as theoretically redeemable through education (and practically, yes, I totally agree with the point of this drawing). Things are too screwed now to play these games, but rejecting a point of view altogether is not wise.

they are idiots, happens

like how russians claim that they are traditionalists, but have no real traditions except for those made up in USSR to force order and highest divorce rates. Just imagining themselves

Depends on subschool of ancaps really. Some ancaps properly despise nonlocal enflated bullshit. I also know anarcho-socialists that are total government boot licking nazis; that’s much less popular in that class than in ancap, I admit.

Actually I know a lab that ordered a large set of glassware from China directly from factory and erroneously received a different set of glassware. Turns out the same factory makes lab glassware and those kinky glass cocks and buttplugs to be filled with hot or cold water. What’s even funnier, the senior PI genuinely had no idea wtf that is and went ahead asking colleagues - people around the globe - what they think this stuff would mean, what weird technology is that.

Before you ask - I don’t know the name of the factory, but probably it’s easy enough to find on aliexpress, I’m into different stuff. Buying directly from manufacturer is better than buying from local reseller IMO. The best thing for a chemist in this category is probably buying lubricant components in moderate bulk and mixing them yourself so as not to worry about shelf life and be as allergen free as possible.

If the OP question is genuine - this thing is supposed to occasionally rotate around held by the neck, so the bottom has minimal footprint thus it does not hit anything. And this is the most stable and easy to manufacture shape for that.

Oh I see. Is it any better than osmandplus? I understand the pricing models if the support is worth it. I don’t have playstore in my android though, so kind of empty question. Also, is it opensource? If yes, I could build it myself, how would the pricing work then? If not, does it comply with all the opensource licenses?

what about openstreetmap?

As I said, I don’t see myself fighting against Finland. I can always reason with decent liberal democracy and probably even convert them. Finland is effectively anarchic state - socialist, but you can trade all you want if you want; regulations are minimal and made by actual people, taxes are high (brutally progressive) but you know they are used for the community.

As you can see from modern conflicts, DMZ and stuff matter shit if your opponent is deragned maniac like Putin or Tump, and any ceasefire would be just them regrouping for final attack. They matter little if your opponents are “regular leaders” under pressure of international relations. Border rules are enforced at please of each side, and you’ll need to force your opponent.

They’ll need guaranties as well by the way. They sure are proposing something in their offer - if you are overgrown revolt, most of your forces might be guerilla (technically all they are non-coms and criminals by international law until you are recognized as a state). Removing your troops from buffer zone pretty much banning entry altogether or it means nothing. If you are not allowed to control execution of treaty, the buffer zone will be militarizred in 20 minutes.

And this Finland reference shows one more thing - the only guaranties in modern world, apart from nukes, are international alliances. You could be winning, but as long as the rule of triangle is in force globally, things can change, and without an alliance (real one, where you interdepend) you’ll be crushed soon. So - just look at the map and see - make your state useful for someone you are not fighting against, produce something everyone needs, and be located where force needs to be projected - and you’ll be reasonably safe. Do less - and you’ll be eternal proxy war playground. Do nothing - and you will not be.