You understand that they were at war for a long time before they managed to sweep Assad and his forces away, right?

The final sudden advance may have come virtually overnight, but they’ve been fighting since the Arab spring in 2011

It’s bad because it’s dangerous. If something happens and you can’t pay the mortgage any more, then the idea of a mortgage is that you can always just sell the house to settle the debt instead.

If you get into negative equity though, then even if you sell the house you could owe a huge amount of money and have no way to do anything about it. An under-control debt could turn into a crippling debt overnight.

I suspect the real reason politicians care, though, is because that’s the one scenario in which the lender might lose money. They prefer their customers being able to pay their debts (theoretically)

Stories about events we can identify in the archeological record, probably. Forest fires, major battles, geological events, things like that which can be used to line the stories up with specific real-world events

Everyone describes the rebels as “Islamist”, but since Assad’s regime is/was islamic as well it’s a very strange choice of labels.

You wouldn’t call them that unless it was either a useful way to differentiate them, which it doesn’t seem to be, or to manipulate the way people feel about either the rebels or Islam

Thanks. I think I have some history of art to read before I understand much of that, but I know where to start now :)

I’ve been seeing these comics for a while now, but I still feel very out of the loop.

WTF am I reading?

Do you imagine that everyone posting things like this just hasn’t thought it through, or that they believe killing that CEO will save any specific person?

If so, I think you’ve misunderstood something quite fundamental. The overwhelming majority who are celebrating this assassination are doing so because they hate that CEO and everything he stood for.

You don’t get to brush them off as idiots for failing to realise something you consider obvious when you’re the one who seems to be missing the point.

Beside which, if you interpret this business with the other insurer suddenly cancelling their plans to limit what they’ll pay for anesthesia as suddenly fear of reprisal then this assassination will absolutely save lives in the long run, and save others from life-long financial ruin

Presumably they stopped doing it in those states, or it’s being appealed or something.

Also possible they’re just ignoring a court order, I suppose, but that seems unlikely

I’m not specifically saying that this particular case isn’t murder, but if the quote we’re all responding to is accurate then there’s explicitly a way it could be considered “not murder”. I know absolutely nothing about the relevant law, but legal definitions not quite matching common sense definitions is the case more often than not, I think

On the colloquial sense, sure, but it’s entirely possible (and would be hilarious) for the legal definition not to agree

Fire safety and maintenance access, probably.

Theoretically it also requires any company which is subject to GDPR not to send any data to third parties who aren’t, but I honestly don’t know how well enforced that is

I really think demanding all platforms allow you to post content which is viewable to the general public except for specific individuals is naive.

If the default position is that people can see the content, then excluding a few individuals is an exercise in futility

Really? They don’t use TLS at all? That sounds hilariously insecure

No, it couldn’t. That’s pure misinformation.

Kessler syndrome is only a possibility in orbits high enough that atmospheric drag is negligible. Starlink, by design, is at an altitude where the atmosphere is still thick enough to bring any debris or old satellites down to earth in a timely fashion rather than building up like Kessler syndrome requires. (To be clear, the air is still so thin that you’d need sensitive instruments to detect it at all. It’s just enough to produce a tiny amount of drag, which adds up over weeks or months to lower the debris’ orbit so that it meets thicker air)

There are plenty of perfectly legitimate objections you can raise to starlink without resorting to Kessler syndrome

your certificate request must come from an authorized email address at bank.com

That isn’t true in general. In fact, it can’t be.

It might be policy for most cases from the well-known certificate authorities, but it’s not part of the protocol or anything like that.

If it were, then it would be impossible to set up your mailserver to begin with because you could never get a certificate for mail.bank.com

I’m pretty sure their concern is their own birth rate dropping, actually. Have you seen the demographics graph for Russia? They’re facing a complete collapse of their working-age population in a decade or two

No, it would have been detected by various systems pretty much immediately. Those systems are military though, and probably wouldn’t tell the general public about the movement of military satellites

It’s also conceivable that it was detected in that orbit but not recognised, so it was treated as a mystery object

Depends how hard you plan to make it work, and if you intend to overclock it.

I recommend just building it then seeing how hot it actually gets. Realistically you’ll probably just find the fans all turn faster (making more noise) and that you should clean the dust out a bit more often

They will have some kind of pressure relief valve, to let steam out and prevent an explosion. They only become dangerous if that valve isn’t working (assuming that whatever keeps the lid on is intact and still strong).

Look for damage around the seal between the pot and the lid, and look for damage to the clamp or latch which holds the lid down against that seal.

Then look at the valve. It’ll probably be a heavy object (such as a lump of metal) which sits on top of a hole of some sort, or it could possibly be something spring loaded. Either way, check that it moves freely.

After that the only additional thing you could do is a pressure test, where you basically deliberately overpressurise it and see if it explodes, but if you had the means to do that safely then you wouldn’t be asking for advice here so I don’t recommend it.