What do the ATMs take?
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It's impossible to say how much money was spent on aircraft capable of firing the missile, since they were also designed to do other things, and raw production/maintenance costs are hard to track down anyway. The Tomcat alone seems to have cost tens of billions to build and operate.
Ultimately, "the AIM-54 has been used in 62 air-to-air strikes, all by Iran during the eight-year Iran–Iraq War" (Wikipedia).
Whether or not this outcome was "expensive" is up to the American taxpayer, I guess.
Try telling your elderly parents' social worker you want to gauge their performance, because you're shopping around for someone new, and only A-players are acceptable. Then watch how much care and kindness your parents receive out of honor alone.
Going above the call of duty for "honor" is not a virtue. It's being a doormat.
It is tempting to think otherwise if you have spent effort cultivating that ability. But anyone with better things to do would be justified to read it as an insult.
Meanwhile, as others have said, spend time with a competent therapist. You may need to shop around until you find someone that works well for you. They will guide you on how to socialize and form new relationships.
BAD: Hey, can we talk? (spooky, puts receiver "on hold", slow async communication)
GOOD: Hey, can we talk about scheduling the next deployment? (not spooky, gives receiver agency, gets to the point fast)
DJI themselves have publicly blamed "the compatibility strategy between the DJI App and Google Play Store", without elaborating. There's been no mention of US sanctions from DJI or Google.
https://forum.dji.com/thread-256590-1-1.html
There's a joke about red flags somewhere in there.
In my neighborhood, millions of styrofoam beads blew away from a construction site, then settled like snow on grass fields, in gutters, and in other nooks and crannies. I reported it to the city and they did nothing. Now that styrofoam will be out there forever.
I would not be opposed to a ban.
Have you considered that being comfortable admitting fault is a skill which some people never learned while growing up, regardless of gender? And can you imagine a world where men do the same thing, but you don't gripe about it because you're not in a relationship with them?
This rings true, and I would like to extend it to more general behavior. Many of these tropes are common in superhero films: unquestionably heroic good guys pitted vs irrationally evil bad guys, society is inherently corrupt and only the heroes can improve it (by personal intervention), a contrarian weakling nearly dooms everyone by disagreeing with the hero, but is ultimately shamed/killed... etc.
At the risk of sounding paranoid, they sound vaguely fascist in tone. I wonder if the last decade of movies has pushed society in that direction, or vice-versa.
Vi and Jinx are defined by childhood trauma and little else. Jayce is a charming inventor. Viktor is trying to cure himself. Caitlyn is rich. Etc.
Their origin as video game cardboard cutouts is plain to see. The more interesting ones are originals created for the show (Silco, the cops, a couple others), but they're quickly killed off.
Worst is that all the dramatic moments in the story are triggered by miscommunication between these shallow characters. It's lazy.
The show needs better writing.
People cargo cult because there isn't enough time to exhaustively research every topic from scratch. Civilization exists because we blindly trust whatever methods seem to work, and then iterate on them.
Obsess over extremes of design or performance if that's what you need. Cheap out on the dollar store version if it gets the job done. Buy the middle-of-the-road version if that's the best value.
The "best" of anything can be defined along many axes (price, performance, design, durability, weight, etc), and compromise is usually necessary. It's strange that both authors abandon this nuance.
I appreciate the sentiment, but getting people to switch seems as futile as converting a steak lover to strict veganism.
Of course "journalists" sometimes spread "stories" based on random social media posts. What is really interesting is that the posts were there first, and the internet amplifies them on its own.
To any reader who's not in on it, the original comment about the Roku crashes sounds plausible enough by itself. It is then upvoted organically to a broader audience.
The author didn't write misinformation for ad views, sponsorships, or even Reddit karma. He just released it for his own pleasure, as an "obvious" joke.
Millions of similarly motivated posts are being blasted out every minute, with content such as: memes with humorous but false descriptions of the content, selfies painting false pictures of people's lives, anecdotes with implied messages, creative writing of what-if scenarios or "head canon", compelling but baseless theories about complex topics, true statements cherry-picked to make false points, etc.
These are created not for sales, propaganda, or even internet points, but simply to share half-formed idle thoughts. That is: jokes, guesses, hot takes, wishful fantasy.
It may be obvious bullshit to the authors, but the medium presents it all as fact. None of us are capable of passing careful judgement on the sheer volume of content, so most is absorbed at face value.
This environment is also a fertile breeding ground for deliberate, malicious misinformation, but that's beside the point.
Ultimately, the only solutions are to stop consuming social media altogether, or accept that falsehood is now inseparable from actual facts.
And that's after insurance. The full price is unthinkable to me - most people would be ruined for years.
Sellers seek the highest price the market will bear. If the price is unusually low, it's either a scam or there's something wrong with the item. There are some rare exceptions, but it doesn't average out in the buyer's favor.
You could run a fair competition by stating clear requirements. Instead, you reward those who are most willing to burn through extra personal time.
That is not respect.