It’s in the USA’s geopolitical interest to maintain relations with Israel.

1. It gives them a foothold in the middle east, on the coast of the Mediterranean sea. Egypt and Turkey have too much leverage for the USA to influence them, and the other allies are all past the red sea. Israel is smartening up to the situation and taking advantage.
2. After the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan, other states saw weakness in the USA and their allies. They need to maintain their current allies to show that they can protect all of their other relations.

We won’t get any resolution of the situation until after elections are over. If Biden does anything, it may negatively impact the Democrat’s campaign.

It reminds me of the eternal war in Civ 2 where whenever there is a build up of an army they just get targeted and nuked. Eternal War

If you are still rolling into him in phase 2, the lights will almost never hit you. Parrying will stop the lights as well.

There is https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa I haven’t taken a dive yet. I’m curious how much activity there is on it.

I’ve been using ReportLabs to make pdfs in Python. It took some getting used to but I can put together just about anything I can imagine. I still get a little lost when I need to dig into the source code and how it generates pdfs from templates though.

Maybe that, but I was thinking that this was a purchase for Ukrainian AF who were already trained/familiar with Russian tech.

I recently read about JADAM organic farming which is about maximizing sustainability. I’ve only learned about it the day before, so I’m not sure what it is exactly but seems to fit people’s general idea of organic farming. I’m still trying to find what they’re trying to sell besides a few books.

YouTube: What is JADAM Ultra Low Cost Agriculture?

Massive swell of people to make any progress to have something to campaign with for Putin’s re-election. Ukraine has been generally running low on artillery and can’t fully capitalize on countering large unit offenses. The Ukrainians have a lot of western equipment but are low on funds to supply them.

Don’t take it personally. Whenever I share pictures the first thing my friends and family comment on is how dirty my floor is or what I have on the counter. I have had to make a sterile area just to take pictures to share. I am sure it’s the same for most other people. Ah sweet modernity!

The annual gift tax exclusion of $18,000 for 2024 is the amount of money that you can give as a gift to one person, in any given year, without having to pay any gift tax

If anyone is looking for the gift tax limit I got the above quote from https://smartasset.com/retirement/gift-tax-limits

This is more than I remember, but I think I’m confusing it with the $6000 limit for contributions to an IRA account. I think it went up to $7000 this year, but I digress.

It’s a tax break for corporations, and bulk sales to companies is easier for health care providers than working with individuals. The squeeze comes together after a time.

I had a Pokemon Yellow cartridge with a dead battery. So I would play until the gameboy battery died and started over each time. I remember getting to or just past Misty.

naively pushing for this is difficult because it can be easily interpreted as funding proxy wars and forever wars. It would probably need to be obfuscated as ‘effective defense spending’ or an excuse to reduce/replace stockpiles. The later a reason for the first few Ukrainian aid bills iirc.

Conventional Linux use should be fine. It’s targeting SSH connections to other things over the net; connecting to a server, remote camera, etc. So it reverse engineers the connection by brute-forcing(?) Weak ssh passwords to install the malware.

I’m not an IT professional but this is my layman interpretation.

Depends on the project. If it’s for fun, sure make all the square wheels you want and learn how to make them round. But if you just want your project to work you’d find something to use. Really depends on the developers goals.

Remnant 1 and 2 are both 3 players

How much does sleep and dreaming contribute to this? Have you looked into how humans dream compared to other animals? Any papers to point to?

Pepe the frog is from the Boys Club, a comic or children’s book; I don’t know, it just had a couple talking animals. The first picture of him with the feels good man caption was very silly and took off from there. Unfortunately pepe became a hate symbol after 15 years.

This is a good book I read not long ago. Improv(e) Your Conversations: Think on Your Feet, Witty …. It’s not a long book and an enjoyable read. Each chapter takes a few minutes to read.

My take away from the book is to find what the other parties want to talk about and get them to talk about it. Also that controversial topics generally make conversations more memorable and form more intimate relationships.

What helps me is asking Copilot to try doing it. When it spits out garbage; if it hits any of my targets I can tune it from there.