Lovely.

What has been the economic impact on countries that didn't even try to mitigate this? My SWAG is that it's significant.

I said it in the very first post. Subordinating its mission to servicing CCP sensitivities. Probably requires blood.

At the very least actions like this could change their internal calculations.

Taking a SWAG, if it only needs to be fine enough such that the human naked eye cannot see the seam, perhaps the resolution of a laser printer or that of a Retina display is good enough, comes out to around 85 μm (300 dots per inch); call it +/- 43 μm.

Hard to judge this without knowing anything about the context. Maybe that guy knows something we don't know.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Theology discussion with a 4 year old.:

@Larry said in Theology discussion with a 4 year old.:

That was like a man blind from birth describing the color of the sky....

No, I'm just joking around.

I could give genuine examples of things that have happened to make people that I know lose their faith, but in all seriousness I tend to get angry about them, so I kind of like to keep things light-hearted.

It's common for people to blame God or to lose their faith when things don't go the way they think they should go. "Why did God take my loved one?" "Why did God let ______ happen?" But God didn't do it. God doesn't go around killing people, or causing bad things to happen, or just allowing things to happen. One can either blame God, or take the time to learn why bad things happen.

The answer: one of the most beautiful things about the bible is that many books, written over thousands of years by lots of different people, each book dealing with completely different things - all fit together to create one common thread of truth - Why we are here, what happened to separate man from God, and what the plan is to reconcile man with God again.

So when I hear people talking about how this or that terrible thing happened so they lost their faith, I don't blame God. I see it for what it is - people of weak faith using it as an excuse.

lol. Wow! I am not worthy. 🙇

Wonderful.

I wonder how Menery was able to restrain himself from swearing during that.

👍 Gracias!

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That's wonderful! Sharing with hubby and kiddo.

@mark said in ChiCom:

damn that is one ugly rifle.

And bayonet.

Killed many a GI in the early part of the Vietnam War.

They're more accurate than an AK, even with a pinned barrel. With decent ammo, you'll get 2" -2.5" at a hundred . I've popped more than one deer with them. And they do not kick.

@Mik said in What's the White House's plan, anyway?:

He's saying the plan is almost complete and will be rolled out very soon

I've said that a couple of time right before I opened up Microsoft Project and started going OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT....

I just hope he's got people working on it than me

@George-K said in Trump briefing today:

@Jolly said in Trump briefing today:

I do think he is going to lower funding, while pushing China to do more.

You misspelled "bribe."

Never could spell...

@mark said in Hey Mark - Moon and planets this morning:

only if Uranus has a role hole!

FIFY.

It's a pretty neat puzzle.

@Loki said in Are ventilators causing more harm than good?:

Per HHS there will be 35,700 additional ventilators in the stockpile by June 1 and 137,431 by the end of 2020. Meanwhile IMHE says a total of 13,851 are needed in total.

Sounds like given what’s out there + the 137k we are in great shape.

I dont remember who said it: “In a year we’going to have a lot of expensive end tables.”

@Axtremus said in Total authority:

Judging by their silence, the Conservatives largely don't support the 10th Amendment anymore.

This is an emergency, forget laws

You may remember that about a month ago the democrats led by Ms. Pelosi demanded this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Emergencies_Act

"Congressionally-authorized emergency presidential powers are sweeping and dramatic,

Expanse is great. Even when I couldn't bring myself to watch it, I could see it was great.

By comparison, Star Trek is like The Kardashians in space.