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So by implication, the more prominent leaders of the Taliban don't have souls? I suppose that tracks?

For some reason, the first thing that popped to my mind when I saw this was "I don't remember this part of BioShock". Great photo!

That's because it's the easy way out for those studios. Can't design the macguffins so they're interesting to find no sir. They've got to be well hidden, but that makes it too difficult for the player and we can't have that! Better implement the Macguffin Highlighter Pulse™ to lead them right to it!

See, the problem Republicans face is that no one in their right minds trusts them. Too many GOP candidates have said one thing to get elected then pivoted 180° once in office for most people to believe a word out of their mouths. Actions speak louder than words, so unless Reichert is doing something more meaningful than empty promises about maintaining abortion access, I guarantee he'll try to ban abortion in WA state if elected.

To add on, most of us are probably used to seeing American Nimitz- and *Ford-*class carriers, which have flight decks covering approx. 4.5 and 5 acres respectively, while the Liaoning only has about 3.5 acres, and loses a lot of that real estate to the ski jump. American carriers tend to be built with extra parking spaces for aircraft on the deck, partially to get more bang for our buck, but also because you can park planes on a CATOBAR deck without much difficulty.

In addition, Nimitz- and *Ford-*class carriers each carry approx. 90 aircraft of various types, compared to the Liaoning's 45 or so.

The bottom line is American carriers tend to keep aircraft on deck while sailing around, because they carry so many of them and have more space on the deck for parking, while the Liaoning likely has enough hangar bay space for her much smaller complement of aircraft.

Was at a brewery last night where the "bathroom" was a row of sinks, and then a row of doors labeled "sit" or "stand". The commode cubicles were full length walls and doors, totally private, and this just makes so much more sense to me

Because the security of Diego Garcia is that much easier to enforce when only the people you have vetted are allowed to be there. If no one lives on the islands, then any unidentified boat is an obvious security threat. But with the islands inhabited, that boat could just be a local fisherman slightly off course.

Also, it's a lot easier to do sketchy shit in your top secret military base in the middle of the ocean if there's no one within ~1000 miles that isn't already involved.

...in hospice since February 2023.

Depends on the phase of construction. The pressure hull will be fully complete before being floated for the first time, with most (if not all) systems installed. But there still may be operational testing, training, etc. going on that is part of the construction process. Those types of things can take place waterborne (and in some cases are required to), which frees up space for construction of the next hull to begin.

I see where you're coming from on it being AI generated, but I think it's actually the wings and canards from a second plane perfectly behind the front one. If you look closely, you can see the nose as well.

The actual quantity of radioactive waste generated is tiny, and even combining the storage space for waste products with the footprint of the reactor plant itself, nuclear is by far the most energy-dense and space-efficient form of power generation we have.