Keith Laumer, Gordon R. Dickson and Jack McDevitt are probably the ones I re-read the most.

Yes.

Shiny.

No, you can rinse your balls as well.

“That’s called blinking, boys!”

Fiber is way more resilient than that. You’d have to pretty much tie it into a knot or crease it to cause a serious problem. I’ve seen people treat them like copper, flattening loops “so they can’t act as an antenna”, and they still work fine. These are single-use drones pulling an individual ~40km strand off a big spool. As long as it comes off the spool cleanly, they should work just fine for as long as they need to. I imagine them getting tangled is the bigger risk.

That’s pretty much it. You shouldn’t be berating him for supporting Russia so much as you should be cheerleading him supporting Ukraine.

You’re with WSJ? Yeah, you’re fucked.

Why would this go to the US at all? They said it was a European issue and bowed out.

Trump just looks so weak here. So much for being a strongman. I guess he just likes being manhandled?

This is my hole, it was made for me!

I wonder if they could use drones to manoeuver them into delivering the ammo to Ukrainians instead.

In case you want to use it more than once.

I was recently considering them while shopping for an EV, but then discovered the reason their offerings are so subpar is that Subaru tethered themselves to Toyata for EV development, and Toyota is obstinately years behind the technology leaders in the field. Tesla was the frontrunner for EV range for many years, but others (not Subaru) have caught them now. And as Tesla never fixed their build quality problems, they’re second tier at best now. I concur, I would buy a Subaru ICE car, but I may never have to buy one of those again.

I got a woodstove recently and got the same warning about the glass door on the front. Don’t clean it with paper towels or it will scratch up the glass. They recommend using newspaper instead.

without undie restrictions

Nice.

This guy sounds like a straight shooter with upper management written all over him. Legend.

They will take measures such as installing cameras in offices, presumably to ensure that not a single moment of a sexual encounter is missed by their devoted followers.

We knew that if you pressed the satellite button and channel up/down, it let you manually move the dish, and it didn’t care how long you did it. There were also numbers to indicate the position of the dish. The rest was just sheer determination.

Had C-band satellite as a teen. All the good channels locked. But if the satellite Spacenet 1 transponder 18 was locked, you could “fine tune” the reception from say, Galaxy 3 transponder 18 by holding the step up or down button, and manually swing the dish halfway across the sky to the same position where Spacenet 1 is. As the descrambler thinks you are watching a different satellite altogether, there is no more lock. And since you never actually visited a bad channel, no way to tell with history or last buttons.