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6 days agoIf it’s any consolation, Costco’s margin is close to zero on their toilet paper. Their income comes from the membership fees
Most general merchandise is between 1-3% margin.
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I believe the bottom is from a “how to draw characters from X show in Y show style”
728·8 days agoI mean… not really.
🛰️ Space Race Fatalities Comparison: Soviet Union vs United States
Aspect 🇺🇸 United States 🇷🇺 Soviet Union Total astronaut/cosmonaut deaths 9–10 (incl. test/training accidents) 8 (official) On-mission fatalities 3 (Apollo 1, ground test) 4 (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11) Training/test deaths (astronauts) 6+ (e.g. Theodore Freeman, C.C. Williams) 4+ (e.g. Valentin Bondarenko, others possibly unacknowledged) Deaths among ground personnel <10 100+ (notably the Nedelin disaster) Transparency High (accidents publicized and investigated) Low (many incidents hidden until after 1989) Major catalyst event Apollo 1 fire Soyuz 1, Nedelin disaster
Key Takeaways
- 🇺🇸 U.S. suffered more astronaut fatalities, including test pilots and training accidents.
- 🇷🇺 Soviets had higher total human losses, especially among engineers and soldiers during explosive launch and fuel testing incidents.
- 🔥 The Apollo 1 fire led to sweeping design and safety reforms in NASA.
- 🚨 The Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 tragedies were fatal in-flight accidents; Soyuz 11 remains the only in-space human fatality.
- 🕵️ The Nedelin disaster, one of the worst rocket catastrophes in history, killed over 100 but was kept secret for decades.
- 🧾 Transparency and institutional accountability were key differences: NASA publicly investigated accidents; the USSR often concealed failures.
Spreadsheet? Why does it have to be an app?
I just started a spreadsheet for tracking coffee beans
- Operation Condor: right wing dictators in South America repressing leftists with the support of Americans and possibly the French
- Gladio: Post WWII Allied Forces and then NATO intelligence operations to delegitimize and destabilize leftist groups in Eastern Europe from end of WWII through the 1990s
- Ranch Hand: US led effort to destroy the foliage and agricultural land in Vietnam to deprive the Viet Cong of food and places to stage attacks
- PBSuccess: CIA led coup d’état in Guatemala at the request of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita)
- Phoenix Program: CIA led effort to infiltrate the Viet Cong
5·2 months agoYou could set up a Tailscale network between the two Zones so now you’re essentially on a LAN.
Then you can choose whatever streaming mechanism you want
4·2 months agoThree to six weeks of acclimatizing
2·2 months agoThat’s an interesting take. I don’t really like the mainline Star Wars films at all. I think the entire skywalker saga is incredibly boring and a massive waste of a fascinating universe.
Rogue One is great because there’s enough exposure to the universe without relying on any prior knowledge.
Discussion about the plot
The first half of the film gives us an interesting cast of characters who all have motivations that are at odds with each other. Then they earn each other’s trust and agree on a common goal.
The final hour of the movie is an exciting action sequence spanning space fighters to ground troops and an infiltration mission
The characters are well written and the main elements of plot don’t rely on any Star Wars knowledge to really understand what’s going on.
If you like the film, watch more. If you don’t, leave it at an action film that doesn’t explain everything about that dude with a laser sword or why the Empire is bad or what they do afterwards.
Just posted this in a thread about watching the show Andor. Additional context, I’d watch the movies first before you decide to get into any of the shows
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I highly recommend Rogue One as well. It follows Cassian Andor as a spy for the rebellion immediately after the second (and final) season of the show.
Rogue One is a story set immediately before the first movie: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Immediately as in the final scene of Rogue One is the first scene of A New Hope.
Similar to the other commenter, the problem is that Rogue One is by far the best movie of the entire franchise, so you start at the high point.
If you like the movie and want more Star Wars, I recommend this order. I’ll list the title and the “episode” number
- Rogue One (3.9)
- A New Hope (4)
- The Empire Strikes Back (5)
- The Phantom Menace (1)
- Attack of the Clones (2)
- Revenge of the Sith (3)
- Return of the Jedi (6)
There are three more movies after #6, but there’s almost no point in watching them.
It’s really important to remember that a lot of the Star Wars movies aren’t good but they’re cultural institutions and you kinda have to accept them as they are. The writer/director of the original trilogy spent a lot of time tweaking and editing them after their original releases including adding new scenes digitally created decades after the release.
2·2 months agoA bitter shot indicates overextraction as the bitter flavors come from the tail end of the process.
- Drop your ratio slightly. If your starting point is 18g in/36g out, try to stop at 35g or 34
- Your shot time should be 25-30s as a baseline. If you’re running faster than that (less than 25s) grind finer. And vice versa if you’re slower than 30s. This is just a baseline though. I typically run a 35-40s shot (20g in/45 out)
31·2 months agoSmall building HOAs like this are for managing joint property like the roof, common stairs and yard work. They also hold insurance and pay common utilities.
It’s not the same as a subdivision HOA that tells you what color your house can be and how short the grass must be
Sagemcom produces white label networking equipment for Spectrum. I used to work in the industry and Spectrum was a customer, so I worked with Sagemcom directly.
This looks like a business setting up new networking equipment. Either as a complement to the existing network (extending) or replacing what’s there.
Beverage Serving Size Caffeine (mg) Espresso (single) 1 oz (30 mL) 63 mg Espresso (double) 2 oz (60 mL) 126 mg French Press 8 oz (240 mL) ~80–135 mg Pour-Over 8 oz (240 mL) ~80–120 mg Red Bull (regular) 8.4 oz (250 mL) 80 mg Monster (regular) 16 oz (473 mL) 160 mg
1·2 months agoThe name Mar-a-Lago means “sea to lake” in Spanish, reflecting the fact that the estate extends from one end of Palm Beach Island to the other, touching the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Lake Worth Lagoon on the west
1·2 months agoFreshRSS
2·2 months agoSourdough nicely toasted with butter and sour cherry preserves
The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma The sun’s not simply made out of gas, no The sun is a quagmire, it’s not made of fire Forget what you’ve been told in the past
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