Hyperreality

Hyperspace in Star Wars is ridiculously fast, true. The empire/republic is also huge because of this. We're talking millions of worlds. Absurdly large.

It's the same thing in Asimov's Foundation (which everyone should watch, the second season is excellent) where the galactic empire spans the entire milky way. Population is 500 quadrillion apparently.

The US has relatively low levels of food borne diseases. It was an example.

Also parasites, like hookworm:

https://www.healthline.com/health/whipworm-infection#prevention

Up to a quarter of a billion people are infected worldwide, in large part due to poor hygiene.

Then there's round worm, likely a billion people infected globally. Once again, due to poor sanitation and hygiene aka handwashing.

But hey, you do you.

Just know that at this point you might as well stick your thumb up a strangers ass then lick it. It's fundamentally not that different to not caring about washing off shit particles before eating food.

The range thing is also a huge factor. Federation photon torpedos have a range of 300,000 kilometers. Star Wars is pretty inconsistent, but depending on the ship range seems to be maxed out at hundreds of kilometers. They also seem to have poor sensors.

In Star Wars the Scimitar is considered a fast ship, it's top speed is apparently 1200km/h in atmosphere. IRC that's half as slow as a present day SR71 blackbird. Trek is inconsistent, but the TNG technical manual says that impulse can reach 0.75c but is usually limited to 0.25c to avoid time dilation issues. C being light speed. So that's roughly 150 million kms an hour except in emergencies when it's more than that.

So basically, ships from the star trek universe could simply keep a safe distance, safe in the knowledge the empire's ships are far too slow to ever catch up conventionally.

As your video points out, trek ships are also shielded. But so are photon torpedos, which at one point allows a photon torpedo to burrow into the stellar core of a sun. So the Death Star isn't an issue. Just fire a few photon torpedos at it. Apparently the Death Star only had shields to protect against energy weapons, not kinetic shields because that would block heat escaping the exhaust ports.

Then there's the whole teleportation thing.

And replicators.

And cloaking.

And red matter.

...

The longer you think about it, the sillier the comparison gets basically.

You are. Roughly 48 million food borne illnesses per year in the US, in large part due to people not washing their hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodborne_illness#Epidemiology

Also Noro-virus:

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

A large part of prevention is handwashing.

Also, Cholera:

https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/preventionsteps.html

Have a guess what prevention step 2 is.

You go around with shit particles on your hand, infecting everything. You're a typhoid Mary. Even if you've never been ill after eating some food (which I find unlikely) it's not unlikely that you have made people ill, and maybe even killed someone with a weakened immune system.

Sorry, but I'm going to be blunt. This is an ill informed comment. This is in fact normal with most weapons sales. For example:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swiss-government-refuses-re-export-arms-ukraine-2023-03-10/

By your logic, Denmark, Germany and Spain aren't independent of Switzerland, simply because they were able to refuse reexport. But of course that's nonsense. It's just that arms and weapons contract invariably include clauses which prohibit reexport without permission of the country of origin. To not include these clauses would make weapons trafficking far too easy. Simply export to a second country which isn't on the sanctions list, then have them re-export to another country, then another country, then another country, then North Korea or wherever because the second to final country doesn't have laws that prohibit it or has insufficient checks.

In this case, the US doing it publically bolsters US allies. The US has publicly said it's ok, so that if shit hits the fan, the US can't say "we didn't approve of this weapons sale, so it's their own problem".

Also, don't forget that the F16 is used as a delivery mechanism for nuclear weapons as part of nuclear sharing, so it's not a crate of automatic rifles. It's a serious escalation, given the Russians can never be entirely sure that the Ukrainian F16 flying towards their border isn't actually a Dutch F16 armed with nukes. In the case of the Netherlands the B61 with a yield of 300 kilotons of which IRC they have 200 of at their disposal if shit hits the fan. The US really isn't the bad guy for including stringent conditions on the reexport of a plane potentially capable of nuking Moscow.

TLDR The US may have undue influence on smaller NATO members, but this really isn't a good example of that.

Ah. But that 35C was when it was above 40C. It was already extreme for northern europe.

If we ever head towards 50C, I suspect I'll be dead before then, there's always the basement. That's ten or more degrees less than under the roof.

As climate change accelerates, and energy prices increase, we'll have to adapt. Because when the power increasingly goes out, or when you end up paying hundreds per month on electricity, you're fucked in a poorly insulated house even with AC.

It's not environmentally friendly, it's increasingly unaffordable, and it's not sustainable on a societal level.

Fuck those things.

Fuck that. I want the swish sound sliding doors from the original series of trek.

Widely used Russian proverb: “Бьёт – значит любит”

Translation “if he beats you, it means he loves you”.

The article literally mentions examples.

Back in the day, /r/thedonald had plenty of (highly upvoted) stories from a site called thedurian. I googled the editor, and his linkedin mentioned his location as Moscow and mentioned he'd previously worked for RT. Their stories were also spread on other subreddits. Stuff like that was rampant on reddit.

It's rampant in the fediverse too. Lemmgrad and tankies spout Russian/Chinese propaganda all day long, thinking they're top tier minds for being critical of western media, when in reality they simply ended up falling for another country's propaganda.

If you think there's no evidence, when it's everywhere including on social media, you're in denial or worse.

The climate's fucked and inflation is rampant.

You're frankly better off getting used to the occasional hot day.

It's hot, but you get used to it.