Right now a bunch of countries have operational nuclear weapons (and this ends in 1998). No one has used one in warfare since 1945 - right now there's basically a fragile truce on nuclear war. Putin threatened to use one but even he didn't actually pull that trigger.
If someone does... then I expect everyone does.
Supply chain. Drones are complicated pieces of equipment, they can't possibly be manufacturing all of the components locally.
During WWII the Allies brought the German tank corps to a halt by bombing ball bearing factories.
Which is why anyone who voluntarily gives up the opportunity to vote is a fool, and anyone who encourages other people not to vote is malicious.
If voting truly had no impact, the GOP would not work so hard to prevent people from doing it.
OK, you're right, in a purely ethical world.
But why would the economy change its behavior on a broad scale? What practical incentives would you use to adjust it?
Ah yes, the beforetimes, how could I forget.
Uh, no, I would never say such a thing... because the plural of Sith is Sith.
So... what do you use for audio output on a desktop? Because I feed my monitor with the DisplayPort output from my graphics card, and I'm definitely not running a separate HDMI just for the audio signal. Even with 5.1 channel outputs, the 3.5mm audio on the motherboard is not up to the quality of the optical audio output, and besides that's 5 copper cables to run instead of one fiber. My soundbar has an optical input. The optical output is the only thing that makes sense.
Uh huh uh huh uh huh... call me when ALSAmixer is no longer needed to unmute the TOSLINK output on a new install because who the fuck knows why it's muted by default in ALSA and that setting is not surfaced anywhere in the UI.
Chinese space ~~lasers~~ masers
The biggest problem with measuring any such effect is our frame of reference. All of our measurement tools are stuck in Sol's gravity well, which is itself stuck in the Milky Way's gravity well, and so on.
There's a lot that we don't know, because our viewpoint is limited. For example, the gaps in this chart of observed galaxies:
are caused by all of the objects in the Milky Way which are blocking our view of more distant objects.
We do know that there are a lot of other galaxies around ours, and that they move through space along measurable and predictable paths. Gravity affects time, so time doesn't necessarily progress uniformly everywhere, but at least for the observable universe it must be fairly consistent otherwise we would see strange behavior in the frequencies of light from observed astronomical objects (it would mess with redshift/blueshift). Astronomy relies heavily on redshift/blueshift data, so anomalies would not go unnoticed.
I mean, we do know that time slows down in a gravitational field. And it speeds up for fast objects. We have to consider that with our GPS (and similar) satellites. They are basically just atomic clocks sending down their current time. They have already drifted from clocks on the ground by several seconds.
GPS is my favorite demonstration of relativity in practice. Technically, the clocks have not drifted, but are in fact self-correcting and account for the effects of special and general relativity.
Special relativity predicts that as the velocity of an object increases (in a given frame), its time slows down (as measured in that frame). For instance, the frequency of the atomic clocks moving at GPS orbital speeds will tick more slowly than stationary clocks [...] The result is an error of about -7.2 μs/day in the satellite.
According to general relativity, the presence of gravitating bodies (like Earth) curves spacetime, which makes comparing clocks not as straightforward as in special relativity. [...] In case of the GPS, the receivers are closer to the center of Earth than the satellites, causing the clocks at the altitude of the satellite to be faster by a factor of 5×10−10, or about +45.8 μs/day. This gravitational frequency shift is measurable.
Combined, these sources of time dilation cause the clocks on the satellites to gain 38.6 microseconds per day relative to the clocks on the ground. This is a difference of 4.465 parts in 1010. Without correction, errors of roughly 11.4 km/day would accumulate in the position.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_Positioning_System
It's too early to have much data, but there is some evidence that GLP-1 blockers are exacerbating eating disorders like anorexia:
https://shmabstracts.org/abstract/glp-1-induced-anorexia-what-to-do-when-the-medicine-works-too-well/
Which makes sense - the drugs make you feel like you don't need to eat, so you don't eat. If you were already not eating enough, it amplifies that.