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The ISS has a mandatory 45 day minimum supply of food and other essentials needed by the crew. In practice it's more like 6 months. Cargo supplies are launched using several independently-developed cargo ships: Cygnus, Progress, and Cargo Dragon. They're all in regular rotation to top up supplies. The Starliner astronauts could stay up as long as is needed if a Crew Dragon needs to be launched to take them home.

There is a policy of requiring a "lifeboat" seat for every single person on board the ISS. During the Shuttle era where shuttle missions swapped out crew, this role was filled by an extra Soyuz that docked uncrewed. Nowadays it's filled by the original vehicle that brought up that specific crew member. If Starliner can't be used to return, that rule will have to be waived temporarily. If that happens then a Crew Dragon is the only vehicle likely to be used to bring them home. They're proven reliable vehicles that can do automated docking. In theory a Soyuz can dock uncrewed as well and is also an incredibly safe way to return to Earth (though it is a bit of a roller coaster ride). In practice, given the geopolitical climate, I think it would be... unlikely. By default it's Crew Dragon.

There's also the issue of spacesuit compatibility. During re-entry, the spacesuits themselves are connected to the vehicle's backup life support systems. If the vehicle pressurization fails or if there's other life support problems that don't compromise the rest of the vehicle, they'll still be able to safely land. Starliner and Crew Dragon suits don't talk to each other. Some sort of adaptor hardware would have to be built.

Which brings up the matter of docking port schedules. It's going to be really tricky to finagle schedules and vehicle availability. Docking schedules are typically planned years prior.

So in a nutshell they're completely safe so long as there's no event that requires evacuation of the ISS. And even then they'd probably pile in to the nearest Crew Dragon, try to line the cargo floor with something thick and soft and light, and basically bareback it down to Earth. But because there's a lifeboat rule they're going to want them home quick.

The game Other M is, in a nutshell, a misogynistic piece of shit. Samus' character bears no resemblance to the strong independent warrior that she was in the prior games. She's a low-ranking soldier who's micromanaged by male superiors. She has panic attacks in the face of enemies she already faced down in the chronologically-prior Super Metroid. Yes, this is not a prequel - all the events take place after Super Metroid. She's basically portrayed as a scared weak little girl who needs the wisdom and guidance of strong men to cope with her situation. It is absolute trash and completely disrespectful towards her badass hero portrayal in the prior games.

I have no idea how Metroid Dread portrays her, because I won't play games with stealth mechanics. Maybe someone who has played Dread can chime in on how it portrays her. Hopefully better than Other M.

I hope it's in the liberating tradition of the Prime 1-3 games where you're a badass unconquerable lone space explorer who gains powerups by taking out horrific monsters, and not in the sexist tradition of the post-Prime Japanese-developed games where you play a scared young woman who needs permission from remote male authorities to unlock powerups.

It comes from a can, it was put there by a man, in a factory downtown.

That is top tier IRL trolling.

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i long for the thc-laden edibles of my homeland

I got a magical butter machine and their decarb box to make edibles a lot cheaper than the retail cost here in southern Ontario. Despite the name it can do more than just butter. I like to make infused coconut oil. It stores well long-term, it doesn't have much of a weedy taste, it works great as a drop-in replacement for vegetable oil in recipes. And I can easily dilute the infused coconut oil with regular coconut oil if I want to vary the strength. Virgin coconut oil as a mixer is even better because it's great at hiding the weed taste.

One of my favourite ultra-easy ultra-quick edibles recipes is for pot chocolate bark. Melt 100 grams of coconut oil in whatever infused/non-infused combination you like. If you have a double boiler you'll have more time to properly mix the ingredients, but in a pinch you can microwave the oil too.

Quickly add in about 10 grams of vanilla extract, 75 grams of cocoa powder, 50 grams of raw honey. Mix them very thoroughly, then pour into a 20cm x 20cm square pan, and smooth it out to an even height. Freeze it immediately. I usually do a 50/50 mix of infused oil and regular oil. This makes nice slightly-sweetened dark chocolate edibles that barely have any weed taste and store well in a freezer. For the same cost as about 20-ish cheap chocolate edibles at retail prices, I can get maybe 600-ish squares of a typical retail size. The machine and the decarb box basically paid for themselves after the first batch.

These read like Powerpuff Girl episode names. In a good way. I could totally see "Monkey See, Monkey Coup" being a Mojo Jojo episode.

Bodybuilding? Can't say I've given it a second thought.

Would it be acceptable to target the nukes in such a way that the Kennedy Space Center is spared? There's some cool history there.

Despite his incoherent ideology these days, I'm still a fan of Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. The latter because there's some genuinely insightful class consciousness / class warfare stuff in it (despite the insane ending). And the former because it's batshit crazy fun that reads like an action movie, but also has the occasional nugget of insight like the line "It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists."

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