u/bluGill — bluGill

there are different systems with different efficiency ratings. However even the worst don't use much water - you don't drink much water in a day.

it goes to the sewer system which needs to be able to take care of things anyway. The amount of waste water through a RO system insignificant - your toilet flushing needs will use more water than your RO drinking water needs. (a typical low flush toilet, though some camping toilets use less)

A reverse osmosis filter will run you $150 for parts - plus install and yearly filter changes. Start with that for costs. I would assume eu costs are similar but that is sometimes very wrong.

If trump could think stratigically a eu-us embargo on china would change china for the better 'ast. But he lets china play us both.

it is possible for two opposing sides to be evil. If one evil is oppressing you that is the one you fight against but that doesn't mean you support the other. It is even possible for the worse evil to not oppress you as much.

I'm referring to the US, not Isreal. AFAIK the US only hit nuclear facilities, and anyone who would have died there was thus working in a nuclear facility.

Though Iran has been bombing Isreal residential areas for a long time - not directly, but they have been funding all the groups who have been sending bombs, morters, and everything else. Iran just deserves a share of the blame for Gaza genocide as if they were not enabling the attacks, Isreal would not be as interested in such attacks. (how much is not knowable, but there is a share for sure)

That was 11 year ago... Things change, and will change again. When someone is at war you have to look for the help you can get now, not how things were or will be. Stalin was worse than Hitler, but the US supported Stalin in WWII because Hitler was attacking.

Even if they did kill someone it would be someone working in someway with nuclear materials. (including the person who cleans the bathroom there though)

Rape is generally hard to prove as there are generally two witnesses and one is lieing. we have sometimes discoverd evidente that the 'victum' did give concent and later regrets it but most of the time there is only evidence of sex and the two parties have a different story about what happened.

i have no answer to the problem. Rape is far too common but punishing an innocent isn't the answer.

China is making moves on Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and the Philippians. They are building up their military. Nobody knows what will happen in the future, but there is a reasonably possibility of war in the region which the EU will get involved in. The cold war wasn't all unreasonable fear even if some was.

You don't need to phone home. A radio is something you can hide in a chip, using the board itself as an antenna. Then the chip listens for the signal which can be broadcast many ways (the local embassy, satellite, or spys) Isreal already proved that you can attack pagers in ways like this (their radios were hidden in a battery, but the point remains). The engineering is tricky, but well within something China can do.

That requirement is easy to appear to meet while still allowing whatever remote actions they want to do. Remember the first step of evil here would be appearing to work perfectly long enough to get a massive install base. Then the setret signal to all fail goes out to them all. i can come up with the above attack so we can safely assume China can too - they likely have other ideas as well.

I'm not sure what you think I'll see in the mirror: I have a consistent philosophy that does not align with my government.

Just because Denmark has claimed Greenland for a long time does not make it right.

As an American I don't approve of empires: I don't want Denmark or France to have colonies in the Americas. That doesn't mean I want Greenland for the US though, let them be a free country of their own (or they could join Canada).

I'm consistent here: I do not approve of having Hawaii as a US state/territory. The other worldwide territories we have: have tiny populations (Guam at 168k) and military bases are an unfortunate necessity. However if anything has or grows to a significant population (with Guam already borderline) they should be left free. Puerto Rico is at least in the Americas: they can go free if they want, or join as a state - they should not be a territory.

There is legal lock out, and there is practical lock out. EU countries are going to be looking for other options for the 2% as well. Much of that 2% already doesn't go to the US - there is paying soldiers. There are several different EU tank manufactures and other equipment. The EU is looking how they can bring some what is going to the US away even if it means worse equipment (that is buying 4th generation EU fighters instead of the 5th generation F35)

They still can't build F35 and other things, so the I can still make enough money.

Not if the EU buys Griffons from Sweden. In that case the US I makes very little on that deal. The amount made stands to go down if the EU starts building their own jet engines (which they already build some), and computers. Sure today they are still making some money, but not near as much as if they sold the entire F35, and long therm the amount made stands to go down.

the MIC is not a single entity. The I part in the US is very big, but they are locked out of the deals in Europe. Thus the MIC in the US objects to this because it hurts them. Things they used to make a ton of money on in the US are things they are not making any money on at all.

The mic in the us objects as they are cut out of any deal.

The source I found for patriot cost was billion, but agree that looks unreasonably high. Maybe a typo on the source's part? I don't remember which source I found yesterday.

The good restaurants also shop at those same distributors. They all have different quality lines for different customers, but most restaurants buy for the cheap line so that is what they get.

The problem with the Gripen is it is a 4th generation fighter. Nice, but it lacks the stealth of the F35 which means you either lose pilots a lot or you keep them well away from the fights. They are still useful in their role, but you want a better plane for a lot of roles that it cannot do. And of course 6th generation fighters are already on the drawing board.