Tuna steaks, well done

Some of this is respect for the cost: you could have had canned tuna, but decided to spend a lot of money to turn a good fish into something like canned tuna

Thanks. I’ll take a look for it. Not listed as an e-book at my library so I might have to look for a physical copy

Good point - I’m probably remembering fiction, but also Soviet Union attempting to target the aircraft

…. And we have the incidents of overflying Swedish airspace, and I think Danish

Didn’t you hear? The war is over. We “won”…… TACO sez, “ I didn’t say it, I declared it”

Satellites do have such restrictions. While you may expect the angle to be higher than for an aircraft, a satellite will not be directly overhead most of the earth. You’re still limited by angle and shadow, as well as time and frequency. Unless the target is high enough priority to reposition the satellite, it will be an oblique angle at a predictable time. While that angle will on average be higher than an aircraft, the aircraft can find different angles, at different times, with as much frequency as you like.

Perhaps some things are more visible to an aircraft from the east than a satellite from the north, or perhaps the target has camouflage procedures at the known satellite schedule but an aircraft is more likely to catch them operating

Going by the way my brother describes his company’s products …. They start by defining the labor costs and profit: those don’t really change regardless of the product quality. The price is already mostly defined. Ingredients are dirt cheap, so they’ll add just enough ingredients of just enough quality so you’ll buy it

To speculate further, the stated reason for attacking Iran was nuclear weapon development. Perhaps there are sensors to track that, that can’t operate from satellite

During the Cold War, it had to overfly Russian airspace to be able to see far enough. They were within their rights to shoot at unauthorized aircraft in their airspace.

However, it could see a lot higher percentage of Iran without overflying, and Iran can’t legally shoot at something in international airspace

We know that NASA is doing research on both supersonic and hypersonic airflow. There are extremely few existing aircraft they could use for hypersonic testing

It’s fun speculation to assume this is for military reasons but remember nasa s a civilian agency. Perhaps it’s connected to their research on supersonic and hypersonic flights

Satellites are too predictable, plus too infrequent. If there are two spy satellites that cover Iran, for example, Iran can easily know when and what direction, then presumably take some effort to cover whatever they want to hide.

A reconnaissance plane can show up without warning, any time, loiter for at least minutes, take pictures from different angles, in addition to sharper imaging. We can speculate they may also have sharper non-optical imaging, such as thermal or radar

My bachelor slop today was sort of similar but much less photogenic

Throw in the crock pot

• baked beans
• kielbasa
• sauerkraut
• corn
• onions
• hot sauce (is that a vegetable? lol)

Then eat with butter bread to sop up the sauce

I was going to smugly reply “not in Massachusetts”, but “….EVEN IN MASSACHUSETTS?”

I got one that’s a true fiasco of twisted incentives.

• I have a chronic condition requiring medication for the rest of my life. There’s almost zero chance of it ever just going away
• doctor will only prescribe 30 days at a time (I don’t know why. He admits there’s no chance of abuse, no black market)
• when he wants to say “yep, still there”, he rejects the refill with “see the doctor”
• now I’m out of medicine and need to call the doctors office, wait on the phone until someone answers, just so they can make an appointment.
• …. typically 3-5 months out. When I’m already out of medicine

And this guy has the nerve to keep asking me if I’m taking my medicine regularly. No, bitch, not unless you can prescribe refills regularly

It’s usually done under the guise of reducing taxes or reducing the size of government.

Usually done by our Republican (Conservative) Party spouting generalities like “taxes are too high”, “government is wasteful”, “private company could do better”. Somehow they always skip the part where the functionality is important and the private alternative is worse and costlier (but at least their buddies get to profit)

Apparently voters fall for it, without consideration for what is being cut or whether it really needs to be

And somehow we also keep falling for “reduce taxes” even when that only benefits the wealthy, and when that’s actually the biggest source of debt

I’m jealous of more than two parties (while technically we do as well, in practice they are zero impact)

For-profit healthcare has an incentive to minimize costs

Public healthcare can have incentives like less wait time …. As long as we decide to pay for it

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Edit: maybe I assumed too much context since everyone is reading the opposite of my intended meaning

For-profit healthcare has an incentive to [maximize profit, typically by] minimize costs [to them].

They will pay medical providers as little as they can, which increases wait times. They do not have incentives to reduce wait times

Public healthcare can have incentives like less wait time …. As long as we decide to pay for it

Without the profit motive, public healthcare can choose to pay for better service , reducing wait times. Typical approaches for similar services would be setting standards on things like the max number of patients a physician can support. They probably won’t, because Conservatives, but they could

Yeah, I suppose everyone is different. I do have some texture issues where sometimes the contrast makes all the difference

Thanks. I’ve never been to Atlanta but my brother is there now so I might visit

Where’d you get it? I’ve never seen it as bison before.

…… looking longingly at my order of bison from Costco that absolutely does not claim to be safe raw but people online go fir it