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Roughly 40 floors.

The most pressure it would experience would be the difference in internal vs external pressure. At 1000ft of depth there’s a pressure of 440psi. Assuming the sphere somehow managed a perfect vacuum that’s still well below the 6000psi compressive strength of high strength concrete, hell they would still have more flexural strength. The spheres themselves definitely wouldn’t be the weak link.

Depends if the spheres require any steel reinforcement; the salt penetrates the concrete and absolutely wrecks rebar. Though I imagine spheres at depth (not to mention with a partial vacuum) can function like an arch and support themselves with compression, which concrete excels at.

1 in 400 is 0.25% a day.

According this report roughly 325 people a day are shot a day in the US (if we’re including those who don’t die).

325 in 340,000,000 is 0.0000955882%, four orders of magnitude less.

In a room of 400 people that’s one gun violence victim every 7 years. Or, conversely, 0.25% would be 850,000 per day in 340,000,000 people.

All that said, 325 victims a day is still completely absurd and doesn’t need to be so wildly exaggerated.

The rot will definitely still be there, but the power vacuum Trump will leave behind is going to massive. Not only that, but a lot of Republicans are just spineless opportunists and not hardcore ideologues, and they may see it as an opportunity to push back against the nutjobs who have taken over the party.

The actual translations are something like Bundestag=Federal Diet and Bundesrat=Federal Council. Bundestag was originally the Reichstag in Imperial Germany (Diet of the Realm, or Imperial Diet) while the Bundesrat had the same name as it represented the state governments as it does now.

Or afraid of losing access. They keep throwing soft balls because they’re worried about being banned from press conferences and interviews.

Putting aside the conversation about sexuality, I think viewing Vasquez as emphasis for Ripley’s femininity downplays the importance they both have. You’re totally right that Ripley shows a strong woman that embraces feminine traits, but there’s a lot to say about a character that breaks gender norms. I think the line you brought up shows that Vasquez doesn’t reject femininity outright, she just chooses to present that differently.

The Majority Leader decides when votes happen, so it was definitely planned for when the votes weren’t there. Either that or McConnell intentionally didn’t show up so he can keep claiming he’s against it while not actually allowing anything to get done.

It’s the same kind of rhetoric they use against gun control. It’s always a mental health problem, but they won’t address that either because they prefer mentally ill people to suffer.

This one is just pure stupidity. Border Control and Customs announces the exemption one day, Trump immediately walks it back the next, all while markets are still closed. A bunch of idiots probably bought options on Apple and are going to get absolutely screwed when markets open today. If I had to guess the exemption was planned and got out too early somehow.

Not that I disagree with the idea of Democrats shifting right, but it’s a very small shift supported by very few data points. The line probably wouldn’t have changed much with more data. OTOH, the Republican spike is way too much to be an outlier.