NaibofTabr

The most important reason for OSHA to exist is to prevent managers from cutting corners on safety. Without regulation, the companies will risk peoples’ lives to save a few dollars.

“You miners don’t really need dust masks, right? PPE is for sissies!”

The US government system was set up to be better than the monarchies its designers had grown up under. In this sense it has been wildly successful. But… it wasn’t really designed to scale to the size it has, nor to account for the massive changes in technology that have occurred since it was written.

The leaders of the time decided to replace the first attempt only 6 years after it was ratified, and I believe they fully expected any future government to do the same if they found the current system wasn’t working. They did try to make the new system more adaptable by adding the Amendment process, which was frankly genius and unprecedented in government systems prior to that.

I think it’s very important to remember where and when the system we have came from, and to try to think like the people who wrote it, and to remember that at the time they had no other models for successful government beyond the writings of Enlightenment-period historians. It’s very easy to criticize the current system. It’s far more difficult (and substantially more important) to draft a better system.

What? there’s nothing important in Pine Gap.

Even the Pentagon doesn’t know where they are!

Does anyone remember MSN WebTV?

It technically worked.

birdcage

chain gang

shot box

rollin’ rusty

grateful tread

chained to the wheel

“grill marks, bud”

cage against the machine?

Or just reinstalls it in the next update.

Considering that this particular incident happened near the Second Thomas Shoal:

which is awfully close to Philippine territory and nowhere near China, I find your “but-what-about” attempt here specious and shallow.

China is probing the US’s willingness to get involved in another conflict.

“Stupid and petty” is how international bullies operate. Pointless violence is how immature people express their “strength”.

I know there have been maritime issues between China and others within the last few years or so

All of the maritime issues have been caused by China attempting to claim the entire South China Sea as their private property, in defiance of international agreements about national coastal waters. All of those issues were provoked by China trying to exert control over coastal waters that are rightfully the property of other nations, such as Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines. China is a bad neighbor.

The brighter spots are the nuclei of the Pr, Sc, and O atoms, which are reflecting the electrons of the scanning beams (because they’re comparatively much heavier).

The space in between the nuclei is where the electrons from all of the atoms are. Because the atoms are bound as PrScO₃, the electrons are shared and not really part of any one particular atom or other.

Technically all of it is “the atoms” because the electrons are part of the structure as much as the protons and neutrons.

This diagram in the article is helpful:

The drawing in the lower right shows how the atoms are arranged. The double spots are the nuclei of two Pr atoms very close together. The slightly fainter, elongated spots are actually ScO₂ that is arranged as O-Sc-O. The fainter single spots are the other O nuclei that fill out the PrScO₃ structure.