Kudos for getting it done. Another person would have just hid under their bed and waited for it to blow up in their face.
Do one hard thing at a time, and things will get better incrementally.
Stick with it.
Tomorrow is a new day.
You get out your little dustpan and brush, you sweep up the pieces and you get on with your life. If things take another year, they take another year. If you have to blow a Marxist lecturer, just hold your nose.
You can do it. The future is still waiting for you.
Hang tough, Bam. You have fans.
Just switch battery chemistry. LiFePo has lower energy density, but higher charge/discharge cycles. It doesn't catch fire with high discharge rates.
Alternatively mandate that all LiPo cells have internal discharge regulation circuits. They are very effective.
Bam, if you want some practical advice I can help a bit.
But seriously, if you get your self-talk right everything improves a lot. It takes practice to become aware of the running commentary your brain is making. Recognizing how you talk to yourself and taking steps to make it more appropriate (kinder) is 3/4 of the battle.
For example, you want to change Wwow, I got nothing done today" into "So I have cleared some roadblocks. Tomorrow is a new day and I am going to hit my task list again."
You really have to watch comparing yourself to other people. Everyone is better at something than you, and they all lie about how well they are doing. No one is going to tell you that they have a tiny dick and their wife is leaving them, especially if it is true.
Best of luck Bam. I am quietly in your corner.
Bam, the only fair comparison to make is to compare yourself today with yourself from yesterday.
You are the one walking your path.
I note that the same infrastructure could be used for helicopter tours for Marxists.
Bam, the sooner that your recognize that Indigenous Australians are just better than you, the happier you'll be.
I have met people without an effective planning horizon. That is, they can't look into the future and consider how their actions will impact their future situation. Certainly not longer than the next meal.
Admittedly they were probably pretty damn stupid before they gave themselves alcohol induced brain damage; "organic brain injury".
Even then the medical profession deems them fit to make medical decisions about their own care.
My favorite part was when the women used their only barrel of drinking water to wash their hair, because bathing in the salt was making it look icky.
They were explaining to the camera that with the depressing conditions and lack of food it was important for them to feel good, so they were going to use all the water to wash their hair.
You should attempt to recreate the infamous Eiffel Tower Jump of Franz Reichelt.
I am sure with a little work you could design and construct a superior parachute coat!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt#Eiffel_Tower_jump
i am not suggesting that the CIA orchestrated anything. I am suggesting that they aided forces that have the right enemies; Specifically by giving those forces information, access to arms and in some cases tactical advice.
Just remember that China literally tried this tactic in the Korean war. They sent old people and cripples, prisoners and political dissidents to try to send more bodies than the USA had bullets.
It didn't work then either.
The CIA's code-breakers and computer crackers work just fine. They have been feeding Russian internal communications to those that will use it to do damage.
Even just supplying arms, intel and battle plans they have been plenty effective.
The issue isn't that the CIA is a bunch of buffoons; some are, but not all. The issue is that they are firmly in the Clintonite camp of the Democrat party. The CIA are political actors; they are no longer a tool of the state, but serve their own interests.
Summer Solstice!
https://www.britannica.com/science/summer-solstice-astronomy
I really admire Peter the Great and I like that St Petersburg still bears his mark. I'd love to walk through the streets and talk to the locals.
No one on earth tells stories like the Russian people. They have a grip on dark humor that no one else can match.
I have been told by a couple people that learning Russian is worth it, just for the literature.
It is the summer solstice, which is the longest day and shortest night.
Equinoxes are in spring and autumn, where the day and night are of equal length. Spring Equinox is a fertility festival; bunnies and eggs represent fecundity and new life respectively.
Autumn equinox is a harvest festival.
Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night in midwinter, and that is a festival to return light and life to the world.
It follows that the target audience do not know anything about submarines.
We can deduce the targets of this psi op from the context. It seems that normies are almost crushingly ignorant about basic physics.
We are in furious agreement.
Still, the Punisher is wonderful as both a thought experiment and as a parable. Even as an idea the Punisher frightens the living shit out of Socialists.
Frank would shrug and tell you that when God wants to turn up and do the job, then he'll help.
The character of the Punisher sharply underscores the difference between policing and warfare. Frank is a soldier, and he uses the skills and tactics of warfare to find and remove the enemy. Reform has failed and these are evil people and he is removing them.
In continuity Frank has literally been sent to hell for his murders. He came back and got on with his job. Damnation holds no fear for him. His actions are selfless.
I don't believe Frank is right. Society works because almost all individuals want to be good and follow the rules. The Justice system is flawed but history has shown that it is better than any other yet tried.
Yet all that breaks down if even a small minority decides they don't care to play by the rules. If even as much as 5% of society abandons law, then society will collapse. We can see that already happening in Chicago and Portland.
So now what?
That was the massive difference between the Punisher and Microchip.
The Punisher is a moral absolutist who doesn't believe reform is possible. Frank catalogs bad guys, makes a list, and then puts them in body bags.
Microchip is all about compromise. That is why he is working with an serial murder like Frank. Microchip armed and equipped Frank, gave him access to broad reaching intelligence sources and ... sometimes suggests targets for the Punisher; who sometimes might agree to kill them.
If Microchip wasn't working with the Punisher he would be working with CIA black bag operations or Mossad. He might even have found a gang to wipe out all of the others. Microchip knows that there is no such thing as an omelet without breaking eggs.
The were very different characters, and I really enjoyed the contrast.
Besides, sometimes Microchip was shown to be a cold blooded bastard too.
More to the point, "Smart Meters" can give a detailed record of power use, which can be analyzed to show power usage room by room. With access to a "smart power meter" and a database to for comparison, an enterprising soul can tell when you are in the living room watching TV and how many slices of toast you had for breakfast that morning.
It is inevitable that "smart" power meters will be used for incredibly detailed, ubiquitous surveillance.
Just wait until Australia votes in a literal "House of Lords" style body that must be consulted before any law is passed; Eye-watering salaries and only appointment available to blacks.
And as it will be in the constitution, it is never, ever going away. Literal appointed government positions to candidates from three percent of the country by race, able to block any legislation until they have given their "advice".
Because "restorative justice" or something.
This one is okay, but it needs a fried egg.
It is worse than "bleeding money", they are down to a cash reserve of 10.2 Billion. That is enough to run Disney for a little over a month.
If there was a problem with their banking loans (injunction etc) then Disney would be literally bankrupt next month.
Franchise fatigue is crap. If the studio makes a great movie then there will be great ticket sales.
"The Eternals" didn't do badly because people were tired.of cape shit, I'd did poorly because the script was terrible and the visual look muddy and dull.
If "The Incredibles" was released today, it would still do just fine, thanks.
The idea has persisted in Hollywood that there are some franchises so loved, with such a stron brand that the studio can shit out any movie at all and the box office will be amazing.
It turns out that brands have value and that damaging a brand enough can kill it.
These movies have been written by committee and reshot endlessly. The studio executived are so out of touch with the audience that they have no idea that their movie stinks until the test screening.
Movie executives honestly think that Fleabag is a brilliant writer and actor that the audience will love. The idea of Fleabag dunking on old, white Ford gives them tingles in their pants.
I suspect they the studio system is in decline. I don't think they Disney can be fixed. Perhaps Warner Bros can find relevance, but IMNSHO the days of the 300 million dollar movie are coming out a close.