What is the likelihood of a bomb here?
Low to zero. This was deflagration, not detonation.
Here is another gas explosion for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWAui49J1mM
women in post apocalyptic settings do not view wearing makeup as a large priority
We have a very realistic view of dating and relationships.
The biggest mistake the feminist media made in the last three decades was not shutting down the 50 Shades fandom the second they saw it. Trashy harlequin romance is nothing new, but allowing a trashy harlequin romance stripped of all pretenses to reach the level of cultural awareness was devastating.
The company that got the E-4B contract instead... was Sierra Nevada.
At this point it's entirely possible that Sierra will also launch their DreamChaser BEFORE Starliner. Both vehicles have launches planned for April 2024. Any further delays by Boeing and they could wind up being last to reach the ISS.
Is this Atelier stuff
Without looking I very much doubt this is in any way related to the Atelier series.
For the non-weebs... In anime circles when one speaks of Atelier, they're generally referring to the LOOOONG running series of games by Gust (now part of Koei Tecmo) that began on the PS1 with Atelier Marie: Alchemist of Salburg, an RPG in the mold of early FF or SO but with a bit more crafting emphasis. Generally speaking, Atelier games are what you'd expect of JRPGs, although the original's premise was fun (the OG Marie being a magic school flunk out alcoholic on academic probation).
If you could retroactively save one series
I reject your line of thinking entirely. You're lamenting your inability to get "more of that thing you liked". If you only rarely have expectations you are only ever rarely disappointed.
Comics were dying a lot earlier than that.
The overreliance on retreads to create more issue ones, expensive cover gimmicks, and basically nothing genuinely new. It was known even in the 90's that sales decline as issue count goes up; you could practically describe it in radioactive half-life terminology.
Yeah A, I know you think that way, and I believe I've told you before that I don't understand why you aren't shooting already.
I mean, I know why you aren't (because you know how it'd end). But the result is you don't come off as principled, you just come off as edgy.
So am I to understand your view is that "Irish ethno-nationalists deserve no support because they're still progressives"?
Edit: Since you didn't bite... Assuming that's an accurate summary of your perspective, I'm having difficulty perceiving what your endgame is. How do you win when you'd rather take a loss than settle for the achievable partial victory?
Conceptually I understand why some people are all-or-nothing purists, but only when that rhetoric is backed by accelerationist action. If you will only accept total success, your only path to that lies on the other side of total collapse, because you'll never accept a world where you compromise with your opponents.
If you read enough history you see that real life rarely produces situations where a system totally and utterly collapses and is successfully replaced by something better. The few times it has happened almost always involve a dictator.
Every new FBI agent is also required to visit the holocaust museum.
That sounds like something that's being taken out of context.
If you told me "every new FBI agent tours the capitol and museums in DC to familiarize them with the layout", I would not find that surprising at all.
it won't make Argentina's bad debt magically go away
Of course it won't. But what it will do is free Argentinians from being burdened by the government's credit rating. Dollarize, and suddenly private citizens and businesses can borrow at more reasonable 8-10% while the government can't. This allows commercial life to carry on even while the government continues to be a tire fire. This is exactly what happened in Ecuador and El Salvador.
I don't see how shutting a central bank down is going to solve anything
It does exactly one thing:
It formalizes the currently informal situation which insulates private wealth from government policy. Argentinians already have zero faith in their currency. Argentinian private citizens already hold billions in US cash.
The lack of competing grids is itself the result of regulation.
No, it's a consequence of physics.
Do you know what happens when two alternating current systems which are not in phase exist in close proximity to one another?
They fight. Literally. The phase angle between the two power signals resists each other. They don't even have to be physically attached, simply running two out of phase ac systems close to each other will cause some induced load from the opposed phases because wires are not perfect conductors.
If they connect, well...
Whichever system has more inertia will win (assuming the contact point survives for more than a few milliseconds). The other system's phase angle will be physically (violently) dragged up or down to the phase angle of the system that has more spinning mass. In effect, the generators which are out of phase will cease to be generators and momentarily become electric motors. This has profoundly bad consequences for both systems. In extreme cases it can cause turbine blades to fucking snap. Although realistically all it will do is cause a whole lot of breakers and safety relays to operate and cause a blackout.
Because they cannot coexist out of phase. As long as the phase angle isn't in sync, they aren't "powering" things, they're fighting each other.
This is why the proposed junction between the three grids (Tres Amigas Superstation) is designed around these giant fucking 20 mile long superconductive HVDC cables. Because to even think about having the grids coexist with each other, you first have to strip out phase angle entirely and convert the energy to DC.
Natural monopolies are not inherently bad inof themselves, so long as adequate precautions are taken.
The national energy grid is a good example of both things working well and things working poorly. It only makes sense to provide most customers with one electrical service. As long as the billing adequately reflects the cost of the delivered energy and the upkeep of the delivery system, and as long as there is a uniform set of standards to which that system is to be run, it's good.
I'm guessing you've probably never seen a grain elevator explode in person. I have (although it was a looooooong time ago).
Anyway, the difference between a fuel air explosion (deflagration) and a detonation is that a detonation produces an omnidirectional overpressure wave. A confined gas explosion in a house won't. It is creating pressure; it will push on the walls and ceiling but as soon as the pressure finds an outlet (usually by ripping the roof off the walls) the acceleration stops. In this way the house is behaving more like the cylinder of an engine and the roof is acting like a piston.
This is why a bomb in a house tends to leave a crater (or at least, a cleared area surrounded by debris) where a fuel explosion tends to leave a big pile that's fallen in on itself. A very, very small bomb might produce the same effects, but it won't flare up as soon as it gets more oxygen.