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Raising the possibility of reintroducing conscription, he continued: "And who is this we? This debate has to be had."

There's a fuckload of conscription-age people in NATO member states that would also like to ask you "Yeah, who is this 'we'?"

I don't know about recent Kobo models, but I've had several over the years, and every one of them worked like a plain USB flashdrive when plugged in to a computer. Plug in cable, copy epubs just like you would to a flashdrive, unplug cable, then the device refreshes itself. No app needed. Any OS that understands USB mass storage (which is pretty much everything) works with all the Kobos I've had.

They can read PDFs, though it's not as good an experience as a tablet. That's more to do with the device's smaller screen size, lower CPU power, and the limited-grayscale e-ink tech. It's not a knock against the software's PDF capabilities themselves which are actually pretty decent. Fortunately Kobos are pretty much intended as epub readers, and epub is a widely used and open format.

There's one caveat with Kobos: last I checked, the first-time setup does require a Kobo account and wifi connection. After that you can just turn off the wifi permanently and copy files like described above though. My current one (the H2O Aura, which I think has been replaced by newer models) has never needed an active internet connection since that initial setup.

Though polar orbits can be very useful too depending on the satellite's purpose. There's a specific kind of polar orbit called a Sun-synchronous orbit that's great for Earth-observation satellites like weather satellites. Every time they pass over a specific point on Earth's surface, the angle of sunlight is about the same, so scientists can do apples-to-apples comparisons images over time. They don't need to figure out if a dark patch of land is a shadow of some geographical feature, or is vegetation growth, or is bare dark rock instead of snow-covered rock, etc.

The CBC headline is, and I'm not making a word of this up, "Iranian regime launches satellites into space amid rising tensions rise in Middle East". Remember kids, it's only a "government" if they toe the US state department line. Any government with a different opinion is a "regime".

Of course right bellow that headline was the subtitle "Successful launch of Simorgh rocket comes after multiple failures in the past". The enemy is both strong and weak at the same time, etc etc.

Just brew a Potion of Harming II with one gunpowder and you'll be set.

I think that's the nerdiest sentence I've ever typed.

What I love most about KDE5 is how it's become a genuinely lightweight desktop, yet has stayed highly stable and full-featured. I think people who had bad experiences with KDE4 (and that's basically everyone who used it) owe it to themselves to give KDE5 a try. It's a night and day change.

I like a tidy desktop.

Good news! If Texas secedes, the United States won't be able to build or maintain their nuclear weapons because the American nuclear weapons facility is in Texas.

I am going to deeply enjoy the presidential debate(s), assuming they happen. They're going to be hilarious.

Only country in history to both develop orbital rocketry and then abandon that capability.

I don't think Biden cares. More importantly, I don't think Biden's puppeteers care.

It's the same where I am. Even the "progressive" media outlets are burying this story on sidebars, if they're reporting on it at all. And the ones that are reporting on it are couching it in the most Israel-friendly terms possible.