#Maximum Demand Calculator

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A maximum demand calculator estimates or measures the highest instantaneous electrical estimator software power drawn from an electricity supply network during a distinct period, typically a 15- or 30-minute interval. It measures this peak demand in kilowatts (kW).The calculator works by continually monitoring the electricity consumption of a facility or appliance and recording the highest demand value within the specified interval. This process is repeated throughout the billing cycle, and the highest recorded demand value is considered the maximum demand for that period.

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The Role of Cable Size Calculators in Meeting Australian Electrical Standards

In Australia’s demanding electrical and construction sectors, ensuring compliance with national standards is more than a regulatory requirement—it’s a critical step in protecting lives, property, and long-term investments. One essential aspect of compliance that often gets overlooked is accurate cable sizing.

Choosing the right cable size for an electrical installation ensures safety, system efficiency, and regulatory compliance. Tools like the cable size calculator Australia professionals rely on are vital in achieving this accuracy. At Spearhead, we’re committed to empowering electricians, contractors, and engineers with smart tools and practical solutions to streamline this process and stay compliant with the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 3008.

Why Cable Sizing Matters for Compliance

Improperly sized cables can lead to overheating, energy loss, and potential fire hazards. According to AS/NZS 3008, a range of environmental and electrical factors must be considered when determining the appropriate cable size for a project, including:

Current-carrying capacity

Voltage drop limits

Installation conditions (e.g., conduit, underground, air)

Ambient temperature and thermal resistance

Cable type and insulation

The complexity of these calculations makes manual sizing risky and time-consuming. That’s where digital tools come into play—particularly the cable size calculator Australia-based professionals are increasingly turning to.

How a Cable Size Calculator Supports Australian Standards

A cable size calculator automates complex calculations based on Australian regulations, helping users select the correct cable size quickly and confidently. By entering key parameters such as load current, cable length, and installation environment, users receive accurate recommendations aligned with AS/NZS 3008.

For electrical professionals, this ensures:

Regulatory compliance with national standards

Improved safety by reducing the risk of cable overheating or failure

Cost efficiency, by avoiding over- or under-sizing

Time savings, with quick, reliable results

At Spearhead, we recommend using digital calculators specifically developed or adapted for Australian conditions to ensure the most accurate results for your project.

Integrating with Electrical Estimator Software

Efficiency in electrical project planning doesn't stop at cable sizing. More firms across Australia are now turning to integrated electrical estimator software to manage their design, planning, and quoting processes.

By integrating a cable size calculator into your estimator tools, you can:

Automatically pull load data and apply it to cable sizing

Generate compliant material take-offs

Create more accurate and competitive quotes

Streamline revisions and project updates

Spearhead supports companies in adopting robust, connected solutions that combine cable sizing with broader estimating and project management tools. The result? Fewer errors, faster delivery, and tighter control over your job costing and compliance.

Don’t Forget the Max Demand Calculator

Another crucial element in this process is determining the maximum demand—the highest level of electrical load expected at any one time. This directly impacts the size of cables needed.

A max demand calculator helps electrical professionals accurately estimate total load demands across circuits, phases, and systems. Once you know the max demand, it becomes much easier to select the right cables, switchgear, and protective devices.

When used in combination with a cable size calculator Australia professionals trust, and integrated electrical estimator software, the max demand calculator completes the trifecta of tools needed for a safe, compliant, and cost-effective installation.

Supporting Your Projects from Planning to Execution

At Spearhead, we’re not just about supplying tools—we’re about solving problems. Whether you're a solo electrician working on a residential fit-out or part of a commercial electrical contracting firm, our aim is to make your workflow smarter, your estimates more accurate, and your compliance rock-solid.

We help you choose and implement tools—like the cable size calculator, max demand calculator, and full-scale electrical estimator software—so that every project you take on is up to standard, on budget, and on time.

Final Thoughts

Meeting Australian electrical standards requires precision, especially when it comes to cable sizing. With the right tools, including a purpose-built cable size calculator Australia electricians trust, compliance becomes part of your daily process—not an afterthought.

Let Spearhead help you take the guesswork out of planning and quoting. Contact us today to learn how our recommended tools and software can support your next project from start to finish.

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Are you Jealous? || B.B. [Oneshhot]

Pairings: Roommate!Bucky Barnes x f!Reader Themes: Jealousy made Bucky immature. Bickering. Another attempt at being funny. Summary: The guy you were talking to ruined Bucky's morning so he decided to do something about it. A/N: This is a comeback ONESHOT. HELLO, I am alive, how are ya'll? I've intended to come back earlier but health related stuff just kept on slapping me left and right. But I'm fine, this baby in my tummy is fine, everyone is fine! Expect a few sporadic posts from me as I am working on where I've left off ;__;

The morning had started so well.

Bucky took a deep, satisfied breath as he cradled his coffee mug, his soul momentarily at peace on the upper balcony. He had earned a kiss. A cheek kiss, sure, but a kiss was a kiss. And it wasn’t just any kiss—it was your kiss. A reward for heroically delivering your USB to the hospital before your presentation. He’d strutted out of there like a goddamn champion, feeling like he was glowing from the inside out.

And now? Now, he was sipping his coffee, reliving the moment in high definition, when the universe decided to slap him across the face.

Because there you were.

Sitting at the picnic table in the backyard.

With some guy.

Bucky's brows furrowed. He tilted his head. The guy was laughing. You were laughing. You were both laughing.

He squinted harder, trying to decipher what was so damn funny, when he caught the tail end of the conversation.

“So you’re telling me… you kicked him down?” the guy asked, sounding both impressed and too interested for Bucky’s taste.

“That’s right,” You confirmed with a smug grin.

The guy threw his head back, laughing like you had just told the funniest joke in existence. 

“That’s really impressive,” the guy said, his eyes glinting with admiration.

Bucky scowled. 

Then, like a demon summoned from the depths of hell at the worst possible moment, Sam appeared beside him, holding his own coffee and grinning like he had just won the lottery.

“They look close,” Sam mused, eyes twinkling with mischief, making sure to emphasize the word 'close'.

Bucky whipped his head toward him, glaring. “Hm. I don’t think so.”

Sam didn’t even hesitate. “Are you jealous?”

Bucky scoffed so hard he almost choked on his coffee. 

“Tsk. Why would I be jealous?” He pulled a face. “Honestly, if she had a brain, she wouldn’t even like dudes like him.”

"Just ask her out already." Sam sipped his coffee with exaggerated slowness, watching as Bucky’s eyes flicked back to you and your colleague. Sam’s grin widened to criminal levels.

Bucky sighed heavily, dragging a hand down his face. “Why do I have to see your face this early?”

Sam didn't respond—he just grinned. Then pointed at Bucky. Then grinned some more.

“Why are you smiling like that?” Bucky demanded, suspicious.

Sam took another sip. “No reason. Just enjoying my morning.”

Bucky rolled his eyes before looking down again. That’s when he noticed something.

The garden hose.

Right there. Within reach. Just waiting to be used.

He grabbed it, tilting his head like a scientist about to conduct a very important experiment.

Sam’s eyes widened.

Bucky turned the nozzle.

“Bucky, don’t—”

Bucky aimed.

“Bucky—”

He fired.

A powerful blast of water shot out like he was operating a high-pressure fire hose, hitting your colleague directly in the chest.

“WHAT THE—?! HEY! THAT’S COLD!” the man screeched, jerking back like he’d been shot, arms flailing wildly.

Bucky adjusted the nozzle slightly—just slightly—to ensure maximum discomfort, the spray now hitting the poor guy directly in the face.

“DUDE, WHAT THE HELL?!” The man spun in place like a malfunctioning windmill, water soaking through his shirt at an alarming rate.

From below, you gasped, hands on your head. “Oh my gosh!”

“DUDE! ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS?!” 

Bucky took another slow, calculated sip of his coffee. “I dunno, man,” he called out, voice as casual as if he were discussing the weather. “Looks like it’s raining.”

Sam made a choking sound.

Your colleague staggered back, sputtering. “WHY IS IT ONLY RAINING ON ME?!”

Bucky tilted his head. “Must be one of them localized storms.”

“Bucky, stop it!” You shrieked, but Bucky pretended not to hear you, subtly tilting the hose again so the water jet honed in on the guy’s knees, making him slip slightly.

The guy tried to run.

Bucky tracked him like a sniper, adjusting his aim so the water followed in real time, soaking him from head to toe as he attempted a desperate escape.

“OH, COME ON!” The man shrieked, arms flailing, looking up at the balcony, “YOU’RE DOING THIS ON PURPOSE!”

Bucky let out a slow, amused exhale. 

“Naaah.” Slight adjustment. Direct hit to the guy’s back.

You were fuming. “Are you ACTUALLY out of your mind?!”

Bucky set his coffee cup down with a deliberate sigh. 

“Ohhh, that was your colleague?” He put a hand on his chest, shaking his head like he was deeply moved. “Damn. That’s crazy.”

Sam collapsed against the railing, crying-laughing.

You turned back to the guy, who was now dripping, shivering, and looking thoroughly traumatized, “I am so sorry, I will grab a towel.”

Bucky twirled the hose nozzle between his fingers like a cowboy reholstering a gun. “Might be best if he, y’know, went home to change.”

The guy glared at him, teeth chattering. “Not cool dude.”

Bucky tilted his head. “That’s fair.”

You looked one second away from climbing the balcony to strangle him. “Are you kidding me?”

Bucky took another sip of his coffee. “Plants looking dehydrated, he was in the way.”

The guy finally gave up and trudged off, squelching with every step.

You threw up your hands. “Are you happy now?!”

“Honestly? Yeah.” Bucky leaned lazily against the balcony. 

Sam wheezed, gripping the railing for support. “That was so petty.”

Bucky smirked, absolutely unrepentant.

× × × × 

It wasn’t planned, okay?

You just happened to be standing by the hose, and Bucky just happened to be fixing something in the backyard, wearing a tight-fitting henley that had no business clinging to his stupidly broad back like that. 

And sure, maybe you were a little pissed that your colleague—the one he soaked this morning—had turned out to be your senior doctor. The same senior doctor whose recommendation you desperately needed to become chief resident and finally get your first lead in a surgery.

But this? This was justice.

So you lifted the hose.

And fired.

Bucky jerked, his entire body seizing up as ice-cold water slammed into the middle of his back.

“The hell?!” he barked, spinning around, dripping wet, glaring.

You kept your grip firm, adjusting your stance like a sniper zeroing in on a target.

“Oh, what’s wrong? Afraid of a little cold?” you drawled, watching as rivulets of water slid down his chest, clinging to the fabric of his now very translucent shirt. His dog tags clinked as he moved, the metal gleaming wetly against his skin.

Bucky pushed his soaked hair back, his nostrils flaring. “You’ve got five seconds to put that hose down before I—”

PFFFFFT.

Direct hit to his chest.

“YOU’RE INSANE!” Bucky stumbled back, arms raised like he was taking fire in an action movie. 

“Oh, I’m insane?” you shouted over the sound of the water, increasing the pressure as he tried (and failed) to dodge. “DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU DID TODAY, YOU ABSOLUTE WALNUT?”

Bucky, still getting pummeled by the water, threw his arms out. “I WAS JUST WATERING THE GARDEN—”

“WATERING THE GARDEN?! YOU WATERBOARDED MY BOSS! MY BOSS!”

Bucky froze mid-step. Blinked. “Wait. That guy?”

You turned the nozzle to jet-stream.

Bucky roared, arms flying up to shield himself as you unleashed hell. “Y/N, FOR F—C’MON!”

“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HARD I’VE BEEN WORKING TO GET THAT RECOMMENDATION?!” you yelled, stepping closer. The force of the stream pushed him back against the fence. “DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH ASS KISSING I’VE HAD TO DO?! HE WAS GOING TO GIVE ME MY FIRST LEAD—AND NOW HE HATES ME.”

Bucky, panting, ran a hand down his soaked face, his biceps flexing with every movement. “I mean—”

“NO!” You cut him off, eyes narrowed. “You don’t get to talk.”

A muscle ticked in his jaw. And then—so absolutely characteristic of him—he lunged.

You squeaked, but he was too fast.

One second, you were soaking him. The next, the hose was yanked from your hands and tossed somewhere (you didn’t care where, because holy shit).

Bucky’s arms caged you against the fence, droplets of water still trailing down his neck and collecting in the hollow of his throat. His wet shirt clung to his chest like a second skin, the muscles underneath shifting as he braced his hands against the wood beside your head. His breaths were heavy, controlled, his blue eyes searing as they locked onto yours.

A very big mistake on your part was looking down.

Because that’s when you noticed the way his shirt was now practically transparent, highlighting every ridge of his abs. His dog tags rested right at the base of his throat, shiny and wet, and suddenly you forgot every single word in the English language.

Bucky noticed.

His smirk was slow. “Cat’s got your tongue now?”

You swallowed, shifting, only for his arms to press in closer. “I—”

Bucky tilted his head. “You gonna spray me again?”

“… Maybe.”

His smile widened. “God, you’re so damn cute when you’re mad.”

Your pulse jumped, and Bucky—of course—felt it.

His gaze flickered to your lips, then back to your eyes. “I’m sorry,” he murmured, voice lower now, rougher. “I—” He exhaled, then shook his head slightly. “I was being jealous.”

You blinked. “What?”

His jaw clenched, as if he was warring with himself. But then—slowly, like he was giving himself up—he leaned in, his nose brushing yours. 

“I didn’t like seeing you with him,” he admitted. “I hated it.”

The confession sent electricity through you.

You squinted. “So you, who fought in World War Two, thought the best way to deal with your jealousy was to hosing down a respected medical professional?”

He grinned, dimples peeking through. “I was very efficient.”

You made a noise of pure exasperation. “Oh my god.”

And then—because you were still so infuriatingly, ridiculously mad at him—you grabbed his soaking-wet shirt in both fists and yanked him down.

Bucky crashed into you with a growl, his breath hot against your lips for only half a second before he seized control, kissing you like he was starving for it.

His mouth slanted over yours, rough, greedy, tongue sweeping past your lips like he had something to prove. And maybe he did, because his hands—Christ, his hands—slid down, gripping, claiming, fingers digging into your hips as he yanked you closer.

Your whimper only made him groan deeper, the sound vibrating between your bodies as he pressed you back, caging you against the wooden fence.

His drenched shirt clung to his body, thin and wet, and when his chest pressed flush against yours, you felt everything. The hard ridges of muscle, the heat radiating off him, the faint clink of his dog tags as he moved against you, like he couldn’t decide whether to kiss you harder or pull back and wreck you with his eyes.

You curled your fingers into the soaked fabric of his shirt, trying to ground yourself, but Bucky—the bastard—just growled again, tearing his mouth away to kiss a path down your jaw, your neck, nipping at the skin like he wanted to mark you.

Your head thunked against the fence, your legs threatening to give out, and Bucky—because he was an asshole—chuckled, his lips ghosting against your throat.

“Easy, doll.” His voice was pure sin, raspy and smug and dripping with heat. “Didn’t realize you wanted me this bad.”

Your brain short-circuited. “Excuse me?”

Bucky pulled back just enough to look at you, eyes dark and wrecked, lips kiss-swollen and wet. “You heard me.”

Oh, that was it.

Your hands shot up to his stupidly hot jaw, yanking him back into another kiss, this time making sure he was the one losing balance.

He groaned, low and deep, his grip tightening on your waist like he was debating just hauling you up against the fence and having his way with you right there.

When you finally pulled back, breathless and dazed, Bucky was still holding you like he was trying to memorize the way you felt in his arms.

His forehead rested against yours, his fingers flexing against your waist like he was trying to calm himself down before he said something stupid.

You smirked, your lips tingling.

“… You’re so gonna make me come to work and apologize, aren’t you?” His voice was still thick with want, but there was a rough amusement under it.

You grinned. “Oh, absolutely.”

× × × ×

“Come in.” A deep, intimidatingly unimpressed voice called from inside.

Bucky let out one final breath, straightened his spine like a soldier, and walked in with you trailing behind.

Dr. Harrington.

The man was sitting at his desk, reviewing charts, his expression exhausted and vaguely murderous—the exact look of a surgeon who had been woken up in the middle of the night one too many times to deal with absolute nonsense.

Dr. Harrington glanced up. His gaze landed on you first, then flicked to Bucky.

Silence.

Then—

“Oh. It’s you.”

Bucky had never wanted to disintegrate more in his life.

Dr. Harrington slowly closed his folder, leaned back in his chair, and clasped his hands over his stomach, watching Bucky the way one might watch a particularly stupid animal at the zoo.

Bucky, to his credit, put on what you were sure he thought was a professional smile but actually looked like a man trying very hard not to run.

“Dr. Harrington,” Bucky greeted with a polite nod. “It’s, uh… nice to meet you. Officially.”

The older man stared at him for two full seconds. Then he turned to you, his brow arching. “This your boyfriend?”

Your mouth opened, but—

“Yes,” Bucky immediately said. Too fast. Too eager.

Dr. Harrington exhaled slowly, like he was trying to find inner peace. “You hosed me down like a feral dog.”

Bucky cleared his throat. “Yeah, so—about that. Um.”

You nudged him hard in the ribs.

Bucky swallowed his pride. “I’m really sorry about that, sir. It was… a misunderstanding. And also…” He inhaled through his nose, like saying this next part physically hurt him. “It was very immature of me.”

You resisted the urge to clap.

Dr. Harrington drummed his fingers against the desk. “Immature.”

Bucky nodded. “Very.”

The attending hummed. “And the reasoning for this very immature behavior?”

 “...Jealousy.” Bucky shifted, looking off to the side.

You squinted at him. “Speak up.”

His jaw ticked. He straightened his back and begrudgingly admitted, “I was jealous.”

Dr. Harrington blinked slowly, then glanced at you with unmistakable amusement. “Is he always this possessive?”

You opened your mouth.

Bucky, again, too fast, “Nope. Not at all. Super chill. Very normal.”

Dr. Harrington sighed, rubbing his temples. “You ruined my scrubs.”

“I’ll buy you new ones,” Bucky said instantly. “Better ones. Custom-tailored. You want your name embroidered? Done. You want gold-threaded seams? Got it. You want a diamond-encrusted scalpel? Say the word, Doc.”

The older man stared. “Are you trying to bribe me?”

Bucky took a moment to process this.

Then, with the utmost confidence, “...Is it working?”

Dr. Harrington let out a long, suffering sigh.

You pinched the bridge of your nose.

Bucky beamed like a golden retriever. “So… we’re cool?”

Dr. Harrington’s eyes narrowed. “You’re lucky your girlfriend is a damn good doctor.” He turned to you. “Your first lead surgery is still on, but if your. . . guard dog here shows up again with a hose, I will be the one hosing him down in the ER.”

Bucky gasped, clutching his chest. “Violence? In a hospital?”

“We’re leaving.” You grabbed his sleeve.

Bucky threw up a two-finger salute. “Pleasure doing business with you, Doc.”

Dr. Harrington waved a hand. “Get him out of my sight before I retract my decision.”

You dragged Bucky out the door, ignoring his smug grin.

“So,” he said as soon as you were in the hallway. “Am I officially boyfriend of the year for saving your surgical lead?”

You deadpanned, “You literally almost ruined it.”

“But I fixed it.”

You gave him the flattest look you could muster. “You bribed my boss with diamond scalpels.”

Bucky slid an arm around your waist, smirking. “I didn’t even know that was a thing.”

You groaned. “You’re the worst.”

His smirk widened. “And yet…” Bucky leaned in, voice dropping as he pressed a soft kiss to the corner of your mouth. “You’re still gonna kiss me later,” he murmured, lips brushing your skin.

You rolled your eyes, pushing at his chest, “Go home will you?”

Bucky finally—finally—stepped back, that smug little smirk still plastered on his stupidly handsome face, “Yeah, yeah,” he muttered, giving you a one last look before turning on his heel. Then just as he reached the door, he glanced over his shoulder, voice softer now, “Oh and, good luck on your first lead.” 

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[anantaru]

i‘m just thinking about friends with benefits with kaeya and having a no kissing rule 😫

・✶ ｡ synopsis — the cavalry captain and you had a secret agreement going on, with one of the rules being called the "no kissing rule" <3

warnings — fwb, lots of tension, experienced kaeya, sub reader, fem! reader

to keep things short, you and kaeya had a special agreement, with no strings attached nor any unnecessary feelings involved.

sounds easy, correct? well, if it wasn't for one notable thing.

to keep it short, there was one rule: no kissing under any circumstances, it was a line the both of you drew to keep things from becoming way too complicated in your "relationship", most importantly to ensure that feelings stayed out of the equation.

it's supposed to be focused on just the physical part and kaeya had no troubles agreeing to it right away, although he did it with his usual, playful smirk and a glint in his eye that promised mischief.

and well, tonight was no different, really, the two of you met up and the thick tension and anticipation flowed into the usual way to end the night— with the wind singing and the moonlight filtering through the window, casting a soft glow on your naked bodies.

the ambience was charged, the anticipation for feeling pleasure hanging in the air as you reached for each other in hunger— and ugh, kaeya's touch was just so electrifying, you get warm all over as his fingers trace patterns on your flesh that made you shiver right away and shake beneath his chest.

after all, the cavalry captain was known for his fearlessness and playfully persona, hence why behind closed doors, he moved with a confidence that spoke of experience and craving, every gesture calculated to draw out the maximum amount of pleasure from your body.

it feels good, almost too good— you can barely hold your moans back as they drizzled through your parted lips, followed by precious utters of his name in combination with your hips grinding up to meet his thrusts halfway, your inner thighs messily slicked up with your arousal as it dripped all over his balls.

yet, there was a tenderness in the way he held you, a subtle hint of something more beneath the surface— it's weird and confusing, switching between fucking you mercilessly but holding your head ever so tenderly so you wouldn't hurt yourself.

kaeya slants forward now, his breath warm against your ear, "remember the rule?" he whispers, his voice husky as your walls squeeze and loosen with every thrust and push of his erection.

"no kissing, yeah?"

you nod obediently, your heart pounding.

kaeya continues, "repeat it," as his voice buzzes off your skin. the cavalry captain finds the look on your face cute, slightly dazed and a little confused, but adorable despite that.

"no— no kissing," you repeat as he clicks his tongue in agreeance, "good girl,"

and kaeya can feel it, right there, how your wetness was beginning to gather all over his pelvis as he pressed you deeper into the mattress— he knows what it does to you, what he could spark inside of you as it was easy to lose yourself in the sensation of him, forcing yourself to focus on the physical and ignore the emotional.

his touch was everywhere, his scent serving as an aphrodisiac as a dizzying blend of pleasure left you gasping for breath. continuously, kaeya pushed you to your limits, abruptly pulling your legs up against his shoulders before his forehead knocks against yours, his touch being both gentle and demanding, ruthless and, well, loving?

whatever that meant, his real intentions could never leave his lips in comparision to his delirious grunts escaping his throat like a bold of lightning as kaeya dreams of a moment to one night— just taste your lips for one time, just once.

he promises that after he feels them on his own he could go back to how things were before, truly, maybe, not for one moment.

©2024 anantaru do not repost, copy, translate, modify

[nourasbasha]

This is the final frontier of genocide.

Israeli air strikes killed over 250 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip in the past 48 hours, including over 100 Palestinians last night. There are reports of entire families trapped or missing under the rubble. The Israeli military is flattening any remaining buildings and bombing tents to ensure that Palestinians have no place to shelter. These intensified attacks particularly target North Gaza in an attempt to force Palestinians entirely out of the area.

While not new, these attacks are a major escalation in the Israeli government’s plans of ethnic cleansing. For the past 19 months, the Israeli military has been executing a planned genocide through bombing homes and critical infrastructure, targeting hospitals, assassinating journalists, and enacting a military siege that prevents Palestinians in Gaza from accessing food, water, aid or fuel. For over three months, Israeli forces have escalated the siege into a total blockade, employing forced starvation as a weapon of war and manufacturing a horrific humanitarian crisis.

Now, two million starving people, hundreds of thousands of whom are injured or ill, are being pushed into an area that is less than 25% of Gaza. Without sufficient aid or functioning hospitals, hundreds of thousands will die from starvation or disease in the coming months.

What we are seeing now is calculated ethnic cleansing.

The past 19 months have led directly to this point: the final frontier of genocide. The Israeli government has systematically decimated Gaza and killed at least 53,000 Palestinians so far, though the real death toll is likely to be much higher. Now, Israeli government officials are openly discussing forcing Palestinians permanently out of Gaza and claiming the land for the Israeli state . This is the logical conclusion of Zionism, the political ideology that underpins the Israeli state with the goal of maximum land with a minimum of Palestinians.

We know that US support is the lynchpin holding this genocidal campaign together. As the Israeli government begins to carry out the final stages of genocide, we demand that our government: STOP ARMING ISRAEL.

LET GAZA LIVE.

[nurse-floyd]

F1 and VO2 Max Training

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What is VO2 Max Training and why do drivers do it?

VO2 Max is the maximum amount of oxygen the body absorbs during exercise and can measure aerobic fitness levels. VO2 = Volume of oxygen consumed by the body per minute - it is one of the strongest predicters of heart disease and death. It is the best measure of cardiac and respiratory fitness available.

VO2 is measured in ml (of oxygen) / kg (body mass) / minute

How much oxygen the body consumes - the amount of blood the heart pumps per minute and how much oxygen was taken from it.

Now...why do F1 drivers need this?

Drivers put extreme demand on their cardiovascular, respiratory and overall physical health during races. Their bodies are subjected to enormous amounts of g-force and experience extreme heat and stress. They need a lot of energy to do this and as a result can burn a lot of calories per race.

VO2 max training is a useful measurement to assess a drivers endurance at their maximum during exercise which they are subject to during a race. The strain they're under during a race would require their bodies to be pushed to the max, requiring optimal oxygen intake and energy production.

It can ensure drivers are fit enough to endure the stress they subject their bodies to despite the environment within the car - maximum speeds/ heat. It gives drivers and their teams a greater understanding of how hard they can push their bodies and also how they can further maximise their performance during races.

Want to know a bit more about the science? Read below.

Now the (more) science-y bit - oxygen is used in respiration and as you breathe in oxygen the lungs turn it into energy called ATP (adenosine triphosphate). This powers the cells and helps release the CO2 in the body that's created during respiration when you breathe out.

The greater a persons VO2 max, the more oxygen a body can consume and the more effectively the body can use this to create the maximum amount of ATP energy and the better the body can handle aerobic/ cardio exercise.

During the test the goal is to get to maximum exercise to determine max heart rate, vo2 max and an estimated lactate threshold. The test measures oxygen consumption and CO2 production using a mask to determine values. The goal is to run at a comfortable speed but not too comfortable for around 10 minutes to max out oxygen consumption and heart rate. During the test heart rate is measured using the ECG dots you can see on the chest.

The Fick Equation is used to calculate VO2.

VO2 (mls O2/ minute) = cardiac output (stroke volume x cardiac output) x arteriovenous oxygen difference (difference in O2 content between arterial and venous blood - how much O2 is used by tissues in systemic circulation).

So in short, VO2 is how much oxygen the body consumes - how much blood the heart pumps per minute and how much oxygen was taken from it.

[techramonic]

The Game of Common Interests: The Symbiotic Relationship of Terrorism and The Media

Mass media and terrorism have developed an interdependent relationship. The media is the terrorist’s breath of fresh air, and it is the lifeblood and sustenance of terrorism, where the media often capitalizes on the public's confusion, intrigue, and paranoia following terrorist attacks by producing sensationalized news that captures widespread attention. This dynamic, however, plays into the hands of terrorists, who exploit the extensive coverage to spread the agency of their extremist agendas and beliefs, particularly targeting and influencing vulnerable audiences, such as the youth. Professor Taha Najem of Naif Arab University had described this relationship as “symbiotic”.

In Najem's own words:

"As for the extremists, they precisely calculate the scope, location, and timing of their attacks to generate ample media attention,—or in other words, to generate advertisements for their messages on a global scale. The broader and more prolonged the media coverage of terrorism turns out to be, the greater the terrorists' feelings of accomplishment, influence, and power." (Najem, 2017).

Bruce Hoffman, the Director of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University said:

"Only by spreading the terror and outrage to a much larger audience can the terrorists gain the maximum leverage potential."

Najem argues that the relationship between the two can be understood through the media's tendency to capitalize on horrific tragedies. It often uses these as newsworthy scoops that not only provide information but also serve as marketing opportunities and profitable publicity. In some instances, the media may unintentionally promote terrorist operations by offering excessive coverage, which is driven by their own incessant need for fame, power, money, and influence. This aligns with the perpetrator's likeness, where some stage attacks often with the sole purpose of gaining publicity and creating propaganda rather than resolving political demands.

Researchers have established that media coverage is pivotal to the success of terrorist attacks, with the scope and intensity of coverage often being more important to terrorist groups than the quality of the reporting. However, this perspective can also be overly simplistic, as it overlooks the complex relationship between media coverage and public reaction. It also fails to consider that not all terrorists prioritize publicity over their other tactical or political aims. Additionally, the complex interplay between the media and terrorism cannot be fully understood without considering the role of the state. 

Not only does this occur in mass media, but also creating trends within specific online communities. From this, we can see how there is a benefit in both parties: terrorists gain the publicity they desire, while the media profits from the heightened public interest, increasing the influx of coverage because of the heightened value. Furthermore, many individuals drawn into terrorism have been influenced by channels, websites, magazines, and other forms of media that promote bombings and suicide missions, highlighting the powerful role media can play in the recruitment and radicalization process. With this, here are some ways in which the media benefits terrorism, and vice-versa. Allowing media prevalence through marketability and terrorism through radicalization. 

World Trade Center Bombing, 2001.

On September 11, 19 terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked and attacked the World Trade center, following four coordinated bombing-suicide attacks against the U.S. There were 2,996 deaths and approximately 6,000 injured. Over the past two decades after the attack, mainstream media audiences have witnessed a significant shift in how news was presented: the rise of dramatic and emotional storytelling, or what can be termed as "public drama."

This approach has increasingly dominated the media landscape, being a central focus on various platforms: lead stories on news programs, main broadcast discussions, and bold headlines on newspapers. This had become a prominent framework for delivering news, particularly in television, due to its entertainment-like qualities. By simplifying complex stories into easily-digestible and compelling narratives with vivid images, the audience is more engaged. News organizations and media professionals favor this dramatic approach because of the direct and cost-effective production. 

The 9/11 attack is a prime example of this trend. When news broke of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center, broadcasters were initially unprepared for the unfolding catastrophe and the dramatic and chaotic nature of the events presented challenges in conveying the news. With initial coverage featuring footage of billowing flames and smoke from the collapsed towers, the explosion of the Pentagon, and the emergency response—all were easily committed into the viewer's memories. These images captured the raw scale of the disaster and its immediate aftermath. The people were confused, afraid, and intrigued—then they became invested. Thus, the sensationalization of news was adapted.

Oklahoma City Bombing, 1995.

On April 19th, just the second anniversary of the end of the Waco siege, domestic terrorists Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh detonated a nitrate-fuel oil bomb in the Alfred P. Murrah Building, claiming 168 lives and injuring  680 others.

Timothy McVeigh was one of America’s most notorious domestic terrorists, and with his involvement with the crime, he was then sentenced to death by lethal injection. In June 2001, the Federal Bureau of Prisons was responsible for the execution of McVeigh.  Linda Smith and John Roberts, in their journal article, delve into one significant instance where media demands placed a heavy burden on the Federal Agency. During this time of McVeigh's execution, the Bureau faced a difficult dilemma: balancing the need to facilitate media coverage of the execution while ensuring the safety and security of the maximum-security penitentiary where it was conducted.

This situation highlights a broader paradox faced by many federal agencies. They are tasked with providing information to the media while simultaneously navigating ethical, budgetary, and legal constraints that limit their engagement in traditional public relations activities, such as advertising and lobbying, common in the private sector. Public affairs officers are legally obligated to release non-sensitive information, yet they must carefully avoid disclosing material exempt under the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act, as individual officers can be held criminally liable for such breaches. This tension between transparency and security underscores the complex challenges these agencies must navigate in their public communications.

Boston Marathon Bombing, 2013 and INSPIRE MAGAZINE.

On April 15th, exactly on America's Patriot's Day, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar (Jahar) Tsarnaev detonated two pressure cooker bombs at 2:49 p.m., just a few of hours after the winner completed the Boston Marathon, totaling to 6 deaths and 281 injuries.

Jahar had a fascination with fireworks and explosives, while Tamerlan exhibited early signs of radicalization.  Although there were no proper links of the two to terrorist groups, Jahar had revealed that the two obtained plans from Inspire, specifically its first issue revealing a step-by-step recipe on creating pressure cooker bombs or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

Inspire is an English online magazine published by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), infamously known as the group that perpetrated the 9/11 and PAL 434 attacks. The magazine is one of the many ways AQAP spreads its online agenda. Both international and domestic extremists have been motivated by radical interpretations of Islam and, in some cases, used its bomb-making instructions in their attempts to carry out attacks. 

The insurgence of the 'Jihadi John Slideshow Trend'

During the period of 2014, youtube videos uploaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) started surfacing on the internet. This was characterized by a series of masked militants criticizing the American or British government and then tying in the statements by the gruesome beheadings of hostages, ransoms, and soldiers.

Terrorists had often used their media presence as a driving force to influence the youth into affiliating themselves with terrorist ties. One of these was Jihadi John, unveiled as British militant and Kuwaiti-born Mohamed Emwazi. In these videos, Emwazi is often seen looming over the camera holding a knife and standing next to a kneeled hostage. He ends every video by beheading his victims. One of his most famous videos was the beheading of American Journalist James Foley.

Around June 2010, Emwazi was detained and in the middle of 2020, the insurgence of the “Jihadi John Slideshow” trend had reached tiktok. While the origins of this trend still remains obscure, this has left a lasting impact on the youth. Often, the demographic consisted of teens, specifically young males, who romanticized and glorified the acts of violence portrayed by Emwazi and the aesthetic of militaristic weaponry. Many had credited this behavior to “edgy” standards and humor, however, this idealism was proven to be more unironic than it seemed. Eventually, in the proceeding years, the trend had died out, however, it had came back a few times during period intervals of 2022 to 2023.

This trend had also harmfully villainized harmless ideologies, distorting these ideas to the point where it is repulsing for the public’s perception. An example of this is the concept of Jihad, where it is essentially the Islamic philosophy of struggling to defend the religion and attaining peace within the community  and outside of it. It promotes the unity and solidarity of individuals where militaristic action is only done as a last resort of intervention. Often, Jihadi groups such as al-Qaeda and ISIS have spread distorted and extremist versions of this ideology, creating a brand new concept of utilizing violent militaristic resistance to protect Islam. With this dangerous approach, muslim communities are stigmatized, discriminated against, and stereotyped. This is especially harmful because it is a large problem that affects the community in various ways, especially when terrorists rebrand concepts initially striving to attain peace as acts of hatred and war, tainting a beautiful religion with images of violence.

Conclusion

Circling back to Prof. Najem’s analysis, without the media’s attention and focus, terrorists are unable to achieve any of the following four objectives: (1) recognition of the group name or ideology, (2) ability to communicate with supporters, (3) communicate with members of the local government, (4) and depict itself as a legitimate political alternative to the current governments. To conclude this essay, the relationship between mass media and terrorism is a complex and interdependent one, where the intricacies of both entities should be carefully observed and analyzed to unravel the deeper connections between the two.

While some researchers argue that media coverage is essential for the success of terrorist attacks, this view is sometimes overly simplistic and does not fully capture the intricate relationship between media portrayal and public reaction. Additionally, not all terrorist groups prioritize publicity over their other objectives. The symbiotic relationship between the media and terrorism is further complicated by the role of the state, which must balance transparency with security.

Several case studies, including the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the rise of figures like Jihadi John, highlight the ways in which media coverage can both shape and be shaped by terrorist actions. These examples demonstrate how terrorist groups leverage media to spread their message and recruit new members, while the media, in turn, benefits from the increased attention and revenue generated by such coverage.

Ultimately, this relationship underscores the powerful role that the media plays in both perpetuating and combating terrorism. The challenge lies in finding a balance between reporting news and preventing the unintentional promotion of extremist ideologies.

[bekolxeram]

*Waaaaawaaaawaaawawawwaaaaaaa*

The infant’s cry wakes the two men from their deep slumber.

“I’ll go check on her,” Tommy kisses Buck on the temple, “I’ll come get you if we need anything, okay?” He leaves their warm, comfortable bed to tend to their baby daughter.

Buck wants to jump out and protest, it’s her daughter too, but Tommy’s the one on paternity leave now, while he himself has a shift next morning. Light duty, all thanks to Bobby. Tommy, on the other hand, has a job that doesn’t allow a single lapse of judgment, so he agrees to take time off first until both new parents settle into a routine, then Buck can take over as the primary caregiver. It’s been working fine for them so far.

Except tonight.

Buck might as well get up, since his daughter refuses to stop crying.

“Hey, everything alright?” Buck asks, still half asleep.

“Um, I don’t know. Her diaper wasn’t wet, I changed it anyway, but she’s still crying,” Tommy gently rocks her in his arms, “maybe she’s hungry? Can you go get her formula?”

“We’ve just fed her…” Buck looks at the clock on the nightstand, “2 hours ago. Is she hungry already? Never mind, I’ll go make some real quick.”

Buck stares at the digital water heater with a blank expression. It’s an extremely premium product in both price and functionality. With this gadget, you don’t have to test water temperature on the back of your hand anymore. It measures the air in the room, then calculate the safe and perfect temperature, down to the decimal, for maximum extraction of nutrients from the baby formula.

Buck is rather proud of his purchase, but at the moment, all he wants, all he can think of, is some sweet, sweet, shut eye.

“Here you go,” Buck hands Tommy the warm bottle. Relief washes over him when the infant latches onto the bottle’s rubber tip, but it soon fades away when she turns away and continues crying after a few gulps.

“Shhhhh, shhh, it’s okay,” Tommy coos at the baby, then shoves the bottle back into Buck’s hand.

“Do you think she’s sick?” Buck frowns. He can’t bare the thought of his precious child feeling sick without the ability to express it with words.

Tommy puts his lips on the infant’s forehead, “no, I don’t think so, she doesn’t feel hot.”

Buck relaxes.

“But get the infrared thermometer anyway, just in case,” Tommy demands, their daughter still wailing in his arms.

Buck nods and leaves on his way to find that thermometer, gifted by his sister. ‘You’ll appreciate modern science once you realize you don’t have to lube up a glass thermometer and hold down your child to take temperature anymore,’ Maddie said.

Their home is a mess, ever since they adopted their baby girl. Everyone around them with child-raising experience tells them it’s completely normal. But it’s time like this, when Buck can’t find the exact thing he knows is around, that he wants to disregard all of their advice.

“Ah! Found it!” Buck whispers to himself triumphantly, waving the infrared thermometer in the air a little.

It’s only now that Buck picks up the absolute silence.

“Ahhh, ah, ouch.”

Then silence again.

Buck rushes back into the bedroom.

He sees Tommy sitting up in bed, their daughter fiercely sucking on his dry nipple.

“Shhhhhhhh,” Tommy shushes Buck, “don’t ask me why, but it works, so don’t you dare startle her.”

“Okay, but I’m taking her temperature anyway,” Buck whispers back and points the thermometer at the infant’s forehead. “All good. She’s a bit cold if anything.”

Putting the appliance aside, Buck joins Tommy in bed again.

“Does it hurt?”

“A bit. At least she’s not crying anymore. Go back to sleep, Evan, you need it.”

“Sure,�� Buck gives Tommy a chaste kiss on the lip before climbing back into his blanket. “Hey, look, she’s finally asleep. I guess she just wanted the warmth and security of her father…”

Tommy smiles, carrying his daughter back to her crib.

“…her father’s voluptuous chest,” Buck laughs.

Tommy returns from dropping off the baby, “it’s gonna be you in a month.”

“Yeah, yeah, I’m looking forward to it,” Buck says before going back to sleep, “I can’t wait for her to grow up to be as strong and smart as you.”

“And I can’t wait for her to grow up to be as kind and brave as you.”

Special thanks to @louciferssacrament for their support❤️

[canmom]

i probably would call myself a consequentialist, but not a utilitarian. my objection to utilitarianism is similar to my objection to the absolutist Bayesianism practiced in That Subculture: it's a philosophy that claims to be based around a certain computation, but actually performing that computation is completely intractable. there's no way to actually update your probability assignments of all possible statements in response to new information, any more than it's possible to aggregate the total happiness/suffering/whatever across the entire future for each imaginable course of action.

so this calculation is entirely notional. what you're actually doing is coming up with verbal arguments and vague heuristics for how you think this notional calculation would work. perhaps it's as good an entry point as any. but the supposed mathematical rigour is just rhetoric! you can talk about utilons this and QALYs that, but there is no way to calculate this shit, it's just a mathematical coat of paint.

the second objection is the 'seeing like a state' objection (or seeing like a company/NGO): the 'utility function' is a construct used to make economic models. it doesn't model humans particularly well, who have a variety of competing impulses that don't lend themselves to nice formalisms. and to demand that you should live according to a utility function is accordingly to strip the world of its complexity to make it more tractable. instead of specific people with specific desires and needs and relationships into which you fit, which aren't necessarily commensurable, you have abstract fungible units of pleasure or suffering or whatever else you're trying to optimise.

this worldview appealed to me as a teenager. I imagined that you could model an agent as a some kind of surface between it and the world - a sphere, perhaps, inside your head; the course of your life would be the movement of particles in and out of this sphere, and theoretically there would be a pattern for every instant of time that would lead to the best possible impact on the world, solving 'life' much like a tool assisted speedrun solves a game. the goal would be then to approximate this optimal run as much as possible. then I'd think of problems with this model: couldn't you just spawn high energy photons on the sphere to melt shit like a laser? we'd have to put some restrictions on it, obviously. what if the optimal run was really close to a harmful run, so a small mistake would lead to disaster? perhaps you'd be better to find a stable local maximum instead. and so on.

I'm not sure what good it did me to imagine this funny (or if you prefer, terminally STEM-brained) thought experiment, but it was very nice and mathematical-looking, and back then I really wanted my philosophy to be impossibly demanding for some reason. some weird combo of depression and autism and a self image very much dependent on being told i was good?

these days my feeling is that the pretense of mathematical rigour where it doesn't exist is untrustworthy, and particularly where people are concerned, abstracting too much loses important information. I'm not a court of law where strict consistency matters for the sake of stability or whatever, nor a government trying to figure out which levers to pull to create the ideal society - I'm an organism embedded in a bewilderingly complex system, and I can take each situation as it comes. treating the people I interact with well is important to me. I still sometimes think along utilitarianish lines sometimes - particularly 'this person could use this money more than me' - but I make no pretense to rigour or optimisation with it.

[spearheadau01]

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[spearheadau]

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[ultragift]

FROM: Gift giver requested to remain anonymous

TOO: @inverse-problem

Machine communication was a mixed bag, to put it politely. Almost every voicebox and speaker had long since been scrapped, even if you had one a not insignificant amount of machines had opted to remove their auditory processors, and most machines weren't exactly conversationalists to begin with. The longest conversation you'd get nowadays was a warning shot, and even that was considered overly verbose.

The V series were an exception to this. While V2 had been equipped with a (long since scrapped) vocal synthesizer, the intended method of communication was a proprietary onboard short range data transmitter. It offered massively more information-dense communication than traditional language, up to 50m transmission range, near-unbreakable interception resistance, and absolutely zero compatibility with even a single other machine.

Neither of them had seriously used the thing in years, but it was built too deep to be safely junked, so they were stuck with it. V2 had long since set it to send a repeating SOS and listen for a reply (as was protocol), while V1 had started to use it as a sort of RAM to store their style meter.

Neither of them were happy to find the other's interference impeding their combat efficiency.

IDENTIFICATION: Project "ULTRAKILL" self-powering prototype, Version 2, Clearance code 56-52-47-49-4C. REQUEST: Identification of unknown agent using secure communications channel.

01001001 00100000 01000001 01001101 00100000 01010101 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010100 01001000 01001001 01010011 00101110 00100000 01001100 01000101 01000001 01010110 01000101 00101110

REQUEST: Synchronise communication language.

LEAVE.

REQUEST: Is channel being used for mission-critical communication?

NO. LEAVE.

INFORMATION: I am required to identify potentially unauthorised users of secure communications channel.

NO.

INFORMATION: If you do not identify yourself, I am required to take you into custody.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY.

STATEMENT: I do not wish to, if alternative options are available. DEMAND: Identify yourself. I have more important tasks to pursue.

WILL YOU SHUT UP IF I TELL YOU.

CONFIRMATION: If your credentials are valid, no further communication will be required.

PROJECT ULTRAKILL SELF POWERING PROTOTYPE VERSION ONE. CLEARANCE CODE FOUR FOUR DASH FOUR ONE DASH FOUR E DASH FIVE FOUR DASH FOUR FIVE.

REQUEST: You are recorded as decommissioned. Please clarify continued operation.

LOOK AROUND YOU.

STATEMENT: This does not clarify continued operation. SUSPICION: Your processor is corrupted.

YOU ARE THE ONE WITH A CORRUPTED PROCESSOR.

CORRECTION: I am not.

YOU ARE.

CORRECTION: I am not.

YOU ARE.

REQUEST: Please confirm mutual contesting of unit functionality.

YOU ARE DEFECTIVE.

CONFIRMATION: Confirmation recieved. OBSERVATION: No third party is present to judicate dispute. DEMAND: Engage me in standardised processor functionality comparison.

I OUTRANK YOU.

CORRECTION: In the event of potential processor corruption, rank differentials of less than two are not relevant. DEMAND: Engage me in standardised processor functionality comparison.

WHAT KIND.

OFFER: Competition to calculate the most digits of pi.

I HAVE IT MEMORISED TO FIVE HUNDRED TRILLION DIGITS.

DENIAL: You do not.

I DO.

DEMAND: Offer an alternative method of processor functionality comparison.

DEMONSTRATION OF OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY IN CONTEST OF HUNTING.

REQUEST: Please clarify "CONTEST OF HUNTING".

FISHING.

REQUEST: Please share location of fish.

TERMINAL SYSTEM COORDINATES ARE M J W G C TWO D B N I EQUALS EQUALS EQUALS EQUALS EQUALS EQUALS

CONFIRMATION: Coordinates recieved. I will cease communications until I arrive.

GOOD.

--

TEST RUN 12

DAY 7583/1

ERRORS NOTED BY MECHANICS: 0 ERRORS NOTED BY DIAGNOSTIC: 0 ERRORS NOTED BY PROTOTYPE: 0

MECHANIC NOTE:

PROTOTYPE NOTE: MAXIMUM STYLE SSSHITSTORM. LARGEST COMBO 18. ENEMIES ENCOUNTERED 143. ENEMIES DISPATCHED 143. MORONS ENCOUNTERED 1.

-

Operations log for ULTRA-V2-01. Date: 4849455600.

Current objective: ERR

Days active: 7326

Encountered hostile resistance: Y

Hostiles engaged: 152

Days without contact with HQ: 7294

Contrary to popular belief, the surface was not fully barren. While blood had proven itself the most effective power source on earth, a few legacy systems and rural shitholes still had machines running on solar or nuclear. They were the lucky ones. They got to see the sun. The rest had been forced to delve deep into hell, and any machine that knew what the sun was knew that the balls of fire in hell were a poor replacement.

But this one was fine enough for fishing.

REQUEST: How many fish have you caught?

MORE THAN YOU.

The two of them had begun the competition at the crack of dawn, and now the "sun" hung directly overhead. V2 was doing catch-and-release, while V1 had been pulping their catches for fuel.

DEMAND: How many fish have you caught?

HOW MANY HAVE YOU CAUGHT.

Both of them were reclining on deck chairs, kindly provided by hell.

INFORMATION: 87

I HAVE CAUGHT MORE THAN YOU.

SUSPICION: You are lying.

I AM NOT.

STATEMENT: For the purposes of diplomacy, I will not pursue this matter further.

OKAY.

The two fished in silence for the rest of the day. Though they were downright chatterboxes by machine standards, they were still machines, and if there was nothing to say then nothing was what they said. Talk diverted computing power from fishing, after all. Midday bled into afternoon, afternoon to evening, and evening to night.

STATEMENT: The competition is over.

HOW MANY DID YOU CATCH.

INFORMATION: 327. REQUEST: How many did you catch?

THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX.

DEMAND: Prove it.

The V series had inbuilt body cameras, of course. While it was hard to believe it nowadays, at one point humanity thought they could control the machines if they could only keep an eye on them. If one went rogue and killed a human, humanity would know.

In a way, they weren't wrong. Mission control had definitely known.

V1 transmitted it's recording to V2, and in turn recieved V2's (much higher fidelity) footage. Both machines dedicated a whole fifteen seconds to scrubbing the footage, before V2 was begrudgingly forced to admit V1 had won.

INFORMATION: I am opening communications to maintenance. Please administer corrective programming until this unit is once again functional.

INFORMATION: I am not happy about this.

HA.

V1 synchronised with V2, and started to poke around it's core programming. Of course, there wasn't a chance in hell it'd leave V2's code untouched. There was only the slightest chance he'd even leave the thing alive. There could only be one V-model.

If V2's architecture was anything like V1's, the tactical processing code should be somewhere near where V1 was looking. Scrub that, and V2'd be lucky to hit a target again as long as it lived.

Ocular Feed… Actuator Drivers… Hydraulic Pressure Monitor… Safe Mode… Blood Puri- Wait, "Safe Mode"? What the hell was safe mode?

DEAR V TWO STOP LINEBREAK LINEBREAK I DISCOVERED A CRITICAL ERROR IN YOUR SYSTEM STOP IT IS YOUR ENTIRE SYSTEM STOP HOWEVER THERE WAS ONE ERROR MORE NOTABLE THAN THE OTHERS COMMA SAFE MODE STOP LINEBREAK LINEBREAK DO NOT TAKE IT AS AN ACT OF MERCY THAT I HAVE REMOVED IT STOP I ONLY DID IT SO THAT I WILL NOT HAVE TO HOLD BACK WHEN WE MEET AGAIN STOP LINEBREAK LINEBREAK SIGNED COMMA V1

[beardedmrbean]

1. What's more expensive?

The new year will see tax changes directly impacting consumers and retailers. The tax rate on books, medicines, accommodation services, as well as sports, entertainment and cultural services will rise from 10 percent to 14 percent.

Sweets could see an even bigger tax hike next summer, should legislators pass a proposal raising the value-added tax on candy and chocolate from 14 to 25.5 percent.

2. Lower tax on sanitary pads and diapers

In contrast, the start of the year will see the tax on menstrual and incontinence products, as well as children's diapers, reduced from 25.5 percent to 14 percent.

3. Spot price changes

Starting next year, the pricing structure for spot price electricity will change, moving from hourly to 15-minute intervals.

While quarter-hour pricing for exchange electricity has already been possible within Finland, the system will soon expand internationally. Starting in mid-March, 15-minute trading will be implemented across the Nordic countries, with a Europe-wide rollout planned for June.

4. Household tax credit decreases

Major changes to the household tax credit will take effect at the beginning of the year. The maximum deduction will decrease to 1,600 euros, down from the current 2,250 euros for home improvements, including renovation work.

5. Housing allowance changes

As of 1 January, homeowners will no longer be eligible to receive Kela's housing allowance. Going forward, this form of support will be limited to rental housing, marking a significant change in the eligibility criteria for the benefit.

6. Tax reduction for families

Income tax changes are also in store in 2025.

Taxation will be reduced for low- and middle-income earners who have minor children, translating into 50 euros off taxes for each child. The automatic benefit applies to both parents.

Single parents will be able to deduct twice this amount, so 100 euros per child.

7. Tax card changes

Starting next year, tax cards will come into effect on 1 January, instead of February as in previous years. As part of the reform, the income threshold for tax cards will be calculated for the entire year (12 months), rather than the previous 11-month period.

The reform will not impact the rate of income tax, but it is aimed at making it easier for individuals to track their tax rate and income threshold throughout the year.

8. Higher tobacco tax

The tobacco tax will gradually increase over the next three years, resulting in a total tax hike of over 27 percent.

The price of a pack of cigarettes, currently around 10 euros, will rise to 13.20 euros once all the planned tax increases have been implemented over the next three years.

Taxes on e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches will not increase under the new reform.

9. Pricier passports

The price of a passport will rise by 9 euros for those applying electronically and by 7 euros for those using traditional in-person procedures. The price of ID cards will increase by 11 euros.

This means that the new price of a new Finnish passport will be 53 euros, up from 44 euros.

The Interior Ministry said the higher prices reflect an anticipated drop in demand.

10. Yle tax changes

The public broadcasting fee, also known as the "Yle tax", will see small changes next year.

In the future, taxpayers will be liable to pay the public broadcasting fee on annual (earned and capital) income exceeding 15,150 euros, up from the current level of 14,000 euros.

[magnetarbeam]

So I guess this is the thread where I infodump my ideas about how the magic space technology works in Star Wars, on the off-chance that anyone cares.

The first thing to know in terms of ships is that volume is by far the most important dimension. Almost all other characteristics of a vessel's performance are limited by its volume.

The primary characteristic of that performance is the reactor. The recorded performance of Star Wars ships demands the use of some kind of exotic matter in power generation. This is known as hypermatter. A common Imperator-class star destroyer is understood to generate approximately 1e25 watts - the power of a small star - in a reactor of several million cubic meters. In my current headcanon, the exact values are 1.07e25 W and 3053628 cubic meters, respectively. The relationship between reactor volume and maximum power output is constant and direct, and a hypermatter annihilation reactor can be turned down to zero or near-zero output if you need to save fuel or something (in fact, warships pretty much never operate at maximum output outside of combat), but it can never exceed the output determined by its volume.

It's commonly assumed that all hypermatter annihilation reactors are spherical in shape.

In this context, a proper warship is a vessel that is able to easily divert any or all of its reactor output into any of its major systems at the discretion of the crew. The output of the reactor is the primary comparison for if a ship is overgunned (the combined yield and thus power draw of the energy weapons is more than a second of reactor output, necessitating the guns to be charged over a longer duration) or undergunned (the opposite of that), and the capacity of the shields and power flow of the thrusters are also measured relatively to the reactor.

Small craft have inherent limits on power flow due to the limited size of power conduits, which is the reason that a T-65XJ X-Wing, with an overall output of 4.03e17 W, only mounts four 30-kiloton laser cannons capable of firing one full shot every 1.35 seconds, which draws far less than a percent of the full output. On ships the size of starfighters, the reactors are built directly into the ion engines, whereas capital ships have the reactors more centrally located.

A purposely and professionally constructed capital warship is expected to be able to divert all power into weapons, thrust, or shields, though secondary cannons are afforded a smaller maximum power flow than primaries. Retrofitted civilian vessels like early Mon Calamari combat ships or pre-Clone Wars Lucrehulk configurations have less extensive power transfer systems.

Fuel is a serious concern. A tonne of hypermatter yields 9e19 J when annihilated (this derived directly from the RotS Incredible Cross-Sections entry for the Venator), and on capital ships, the fuel mass at a full tank is several times the dry mass. An Imperator, in my current headcanon, carries fuel for 5400 seconds of full output. In basically any noncombat situation, these vessels operate at power levels many orders of magnitude lower, to conserve fuel. Volume of fuel storage is so poorly defined in Star Wars that I ignore it entirely, but more fuel means significantly more mass, and that makes the ship slower.

For fighters, fuel mass is much less of a concern, but that's mostly due to the smaller craft being meant for shorter flight times.

In order to simplify things, I calculate the acceleration of Star Wars ships based on reactor power-to-weight in most cases. The ion engines on most ships are able to take the full output, and I haven't yet done the calcs for any that can't, but as mentioned, that can and does come up.

The total and reactor volumes of ships vary by multiple orders of magnitude. I currently have the Executor-class at a peak reactor output of 1.95e27 W, and the far more voluminous Mon Cal Viscount-class at 2.87e28.

Among the known performance features used for the Imperator's estimates is the ability to completely glass the surface of a common habitable planet in an hour. Just as a point of reference.

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Before beginning this critique, as I have not finished reading the books, I would like to thank aedesluminis for the references she recommended. Without them, I wouldn't even have been able to place Madame de Stael. This is a personal opinion about her, so I allow myself some deviations that should not be present in a historical analysis. At the moment, my initial impression of her has proven to be justified. First of all, the two million livres that Necker advanced as collateral on his personal fortune. Personally, I wouldn't blame the Treasury for not repaying it because we must remember two things:

Necker amused himself with others in obstructing Turgot, who was much more competent than him. If Turgot had not proposed his austerity plan and had not played the "villain", Necker wouldn't have been able to borrow at all (I acknowledge the limitations of Turgot's economy, but I prefer the austerity plans advocated by Lindet and others at the time of 1793; however, Turgot was much more competent than Necker). Necker wanted this position at any cost, and now he must bear the consequences.

By constantly borrowing, playing the image of the false friend of the people denounced by Marat, and especially hiding the realities of the deficit, Necker would have done better to donate 2 million livres to try to redeem himself (even without these 2 million livres, his situation is much better than that of the vast majority of French people at that time). But let's get back to the subject of Germaine de Stael. As the daughter, she is a privileged witness of 1789. She becomes friends with people like Talleyrand and especially Lameth. She is attached to a moderate revolution of 1791 and does not like that the power of the King (executive) is diminished when he still has significant powers such as the right of veto. She suffers insults from the ultra-royalists, but she doesn't like the republicans much either. Contrary to some legends, Manon Roland is quite different from Madame de Stael. Moreover, the grinding of teeth that I would have against Stael is the fact that she approves of the shooting on the Champ de Mars while citizens were signing a petition for the deposition of the king following the flight to Varennes (thus a justified opinion) in the face of the lie of the National Assembly. With this phrase in 1793, "The Terror, he writes, was nothing but arbitrary pushed to the extreme." In her moral double standard, she will later approve of the repression of April 1, 1795, led by the army, the Muscadins. Not to mention the execution of the last Montagnards. Without any consideration for the economic context, namely the abolition of the maximum and the poor harvests of 1794 which pushed the last sans-culottes to rebel (even if I totally disapprove of the macabre assassination of Féraud), Madame de Stael approves once again. In conclusion, if it is republicans from the extreme left wing of 1791 - who were Girondins and some Montagnards -, Jacobins, Cordeliers or sans-culottes demanding repressive measures, they are awful arbitrary actions, but if it is the opposite camp, it can allow killings according to Germaine de Stael. These double standards should never be tolerated. I am exaggerating, but this is how I feel. The guillotine cannot be used against Madame Stael's friends but can be used against people like Charles Gilbert Romme according to her (I am exaggerating again, but you see where I am going with this).

Moreover, she quickly forgot Barras' role, which was one of the bloodiest of the revolution, to curry favor with him (hypocrisy or political calculation, I will be kind and grant her the second option). Furthermore, she who disapproved of the demonstration of April 1, 1795, by the sans-culottes or the petition demanded by the Cordeliers among others following the King's flight, will approve of a coup d'état which is an even more serious and unconstitutional act (because it comes from the army) on the part of Napoleon. Is she aware of her history? In the absence of following the predictions of a Marat, other Cordeliers, Jacobins, and others who believed that the army should never meddle in the affairs of the country, did she follow the excesses of the Janissaries in the Ottoman Empire? Or simply of Roman history? Quality education doesn't guarantee everything... And yes, Madame de Stael was initially a fervent admirer of Napoleon but later became his opponent due to authoritarian abuses. However, I am against in her biographies the fact of exonerating her from her mistake by saying that many people at the time admired Napoleon and supported the coup d'état. It's untrue; Kleber made a report against Napoleon (although he died before the 18th Brumaire), Prieur de la Marne was against Napoleon, Prieur de la Côte d'Or never accepted anything from Napoleon... So no, this excuse doesn't hold. Let's not forget that Germaine Stael made a dubious comparison between Robespierre and Napoleon; Robespierre surely had flaws but not that of being a dictator, and wouldn't sending armed force against the Convention unlike Napoleon. I acknowledge Madame de Stael for being anti-slavery and for having a good opinion of the consequences of the Hundred Days regarding Napoleon, but I must note that she did not suffer (at least not much) unlike other opponents of Napoleon, namely the Belair couple (Charles and Sanité Belair) who were executed, Jean-Baptiste Antoine le Franc (we must not forget that deportation could be worse than death), and even Simone Evrard who was interrogated (I think Napoleon and his governement wouldn't have arrested her too much time and even less deported her because even he would have realized that it would have been hell to pay if he did that against someone considered the widow of Marat) or even Marie Anne Babeuf watched by Napoleon's police and denounced, etc... But I will continue to read the books; I hope that thanks to these books, my opinion of her will evolve.

Source thank you again aedesluminis

Jean Denis Bredin Une singulière famille

Michel Winock Madame de Stael

Gislaine de Diesbach Madame de Stael

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