Trump has an absolutely abysmal business career. Why do some people think of him as some business genius?
John Wayne. John Wayne explains it, and is maybe the best example. There were Hollywood actors who were actual war heroes. John Wayne wasn’t one of them. In…
Do Yakuza mess with foreigners?
If you are just a visiting foreigner, you’d probably need to mess with them in a serious way. I don’t claim to be any expert on it, but…
Does a CPU get weaker over time?
No. CPUs don’t get weaker with age – They run or they die. Generally a CPU works or it doesn’t., Partial failures are rare – The chips themselves don’t…
What is a cardinal sin in a fine dining restaurant?
I took my mother 70 year old mother to Las Vegas. We dined at an Italian restaurant. The server was snobbish and borderline rude to us and other…
Why can’t Russia defeat Ukraine despite having 10 times military budget, 4 times manpower, and superior firepower?
Three key reasons, two minor and one large. The first minor reason is Russia also has about 5 times the corruption Ukraine has. Wealthy Russians are wealthy for…
How long will Americans put up with Trump’s jackboot on their necks before they overthrow him? What we are seeing now is not the America any of us grew up in.
There’s something I see at the grocery store every so often that just knocks me out. In the potato chips aisle, there are rows of cheese dip in…
Why is there no heating problem during the launching of a spacecraft but there is during reentry?
Imagine the air is a wall. On launch, a rocket starts slow, it finds the door-It pushes through the thick air near the ground politely, and by the…
Why does the natural world in Fallout look so damaged 200 years after the nuclear war?
Because Bethesda didn’t care to know how nuclear bombs work. In real life, 200 years after a nuclear bomb detonation, it would look more like this: or and…
Aren’t AWACs very easy targets for enemy planes? Has this been tested in modern aerial warfare? They seem to be very slow planes.
A converted civilian airliner with huge radar on it flying a predictable racetrack pattern is pretty easy to shoot down—if you ever get in range. The problem is,…
Moon landing deniers show an image with a crosshair behind an object. How can this be explained by someone who doesn’t believe the conspiracy?
The crosshair was etched into a glass plate called a Reseau plate in front of the photographic film. It allows examiners to see whether the film is warped,…