towerful

Additionally, this seems to be a permanent piece of building works to create a corner in an air wall.
They've included an exit, presumably because that's the only way to meet fire regulations within budget.

Conference rooms are built big. Like in hotels, or conference centers.
But not everyone wants a big room if they only have 100 people in the audience. And they don't want to pay for a room that can hold 600 people, when they are only gonna be clumped up in like 1/3 of the room or whatever.

So conference rooms are built in a way they can be subdivided. By airwalls.
Next time you are at a conference, look for tracks in the ceiling. Like a metal channel with a slot running through it.
Or look for a wall made up of 1m sections.
That's airwall track & airwall.
You run them along the track until they hit another bit of wall, stick an Allen key in the end of them, and wind down a soundproofing seal that also locks the wall in place. Then you run out another, and so on, until there is a wall.

Where the track meets the actual room walls, there will be additional tracking and full height doors that allow the wall to be manoeuvred and stored

Kinda shows how revolutionary starlink actually is, tho.
I mean, a country with minimal military spending (or, one that doesn't have their own encrypted satellite network) can get a commodity device that gives modern connection speeds with very modest latency.

Starlink has many drawbacks, is a horrendous impact to the environment, is owned by a fascist/nazi dickhead.
But the empowerment it obviously gives to an underpowered military is phenomenal.
Ukraine has been awesome in their iteration and implementation of novel strategies and new technologies that few other counties could do.
It's just a shame that one of the useful techs is being used as extortion by fascists.
It's like enshitification, but on a country level scale.

Edit:
Compared to the Gaza situation where AI is being embraced to kill civilians faster

When you solve the issue, take a pause and then walk back the problem and how to fix it.
If it's a "forgot where something was", take a pause then start with "sorry bout that, it's this...".

Own the mistake, learn from it, let others learn from it. But dont waste everyone's time

Predicting an impact 2500 days in the future - taking into account n-body physics while also trying to measure the objects current position and velocity as accurately as possible - is an impressive feat of science & technology.
I imagine this is going to change year on year until we have to train drillers to be astronauts.

I'm sure you could mount an encrypted volume.
Or just have the keepas db on a usb stick or something

It's not a big deal. People like to rant on the internet when they are frustrated or angry.
I can see how my comment could be interpreted as "EU = US". It's not the sentiment I intended at all.
I meant that the UK is negotiating from a weaker position with both sides

No, I don't.
And I didn't say that anywhere in my comment.

Morals don't have much to do with trade negotiations.

Trump is going to strong arm the UK, and the UK will have to make concessions. Because the UK wants to put themselves in the middle. Shit sandwich number 1.

The EU is going to strong arm the UK, and the UK will have to make concessions. Because the UK wants to put themselves in the middle. Shit sandwich number 2.

The UK government is negotiating with both parties from a weaker position. And the EU has shown that they won't give the UK concessions during Brexit negotiations.
If the UK get a trade deal with either party, the other party is going to have significantly more leverage. And they will know it.
Which means neither the EU nor the US are going to make any meaningful concessions. And whoever waits the longest gets the most leverage.
Hence, the UK has to make the significant concessions (required to be in the middle) work for itself.
And I bet the concessions are gonna go against what the UK people want.

Shaping metal would need a more substantial central bearing, I assume.
Unless the bearings are on some sort of plates that lock into the 4 holes seen

Stephen King dark tower?
No. Not western, no guns, no science, not really horror.

WoT is the whole "forgotten/suppressed magic, 'the one', forces of long imprisoned evil" kinda fantasy, along with a rise to power, world politics, massive battles, adventure, and - I guess - romance.
Has a lot of the tropes, but carves a great story and adventure.
I genuinely recommend it. I've read it 3 times, and I enjoy the TV series.

It's a 15 book epic fantasy, with the last 3 books written by Brandon Sanderson according to (deceased, 2007) Robert Jordans notes.

It's good.
It has it's faults, Robert Jordans writing has it's faults.
But it is good, a great story, a great adventure, a great over-arching story. And 15 books long, makes it great read to sink into and enjoy.

Sounds like:
eat a shit sandwich from the US.
eat a shit sandwich from the EU.

Unless - somehow - the perks from both are enough to outweigh the consequences from both. Which I doubt

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