It is more that the operations have to occur in or near the Persian Gulf. That doesn’t give a carrier that much room to maneuver.

There are friendly nations nearby that host US bases, but they are also being targeted.

No. It is that they are using the carrier to fight a fight out wasn’t designed for. Any sustained use of an aircraft carrier needs resupply, this was the case even in World War II.

The Navy had several wargames where it was obvious that carrier operations against Iran would be far more difficult than most other nations. If anything, I’m surprised the carrier hasn’t been sunk yet.

Friendly ribbing and trying to establish dominance are two different things. I usually take someone “friendly ribbing” me as an opportunity to do the same right back. You can usually tell rather quickly if they’re just doing it for fun or there is an ulterior motive.

I’ll be honest, it likely depends on the social connotations of doing so. It feels on the same level of would I drink human milk and could I tell which milk was made from a set of three friends.

And likely profitable!

Why not stay at home? He’s a celebrity that likely gets brought into a lot of different corporate events as a draw. So, he’s probably going to a lot of different evening events and most of those events are fueled with alcohol. That’s why he’s out.

Why not hire a driver? He’s definitely making enough money for an Uber, but the easiest explanation is that he’s probably driven drink for years before getting caught.

High speed rail is usually credited to Japan.

You didn’t like the smooth draw of a candy cigarette as a kid?

Yeah. Regarding gendered nouns, it can be hard to deal with referring to a professional of an unknown gender since the default is generally male.

Land based plants exist in an arms race between access to sunlight and water/nutrients. They have to physically occupy two separate areas. In contrast, water based plants only need to occupy one location, the water closest to the surface. Since there is no evolutionary advantage to starting to grow tall, water based plants don’t grow as tall.

Seaweed grows large, but it doesn’t need the kind of rigid structure trees have.

I git my name put onto a credit card as a kid to help do things like buy groceries. After I went to college, parents had financial issues and the credit card that my name was on didn’t get paid. My credit was great except for non payment on that credit card.

So, yeah. It can be better if the parent doesn’t have to open a credit card so that a kid can buy things which require a tap and cash isn’t accepted.

For a physical only document, the mark is something relatively difficult for others to perform. Even then, signatures by themselves usually only carry a certain amount of weight by themselves; either the risk of borne by the other party or additional measures are taken like requiring witnesses including notaries.

To answer the next question you’ll probably ask, it is considered to be far more trivial for someone to apply someone else’s mark digitally than it is in person. Anyone with a pdf editor can apply someone else’s signature to a document without their knowledge.

The point of the signature isn’t the mark, but that the affirmation on the document can reasonably be tied to you. For most of history, it has been tied to a certain mark, whether it be a signed name, a stamp or embossed seal, or even a drawing. That system generally breaks down in the digital age.

A low hanging fruit that is seen to work is having the mark of approval get tied to an account under the control of the signee. It isn’t so much that you made the mark but that it is tied to an email address you control. So even if you don’t sign it with an actual signature, it still gets tied to you.

I’ve come to accept that a lot of things in life aren’t how they should have been when you look at them today. Swapped names are just the tip of the iceberg.

The technology for scan while you shop is already a decade old. The problem is that you’re still going to have to deal with publicly seen pricing signs which will make personalized pricing outside of coupons impossible.

Part of it was illegal, part of it was that their way of doing business pushed people away. Suppliers didn’t want to negotiate with Walmart and workers generally weren’t desperate to work there.

It will be impressive if they can surge price in a store. You could do it right now for delivery apps, but I don’t know how you can do it in the store.

Part of it is greed. Part of it is that television and physical media subsidized a lot of streaming’s content and now that money is gone. There has already been a collapse of some types of movies and TV shows because the economics that led to their golden age are no longer there.

Netflix used to get streaming rights for pennies because production companies made their money through other sources. Now those income streams are dead.

Yeah. The issue isn’t with the youth, but having lazy coworkers who aren’t a personality fit.

More that RNJesus? No.