Comparing this to Dachau suggests you’re feeling a massive amount of psychological pressure. Usually, when the mind is under extreme, prolonged stress, it can start to externalize internal thoughts as voices or 'beamed' messages. It might be worth talking to a professional about the distress this is causing you—they might have ways to help mute those signals.

Some of the other large, iron-rich asteroids like Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Interamnia are more like protoplanets than rubble piles.

Besides the concern for structural integrity/stability, they also have reasonable amounts of water ice, volatiles, metals, ad other resources needed to supply an outpost.

They actually invaded Ukraine in 2014 and took Crimea.

I mean, the possibility of an invasion is not exactly far-fetched.

When I return to my small Mississippi hometown, only "rough" people openly display tattoos, and generally only a small minority of men are not clean-shaven with short haircuts. Male jewelry is minimal, things like facial piercings are heavily frowned upon, etc.

Regional norms can be very different.

Breathlessly comparing the USSR's economic policies with the raising of taxes to cover such a fundamental service betrays a staggering ignorance of economics and history.

It's not so much an obvious smell as a perceived "sharpness" that feels related to the sense-modality of smell, but is not exactly equivalent to it. I wonder sometimes if it's a pheromone-based phenomenon.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-642-4034...

The public is comprised of people with vast differences in cognitive ability, education, and scientific training. Most members of the public, even in highly educated countries, are easily fooled by a wide variety of logical fallacies, emotional manipulation, and statistical misdirection.

Both intelligence agencies and cyber-criminals can be considered threats, but they are quite different. Intel agencies would present a serious threat to confidentiality, but are very unlikely to threaten the integrity & availability of business systems.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/helping-a-friend-in-hiding

The thing with playing syntactic games like this is that your altered sentence. . . isn't actually true. The two sides in relation to COVID research and official guidelines actually do behave differently.

Trench warfare proliferated when a revolution in firepower was unmatched by similar advances in mobility.

Most likely, ongoing advances in stealth, armor, area denial, anti-drone tech, etc. will preclude its reappearance on the battlefield.

I mean, you _can_ store graph data in a relational database, but its' not typically easy to insert or query, there are serious performance penalties, etc. Purpose-built data structures will always out-perform generic ones.

Exactly. Relational databases are fantastic general tools, but various use cases can make more specialized data stores the best choice for a particular job.

Document stores, key-value stores, column-oriented databases, graph databases can all be more suitable for a given tasks than relational databases.