KSA has given up on trying to defeat the Houthis, and now wants to buy them with a promise of revenue sharing from the oil fields that were recently captured by UAE-backed STC.

KSA hopes they can reduce the frequency of attacks against their oil infrastructure and economic diversification mega-projects. They’re betting that the cost of the Houthi attacks that will still be launched against them, plus the cost of the bribes aimed at reducing the frequency of those attacks, will still be less expensive than a full ground invasion of Yemen.

Furthermore, KSA is racing against the global trend away from burning oil for energy. They need to diversify their economy while oil is still valuable, and a ground war would halt that progress because investors won’t want to put their eggs into an exploding basket.

So KSA is willing to act against members of their own anti-Houthi alliance in order to prevent a UAE-sponsored break-away state from metastasizing on their border - a break-away state that would control the oil revenue that KSA hoped would buy them a temporary reprieve during this fragile economic moment.

Its been done - link goes to a PDF of the study:

Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) frequently report episodes of interidentity amnesia, that is amnesia for events experienced by other identities. The goal of the present experiment was to test the implicit transfer of trauma-related information between identities in DID. We hypothesized that whereas declarative information may transfer from one identity to another, the emotional connotation of the memory may be dissociated, especially in the case of negative, trauma-related emotional valence. An evaluative conditioning procedure was combined with an affective priming procedure, both performed by different identities. In the evaluative conditioning procedure, previously neutral stimuli come to refer to a negative or positive connotation. The affective priming procedure was used to test the transfer of this acquired valence to an identity reporting interidentity amnesia. Results indicated activation of stimulus valence in the affective priming task, that is transfer of emotional material between identities. r 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Its also central to the plot of Schlock Mercenary

Yeah, the chemistry of the medium changes over time to contain more metals. I wonder how much, or how fast the chemistry of the accretion disk changes too?

comms beep

Bridge: “Bridge to Jordi.”

comms beep

Jordi: “Jordi here, have you tried turning it off and on again?”

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Second person is when you play a healer.

Every once in a while, declare sausage. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

–Rule of Acquisition #76

And then there are people like A.J. Wilkerson, who don’t need any of that mess.

There is no amount of nice you can be that will prevent shitty people from doing enemy shit.

Being well armed is as close as you can get to having no enemies.

and grass is made of air

that’s why cows fart so much - cows are made of air

I’ve never seen one. We’ve got on-demand water heaters that feed entire homes, but the electric versions are notorious for breaking a lot. The trend is toward heat pump hot water storage tanks that cool the air around them and put that heat into the water tank.

That line caught my eye too. Negative mass is the missing ingredient for building an Alcubierre warp drive.

If someone starts licking my feet, I don’t think its my blood that’s about to get drained, lol.

I left for the opposite reason. Reddit does not have enough moderation, and they gave me a temp ban for reporting someone advocating political violence.

Makes sense in context. Some of their two lane roads are narrower than a single lane in other places. Dealing with oncoming traffic is a game of chicken where someone will be going off road.

At current exchange rates, 50oz of gold would sell for $201,050. It would be a good down payment on a starter home, but less than half the total cost of ownership.

You’d think that starfleet would realize that $100,000 in 2025 won’t even buy an old busted house in the middle of nowhere, let alone someplace that’s actually secure.

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