But if the commanders are sycophants, then only certain requests to carry are approved.

It could easily engender a situation where the commander plays favorites to create power imbalances and danger for whoever happens to be in the out group. We’ve also recently learned that Hegseth has meddled a lot with military promotions, targeting specific groups for career suppression.

Okay, but have you ever kissed the side of a woman’s half-shaved head or scuffed your face on it during hugs?

It’s like easily 100% more skin to kiss when the hair is short. Awkward drive-by forehead kisses are all but eliminated as she doesn’t have time to react to try to give you real kisses and then you miss and kiss her nose. Just a big ol’ target right on the side of her head that you can easily hit from the front or back. So much easier to seem suave.
And the hugs! You get more skin to skin contact without all that hair keeping your faces apart. It’s more hug per hug.

The energy needed for phase change for supercritical CO2 is substantially lower than steam.

There’s more wiggle room. My understanding is that similar to heat pumps, they can build systems with different optimal temperatures, and even daisy chain them together. They’ll never make a perpetual motion machine, but they can waste less energy.

It’s funny (in a sad and sardonic sense) - I pay attention to the energy industry and the outcry over data centers has got me watching these generators closely. If they deliver on their promises, they could represent a great way to deliver on mirror-based solar reactors in areas with limited water resources. (And to recapture and use waste heat from the servers of data centers.)

Society is on the precipice of investing a lot into increasing energy generation for data centers that have to be near the same sorts of resources that people need - fresh water, environs conductive to generating power, stable (enough) climates. But this technology is arriving/set to reach adoption just in time for this boom-bust cycle. All those data centers in populated areas already have a timer ticking for when the shell corps have their rugs pulled.

Yeah. I wasn’t disagreeing with you.

If anything, I was bolstering your statements against the person who said republicans would love this.

They also want the part where a woman can be controlled by unwanted pregnancy.