The US manufactures them for considerably less than $4k/round.

https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/u9012h/how_much_does_a_155mm_m795_round_cost/

Much of the difference in funding will come from cuts to the M795 high explosive round, the Army's standard combat projectile. Under the budget request, procurement funding for the M795 would be $61.8 million in FY-22, down from the $145.6 million appropriated for FY-21.

The budget request would provide for the Army to buy 75,357 M795 rounds, which would support training and the service's war reserve.

So after math that’s about $820 a round

IIRC the EU is paying something like $4k for their domestic production, which I assume may relate to the fact that they're building new capacity and paying for it out of the shell price.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/06/20/european-ammo-firms-tell-eu-to-hurry-up-with-155mm-shell-aid-top-up/

The price of a 155mm shell produced in Western Europe ranges from a low of $5,000 to more than $10,000 for the high-end ammunition, a senior industry executive attending the round table told Defense News.

Bonus points if you work in the medical field!

https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Dennis_Nedry

Dennis Theodore[1] Nedry was the main antagonist during the first half of the original Jurassic Park film. He was a computer programmer at Jurassic Park. Due to his financial problems and low salary, he accepted a bribe from Biosyn to smuggle dinosaur embryos off the island.

In both the film and the novel, he is slain by a Dilophosaurus. He was directly responsible for the events that happened in both the novel and film. A combination of factors led to his demise: despite working in a career around dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, he had a limited knowledge of them, and greed, which was intertwined by desperation to pay off his debt collectors and make himself rich after that.

You people.

While true, I would point out that the low mortgage rates that increased housing prices

low mortgage rates permit people to borrow more and tends to drive up prices

in the decade-and-a-half before 2022 was unusual for the US. Prior to about 2008, interest rates were at or higher than they are today.

Here's a graph of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MORTGAGE30US

Here's the Case-Shiller Home Price Index. This measures same-home prices

that it, it attempts to factor out changes in types of home being built, so new homes being larger won't drive it up.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPISA

It's not adjusted for inflation, though.

Here's an inflation-adjusted graph:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-vs-inflation/

Between about 2011 and 2022, the real price of a given house rose rapidly in a low mortgage rate environment. In 2022, mortgage rates returned to something that's more historically-normal.

I expect that to sell a house in this environment, a homeowner will probably have to cut what they're asking.

Consumer acceptability is key, acknowledges Mr Eiden. Most people don't want to look like cyborgs: "We need to make our products actually look like existing eyewear."

looks dubious

I can believe that most people want something that they consider stylish. However, I'm skeptical that most people specifically want something to look like existing stuff. Clothing has shifted a lot over the years and centuries; it's not as if every person putting something on their body said "it has to look like the stuff that's come before", or present-day vision equipment would look like this:

Or this:

I was pretty irritated when I noticed that myself. I'm guessing that there's some form of attack or class of attacks that this is designed to avoid (e.g. IIRC a webpage opened from a file:// URL can have Javascript access files via file:// as well, and I imagine theoretically could upload them somewhere or something), but it sure is goddamn obnoxious.

My guess is that you can probably fire up a local HTTP server on your phone and view it via that. I don't think that Android phones set up a firewall by default, so have it listen on a loopback address, like 127.0.0.1.

Based on this, you can use a file manager to share the HTML file with Firefox.

I'm assuming that you're guessing "female"?

https://sexualityandthecity.com/2016/11/26/when-women-wanted-sex-much-more-than-men/

In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston. His crime? It wasn’t using lewd language or smiling on the Sabbath or anything else that we might think the Puritans had disapproved of. Rather, James Mattock had refused to have sex with his wife for two years.

Looking at other sources, the expulsion was in 1640.

IIRC, border agents do have some expanded authority within a certain distance of the border, and that might affect some of California, but not Los Angeles.

kagis

Ahhh. Apparently water borders count. Doesn't need to be a land border.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-border-patrol-internal-arrests-3f37f3ad15a31f2f1b7c57def9f2c055

Agents are granted by federal law the ability to stop and question people within 100 miles (161 kilometers) of the border, including the coasts. They have heightened authority to board and search buses, trains and vessels without a warrant within the zone.

That encompasses vast swaths of the country that include about two-thirds of the U.S. population, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Los Angeles is well within 100 miles of the Pacific Ocean.

They've apparently got an above-ground railroad, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Railroad

You typically need to notify other members of a treaty of your withdrawal, and then there's some time delay until you're no longer bound by the terms. You can't just secretly withdraw, or treaties wouldn't be very meaningful.

EDIT: Yeah. The submitted article says that it happens in six months from today, and here's the treaty text on withdrawal:

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.44_convention%20antipersonnel%20mines.pdf

Article 20

Duration and withdrawal

1. This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.

2. Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other States Parties, to the Depositary and to the United Nations Security Council. Such instrument of withdrawal shall include a full explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.

3. Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt of the instrument of withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the expiry of that six- month period, the withdrawing State Party is engaged in an armed conflict, the withdrawal shall not take effect before the end of the armed conflict.

4. The withdrawal of a State Party from this Convention shall not in any way affect the duty of States to continue fulfilling the obligations assumed under any relevant rules of international law.

I don't know how the Dutch see it, but I'm pretty sure that the US considers extreme ultraviolet lithography to be a technology with strategic importance. That is, it's more than some company's sales at stake.