> We have an open door policy, which means that if you're ready, willing, able and enthusiastic about coming to work, we're not going to look at sort of your past situations or gaps on your resume or if you're homeless or if you've been to prison

Sad that this is something noteworthy.

Everything is a matter of degrees.

"No evidence" = "Nothing to the point that would have us concerned"

I don't know the incident your refer to but if it happened shortly after the conflict started I would say that probably wasn't any recent aid money. If you got your hands on 20 million in cash then you've probably been stockpiling for a while.

In grapes, mandarins and watermelons there's not much you can eat from the fruit where you're sure to not get any seeds. So getting rid of the seeds is a big improvement.

With apples, most of the fruit is never going to have a seed and you can just munch carefree until you get to the core. Same with other types of melons that have their seeds all in the middle. It's so easy to scoop them out that developing seedless varieties isn't worth it.

Developing new apple varieties is also a slow process. It takes up to 8 years for an apple tree to bear first fruit so you can find out if whatever you've created tastes any good.

There are also a variety of ways that seedless fruits are created. With grapes they manipulate the plant into making a fruit without seeds but those tend to lack the hormone needed to make the fruit grow to its normal size. Applied to apples you might get seedless apples but only of the size of apricots or so. And again, you have to wait up to 8 years to find out.

With melons they have two fields of different "parent" melons that when you put the pollen of one type on the flowers of the other the resulting fruit can't make seeds. Which is a tricky but doable for large fruits like watermelons. Doing that for a whole apple tree is much more effort (if that's the road that would need to be taken).

TLDR: It's a LOT of work for an uncertain amount of benefit.

Enlightenment through superior firepower.

You really should put some authentication and sevurity around the ability to launch asteroids at earth. So irresponsible of you. Thankfully I haven't been hit yet.

Germany is working on overhead power lines for trucks. If that works out and is retrofitted onto enough highways then 300km would easily be enough range to get onto the highway and off again, riding the rest of the trip on grid power.

Looks pretty solid. There seem to be 4 separate pumps and feeds that only really merge right at the faucet. There's one such machine out there that only has one pump with a really long shared tube so when you order a drink you basically getting a measure of suprise liquid first (which might be water that has been sitting in there since last use)

I wonder though if you're going into the trouble of adding an elevator, could you make the pouring work on a purely gravity fed basis?

To save others the googling: Last Blood

It's good but it lacks the option of "passive aggressive purring because my hooman isn't giving me enough attention"