Ooh, looking forward to it!

Wow. Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge.

Sounds like I need a little bit of kit and then to get going, or would you recommend any particular resource to learn with?

Great tips, I’ll have a look at the shop as I will need some supplies.

Do I hear you right that you prefer your jury rigged press? How come?

Sounds delicious, thank you!

Thanks for the advice, I guess I’m too new to understand what’s needed and what can be improvised yet.

Thank you for excellent tips, I guess I have to figure out what to cook with paneer next ;)

Wow, quark is very popular in strength training circles, would be fun to make my own!

Thank you for the recipe recommendation!

Haha, love the summary.

What equipment do I need? A couple cheesecloths, a pot and string. Do I need a mold/tray? Would you recommend any other equipment?

Turns out you’re right, and I mistaken, most variants are armored transports.

I would still argue they’re worse than drop ships and/or wheeled/hover carriers in almost every aspect.

They are however very scary, and as much if the Empires oppression is psychological, they might fill that role well.

Reading up a bit, it seems some lasers might penetrate AT-AT legs judging by how there are more armored variants. Also, there’s an argument about flechette launchers and ship turbo cannons being able to get through similar amounts of Durasteel.

It also seems Durasteel is weaker than titanium, and we have plenty of kinetics test can go through titanium

But using real life logic, if they can be shaped they can’t be invulnerable. Also wouldn’t you be able to gum up a knee or foot joint with something like a tree, or even just durasteel shrapnel? Then it’s not about denting as much as using leverage to burn the motor. Even just fouling up the lubricant would cause huge maintenance costs.

Also, as the legs are articulated, explosives would be able to trip them by moving the legs from out under them.

Also also, the huge troop compartment and wide sides should be very easy to hit causing overpressure injury, which beyond being disorienting (bad for assault troops) significantly shorten the utility of the troopers, seems expensive and unnecessary when the option is dropships, shuttles, or land cars.

AT-ATs are a terrible main combat vehicle.

Enormous target profile, of which most is very vulnerable gangly legs and joints. It doesn’t even have much firepower to motivate the ridiculous size. It’s also a quite slow transport with a low complement and slow deployment.

It is however a versatile tool of terror, as I believe is it’s purpose.

The concept of Nothingness?

Or closer to Hegel: Nothing is the lack of all differentiation and content, and thus absolutely undifferentiated.

Pure Being is without further differentiation, it has no diversity within itself, and is thus also absolutely undifferentiated.

Nothing is pure Being (and with some other arguments the reverse is also true), they are inseparable and unseparated, yet distinct. And Hegel argues that the Becoming is the movement of one into the other, distinguishing them for a moment only to be resolved again.

You can read it yourself in Hegel’s Science of Logic

Exciting stuff! Hope you share some of your insights as you go, philosophy is much underrated!

Don’t short change yourself, with enough time, effort and application you could still get a degree in the humanities, that’s basically what they do :p

For real, philosophy was mostly around before we figured out empiricism and scientific methods. People had to think quite a lot to come up with models that made internal and validated sense even without evidence. And we still have a lot of stuff we can’t test, but that we wonder about (theology, paranormal stuff, hard solipsism, “before” Big Bang, etc), we just have stricter requirements and more developed methods that we call differently.

This is could both be an excellent question or a less interesting one :p

The less interesting one is answered that by Being you are, and thus cannot become. (Just as u/toofpic describes)

The excellent question is why we can’t Become when already Being, or why we can’t unBecome from Nothing. For that we’d have to read more Hegel to understand the context.

Why is it that when you take away from Nothing, nothing happens? It makes intuitive sense, but why must it be so? What would happen if it weren’t so?

Hegel suggests that the qualities of purest Being and purest Nothing are the same, and that’s why the Becoming takes them into eachother.

I don’t know that that’s useful though, someone else care to explain?

Being is a state, Nothing is a state.

Being (something) and (being) Nothing are opposites.

Yet Becoming requires you to go from Nothing to something, or stop Being something to introduce enough Nothing to become something new.

Long time since I read Hegel though, might be hogwash.

It’s free!

Maybe they’d enjoy a spurtle?

No signal before the spike strip? They must have been very worried about flight. Good de-escalation in that case.

The very calm arrest is either overkill or great police work, defusing flight risk enough that the suspect stops resisting. Must be annoying for officers that it’s hard to tell which from the outside.

Most men look at other males to assess threat level, and females to assess breeding potential, it is an unconcious drive (we also unconsciously assess if things are edible, but less so for humans :p). I use the pronouns of men, male and female carefully in that sentence, other interactions are less studied.

For socialised men, the urge stops there, and with a healthy body and relation to it you also don’t spend more attention on it. Sometimes, like when affected by hormones, loneliness, psychosexual/physical/mental imbalance, etc. the responses are more intense, and could be viewed as a signal of unmet needs (analogous to hunger, sleepiness, pain, etc) that you can react to in an appropriate manner.

When the thoughts, impulses or actions become hard to control or risk creating negative consequences, that’s where intervention helps, like therapy, medication, lifestyle adjustment, etc.

So basically, it happens, it will vary by season, age, diet, health, etc. Please consider if you might be horny, lonely, or have other unhealth to take care of. If you find it takes up too much of your attention (to function normally) and/or threatens your impulse control, seek help.

A decent bar for normal functioning is that it shouldn’t interfere with social relationships: don’t make people uncomfortable, don’t hurt anyone (including yourself), as well as day-to-day life: don’t ruminate/obsess, don’t spiral.

It is less often spoken about but fairly common to fantasise about encounters and even masturbate to them. Just be mindful that it’s your fantasy you’re entertaining, it has nothing to do with the actual person which you will need to respect and treat as they wish to be treated.

As this is a point of common misunderstanding, let me repeat: You seeing something that sparks attraction or even excitement might lead to fantasies of it in a sexual setting, maybe even gestalted with their body. All of this is your imagination, none of it is real.

The actual person is not your object of infatuation, has not shared your fantasy or even desires, and they will rightfully react negatively if you project your fantasy on to them.

So I repeat: it’s normal to notice, it’s impolite to make a thing of it or make people uncomfortable, it’s expected that you can regulate your impulses and make sure you have the strategies and resources to do it, and seek help if you cannot.