Ive never had an HD arrive DOA, but one amazon new drive i ordered did that.

It was frustrating to diagnose cause that was the last thing I believed could be wrong.

OP, this guy has given you an honest answer that is actually good material.

Seconding these recommendations.

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America https://a.co/d/5pCJwnr

This would probably be better for an american reader. Theyre not gonna get the cultural underpinnings of ‘Foundations’ without reading an analysis and I dont think this is what OP is looking for. Foundations is Russian international relations theory.

Hard disagree with Rand, thats just a libertarian circle jerk.

Better would be anything from Jefferson. If you really want to get into the weeds, the Anti-Federalists from the 1790’s opposing the Constitution in favor of keeping the original Articles of Confederation that governed the US right after independence.

If youre being honest, then youre going to need to look at historical material like Locke & Hobbes to get a foundation.

Modern conserativism… aggitation… can bw traced through Gingrich in the House in the early 90s, I cant think of the book off the top of my head but theres a pretty decent record of how he did manipulative things with unmanned cspan cameras at the time.

Don’t kill yourself OP

You get hours to plot trajectories and line up a shot on an incoming missile or drone from those rsnges.

For a bomb dropped from an aircraft theres 15 - 30 seconds from release to impact.

No he wants a switch, so its like you finish washing and rinsing but just want to be in there without wasting water longer so start reusing “clean” water now.

Ive asked the same question, the conclusion that I came to is it is a foreign word that doesnt mean anything in the context and is a give away to AI generated images.

We were “just testing” one on Ukraine!