I’m surprised he wants to be associated with a failed leader like her, but then again he associates with failed lawyers all the time, almost like incompetence is a virtue.
I realise that isn’t surprising anyone at this point, but I keep assuming that he’d value the appearance of competence even if ignoring the reality, and yet here he is chumming with expired lettuce. Maybe he just enjoys the rare feeling of being the most competent person in the room
Voids often have limb arrangement malfunctions
This is ours from last year
I do, when those investments can be copied for free
“You wouldn’t steal a car”, but if you could download one from the internet the world would be a better place.
At first I thought you meant that killing hitler would effectively kill everyone born after hitler since the conditions of their birth didn’t exist anymore.
But you’re going for a variation of the “let’s make hitler’s art career take off” plan, fair enough
If you pull slightly too far ahead he will stop and wait for you to return, probably whilst being mobbed by enemies.
The cat isn’t part of the equation, I gave no opinion on that. The risk of never testing your failure response is much higher than the risk of testing your failure response.
If a test happens to save a cat? Lucky cat. If not, they’ll still have to test it at some other point anyway.
A backup system that isn’t tested regularly is not a backup at all, just the illusion of one.
If you can’t turn the power off with 24h notice then nature will turn it off with zero notice at the most inconvenient moment.
Or a limited number of dimensions. Our 11 dimensional overlords probably wonder if we even count as life, or perhaps we’re just entertaining automata running as a screensaver.
I’m not convinced there’s any internal use for blockchain. Internal implies under a specific umbrella, some overarching organisation, who can then be the central trusted server that makes blockchain unnecesary.
That said, non-public but open uses, such as tracking dealings between companies in markets with little trust and no single governments (the shipping example in your referenced comment) is indeed the thin slither of a plausible use-case.
Another limitation is that blockchain loses its benefits if anyone tries to design over the complexity of using it directly (using a ui that under the hood uses blockchain is no different to using a ui that talks to a central database, you’re trusting the central ui provider, you need to (at least be able to) build your own interface to realise the benefits of blockchain.
That means blockchain basically will never benefit individuals, it can’t. Sure, you could have multiple compatible uis shared around, but that’s no different security-wise to multiple central banks with an interoperable transfer system.
The only place blockchain has real benefits is when multiple large corporations/governments are interacting and don’t trust eachother/anyone.
This particular route wasn’t electrified, they mention at the end that it’s electrification was cancelled after cost overruns.
Reading between the lines, this is quite a short route, and the batteries are really not particularly impressive (more than a typical car battery, but not much more), though the recharge rate is (2000kw is impressive). Batteries are very expensive (maybe less than electrifying a line, but still very expensive), but trains are very good at lugging massive weight, so if you could afford the batteries you could probably make a battery train that went genuinely long distances (more than battery cars would ever be practical for).
Though a battery fire in such a train would be an impressive and expensive lightshow.
That makes sense, we’ve all had days like that
So 0 charisma means you die of ugliness? You’re so disgusted by yourself you just stop breathing? Or the gods find you so unappealing they reach down and snuff you out?
Yup, my daughter cut her nose quite a few times just rubbing her face, and slice us regularly. They grow from well trimmed to dangerous weapons in less than a week so there’s no avoiding it really
True. Lots of pronatalists tend towards eugenics, so doubt they’re huge fans of adoptions.
OTOH, even nurture-over-nature pronatalists would be problematic. “I’m better than everyone else so I should have an outsize impact on the next generation by adopting as many children as possible” is only slightly better than the eugenic variant.
I see where you’re coming from but no, I’m very much not pronatalist, and my opinion of them is literally what I put in the comment.
I was going for “amusing juxtaposition” but the vote balance on my comment shows you were not the only one who didn’t take it that way, my bad!
Edit: I also do not hate ducks
In cartoon ducks: overly simplistic but cute, naive, and innocent
In humans: pronatalism. weird disgusting pseudo colonial bullshit that’s the dark mirror to “just” wanting kids.
Edit: sorry for throwing cynicism into a cute comic’s comment section. Promise I’m fine 😅
I’m sure being the leader of a modern society doesn’t require any interactions with technology.
I mean, the way he’d probably want to govern the country into the ground, it probably doesn’t to be fair.
Because America is a trusted ally and… hmm. My news feed seems to be stuck let me just refresh it…. Oh, hmm.
New idea: give china half of Americas fortress, let them sort it out together, it’d be good for them
UK sent some troops to Greenland (along with the other European countries) to discourage the US from any bad ideas
The fear seems to be that access to guns quickly leads to normalisation of guns, especially if the criminals try to keep up.
But I can imagine a middle ground where guns and training are available, but you have to get permission from a specialist who’s on the hook if it turns out the guns weren’t justified (or some such idea to stop them ending up in every action) to unlock the gun safe. Then the “domestic with a shotgun” scenario might be resolved a little more efficiently without everyone having to accept guns everywhere.