Worth while if you need it often, but otherwise just use parchment paper and a clip board.

Down right idiotic. I’m all for some better gun control, but this is just a stupid idea.

If Texas wants to put a bounty on women, we should be able to put a bounty on guns. It’d be a lot more effective too.

It’s even worse when you consider not only the wasted space, but all of it wasted in winter when you’re not allowed to live there.

Just in time, Trump needs a new water boy

It would be impossible to build today by any means. Not because of any technological problem. Physically it could be done rather quickly, as others have posited. The problem is that you could never combine the political and economic will to complete it.

It’s the same reason it would be easier to colonize Mars than to fix climate change. There’s a half dozen robots on Mars that will do whatever you tell them. On Earth, there’s 7 billion assholes who think they have a better idea of what to do.

I think armor that makes you blind might just give your opponent time to figure out where you’re not wearing armor.

Guess how investment companies empty out retirement communities so they can build condos in Florida.

Also, that’s the basis for laws on rent control. Which in Florida, is more of a suggestion than a law.

Oh look, it’s the new cover story for parallel construction.

I heard Hawaii, but that could be completely wrong.

Now I’m feeling called out. I keep having these stacks of if statements that could just be a big ass list of and and and, but then it runs into the debate of how much crap should be in one line of code? Especially knowing, at some point, it’s going to be my dumb ass stepping through trying to figure out why this one edge case is the reason we’re not hitting the inner code.

Finally figuring out that war is economics with violence. Our sanctions have been half assed from the start, and need to include some serious pressure on any country not abiding by them.

China has long had a unification plan. It’s not really anything new. There’s just been a huge political football made out of it for decades. And of course that led to stupidly huge over investment in their economy by the rest of the globe as a way to encourage China to back off. Xi doesn’t see the value in the status quo. It’d be like California seceding, then making tons of money while the rest of the US went fascist and built military power. Same ending.

Financial stress. Go take a closer look at the crime stats that right wing racists like to hammer the black community with. Then adjust them for poverty rates in the community. All of a sudden the racial divide in violent crime goes away. If anything, poor white men are the most violent, but not by enough to really be significant. The driving factor, by around 10 or 15 to 1, is poverty.

We’re seeing declining standards of living across the country, while technology hides the true depths of it. The whole, you can’t be poor if you have a wide screen TV and a refrigerator, is almost true. It’s just enough to make it look like having no bargaining power, being locked into your zip code, buried in debt, and renting everything you own, somehow represents wealth.

Have you read Microsoft manuals?

It’s not the language. ChatGPT is about as useful as a decent code manual. It won’t actually solve any problems for you, but it can show you the general format for doing so.

Look at you with your color vision being all elitist. Some of us old bastards don’t see them pretty rainbows so much any more.

They’re the bunker buster for infantry advancement. You can’t keep them in front all the time, they’d get taken out. But being able to blast and smash fortified positions during an infantry engagement can decide a battle. They can also give short chase to escaping mobile units.

On a defensive front, they’re a bunker that can move whenever your own hard points get bombed out. Providing cover to maintain a position.

Schools are far too based on attendance, and often legally can only count kids with a butt in their seat at school. Even into college, progress is based more on appearance than ability.

It leads to crappy teaching, and draconian absence policies.

To be fair, forcing kids into school drastically cuts down on child abuse. So there is a logic behind it, just taken a bit too far.

China has probably gotten more from their various intel ops in the US supply chain. There isn’t a lot they could get in the field without risking serious repercussions.

Grab any modular electronics, charter a boat to the Bahamas, divert to Cuba after stashing them on a deserted island along the way. Use a thumb drive of pictures to bargain for the gps coordinates to China.

Unless I thought of something better along the way.