More than just this, it’s also proper education and training in how to be responsible, healthy, and safe online. Simply denying them access based on nothing but authoritarian principle is likely going to lead to nonstop binges once they inevitably are on their own. It’s important for them to actually understand why.

100% this^. I’m not even in aerospace and it was shocking to me the level of ignorance present in corporations because of how undervalued competence is. When you think you can just slap the wine bottle from the hand of the guy living outside on the street and put him in a technical position at half the cost it’s amazing anything works at all in this world.

I mean, electric vehicles are the future with battery prices less than 10% of what they were in 2010 and continue to trend on that curve while on par to cost 1/3 per mile for fuel given wholesale natural gas and electric production costs, but they came first or at the last around the same time as internal combustion vehicles. Electric vehicles are the technology of the future because they are quickly surpassing internal combustion as the cheaper vehicle to own. So really Tomorrowland was right to use internal combustion when it did, it was the superior technology as batteries are complex to understand and engineer compared to making fire and were the primary limiter all the way into the 2000’s.

I was taught the stairs method. You simply throw the papers down the stairs, and grade based on how far they go.

Historically yes, but the reality now is corporations and political donors are now intertwined with both domestic and foreign influences. Money is being given out as favors, and those favors are in return laundered as donations, often indirectly, to political campaigns and the cycle repeats. Dollars are not a zero sum game, even the value they represent is arcane and nebulous even if it’s backed by physical goods and services.

This would be a real concern, so disinformation and other campaigns are waged to sow divisions and create upheaval just like is being waged in the US right now by powers both foreign and domestic. Just like I don’t have much hope of people here working together anytime soon, I don’t think it’s going to happen with so many players. Who knows though; there could always be some catalyzing event to promote unity.

The American military is so incredibly powerful for many reasons, among the most important is forcing adoption of the dollar onto as many other world economies as possible. Right now, 65 fiat currencies are pegged to the dollar, not even counting other currencies and markets that trade in dollars. This way, when the money printer goes “brrrrrrrr” you can print far more money and not suffer inflation because it’s much harder to dilute the entire planet. As a bonus, debt is good because when the inflation does hit but your economic capacity does not by the same margin, foreign countries with debt are holding the bag as we print some paper and the majority owed to ourselves can be redistributed as favors for keeping the “right” people in power. This is the same money that’s used to great effect in campaigns. Further, if any country gets out of line, ultimately conflicts are resolved by force which is why America is geared to taking on all of he entire world minus Europe by itself. It knows where the power lies.

It starts with religion, where made up beliefs are held more sacred than hard observable and repeated measurements and it just spreads from there. Finding solutions to the problems in objective reality is hard enough, we don’t need made up beliefs making it even more intractable. Just look at who this infighting benefits and where the money and fruits of actual labor are concentrating and it suddenly makes quite a bit of sense why outrage fear bait and division tactics has such money behind it.

The worst part is the people at the top milking the system don’t see or care they are destroying it. The more they gain by leeching, the closer the country and world approaches the efficiencies of war torn countries where rule is locally held by roving gangs with small arms and no one has any real wealth or quality of life, even those who take by force still are impoverished compared to the top few % in democratic countries with strong social safety nets. When we don’t have equity, fairness, and an informed public to uphold democracy in their own best interests the system moves towards collapse. While democracies are stable, and areas ruled by roving gangs with small arms are stable, the space between is not, wide, and hard to cross. That does not mean we can continue on this path forever because too much and there will come a tipping point where America will buckle and never recover for the foreseeable future if these trends continue.

Isn’t it already almost a day into the past now?

According to Tesla you shouldn’t or can’t use any of the self driving features in inclement weather because it cannot identify ice or surface traction conditions and snow obstructs the sensors, fouling them quickly. They say it’s on the user to continuously monitor conditions and adjust them, which is by definition not full self driving. It does this to all cars and all sensors, even my auto follow cruise control gives warnings in all my vehicles when it is slushy/snowy.

More than that, it’s only used in the safest conditions. Around here you can’t read the lines on the road, sometimes for months, because they are covered in snow. Try to use any of the “self driving” technologies and the car will refuse or worse. If you want to compare numbers with human vs computer drivers, then the same conditions should be used. Sunny day freeway miles to sunny day freeway miles. It’s not clear at all they are safer than average humans, including drunk texting teens. Pitted against actual capable attentive humans and it’s clear we are no where near supremacy and won’t be for decades at least.

Are you saying the capacitor is in flux? A flux capacitor?

They didn’t consider it either, there are any number of sites to get pirated content. However, plex is a legal way to save money and share with family and friends both of which corporations are trying to get rid of.

I’ve found the image is pretty good quality, but the thickness means you see internal reflections of any really bright point light source. Still, I’d rather view through welding glass than film but for photography a thin filter is probably better.

If you want more, just do what Dr.Becky on YT recommended, hold up a colander and look at the shadow. If things get too intense you can use it as a hat to block the mind control rays.

Then you’re gonna love this.