> Quite often looks just like it though. Like, just like it. "From the river to the sea", "by all means necessary", etc.

One can always find extreme or odd quotes from individuals if sought out. Jared's "nice beachfront property" gaffe is an example (assuming it was a gaffe).

It's argument-via-outliers.

> Israel attacks valid military targets

And I'm Clark Kent. Israel stuffed the West Bank with families as human shields: "We can't move now, we gots babies!"

> Meanwhile, you've got Hamas specifically targeting women and children for rape and murder and live-streaming the whole thing to the world.

I've seen no evidence that was centrally planned versus rogue groups. Hamas often does things decentralized to avoid com interceptions by Israel spying. Decentralization means more rogue activities.

Ofc I don't mean LITERALLY nobody. There are niches of readers here and there.

But my kids are all in their 20s and 30s, and they have many friends who say things like "you know, I haven't read a single actual book since college".

To me it's incomprehensible, and I sort of take it as evidence of the collapse but...is it really all that different than say, the 1950s? 1930s? Sure, intellectuals of all eras read but I don't believe the % of intellectuals by nature has particularly swung one way or another since then.

Supporting Palestinian rights is not the same as supporting Hamas. Both Israel's and Gaza's gov't are bottom-of-the-line assholes. They are zealot-controlled Hatfields and McCoys.

I'm curious what they're going to use up power dragonfly?

  Sure the atmo density should make flying easier* but that distance and air density combine to make solar basically impossible.

*I'm not sure that's as "given" as they make it sound. Low air pressure on Mars meant that even hurricane-speed winds aren't that forceful. At 1.5bar, I'd assume the force of even a gentle breeze will be significant.

Ingenuity leveraged daily solar charging to avoid having to lug hefty batteries around; certainly that won't be an option for dragonfly.

This. That would be awesome.

lol!

"Keyboards, pssh. Kids today ... why we all set our bits by hand!"

> A radio signal takes about 22 1/2 hours to reach Earth from Voyager 1

Engineers having Comcast should be used to that.

people working on this are doing a much cooler job than mine

Actually I have similar problems maintaining our underfunded undocumented legacy apps, some pre-PC, but things like budget tracking isn't nearly as glamorous as interstellar exploration.

rather than being a feelgood title for some script kiddies

Yes, but at least my probe is web-scale and will thus get me a web-scale job! Fixing it at Uranus will be some other sucker's job.

Where are they?

> Where does the federal government get the legal authority to...

They have none, they just secretly swipe bank money from gov't haters using their Deep Network of pizza parlor basement servers. Some are even hidden under the basement, a sub-basement, so they can't be found by vigilante basement inspectors like Edgar Maddison Welch. The Deep State out-Scoobied the Doo.

Saving the Planet may require a bit of socialism. What would Jesus decide?

> more like [local] electrical company recalcitrance to preserve their own profit base

We wanted solar panels that could power our house directly if there were a power outage, which have been too common of late. But the local power co. rules are that you can't have such unless you also have a battery system, which greatly adds to the price. We'd be happy with day-time-power-only during a general power-outage such that batteries are not worth the extra cost & maintenance. (Yes, we know we may not be able to run all appliances at the same time under such; half is fine!)

But multiple panel vendors told us that was against local power co' regulations. What's the friggen point of solar panels if you can't use them during a blackout?

Reducing our bill by about 10% but having risky ugly panels on top (rain leaks etc.) is not enough incentive. We also want the "Armageddon insurance" of self-generated power. Greedy Jerks! During Armageddon I'm going to eat the executives there raw: "Sorry, I can't bake you first, you wouldn't allow blackout power. Now stop squirming!"

(FBI doesn't wish to track Armageddon cannibalism threats; Mulder and Scully are fake.)

PS, the US was sloppy with radiation safety also, but not the the extent of the Soviets.

There we go: whichever politician(s) runs up the debt* has to be a Boeing Flying Car test-pilot.

* By spending too much and/or not taxing the rich