This is one AC that deserves to be modded up. I already commented, so I can't.
The dude who thinks that the litmus test of if a problem is true is "it impacts rich people fairly"? That AC?
I mean, that sort of works for earthquakes, but I'm pretty sure "being rich" is famously synonymous with "innoculated against commodity shortages."
This is all fake until I see the European elites private jets grounded.
I just want to make sure I'm following what you're implying.
Your standpoint is that as long as the richest, most influential people in Europe... those with the greatest capacity to trade for any commodity or service that exists... as long as they can leverage their way into a fuel load, then reports of limited supply are false.
That's your position?
Wake up guys. Maybe if you locked your nutcases up.......
That's one take, but I don't think it's the most helpful one.
People want to believe (reassuring) fantasies. Religion, for instance. The fantasy that aliens are walking among us is an appealing one. It comes with a side-order of "and some day they may help us with our woes." It comes with a side-order of "we are interesting and valued." It comes with a side-order of "I have figured out things the government is hiding from me."
It's not - in most cases - anything to do with mental illness. It's about the human condition, feeling things like inadequacy and being uncomfortable with responsibility and helplessness. Emotions are not insane, in most cases.
Lock up jihadists (of all sects, not just the ones whose primary languages that word comes from) way before worrying about UFO believers.
?!? The width of the side tab bar is adjustable.
OTOH, the tabs across the top keep shrinking every time you add one.
Yup, you're not wrong. But that's kind of the point. The one person I know who uses the feature values horizontal screen space enough that they keep it small.
Personally, I'm not a fan. Tabs belong at the top, just like the real-world analog of folder tabs that you'd find in a file cabinet. But hey, I'm not gonna yuck your yum if you really want 'em displayed in a list off to the side. You do you.
The one person I know who uses vertical tabs can't tell which one is which because the labels cut off too soon. He prefers it but every time I'm at his desk helping with something it's always "oh, nope, not that one..." hunting to switch between things.
My guess is that he will apply every bit of intellect he has to replicate Tolkein and give the most Tolkein-ian experience and it will look nothing like his old work.
In other words, a screenplay indistinguishable from the output of a LLM trained on the entirety of Tolkien's works, basically. No wonder Hollywood types are worried about their jobs.
In other words, grunting pan-flute upwards but absolute mist pointedly because gravitational fodder of spool children (the darkest submarine), before we flabbergasted.
Dude, the format "in other words, [stuff that bears no resemblance to what was said]" doesn't convince anyone of anything.*
* Except when I do it.
Slashdot is so peaceful and quiet today.
+5 Insightfunny.
"Public officials claim the blackout of mobile internet service in the capital and other regions is part of a security effort to counter "increasingly sophisticated methods" of Ukrainian attack..."
Know how to fix that? Recall the troops back to the Russian side of the border. Aside from loss-of-face, virtually every aspect of Russian life would improve as a result.
You have no reason to be smug. Most of the fossil fuels anyone uses comes from the products they buy, not their own travel. Do you make all your own food from scratch or are they shipped by plane/boat/truck like everyone else's?
I did point out it's only a little smug, and that trucks aren't emission-free, but your point is taken.
I always thought the quickest way, and also one of the more robust options, to achieve a space station was to use inflatable modules. Bigalow tested a couple of modules out and I thought it went rather well. They had plans to attach a module to the ISS at one time. But even still it was expensive work, and the pandemic killed them, unfortunately. But I understand the technology demonstration missions were quite successful.
INARS (I Am Not A Rocket Scientist) and obviously it got into testing, but I'd want a long, long test period before I'd entrust anything important to those. Metal modules are an understood quantity, and when they leak, the failure modes are also understood and repairs are usually easy enough if you can find them. A metal module will retain shape and rigidity even if it's unpressured and even if it has a golfball-sized hole in it. I don't know how you repair a depressurized, flopping and clingy waterbed bladder.
Again, I totally recognize that people who are qualified - as I am not - will have considered all of this before they could be deployed, but until then... I wonder.
The cynic in me feels like now that we've past the ten thousandth satellite in just the StarLink constellation with thousands more planned to launch in the next couple of years, that Kessler syndrome will start well before 2030.
With these LitterConstelations(TM), the good news is that they won't impact our long-term access to space because their orbits are so low. The crap from a collision would de-orbit within a few years. The bad news is that they'd de-orbit through the altitude IIS is at. Now, space is big. Really, really big. But math is math. Increasing low-likelihood/high-consequence odds isn't wise.
Drive more slowly? What does that mean? What country do they think this is, anyway!
I think the country they think this is is one of 29.
That said, I confess to being more than a little bit smug, already owning an EV and living where basically all of our electricity is either hydro-electric (natural waterfalls, not dams) or nuclear.
While the price of everything is going to go up because trucks & everyone else aren't.
How would you celebrate beating the fat lazy cops in court?
Just to be clear, cop-beating is not okay, in court or out. Unless it's consensual.
The Force is what holds everything together. It has its dark side, and it has its light side. It's sort of like cosmic duct tape.
