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Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 91

And that's a very dangerous way to drive. We lost an incoming member and his family 50 miles outside of town because he presumably fell asleep at the wheel, crossed the median, and hit a semi front-end. All 4 in the car died.

Taking proper breaks isn't that hard and increases the chances you'll actually make it.

If I'd tried to submit a travel plan with your proposal as junior enlisted, I'd have been told to redo it.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 91

A 15 minute break every 2 hours won't increase driving time by 50%. Worst case it'd change 8 days into 9, and that's only assuming that the breaks cut into driving time.
Meanwhile, driving without breaks and proper rest increases the chances that you will never make it, like the family that was coming to join my unit.
50 miles outside of town, crossed the median and hit the front end of a semi. All 4 in the car perished.
No drugs in the driver's system, all we could presume was that he fell asleep at the wheel.

Comment Re:A trip through the Australian outback (Score 1) 91

They work for the occasional "blue moon" charging, I think. It'd be like having a house that is solar + battery also having a generator for "just in case", allowing the house to still have power during that week long storm front, an inverter failure, or even just the annual family visit where the place has 10X the normal people there.
Especially if the genset is already there for things like transmission line failures.
IE use the genset to allow EVs to get there to begin with, then upgrade to solar one they're a regular enough occurrence for that to make sense.

Comment Re: Yay (Score 1) 91

I don't generally consider bathroom breaks, basic food and drinks to be entertainment myself. If you consider modern 70% charging times (From ~15% to ~85%), that's about the mandatory 15 minutes break period mandated in various places for continued good performance.

By the time somebody has plugged in their car, walked to and finished visiting the restroom including washing hands, gotten a drink and a snack, and walked back (actual order optional), it's quite likely that around 15 minutes has passed.

Maybe include a walking path or something around these stations, get a little exercise in? I know I feel better about long drives with regular walking breaks.

Comment Re:Photo alteration (Score 1) 57

That was phrased badly. What I meant is that you can keep multiple versions of a photo, used for different purposes.

If you're doing things right, watermarking/editing a photo doesn't destroy the original. The original goes into evidence, the watermarked is posted to the public. That way, there's evidence of the source of the picture, even if it is scraped and separated from the website/page.

In physical terms, it'd be like writing the details of the photograph on the back, like what we used to do with traditional developed photographs.

Comment Photo alteration (Score 1) 57

I think that you're mixing up that a photo can be used for multiple purposes.
Basically, the original unedited photo goes into the police report/file for evidentiary purposes.
The altered photo - probably also resized and compressed to be easier on bandwidth, is what is posted for publicity purposes, where there isn't a police report also attached, where there's a high probability of it becoming disconnected from the website.
The version of the photo intended for facebook or whatever shouldn't ever be presented in court.

Comment Re:unnecessary (Score 1) 57

I can see plenty of reasons to add the department logo, to remind people of where that particular bust came from.
What it doesn't need to be, what it shouldn't be, is something that is trying to look like an actual part of the original image. It should look like a computer logo on a photo, not an actual fabric badge pasted to the wall.

Comment Re: never attribute to malice... (Score 4, Insightful) 57

The original photo is evidence; it was still intact. The edited photo with the police badge watermark was to be a publicity tool, not evidence.

Though I'll state that you don't even need layers for this - just open the .jpg or whatever you got from the evidence in an email or whatever in paint, save as a new file, paste in the watermark, save again.

Comment Re:Marvel (Score 1) 183

Ever consider that with their tech level that you wouldn't see trans people? We only see them today because the transformation isn't perfect.
Dr. Bashir was apparently able to pull a sex change operation on Quark within hours as an out patient procedure. Then reverse it. Now, I know, not human, but you should get the point. Other things we see are artifical eyes, hearts, and cloned spines.
Basically, one of the main cases could have had a sex change and we'd never know it unless it came up in the background.
As for TOS, that would be a Doyalist explanation - not an issue yet even on people's minds. Racism still was. True through TNG at the least.

Comment Re:Marvel (Score 1) 183

Indeed. For that matter, it just occured to me that it fits the "communist manifesto" pretty good.

Consider that Earth, that became a founding member of the Federation, had to suffer through WWIII and the Eugenics wars. Depending on the writers, those might have been separate or the same conflict. And if you follow the backstory, they had to be bad. Worse than WWI and WWII put together, higher casualty rates.

And what did Marx put in his writings? That the utopian communist society would have to be put in place through revolution - let's see, they eliminate money after an extremely damaging world war...
Though later writers did tend to moderate stuff a bit. I always keep in mind that we're seeing the Federation primarily through the lens of Starfleet, effectively the Navy. Of course, it's going to keep its crews fed and happy. It's probably not going to worry about money, though apparently, they do have "credits" - transporter, replicator, that sort of thing.
The Vulcans and most other races still seem to have money, so the lack is mostly human/earth based. Despite the Vulcan's backstory actually being worse, war wise.

That said, I have to disagree on "woke" and transhumanism. I'm a scifi nerd. Woke isn't even dipping its toe into that.

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