The thumbs are the carry and borrow flags.

Because homo sapiens have eight fingers.

Cue "Dueling Banjos".

Real geeks boot with the front panel toggle switches.

"With great power comes great responsibility."

- Voltaire (or Spider Man)

Unsettling because it's not the radioactivity levels in the vicinity of the barrels that is of concern*. It's the solubility of various radionuclides in sea water and the subsequent diffusion over large distances that concerns me. Glassification of spent fuel and other byproducts would tend to confine this stuff, keeping them in one place.

*See https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

Well then, we should be moving on to super duper intelligence.

So at least now we know what Coyote will look like after impact with the canyon floor.

Amazon Consumer Merchandise Expediter

Guardrails would invalidate the Nuremberg defense

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Why not? After all, it won't be coming out of their pockets.

The manufacturers of social media content is the public. I'd hate to see how the regulations would affect First Amendment rights. And who we'd get to be the lab rats for testing safety and efficacy.

... there are two wolves.

Drugs and booze are just as dangerous for adults as kids. We assume that for a subset of these, adults have the maturity and judgement to regulate their own use. Not always a valid assumption, but what else are we going to do? Go through another prohibition?

Truth is stranger than fiction.

I saw the story of that burglary on a program about bank jobs. The History Channel, I believe.