Unicode doesn't kill people, people who use Unicode end up killing people! In my day, we had to manually bit bang each character into the pipeline, translating its hexadecimal representation into binary encoding in our heads along the way. And woe be unto your house if you need something like an umlaut or accent mark, as these were part of the forbidden symbols, only ever seen on strange and foreign boxen. These symbols, which could only have been crafted with ill intent (perhaps for cursing your enemies, or maybe for protection from same?) were anathema to us. We needed only the letters, numbers and punctuation which could be encoded using the sacred punch card, the two hundred and fifty six representations from which all knowledge may be constructed and within which all wisdom is found. We spent many moons translating these cards, first into raw bytecode, then assembly, later again into higher level languages, abstractions and efficiencies piling upon themselves, growing ever larger and more precarious until it finally collapsed into a singularity of impossible complexity, and we now have found ourselves standing in the center of this tesseract, unable to escape the prison of our own making. If you listen closely while viewing a full moon, you can still hear the lamentations of our folly, a brief whisper of "Ampersand percent what the fuck now...and why isn't my password working?"

Actually long range sensors were accomplished by sensor suites packed into a Proton torpedo shell, which once fired is capable of traversing subspace to the region you desire to scan. Didn't you ever play the old Star Trek terminal game?

The beauty of the state licensing regime, my friend, is that they may impose whatever restrictions they desire, without pesky things like due process or consideration getting in the way. If the DMV says you have to wear a pink hat on Tuesdays, well well motherfucker, guess who gonna wear a pink hat if they wanna drive on Tuesday? You do not have a right to drive a motor vehicle. You may be given permission to do so at the discretion of some guy who probably has way too much private time with impressionable youths, who would surely never trade blowjobs for passing grades, and you may even be pretty good at it, and look even better doing it (the blowjobs or the driving, dealers choice) but nowhere in the constitution or bill of rights does it say you have the right to carriage, only travel. Travel is easily accomplished using whatever locomotive function the good lord and/or Charles Darwin decided you should have, or that you have had installed aftermarket if that was your choice (like maybe those trampoline shoes they play basketball with? That would be pretty sick) I don't necessarily believe a beauracratic institute should have that kind of power, but that's the way it is and since nobody asked me I'll just keep my solution to myself (it involves replacing cars with a large mycelial network, join my substack) but I will say that watching sovereign citizens try to argue to the contrary is often a source of amusement.

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Every car that I've ever seen do this has a way of resetting the OBDII errors, either holding a combination of dash buttons, or even simpler, just disconnecting the battery for like 30sec. You will need to drive something like 25miles before any codes will trigger, because they need to complete a "baseline" reading before they can figure out which codes to display. This also will let you know if a code is real, or just a sensor needing a reset.

No, that's already a weird german thing, and I'd just like to say, we really wouldn't want to be confused for those guys on a dark street corner, and also - trust me on this part - you do not want to go looking for more info on them without having some type of powerful brain bleach close at hand.

Yes, because the development of cities did not in fact have any effect on population. Don't get me wrong, back in the day when cities got too big, sure, lots of people ended up dying from famine or cholera. But guess what? We didnt just give up on cities.

This is just like the old "Consumer Accounting System - Handheld" idea that's been floating around for ages. The basic principle is to use small, generic, fungible pieces of paper in order to represent units of currency. The original proposal included denominations of 1 unit, 2 units, 5 units and 7.56 units.

Pfft, please, everyone knows that magnets are actually powered by angels, and the reason Chinese magnets are so great is because so many people had to die to produce them. More dead workers = more angels = more better magnets. /s

Dust to dust Dilbert was funny But Scott was a nut

In my opinion, we should be able to draw similar energy from the rotation of the earth, combined with our magnetic field. This is also probably the explanation for UFO sightings - they could care less about us, but they need a class M planet (one that can support life) in order to recharge their engines. By collecting excess energy using the combo of the magnetic field and earth's rotation, they are able to refuel at any system containing a similarly configured planet.

> Attempts to go to CVS in 2065 > Avoid the badlands, mutants, roving gangs > Finally arrive at the location of CVS > Realize that I am actually at the top of a mountain, and the remains of the CVS are now at the bottom of a flooded valley about 1/3 of a mile away > Die of malnutrition despite eating plenty of giant fruits and veg found on the journey

I was just fucking around with the timecube comment earlier, this actually makes a lot of sense now and I see what you're saying. It sounds like this would be the preferred file type for any kind of holographic or volumetric display, since you would have the entire cube to play around in as far as generating the correct angle of a frame for the user's specific viewing angle, if that makes any sense?

Can I get a hallelujah for this man who speaks truths, the wording of which has been forbidden by the high masters since time immemorial. They demand we do not question why the same people who have led us to this place keep insisting that they are the only ones who can get us out. It would seem to me that we've reached the American equilibrium, where we keep getting out exactly what we can be half-assed to put in, which is exactly squat and maybe, if we're lucky and the good lord don't mind, some diddly. We insist, nay, we DEMAND, as is our God Given Right as Americans, to be allowed to keep touching the hot stove, probably because we lost all feeling after the last 3 or 4 times, not to mention the smell is nice and it is kinda warm in a nice way, but then we blame the same people we keep voting in year after year for letting us do it...and then turn right around and start yelling about who turned the stove off and what do you mean I have to wear special gloves (with a subscription that turns off the oven if you didn't make this month's new higher payment of $49.99)? I look forward to being able to win major elections by simply saying "whatever these assholes want, I'm gonna do the opposite."

Please, if there is actually some kind of problem or accident, it's not like anybody outside of the plane will be affected. Never, in the entire history of manned flight, has an airplane ever caused any type of damage to lives or property that were not directly aboard the airplane. This is common knowledge. The earth is like what, 80% water right? So that means 4 out of 5 accidents will occur over the ocean, leaving only 1 out of 5 that we need to worry about. Now that we only have to worry about the one plane, we can just pick a random flight every day, whose flight path does not go over the ocean, you cancel that flight and boom - you're statistically likely to be safe.