As I recall, Ohio toll highways did this years ago; if your time stamp at the booth was less than a certain number of minutes since the previous, you got a ticket for speeding.
Infallible, and took away the point really.
Sure, I guess you could speed and then pull over waiting before you cross the next gate but... Why bother?
Yes.
Have you heard the quality of her court discussions?
A Supreme Court justice that argues against the minutiae of 'legalese' seriously?
The primary stated goal of NASA's Artemis program for several years was to land the first woman and person of color on the moon. It was emphasized repeatedly, trumpeted, and openly stated on NASA's website for years (before it was taken down in March 2025).
While I certainly understand your attempt to strawman the point, this doesn't logically mean the woman and person of color on the crew are necessarily unqualified.
What it does suggest to anyone who isn't crying racism/sexism on a daily basis, is that given equivalent qualifications, these individuals - to fill the stated goal of the program - would have been preferentially picked over other candidates afflicted with the regrettable conditions of whiteness and/or maleness.
IF NASA would have gone so far as to pick someone to fill those gendered- and ethnically-preferred roles over someone more qualified, I can't say. (Then again, we have KBJ as Supreme Court so anything's possible.)
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"The real reason we will never be able to "fix" the drought is because the American West is not in a drought right now.
And you can't fix something that isn't broken.
The West's rapid aridification isn't being caused by a "once-in-a-century" weather event like the flooding in Kentucky or the nearly constant hurricanes that pummel the Southeast each year.
It's not even the direct result of climate change (although that's definitely accelerating the process and making the effects more intense). Western states are running out of water because they are located in a desert.
What we're dealing with in the West is not a drought because the current lack of rainfall isn't "abnormal" for a desert. Dry is the default setting. And you can't call it a "drought" because you wish deserts were wetter.
The problem isn't the so-called drought - - it's the city planners, developers, and suburbanites who built cities in a desert with no plan to provide water beyond wishful thinking and praying for rain.
The fact that we got weirdly lucky with unseasonably wet weather for a few decades has helped us ignore the reality that the American West simply doesn't have the water to support 65 million people - - and half of the country's agriculture - - at least not at anything near our current water usage levels.
And there's really nothing we can do about it."
According to researcher Lynn Ingram, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, "The 20th century was abnormally wet and rainy." Ingram goes on to claim, "The past 150 years have been wetter than the past 2,000 years." (cf "The California drought is helping return the weather pattern to normal" https://archive.ph/0m3BI)
In other words, what we're experiencing now isn't a drought. It's a reestablishment of the norm."
If i were a betting person i'd also clone an opposite-sex version of myself, ya know, in case i wanted to transition...
The Man Who Folded Himself . Embarrassing to be rejected by yourself.
Gauging sentience is a necessary prerequisite for harvesting organs for transplantation.
Remember, kids! A technology that can keep you alive forever, can be used by debtors, governments, and other similar psychopaths to keep you alive. Forever
A key point almost never mentioned. Vernor Vinge touched on some of the negative aspects. The idea was also used in an episode of Stargate SG-1 where Colonel O'Neil was repeatedly tortured to death and then revived.
Because all credit cards are stupid. The entire concept of buying on credit is stupid.
"Credit card" is not the same as "buying on credit" (which can be done without a credit card). For those with sufficient means, who pay off their credit-card balance every billing cycle, it's just a free loan. And there are some merchants who won't accept cash -- it increases their risk of theft and takes time to count. (And some "cashiers" are unable to do arithmetic well enough to make change.)
There are also some people who have no alternative to buying on credit. Maybe they need a car repair in order to get to their job to have income, but they don't have the cash on hand to pay for it.
"By the 1970s these 'bombed to shit' countries were outcompeting American manufacturers in their own domestic market."
LOL
"I'll just prove his exact point for him!"
Thanks man!
Lol, cogent conservative responses here get modded to oblivion.
Frothing leftist flamer "Insightful"
Slashdot is so ideologically captured.
Did you think the benefit of being the 'only surviving industrial infrastructure' faded what, a week after ww2?
The universe is all a spin-off of the Big Bang.
