It's hillbilly for "I'm a hillbilly."

We've already got Artificial Charisma...

produces higher quality sperm

That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...

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.

+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.

I did point out it's only a little smug, and that trucks aren't emission-free, but your point is taken.

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.

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.

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.

Turn in your nerd card.

First up, YRO. This guy used home-NVR footage as the basis for three music videos. Which he posted online. As protest against police abuse. That's interesting to (some) nerds in several ways.

Second, there's a header for Entertainment which this could also have been filed under.

It's never been cool to be deliberately overly reductive about the mission statement and purpose of Slashdot but it's even worse when you're wrong.

Just to be clear, cop-beating is not okay, in court or out. Unless it's consensual.

But at the same time it also increases the proliferation of new designs, which causes too much efficiency in production.

I find it interesting how 30+ years ago with Star Trek we were very excited be the idea of computers knowing everything. Captain Picard could ask the computer where someone was. Everyone was inputting log entries and diagnostics scans and Tricorder readings. Almost every character had their literal sub-atomic-level patterns read for transporter use. We mostly thought all that was so very cool.

It says a lot that the tech-bros have ruined that vision by being untrustworthy. Privacy and data-ownership should've been respected from Day 1 and accords drawn up that any person, corporation, or nation who violated them would face dire consequences.

And a douche bag of a president who drops bombs next to schools and kills 135 kids . Should resign on the spot for that.

Look up "human shields", the practice of siting military targets among (or in or under) large collections of non-military civilians, in order to deter strikes against them or produce propaganda claims of atrocities when they're attacked anyhow.

In such situations the fault for the "collateral damage" is assigned to the side that set up the arrangement, not the side that hit it.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that the US has been trying very hard to use precision munitions and extreme military intelligence to take out military targets with as little harm to the innocents they're embedded among as possible, with impressive success. Compare the amount of collateral damage in this war to any of those conducted in the 20th century.

He's doing the bare minimum sniff test of verifying that *you* are the guy whose name is on the bookings and not someone sneaking in on someone else's name who can't even pronounce the name on your fake id.

At least in the case of people claiming to be returning citizens I've been told that they're comparing your accent to your claimed residence (or residence history).

Different words are acquired at different ages, and many are pronounced with regional variations. An expert can talk to you for a few minutes and come up with a pretty good age-map of where you lived as you grew up. An agent with a modicum of training can detect a mismatch between how you pronounce certain words and your claimed residence and pass you through quickly or keep you around and drill more deeply. (If you now live in an area with a regional accent wildly different from where you grew up it can help to answer a where-do-you-reside question with "Footown, but I grew up in Barstate".)

I presume they are doing something similar, though no doubt with lower resolution, on the world-wide level for visitors from other countries.

I was actually in college in the 1990s, but yes, a middle schooler today with python on a raspberry pi and a pretty simple GPS module could do this.