s/General/Commander-in-Chief/

Much lower? How much lower? I would not get on an airplane that had a fleet catastrophic failure rate of 10% per flight hour. Or 1%, or .1%, or .01%. To certify a passenger aircraft, the FAA CFRs require a catastrophic failure rate of 10e-6 per flight hour*. And that's for an airplane that carries a few hundred passengers. What catastrophic failure rate would you consider acceptable for a system whose failure would kill the entire human race?

*Disclaimer: the regulations fail when the regulating agency decides a manufacturer can "self-certify".

It was called “Cliff-Hanger Justice.” It was a satirical legal story written by Joey Green for National Lampoon magazine.
The multi-part story ran sequentially in the August, September, and October 1982 issues.

Google AI:
> "The piece is written entirely as a formal courtroom transcript and legal filings. In it, Wile E. Coyote sues the Acme Corporation for product liability. He seeks damages for the severe physical and psychological trauma caused by their chronically defective merchandise—including faulty giant rubber bands, explosive jet skates, malfunctioning catapults, and defective dehydrated boulders."

Ian Frazier wrote a highly similar, famously anthologized essay titled "Coyote v. Acme" for The New Yorker in 1990.

Just thought I'd mention it.

Yeah, the whole "TDS" thing is getting quite shopworn and tiresome. While it's natural to have a negative reaction when listening to Trump say that low prices on GLP-1 drugs is a solution to the affordability crisis, I really don't think most people have Trump in their heads to the extent that MAGA types have "libtards" in theirs.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this to happen except for in deep red states. The executive order directs the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) and the Board on Geographic Names (BGN) to change the lake’s name for official federal government purposes within 30 days of the EO, and thus only is enforceable at the Federal level. Google is just cravenly currying favor with this. By the way, the latest edition of National Geographic's "World Classic Map", updated after Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, still has the Gulf of Mexico labeled properly.

Almost everyone, actually. The acronym HOMES is just a device to help in remembering the names of the Great Lakes, and has nothing to do with geography at all. SHAME serves the same purpose. SMHEO is not particularly memorable, nor is it easy to pronounce. Only an obsessive pedant would insist on assembling an acronym in any geographic order, west to east or east to west.

I'm sort of surprised he picked Lake Ontario (the smallest Great Lake) when Lake Superior is just sitting there ripe for the re-naming. Do you have any idea how many Reflecting Pools could fit into Lake Superior??

By the way, has anyone let Trump know that ships can't get back and forth between the newly named Lake America and Lake Erie without using the Welland Canal, which means they're going through Canadian territory?

"Hi, BYD, set the temperature to 21 degrees."
"Hi, BYD, turn off the air conditioning."
"Hi, BYD, volume down/up."
"Hi, BYD, next song."

Saw this on an Atto3, and it worked surprisingly well. Not perfect, but just about all the controls you might need to adjust while driving that are not on the wheel or stalks are covered. I also prefer physical controls that I can operate through muscle memory for everything, but voice control seems like a good move to address the obvious safety concern that moving to many controls to a touch screen brings. Fact is, this kind of UI is what Millennials and later have grown up on, so barring some safety edict from a major market, like China's ban on retracting door handles, it's not going away. That leaves those of us that prefer physical controls to either get used to it, find a car that keeps the balance sane (VAG group seems to be moving in this direction), or squabbling over the declining supply of roadworthy cars that predate the screens taking over.

I think there may be a bit of back-and-forth while marques work out which controls are adjusted while driving and probably ought to have a tactile control and how best to present the UI to minimise eyes-on time by the driver if they do try and adjust things while moving, but the battle to retain fully tactile controls is probably already lost. Either way, any controls are almost certainly all going to be linked into the same car management / data capture system, and any physical controls will be no more independent that those specialist control keyboard add-ons you can get for PCs. That data can be monetized, and there's no way any marque is going to pass up on that - ultimately, as BMW has demonstrated, they want as much control over their car (what, you thought it was yours just because you paid for it?) as Microsoft has over a Windows PC.

Joking aside, there's a much more subtle change too. Look at the quoted wording from the astronauts: "*our* nation", "inspire *this* nation". Even at the height of the US-Soviet cold war it was still "for *all* mankind".

I get Trump's order is very much aimed at the NASA and the US (and probably getting his name onto it somehow), so can give that a pass, but the astronauts had an opportunity to rise above all that partisanship and slip in a message of much needed global unity, yet failed to do so. There are precious few institutions left in the world that can at least try and claim to be at least somewhat above / outside the direct influence of politics, and it looks like we're about to lose another one. Quite possibly for good once the ISS is finally decommissioned.

It's not unreasonable, and that's not at all what I'm saying. I'm not looking for a perfect candidate; I'm looking one that's fit for office and has what strikes me as a platform that suits the needs of the people of this nation. I don't have to eat a shit sandwich just because that's what both major parties offered.

I'm well aware that I have to live with the results of an election, just as all those that voted have to. At worst, not voting puts me in the same camp as those that voted for the loser, and I'm okay with that. I've voted for the losing side before.

That happens fairly frequently in life, but it does not apply to voting. I don't have to vote for anyone I don't want to vote for. There are plenty of issues on the ballot that I'm happy to vote for or against as I see fit. Tip O'Neill said, "All politics is local", and I believe he was right - I care most about how government actions affect me personally, my family and friends, and my community. That does NOT mean I don't care about larger issues; it means I know my priorities.

Baloney. If I and about 5 million other people in California had voted for Trump, he would have carried the state, but he won the election without California. If we had voted for Harris, she would have carried the state by a larger margin, but Trump still would have won. So no, I and a lot if people like me wouldn't have affected the outome at all.

Except those aren't the only choices. You can choose to vote for a 3rd party candidate if you like one of them. And turning to the "eating choices" analogy, you can choose to skip this meal and wait for your next opportunity to eat.

Just what the world needs.

Not an expert, but I know somebody who uses such devices. The devices are inserted on the underside of her arm. She was told to never get the devices wet. I am not sure of the name brand.

The cost varies, depending on your insurance or whatever. But she pays $80 each for them. If they fall out, or get loose somehow, or if you don't stick the devices in just right, they have to be replaced. $80 down the toilet.

She can only get so many. If her prescription runs out, she has to go back to using needles until the next prescription period comes around.

It happens every time.
Maybe Trump is just doing this for show?