I wonder what other nuc-u-lar powered devices we can chuck up there?

Muh cabbageses!!!

Should go back to the Greek:

Ouranos [Oor-rah-noes]

You have 3 similar documented fixes for situation X.

Wisdom is knowing which fix to apply and why it should be used.

I suppose you can quantify each fix by frequency of use.

I think the buggy whips go under the marketing name 'ASP Electro-Baton [A,B,C]'.

I think it may be evidence that Amazon has a shitty corporate culture that squeezes every penny it can out its employees.

Corruption can happen anywhere, but it's more likely to happen in totalitarian cultures where people feel like the system is rigged anyway. That's why countries like Russia and China have corruption problems. But I suspect the same feelings of me vs. the system occur in a capitalist enterprise like Amazon where employees are governed by dystopian, rigid, computerized metrics.

[golf-clap]

[picture of lifted truck parked on top of Laborghini]

[coughs as dust billows up]

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

Yeah, the Star Wars kits were out in late '70s but can't remember if they were AMT or Revell.

I had all these models hanging up on my room in 1979, the year mom splurged for one of those wall murals of the Earthrise seen from the Moon, with triangular rock in the foreground.

Somewhere I have fading to blue photos all the ships against that mural, with my crappy attempts at blacking out the fishing line holding them up.

Yeah, did an Eagle model kit in the late '70s, along with some Enterprises (original and -A), X-Wing fighter, and Millenium Falcon.

Man, I was a fool for polystyrene back then.

Probably a good thing I only came across X-Ray Spex in the '90s.

I wonder if all these tech-bros (tech-brahs?) spend a large amount of time getting their egos stroked by AI chatbots.

Don't want to hear any gainsays to your wisdom and business savvy, just chat with your AI pal.

“The Chinese,” bellowed a drunken Australian, “Chinese bloody invented nerve-splicing. Give me the mainland for a nerve job any day. Fix you right, mate”

When I was in training to be a medic (late 1980s) at a USAF hospital that also treated veterans, I asked a doc what he thought of socialized medicine.

"Look around you. That's what this is."