It will however allow them to track what their entire population does on the internet.
Exactly! And like in Canada with debanking protesters against 2 years of COVID lockdowns, because it is tied to government ID they will be able to prevent individuals from age verifying themselves, likely effectively blocking them from using any social media.
that make up our civilization and society that we all just kind of shrug our shoulders at and allow.
I am surprised you have yet to understand that personal freedom and small government is about countering exactly this. The more you expand the government and regulation, the more room you create for someone connected to run these scams.
Those have already been deployed. They are flown to the front by the operator, who will in most cases also designate the target, after which the drone will engage it autonomously.
Costs of such drones, at least for now, is substantially more expensive. In a war of economic attrition, which is what is happening in Ukraine, that matters a lot.
Do you think they will stop at Ukraine?
Russia might have all kinds of ambitions, but they failed miserably in Ukraine, why do you think they will do better against NATO?
That may actually be the underlying cause. If the switches were in the "run" position but the latching had not fully engaged, the vibrations of takeoff combined with the spring may have caused them to toggle. In general, the springs are centered on switches, so that would also explain them returning to the "run" position and the tension causes oscillations.
Just because the benefits of recycling have been greatly exaggerated doesn't mean that it's not a much better alternative than sending everything straight to the landfill.
I think most push back to recycling is about paper and plastic and not metal or glass. If Green people actually cared about recycling, they would have pushed for universal ban on plastic packaging and not some half-measures as banning drinking straws or plastic bags. Then our recycling programs could become self-funding by doing glass and metal.
Touch screens have their place,
Absolutely. I am not against touch screens in general, I am against them for any function that I need to do while driving.
Also touch buttons on steering wheels are incredibly stupid, which is probably why Tesla did them.
I would never buy Tesla because of controls (and the fact that it cannot be easily disconnected).
My wife and I have an ongoing argument over whether Trump is an evil genius who is just taking advantage of a gullible base, or an actual idiot who believes his own bullshit. I am firmly within the latter camp.
There is a third possibility - he is a flawed human being that sometimes capable of greatness, that is prone to following idiotic spur of the moment impulses, and that is trying to do what is best for US, but only if it is not too difficult.
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.