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.

You seem to be assuming that all those registered voters who didn't vote abstained out of apathy, which fails to account for those who looked at the choice and said, "Fuck this; neither of them is fit for the office they'e running for," because they believe that voting for the lesser off two evils is still voting for evil. I personally know quite a few people who voted on statewide and local issues but left the Presidential boxes unchecked. That isn't apathy; that's an angry protest against the 2-party system. Of course, I live in California, where 4 million Harris voters could have stayed home and she still would have carried the state. "But she would have been better than Trump," right? Sure - in the same way a magnitude 7 earthquake is better than a magnitude 9 one - that's better by a factor of 100! I'll happily concede that she would have been much less awful, but that's an extremely low bar, and a far cry from "good for the nation".

If you really want to point your finger at apathy, try the 72 million Americans who are eligible to vote but aren't even registered.

I'm seeing more and more "my tribe is red hot; you're tribe is doodly squat" posts. Like, "You can't be a Christian if you're [some group that fundamentalists can't tolerate]" or Trump fans vs Trump haters or flerfers vs globers. Lately I've been seeing posts consisting of memes depicting burly blue-collar laborers extolling the virtues of capitalism or father figures sitting at the dinner table slicing a steak with a cigarette hanging from his lip, while adoring family members gaze at him as he talks about how much better things were in "the good old days". It takes a lot of "hide posts from [whoever]" and "see fewer posts like this" to keep the flood of this drek down to ankle depth.

Horrify? When the Earth was a molten mass and I was a kid, during the summertime I was basically kicked out of the house after breakfast and until the street lights came on, I was allowed back into the house only to eat lunch or use the bathroom.

iPhone 17 is rated ip68, so.it should survive immersion in 6 meters of water for 30 minutes; however, the warranty specifically excludes damage from liquid exposure. Also, they caution that the "watertight seal" may be broken if the phone is dropped. So if you're going to drop your phone into a toilet, be careful it doesn't strike the bowl on the way down.

There are many "aerodynamic winged drones" that are battery-powered - Raven, Puma, and the various flavors of Switchblades are a few examples - not to mention unmanned ground and underwater ones. And notably, the Ingenuity helicopter that performed so well on Mars.

Weight and drag are key factors in endurance for air vehicles, which is why long-endurance quadcopters are rare. Even the fuel-carrying drones are weight sensitive. Designers take great pains to make the airframes as light as possible to increase endurance and payload/fuel capacity. For example, the MQ9 Reaper carries up to 7,850 lbs of payload and fuel, but its unladen weight is only 4,900 lbs, including the engine.

Water tight? I'm struggling to think of a single Apple computing product that even approaches being water tight. Go ahead - pour a few ounces of water on your MacBook's keyboard or drop your iPhone in the toilet and let us know what happens.

That really is an interesting paper you cited. As a counter argument, I give you Flat Earthers, Moon Landing Deniers, and Anti-Vaxers. There are others, but those are shining examples of groups of incompetent people secure in their belief that they are correct. And now I suppose I will get a flood of replies from members of those groups telling me what a sheep I am.

Actually, lots of humans think they know more than they really know. Dunning and Kruger published some research on this, if you're interested in learning more.

In other words, you don't know.

Almost. What's your definition of "larger primes"? Larger than what?

Take out "ever", change "release" to "market", and append a specific date more than five years away but within a decade or so and you might get a few takers. But you might also want to qualify what you mean by "commercial", because it is certainly possible to market a product with a price so high that the only organizations able to afford it are governments. Or Elon Musk.

Same here, though I strongly suspect it was before you graduated - the first HP scientific calculator came out in my senior year, and nearly caused a riot in one of my classes because one of the students bought one and it was a LOT faster than the slide rules everyone else was using.

Anyway, I recall a few open-book exams, but mostly you were on your own. My physics 101 prof was pissed off at the class because hardly anyone was doing the homework, so he announced that everyone's final grade would be based entirely on their final exam results. I stayed up all night, doing all the odd-numbered problems at the end of every chapter in the textbook while I was waiting in vain for the Apollo 12 video camera to start working again (Astronaut Alan Bean accidentally pointed it directly at the sun while mounting it on a tripod and burned out the vidicon pickup tube sensor). It paid off - that was the one and only quarter I scored a 4.0.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it appears to have been exhausting people like you for quite a long time.