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Exactly. The GOP is a big (circus) tent.

For a lot of people in suburbia, the entire concept of indoor "third spaces" is mostly "pay to play" at the end of a drive. A big exception to this is/were shopping malls, but those aren't always close by. To get to more a functional social fabric, we have to provide more convenient ways of interfacing with our neighbors that don't always require money to change hands.

Perhaps this is a predictably orange-pill response, but we need to change zoning in a big way. Each suburban development has the street plan and infrastructure to support small businesses and common spaces, walking-distance from everyone's front door. All it takes is to allow small-scale commercial development in corners of these collections of tract-homes and, just like that, you can have something like a functional village. Beyond that, encouraging more development of community recreation space, both indoor and outdoor, would go a long way to provide a place for people to mingle.

Edit: strip-malls don't count. They're often at the very edge of residential areas, and are tied up with way more capital than what I'm talking about. That's why they're made up of franchises, require ridiculous amounts of parking, and contribute to "stroads" and all the knock-on effects and hostile architecture that requires.

Watching people repair old electronics on Youtube has opened my eyes to the realities of real-world electrical engineering. In short: it's all about tolerances.

A power supply may have a nominal voltage of 5V, but anything from 4.8 to 5.2 is a-okay. Why? Because your TTL components downstream of that can tolerate that. Components that do 5V logic can define logic zero as anything between 0 and 0.8 volts, and logic one as low as 2 volts. That's important since the whole voltage rail can fluctuate a lot when devices use more power, or draw power simultaneously. While you can slap capacitors all over the place to smooth that out, there's still peaks and dips over time.

Meanwhile, some assembly lines have figured out how to aggressively cost-reduce goods by removing whole components from some circuits. Just watch some Big Clive videos. Here, the tendency is to lean heavily into those tolerances and just run parts hot, under/over powered, or just completely outside the published spec because the real-deal can take it (for a while). After all, everything is a resistor if you give it enough voltage, an inductor if the wire's long enough, a capacitor if the board layout is a mess, and a heatsink if it's touching the case.

I agree. Another smart move would be to rapidly write their names down all in one go. Make it look like the act of an angry god (because it kinda/sorta is), then sit back and watch the world's elite panic.

I mean, it wouldn't make much of a show, but still.

If only there was a better way...

including those monitoring changes to sea ice extent in the polar regions

Ah, there it is. Kicking climate change under the carpet again, I see.

My first thought as well!

IMO (not a scientist), moon dust is basically pulverized glass, only without the benefits of weathering and erosion. So think of lots of microscopic sharp, abrasive, shards of finely pulverized volcanic rock and obsidian. Get that stuff anywhere near a mucous membrane - eyes, nose, mouth, throat - and it's going to irritate you. At the same time, it's pretty much intert; well, at least the parts that don't instantly react to oxygen or humidity that is. My guess is that Schmidt is just a little more sensitive to the physical sensation of it, or perhaps he rubbed his eyes with a glove by accident, giving him an extra big dose.

And for the uninitiated, it's well documented that everyone in the lander was physically exposed to moon dust. There was no airlock on the lander, so every excursion resulted in bringing whatever was on the suits right into the cabin. They reported that it "smelled" like burned gunpowder, so they were at least all inhaling the stuff.

Once, I actually had my hands on a German WWII-era infrared targeting... wand? Scope? ... It was a huge shoulder-mounted flashlight with optics that were used to illuminate aircraft using IR. VERY sophisticated for the time. According to the declassified doc that came with it, the power requirements were insane. Basically it had to be plugged into a mobile generator - probably on a truck or half-track - or the grid, to use it.

So it's not out of the question. G.I. Joe in an alternate WWII timeline could have had laser sights on machine guns, provided they were tethered to a "mobile" power supply like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJjIUPRWjg

The Prosperity Gospel folks go a step further and equate wealth and health with the will of god. That being well-off is the direct result of being in god's good graces. It side-steps observations of financial inequality in the face of moral equality, by hand-waving exceptional wealth as deserved by truly rare and exceptional people. And that conveniently plays off of confusing causation for correlation, so we arrive at "money = godly."

For the record: I hate that this has a name and it's a real thing.

I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.

Venice? Wow, that's actually kind of on-the-nose for a show of excessive wealth.

https://historywalksvenice.com/article/early-venice/why-did-venice-get-rich/

TL;DR: Venice exists in its current form (canal city on an ever sinking atoll) not because of climate change, and not because of some fishing village put their backs into it for hundreds of years, but because of money. LOTS, and lots of money from a shipping/trade boom a very long time ago.

The fact that Bezos built his obscene wealth on shipping and international commerce, just makes this even more appropriate in a gross kind of way. Like he's deliberately connecting himself to Venice's history, and everything that implies.

You know what 'ol Jack Burton says at a time like this?

"AI e-girl" you say? I know a contractor that might have what you're looking for.

Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.

It had "new strange" style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond understanding, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: "it's all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand." The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.

That said, there's no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there's gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.

"Fox and Frenemies" it is then.

::checks watch::

Yup, time to fire up my Clutch playlist again.

Yup. They're called "Whole Paycheck" for a reason.

Easy there, boss. That depends heavily on what state you're in. And the ones that have "stand your ground" and "castle doctrine" are usually the ones where local police are openly coordinating with ICE.