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Use flame retardent foam, not just styrofoam.

Is that a Linux joke?

Tbh, the meme isn't wrong. If you strongly dislike snaps, get a different distro.

That's the cool thing about Linux based systems: There are enough for everyone and you can customize them any way you want. Just get something that fits your taste.

Hard sci-fi: The Rocinante

Floppy sci-f: The A-Wing

So there is no speedracing scene?

No big empires that want propaganda weapons?

No companies who want the marketing ploy of "We make the fastest ship"?

There's no practical reason why any car company would build a car that can go beyond 150km/h either, yet every car manufacturer has their sports/hyper car brand to show off.

There's no practical reason for nascar, Formula 1 or the land speed record either.

Yet all of that exists and all of that gets really nice funding.

They've got an empire that builds moon-sized space stations for propaganda reasons, but doesn't build the fastest and most maneuverable dogfighter?

It makes no sense to build a death star either. It unless you factor propaganda in.

Kinda like Dubai has hyper cars for their police. There's no practical reason for that either.

Tbh, I never really got the idea of the millenium falcon.

It's essentially one of these lorries some redneck modified into a jet truck dragster. These things are fast, but not agile and maneuverable at all, and they still don't compete at all against vehicles that are purpouse-bult for speed/agility by real engineers in big corporations with large budgets.

Can't tell me, that planet-sized ship building corporations which exist in Star Wars with their near-infinite budget can't put together anything that's faster.

After they flipped the meaning. But even then, if the PC didn't have the button it would run at full speed.

Turning it off would limit the speed. So the purpose of the existence of the button was not to make the PC go faster, but rather to make it go slower if you turned it off.

It's kinda like as if the eco mode button in you car was labelled "turbo mode" with flipped meaning.

Correct: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/star-wars-george-lucas-theory-r2d2-narrator-a6998676.html

My first reaction was like "Who are them two again? I've seen them before..."

For context, I just watched Asoka a week ago. Didn't leave much of an impression.

Xenophobism doesn't follow things like logic. It follows arbitrary lines of us against then.

Because of that, the word "race" was equivalent to "nationality" in the Europe of the 1930s (as in "the french/german/italian/english race"), while in the USA it was equivalent to "skin color". While most European languages don't use the word "race" anymore, because it's essentially meaningless since it can mean anything from species ("the human race") to nationality, this meaning difference lives on in words like racism. Because of that, a white American who hates all white Canadians isn't considered racist in US-English, but a white German who hates all white polish people is considered racist in German.

Since these words have aso much flexibility in their meaning, it would totally fit that the Empire is xenophobic towards anyone who looks different to humans, no matter where they are actually from.

Kinda how white people in the US are generally more racist against blacks/hispanics/asians than towards descendants from a different European country.

Relevant xkcd: https://m.xkcd.com/1013/

Tell that to all the workers forced to build weapons for the real-world regime that Lucas used to model the Empire off.

It's still ironic to me that the turbo button's purpose was to limit the CPU speed.

You know, like you use a turbo on a car to limit it's performance.

Finally a correct application for the do-while meme!

Actually, doesn't change the matter.

Sorry, mistranslation. I meant violations. Over here we only split into violations and crimes.

Violations cover most things done with a car/in traffic without actively harming someone.

Well, no. Blocking traffic is no crime. It's just a misdemeanor (Verwaltungsübertretung).

The difference in regards to a conspiracy charge is that you don't need a conspiracy behind it.

In Germany, there are actually 18 different laws regarding this, since that part of the law is federated. So each state of Germany (plus the federal police and the federal criminal police) has it's own law regarding under what circumstances they are allowed to arrest someone before they committed a crime and for how long.

Originally, these laws had two purposes:

• Stop someone from committing a serious crime
• Stop someone from doing harm to themselves

And as such, these laws used to have tight limits on when they can apply and for how long people are allowed to be arrested.

A case could be made for these laws. E.g. if someone announces online that they are going to shoot kids at a school, it would be totally justified to quickly bag that guy before he kills children. Waiting for a court order might not be fast enough to save the would-be victims.

But then they started to expand the reasons why someone can be arrested and for how long.

In Bavaria, for example, it's enough that someone carries items that can be used for criminal purposes. And there they can jail people for up to two months without a charge.

There have been cases where someone was put in jail for two months for carrying items like crowbars or ropes in their backpacks.

Nope, it's actually only that the police has reason to believe that they might commit a crime.

No need for them to be prior offenders or anything. The police can arrest anyone at any time if they believe you might commit a crime. And even comparatively minor things like blocking traffic counts.

Another measurement that needs including is pocket size, and then someone has to step up and manufacture trousers with pockets in any other size than XXS