"Real" lasers also show up sometimes in the old EU. They're mostly explained away as outdated tech and "blasters are better" and that even the wimpy-est of force fields will stop them. There's not nothing to that either. A laser you either need to hold it exactly on target for a measure of time or have a massive amount of cooling in the emitter. If you can just "send plasma" in that direction instead it solves those problems.
"Slugthrowers", i.e. 'real guns', also show up and "blasters are better" because the bolt is faster and doesn't suffer as much from aerodynamic effects. But a lightsaber user is going to have problems if a bullet is now just molten instead of being reflected away.
That's leaning a lot into the older EU though which is much more a universe like 40k where tech just "is" and people maybe don't understand the mechanics of how it works anymore.
And of course it's significantly much more about the rule of cool than real physics.
banned drivers licenses that don't meet the requirements that have had their implementation date pushed back repeatedly for a decade+. We will do anything and everything but have an actual national ID.
I don't think any drivers licenses count as proof of citizenship though. (Even before, as noted, factoring in that they're not looking.)
Wasn't there something with the original switch where third-party usb-c didn't work with it off the bat either? I thought it ended up being something about Nintendo actually following the spec more rigidly than others did.
You'd need to rollback the last 70 years of pensions being replaced by 401k plans and/or limit responsibility to the brokers. If you hire a licensed plumber that ends up flooding your neighbor's place, the plumber is the one getting sued.
It would probably also be good to restructure retirement incentives away from the stock market, but that's not going to happen overnight either.
Have also been out of the loop too but went through the know your meme page.
Pirate Software made a video a year ago criticizing the initiative on a very surface level and has continued to do so in streams. Guy who created/sponsored/however-that-works the initiative posted a counter-argument video talking about what the initiative would actually do. Pirate Software did the ol' Internet Doubledown and in general was kind of an ass and kind of revealed some ignorance. Cue Youtube Drama.
Lifeguards take breaks every ~20 minutes, not just to look down or zone out, to get up and move around. And again, are in an extremely controlled environment looking for a very small number of specific problems.
Lifeguards have very short periods of diligence before they take mandatory breaks in an extremely controlled environment. Train conductors operate on grade separated infrastructure. Security Guards do not have to take split second action or die.
Putting a warm body in a mind-numbing situation and requiring split second response to a life or death situation at a random time is a recipe for failure.
Incognito mode (Chrome) and Private mode (Safari/Firefox) and InPrivate Browsing (Edge/IE) have had disclaimers/explanations for years, Chrome just expanded the disclaimer after settling the suit. Unfortunately for them the judge didn't know how the internet works any better than the plaintiffs. Winding back the odometer on a car doesn't mean toll roads don't know you drove there, it just means "you" have no record of it.
Opera / Vivaldi offer an integrated VPN, but they're about the only ones other than stuff like the Tor Browser.
Same, been kicking myself since I found out it was all gone a few weeks ago. Don't know why I didn't make a 'just in case' backup / export.
Still infuriating they can just go "oops all gone". It came through the roll-out fine, I remember looking stuff up in February. As far as I can tell it was a later unrelated glitch.
Google also accidentally deleted a random amount of user's timeline data if you didn't immediately catch it and restore from back up last March before the affected backups were overwritten. If you didn't keep a close enough watch on your timeline to know that that happened, everything before ~Feb 2025 is gone now.
Ask me how I know. Yes I kept up on permissions. Yes I had backups on. No I didn't have a new device. I even have dozens of available gigabytes of paid storage on Google One.
I'm sure it will only get more stable due to maps and timeline being revenue generators that encourage investment.
I'm sure that there are examples of actually wasted money, but just putting it out there that planning is fucking important. There have been several high profile projects, like Texas high speed rail, where planning was the hard part and the project got canceled as they were ready to break ground because "there was no progress". Cue Republicans "the government does nothing" after they stopped anything from happening. Infrastructure cannot operate on election cycle timelines.
Digging in the ground and integrating with existing infrastructure isn't just a plug and play operation. Leases and liens need to be sorted out. Estimates of current and future demand needs to be sorted out so you don't install useless networks. Fiber isn't that heavy, but "can the existing conduits under bridges/roads/etc support it and/or do they have room to without a complete replacement" isn't a trivial question for backbone lines.
Winging it just causes more problems as you find things you didn't anticipate and cause delays while having to continue paying contracts so work can resume once the delay is cleared. If you don't, the contractor is on to their next job and unavailable for an effectively random amount of time. While everyone is mad at you that "no work is being done".
It could be done faster, but it would cost more. Because planning is really important to keep multi-million/billion dollar projects accountable and on track.
"To attempt to politicize this tragedy is absolutely unacceptable. This rhetoric from elected officials is beyond dangerous and incites even more violence," Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin said on the Senate floor Monday.
It is incredibly frustrating that "political" has become a word so divorced from it's meaning that someone assassinating members of a political party, for their political affiliation, due to demonetization of that political party by the political party of the assassin, can not be a "political" issue.
Sure. But in the first Fast and Furious movie they're not driving syncro-less transmission semis. They're driving tricked out sports cars in a straight line and somehow having about 14 gear changes in a 6 speed manual.
Knowledge is eventually gained, someone would have built practical devices relating to nuclear fission, whether that was a bomb or a reactor.
Nazi Germany would not have done that in any time frame relevant to WWII. They specifically rejected aspects of atomic/quantum theory because they were tainted by "jewish science" which unknowingly set them back decades and sent them in the wrong direction. As much as they were obsessed with super weapons, they were very unscientific in their R&D.
I feel like using that statistic is misleading in terms of efficiency just from the factor of "gallons of gas per pound of food transported".
Sure there's spoilage from product going bad, but marginal efficiency gains there are so far down the list of things to worry about that they're not really worth going into. The reason people don't have food isn't because enough isn't produced, it's because they're not allowed to have it because they don't have enough money. Less food spoiling doesn't fix that problem.
heralded by the Biden administration, tribes and conservationists as historic
This is the reason. It's an absolutely terrible reason. But we're at the point where the 2nd Amendment folks are cheering the deployment of National Guard and Marines against protesters.
"Real" lasers also show up sometimes in the old EU. They're mostly explained away as outdated tech and "blasters are better" and that even the wimpy-est of force fields will stop them. There's not nothing to that either. A laser you either need to hold it exactly on target for a measure of time or have a massive amount of cooling in the emitter. If you can just "send plasma" in that direction instead it solves those problems.
"Slugthrowers", i.e. 'real guns', also show up and "blasters are better" because the bolt is faster and doesn't suffer as much from aerodynamic effects. But a lightsaber user is going to have problems if a bullet is now just molten instead of being reflected away.
That's leaning a lot into the older EU though which is much more a universe like 40k where tech just "is" and people maybe don't understand the mechanics of how it works anymore.
And of course it's significantly much more about the rule of cool than real physics.