While you’re at it, don’t worry about Grandma Coco’s grandparents.

Germ theory was controversial when we didn’t have microscopes that could see microbes. Terrain theory is working backwards, that germs are attracted to areas of disease. It is so trivially easy to disprove today that it was disproven in 1870.

Doctors do not use “Germ Theory” to diagnose patients. Research into chronic and/or viral diseases has not stopped because “it’s probably germs”. Treating germ theory as the sole monolith of modern medicine is petulant contrarian nonsense that is grouped in with a whole host of other anti-establishment conspiracy theories.

Yes, IIRC the “Unforgivable Curses” either carry a death penalty or wizard prison forever or something. But by the third or forth book every bad guy is a Wizard Nazi who doesn’t care about those consequences and the good guys are all fighting Wizard Nazis and are at least semi-justified in trying to kill them right back.

It basically devolves instantly into gun-fights, except instead of guns it’s a specific spell.

Which is why it’s bad writing.

“Unblockable killing spell” is the kind of thing that pops up on a middle school playground because every kid wants to have the trump card in make-believe and the last kid just cast Meteor.

Eragon is a contemporary-ish book and has killing magic that can kill normies by the dozens/hundreds, but other magic users have to do more than play rock-paper-nuclear-option.

Refineries are not immune to storms either. At least solar panels are 99% Aluminum, glass, and silicon, which you can melt down to make more solar panels.

You remember which hand you Lost your thumb(s? Igor?) on.

The time the Army tried this under Greenland without anyone’s knowledge didn’t turn out great, but at least nothing exploded.

They did manage to leave a crap ton of Nuclear waste under the ice where it would “probably be fine”. Which is now melting, which was nice of them.

Not saying more modern designs / operational plans couldn’t be great but their track record isn’t not concerning.

I absolutely hate that my subscription page is basically just recommendations and shorts at the top that I have to scroll past.

Small airfields?

IDK maybe they can be repurposed into something. Industrial sized microwave?

One of the advantages of water is even if your target area is measured in square miles it’s all roughly at sea level. If you miss your target area on land you have to account for that and trees and wildlife and hopefully not buildings.

Like the above said, you can do either, it’s kind of a wash. But a water based landing does simplify some things.

Expanding on what the curated language of the press release actually means for the Forestry Service is not wild claims. It’s context.

“This is just streamlining” is the bias. This is ‘streamlining’ in the same vein of what happened to USAID.

The yahoo article is talking about a facebook post. The main article is talking about the USDA press release.

The press release is talking about shuttering research facilities and “consolidating” them as if forestry research is the kind of thing that sits on a table and can be moved easily.

It goes on to talk about reorganizing base on state level instead of regions and how this “strengthens federalism”. Those regions aren’t as arbitrary as state borders. The forestry service mission was split up like that because those regions have different needs. Colorado and Wyoming do not need separate forestry offices.

Repeating points from a press release does not make a source unbiased, it makes them have the same bias as the source.

Hey it’s my desktop! Love that case. Horizontal motherboards make more sense with how big graphics cards have gotten.

I bought a 16U rack this year to organize stuff a bit. Zigbee dongle is still installed exactly like this. I’m not convinced there’s a better solution.

I want them to survive so bad.

I don’t need my vehicle to be a third place. I don’t want a molded dash with an entertainment center that will be obsolete when it’s new and unable to be modified because they abandoned the DIN standard so you could only buy factory replacements. I just want a thing that can do ~50+ miles a day and recharge that overnight. Which Slate could do with just a regular 120v outlet.

Who knows if they’ll actually make it to market or if it’ll be $40k+ by the time it does, but even without the EV incentive $28k puts it among cheapest new cars in the US. I’m just severely unenthusiastic about any other newer cars on the market if my current one dies.

In 40k they’re kinda like mushrooms.

But a more eccentric one, no collision is going to waive away orbital mechanics.

It depends what you’re doing.

There are meals you can make by setting the stovetop on high and leaving the pot for 30 minutes but expecting it to work for everything and blaming the tool is just showing a lack of understanding of the tool.

Birthday hike, Batou just turned 4.

Cycle count is important for the lifetime estimate on the battery, how long before you have to spend a large portion of the cost of the car on replacing / refurbishing a key component.

“Fill up” time is the most obvious and common ‘maintenance’ anyone will ever do on their vehicle. One of the biggest objections large swaths of the population have about EVs is/was that could take an hour or more for each stop on a long road trip or if you can’t charge at home. (apartment / street parking / etc.) They usually do 10-70%r 80 or whatever because the speed trails off exponentially closer to 100%. (logarithmically? whichever.)