Prolonged amounts of Humidity can overtime with other factors lead to the eventual formation of rain and storms. And affect air pressure.
But you’d need massive quantities. To cause any significant change.
Considering some Federal Agencies switching to Windows 10 was considered massive news a couple years ago. Switching to Quantum computing by 2031 will be an interesting endeavor. Especially since it’s now 2026 and Quantum Computing and what it can and can’t do is still largely theoretical. And tech companies are buying up every scrap of computer parts they can get their hands on for AI and other gadgets and gizmos.
I feel like it’s just the set up to start releasing classified DARPA/Contractor tech. As the timescale seems exceptionally rushed for it to be stuff they don’t already have waiting in the wings.
With consumer goods like a T.V remote.
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It’s got to be made to be somewhat usable by the lowest common denominator. Not necessarily so they can figure out all the features. But just enough a room temperature IQ can figure how to switch channels at least.
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It also has to be made in such a way that any civil suit cases regarding problems that might result from its misuse. Such as injuries from a remote ending up in orifices remotes aren’t meant to go in. Is of reduced likelihood.
TLDR: It’s got to be relatively idiot proof. And provide the company some measure of legal protection against potential lawsuits from the exceptionally stupid.
It’s a fascinating timeframe. Especially as the initial ideals of the founding fathers collided with the political, military, and economic realities of the timeframe. Which caused no shortage of problems. Though it can be a struggle to filter the Mythologization of the era and the ‘Popular History’ of the timeframe. From the actual events.
There’s a lot of idealization, Mythologization, and later retroactive oversimplifications by various historians and modern political factions. Especially in the immediate aftermath of the founding when so many of the founders were still active in domestic politics. As a lot of the reality of what went on wasn’t necessarily as morally and ethically clean as many Americans would prefer. And much of the rhetoric bandied about by both the founding fathers and other American Statesmen came with unspoken caveats that would so heavily influence later history.
There’s a lot of people who need to be beaten upside the head with History Books.
At best. Assuming he felt exceptionally generous or saw immediate political gain from it. Johnson may have given Chicago PD a grant for something generic like ‘Training’ and maybe given a generic ‘Violence is Bad’ speech/statement and promises of support that would never materialize. But outside of that he likely wouldn’t have cared.
Much like the rest of the country stopped caring. Hell sometimes shootings in Chicago barely make the news in Chicago. People have become so fucking desensitized to Chiraqs body counts and crime rates. The only time they make National News now is if the body count of killed or wounded is unusually high.
A significant portion of the geopolitical establishment. Which are the fuckheads that generated the policies in the first place. Have been stuck in a Cold War mindset and all their strategies and planning revolves around that. The USSR stopped existing in 1991. All that strategy stopped being relevant or useful in 1991.
By 2001 it was actively detrimental. Which is probably why Bush Jr, and Barry did nothing to change it. Trumps first term ironically marked the first real attempt to adapt strategy and foreign policy to the modern day.
Was it actually in self-driving mode? Or is that just an excuse being used to cover for shitty decisions? Lord knows plenty of people drive like shit and speed where they shouldn’t. Then blame the vehicle for the inevitable wreck.
And should it have been in self driving mode. Why didn’t the driver take it out of said mode? One would think it would have been clear to the driver there was issues with the vehicle self-driving if it was apparently flying down the road like it was. And last I was aware the self-driving mode was also supposed to be extremely easy to shut off. As easy as just gripping the wheel. In order to enable a quick response in the event the self-driving mode failed.
Though it does reinforce the point that you shouldn’t be reliant on these systems. All it takes is a Software or hardware malfunction/failure and your up shits creek and someone is at minimum injured or at worst dead.
Need to do it for just a minute to root around in the glovebox, maybe change a setting sure. Letting it Completely take over, regardless of how it’s marketed, just seems irresponsible.
and it is illegal under federal law to sell food to which delta-8 THC has been added
Considering what is legal to sell as food additives. All it really tells us is someone hasn’t paid the prerequisite bribes to the FDA to have it reclassified under the loopholes the other major food giants use for their frankenfood.
Depends on what her actual objectives and the reasons for placing her there were. What we expect or think isn’t necessarily what’s actually going on.
Good to see we’re getting back to good old fashioned gunboat diplomacy
Apparently easily. The Brazilian Government at least is blaming a hack at any rate
I mean one of the obvious solutions here would be to cut the Israelis loose. Considering they’ve been the sticking point in this whole fiasco and may or may not be the ones violating what does get signed more often than not. Though this latest violation is a case of he said and she said and yet another instance where everyone involved has both the incentive to lie, and a history of lying through their teeth, to justify whatever actions they seek to take. So whoever did or didn’t violate it is probably a moot point at this time.
Though given it’s now clearly become a pain point and point of leverage. Given the previous status quo has been upended. The Iranians will very likely keep doing it periodically any time they feel like they could potentially squeeze concessions out of the West and or their Gulf State neighbors. Regardless of whatever deals get signed or not. Given it, outwardly facing at least, appears to work in securing concessions that are at least somewhat favorable and or at the very least not entirely intolerable and an improvement over their previous status at the very least.
If they can’t justify it with the Israelis bombing someone. They’ll probably be able find another reason to do it in short order if they wanted to. It’s not like the Middle East is short of grudges and reasons for everyone to hate each other even before the U.S or Israelis started mucking about.
Now whether the constant talks and diplomatic outreach is some long and drawn out dance routine to some end not immediately obvious is a different albeit related matter. As it seems clear to many that no piece of paper that gets signed is ultimately going to hold in the long term. Or even the short term at this rate. Which would suggest the diplomatic outreach is ultimately a tactic that may mostly be for show and or cover for other stuff occurring that’s not so readily obvious.
All I know is I wouldn’t want to be on the Diplomatic Team at the moment. As it seems like it’d be an exceptionally stressful and or schizophrenic time. Given how rapidly stuff switches back and forth.
Whatever disclosure is. There’s going to be a lot of folks upset because it won’t match what they’ve convinced themselves it’ll be.
Whether it’s Aliens, Demons, Extra-dimensional entities, Humans from an alternate dimension, time travelers etc.
Lack of capacity for organized and sustained violence. Northern Ireland still has its various paramilitary groups still active. And given they were loyalists during the troubles there was the tacit approval from the British Government. Which means they weren’t pursued or attacked to anywhere near the same extent as the IRA. So their command structures and stockpiles are still largely intact.
The rest of the UK does not have the same level of organization. Plus the world wars and the colonial conflicts as the Empire collapsed. Not to mention changes in inheritance laws over the last century. Killed or left destitute a lot of the people in the rest of the country who’d have been liable to have had the wealth and influence in the local communities to be able to organize similar paramilitary groups.
Organization and Leadership is ultimately the key. It’s not that they won’t act. It’s that they lack the organization and leadership. The Mythos and popular history surrounding the Revolution, not to mention niche political ideology has warped a lot of Americans understanding of how things actually function.
big arse target floating about up there
True enough. But when did logic ever stop a general, admiral, or intelligence spook with an idea? Especially during the Cold War.
The list of projects and concepts that they came up, let alone funded and built prototypes reads like a Mad Scientists fever dream. And it only gets longer and more insane the more that gets declassified. And that’s just the stuff under the normal levels of secrecy you don’t need to pull teeth and threaten jobs to get declassified.
Satire aside. It is a bit surprising no one’s tried to revive the Flying Aircraft Carrier Concept.
Especially given the multitude of pissing matches we’ve gotten into with various countries over the years with various Military and Vanity Projects. As a Flying Carrier would be comparatively more useful than some of the dead end projects that they did end up funding.
I mean despite the noise. Trumps been rather consistent this far that Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security aren’t being touched outside of the purges of fraud.
So presumably that’ll remain for those on disability at the very least. As to anything else. I couldn’t speak with any reliability.
Who knows. Perhaps the Medbed people will finally be right in which case. Discussions of disability will be moot.
Boeings replacement is probably borderline out of date at a technical level by now. Hell. The 747-8 has been out of mainstream production for 3 years already.
If they really want to trigger an uproar and rampant speculation. They should announce they’re considering awarding a Contract to Lockheed Martin for an AF-1 version of the CL-1201 and revoking Boeings contract.
I mean it’s more feasible than ever now with the progress they’ve made a miniaturizing Nuclear Reactors. And there’s nothing saying you actually have to do it. It might however light a fire under Boeing and distract the Media and the online peanut gallery for a week or two.
For the curious. The CL-1201 was the product of a Cold War concept study that was never built. 1,120 ft wingspan. Powered by a Nuclear Reactor. Along with VTOL capability. At least 2 variants we know of. One was an airborne Aircraft Carrier the other a Transport and Logistics Aircraft. With a rumored unconfirmed 3rd variant.
It’s probably not feasible for an actual Military/Government aircraft in the slightest in modern day. Given its sheer size. But people won’t know if he’s serious or not. Also it’ll be a funny distraction.
One of the big questions probably most immediately relevant to the average person
Is the Restitution per taxpayer actual money we’ll see refunded to us? Or is it one of those theoretical technical numbers. Ala “We’re technically saving you guys this much now.”
I could think of a lot I could do with a windfall of 84,000. And I know a lot of people who could also really use the extra windfall.
4chan. Maybe.
A Creepypasta website sure.
Any of the numerous websites for indie writers to congregate like yeah. I could see.
But Reddit? You might be able to pull some decent material off of a couple of the autistic genre specific communities. But as a whole Reddit is full of mediocrity.
Though you’d think Hollywood and the industry in general were awash with Redditor Writers already given the stuff theyve been putting out.
As to the regulation issues pointed out. It’s likely long past time those change. But at the same time it’s not like American Companies don’t have a long and fairly extensive track record of lying about Medical Issues and long term effects of their products and procedures. As well as hiding or obscuring evidence of such effects.
So changes to Nuclear regulations will be a rather delicate procedure. Especially because the effects of cutting corners or other things corporate America does to save a nickel. Could have effects far beyond people’s immediate health when it comes to doing it with Nuclear Reactors.
As to the question in your title. Potentially. Most of it depends on how quickly they can scale up production and produce reactors as well as bringing them online. Not to mention dealing with the States. As some State Governments are liable to cause rollouts problems and feud over turf and whose precisely in charge of what.
The part not often discussed. Is the signs it’s been ongoing since the 60s and potentially earlier. Perhaps not surprisingly tracking with the arrivals of the first major waves of non-white immigrants.
Western Society decided Racism was the ultimate sin. And that anything and everyone was an appropriate sacrifice to avoid being accused of that. As the ‘Elite’ in the post WW2 era and a variety of moral busybodies. Christian or otherwise. Decided forging a ‘successful’ Multi-ethnic society would finally assert the superiority of the enlightenment, Democratic and Republican values, and Christian Universalism. Finally surpassing our ancestors and their ‘dated’ ideologies and philosophical notions by achieving what they never could. A stable multicultural society.
We buried everything we deemed inconvenient to the post war religious and ethnic narratives. Even created warped versions of historical events with selectively omitted details that were meant to reinforce the appropriate narrative. Special Legal Departments and Agencies were created to control anything that might threaten stability or create ethnic conflict. The American agency is called the Community Relations Service.
Part of it I think is people taking some of these sports way too seriously. Stress can put a lot of miles on your body and age you prematurely.
There’s also undoubtedly some sort of drug use going on. Whether that’s the illicit performance enhancing kind. Or simply taking excessive amounts of various vitamins and supplements far and above what people actually need to be healthy. Too much of something that’s ostensibly good for you. Can be just as bad long term as a narcotic or alcohol addiction.
Often enough they also pull players out of relative poverty. There’s a lot of people who don’t do well when suddenly handed piles of money. If they aren’t already used to it. Part of why lottery winners often end up back where they were originally and or in worse straits despite winning what should have been a life changing amount of money. Professional Sports players known for being party animals and spending frivolously aren’t exactly uncommon either. Which puts more mileage on one’s health and physical appearance.
I’d imagine injuries may also play a factor. Just because a Surgeon gives you the greenlight to play again doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll ever be back to what you were pre-injury.
In the case of non-professional play. Such as Highschool/College play or younger. There’s family stressors. Parents trying to live vicariously through their kids. Pressures to perform even from family and other adults in your life. Especially if you’re playing on a school team.
Maybe it’s me but it seems like for years Academics and actual learning has taken a backseat to Sports at many schools. Both public and private. With absurd amounts being invested into the athletics departments. Which might explain why teachers elsewhere feel like they could get away with the leftist shit. As for years all the attention of parents and others was directed at the sports teams. None spent watching the teachers.
Point being. Lots of different variables and factors. Some of which are avoidable. Others not so much. Combined simply with stress.
If I had a dollar for every High School and College Athlete that’s come up with chronic health issues in adulthood related to things they’ve done for their sport. I’d be as rich as Trump at least.
The Scottish Party has failed everytime it’s gotten a vote put in front of the people. And the SNP often ends up making the Labor Party look conservative in comparison. That’s probably not going anywhere. Regardless of the breathless rhetoric online.
Wales? The Welsh are a group in active decline. Even if they manage it. They likely aren’t going to be the ones calling the shots given the imports numbers. Catalonia probably has the best shot out of all the groups listed.
California. It’s mostly pissy liberals that quiet down when Conservatives aren’t in Office. I likely wouldn’t seriously consider it a legitimate threat. The California political establishment will smother it in the crib if at actually tries to go anywhere. They know better than anyone the house of cards they built is reliant on the rest of the country to remain functional.
Technically though under some strict interpretations of the relevant laws even entertaining it at all could be considered sedition and grounds to arrest the organizers.
As to the rest of the article. Even if Alberta doesn’t opt for annexation. It will effectively end up a U.S outpost by virtue of proximity, resources we need, and American Security and Defensive Concerns.