It is bizarre to me that someone ever thought to arrange events like that.

I like it of course but still don’t understand the chain of events that could lead to it happening.

Personally I just meant them as being extremely hard to define in this context.

And my self assessment is that I treat everyone the same, giving them the benefit of the doubt, at least until they prove themselves to be malicious. I definitely have no qualms cutting people off who try to actively damage my life.

Yea. I still seriously believe that over half of people are “fundamentally” “good” and that they just make mistakes etc.

And I definitely knew about how bad people could be due to access to good history books and parents who told me about things like the Belgian Congo.

But my kid self would have been shocked at how common people being shit to each other is and the incredible scale of damage the most powerful are able to do to the world.

And be massively downsized. The funding needs to go to different areas or at least specialties for response.

I too would hate a world with no police but I could easily get behind practically anything proposed short of that.

I do not know. However I do have what I consider a good guess.

I think they had to dig up that square to redo something under it like sewer lines or something and the crew repaved just the part they dug up.

Agreed as very well known and easy examples that prove not all wars got the definition.

Plus what in the world is wrong with it fitting 80-90% of wars for at least one side of the conflict? It is easily one of the most likely reasons for counties to go to war.

We have some and in our case it isn’t about the timer function but the RFID tags on the cat collars because one will steal from the other two.

I can’t speak for anyone else but they kept working for us. Only possible difference I can think of is that we did make sure to put in the optional D cell batteries.

I totally support this. I’m also ok as long as games are structured to allow easy modding to do the same. It should be common enough that a specific warning on games that don’t have it on platforms like Steam.

Yep I’m aware of the crossovers but even then the Phineas and Ferb effect seems to make up for it just fine. Even the Milo Murphy crossover included… Probably just choose not to live near his family although it would keep life interesting and I assume property prices are basically free there.

If we assume I’m not one of the main characters but by living in the world it follows basically the same rules as them. Then zero question Phineas and Ferb.

I see so many people saying Star Trek but there are so many wars and other major issues in that world. In P&F the worst evil people in the world are part of LOVE MUFFIN and able to be completely handled and even often rehabilitated by animal agents.

Totally.

I’m in a rental townhouse and only have a 110v standard outlet and it absolutely is enough is most cases.

I was determined to drive at least mostly electric even if it cost somewhat more and the best I could afford was an Outlander PHEV. So if I do have to do more in a day than the battery it just swaps to engine. Daily job commute and other household driving and we are still floating between 75-90% electric drive.

My wife wasn’t convinced in talking through it with her. However she had never driven either an EV or PHEV. I got her to drive a Kia EV9 and she loved how it felt but it was just too expensive and she still at that point felt like it was only a pure EV thing to drive like that.

Then we test drove the Outlander and she immediately wanted it. It is an electric first design and you can feel it.

In my opinion we should have been doing traditional hybrid and/or PHEV back in the late 80s. Built up the battery manufacturing and quality and be on full electric for basically all home use vehicles by now.

For heavy load and construction it should be bio diesel hybrids. Not that those are ideal either but still the best we can do in short term tech swap.

And then of course trains. More trains.

I have cats but this represents my children more.

For Ladybird I think due to politics of the/a lead developer. I haven’t looked into it and don’t know it it is well deserved or silly. Just enough of a thing that I have seen it complained about before.

For Servo I have no clue why someone would downvote over that.

First thing this is all purely personal opinion viewing stuff from outside and as a general interest in world history.

I am an American but I have lived outside the USA for a couple years and no it wasn’t on a military base.

So with that said my personal interpretation is that China is still largely the same China as in ancient times and has decided to take several large chunks of both Communism and Capitalism and add those to the far far larger just continuing to do/be the same as they have for thousands of years.

To put it a different way, it is a case of fix what they feel was/is broken and keep doing all the things that work and from their point of view China has kept itself as one of the largest Nations in history for one of the longest times of any country.

So on the bad side you have things like them being willing to be extremely repressive is terms of censorship. Or the oppression of minorities they don’t fall in line enough to the central control of the government. Or minimizing stories that damage their reputation like mining issues.

On the good side they seem to be able to at least partially consider long term large scale society value. At least from the point of view of engineering. The USA by comparison seems to exclusively only consider short term value. Often in terms of weeks or a financial quarter and occasionally the few year duration of a presidential or Senate term.

China also seems to care about improving the average life of it’s citizens. This is a big deal and probably the most “Communist” thing. However that also goes along with them seemingly not just allowing but being perfectly happy to have some people have truly horrific lives as long as the baseline average is improving.

Full engine swap? Makes it even more ridiculous if so but someone stupid enough to do this seems like the type.

Safety. It improves visibility when pulling out and with backup cameras you lose no visibility pulling in.

I’ll gladly take that trade every time.

The only way that might not be true is if your vehicle has an insanely large/long nose. If it does you shouldn’t be driving it anyway.

I both lothe this happening and also know that it is often because of an intended safety feature called gray listing.

Basically due to resources cost a lot of spam will only get sent once and real emails will get sent again in exactly this kind of way. So it is a very low bar to pass when the system puts a low but above zero spam risk rating on it.

Yes of course more targeted things like spear phishing try more than once and get past this but bulk market type junk often does get blocked this way.

Most of those kids if things like parks and walkable safe cities increase economic health overall but it doesn’t go into the specific pocket of a capitalist in a direct way they can see. Plus the general kick the poor attitude from the same group.

Having both a wife and child with ADHD you need to try different meds to figure out what works.

In spite of the fact that is it is basically guaranteed that it is an inherited genetic trait the meds that work for them are different and even from different categories.

I’m shocked nobody has brought this up yet.

I would absolutely be a town citizen in Phineas and Ferb. Ideally the guy who always has a new fun project and the side effects from the kids just drop everything in his lap.

Every benefit of a cartoon world with almost none of the cartoon downsides. Nearly Culture level tech after a few years once the boys grow up to by adults and actually start taking things “seriously” as shown in episodes where they go to the near my future.

The worst people in the world are so bad at being bad that they are consistently kept in check and even rehabilitated by trained animals.