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My son would argue that governments should have invested heavily in thorium reactor technology instead.

“The kids are alright” does not mean that the world where the kids live is alright, it means that the kids are alright. 😅

It’s a form of lying, but with a specific meaning.

Like how the 9th (or 8th, depending on how you’re counting) Commandment says to not bear false witness. That doesn’t mean that people following an Abrahamic faith cannot lie… just that they can’t lie in that one specific way.

Parallel construction is a way to present evidence illegally obtained by coming up with a plausible-seeming other way it was found.

So, rather than saying “we illegally stopped and searched the defendant” they’ll get an “informant” (sometimes paid, sometimes coerced) to swear that they tipped them off beforehand.

I cannot make certain teams at my work give a shit about known security vulnerabilities in libraries they use, since they don’t trip our internal scanners. People have their own priorities. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In Europe:

In the US:

Not exactly the same years, of course, and comparing data sets is tricky.

I don’t think that we see the same increase in pedestrian fatalities in other countries though, which do have smart phones but do not have massive personal trucks.

The police exist to protect capital and the capital class. They’re not incompetent, they’re doing their job just fine.

Oh yes that was it!

So, mod removed. I feel less annoyed. 😄

I did notice a post that was looking for help, then apparently labelled “solved”… then deleted for some reason. 😞

I just download and install games.

Now that the US has declared itself a foreign adversary for every other country on the planet, can we start banning online ads, at least from US companies?

I’m so sorry. It must be terrifying knowing how many of your fellow drivers are zipping around with worn brake pads or broken turn signals. 😬

Presumably your car has an annual safety inspection. The inspection could include writing down your milage, right? I’m pretty sure there are already laws against tampering with your odometer…

I keep thinking making a magic mirror would be such a project…

“Internal combustion engine vehicles also lose range in extreme cold weather,” points out Ed Kim, the chief analyst with the research group AutoPacific, who was not involved in AAA’s research. The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated a 10% to 30% drop in gas vehicle fuel economy in cold weather, depending on the type of trip. “This isn’t a problem that’s exclusive to EVs. This happens to basically any kind of vehicle when it gets really cold.”

Okay I’ll bite.