RegalPotoo

So realistically, what would happen if there was a collision like this?

It's a pretty significant hit, but not enough to meaningfully change the moon's orbit, so no long term impacts from that. Maybe a pretty meteor shower from the material ejected? Probably not enough material to cause a significant amount of surface heating.

See, the thing is I grew up outside the US and was taught about the civil rights movement as well - did they just not talk about what the police and federal government were doing for a century? Was it all framed as a minority of whites that were being racist or something?

Damn, toner is running out

IIRC Ubiquity make a line of point-to-point ethernet bridges that operate in the 20GHz range (because more bandwidth, and if you have line of sight you don't care about interference as much). Responsible vendors won't even sell you one without sighting a license cos they can also get in trouble for selling it to you if it turns out you are operating it illegally

So this whole Gemini thing is a tactic to push people to upgrade their phones again right? They gave up on the whole "your phone is 6 months old and therefore won't be getting security updates anymore so you need to buy a new phone with identical specs otherwise hackers are going to break into your bank account and set your dog on fire" because regulators were starting to get twitchy, so now it's "your phone is brand new but you didn't spend enough money on it so you better buy a new phone or you won't be able to have a sentient assistant to help you do your job and manage your life and you'll be passed over for promotion by a 16 year old AI Native and never get a date and your family will be angry at you because Aunt Mildred doesn't like fish and you booked family dinner at the wrong restaurant "

Martial law lets you arrest people without trial, but it doesn't directly allow you to just not hold an election, and you can only declare it "unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it".

I guess you could come up with some pretence then impose martial law and make it clear that anyone voting the wrong way is going to get arrested, but at that point why bother with laws at all?

Actually, reading the language again, I can absolutely see some shenanigans where he runs as VP for someone else who runs on a platform of "vote for me and I'll immediately resign and put Trump in charge again". It'd need the supreme court to decide if that "and" is exclusive or not, and given that half the court seems pretty happy to give up their principles of it suits their politics, I wouldn't be surprised if that worked

If I had to put money on it, I'd guess they contest the legitimacy of the next election, and he just refuses to step down - can only be elected twice, but he's just there as a care taker until a proper election can happen

Ah yes, throw the minimum wage call centre staff under the bus for what is clearly a systemic problem.

We used to occasionally use them if the discount is big enough to make it comparable to our typical grocery bill, but after how badly they fucked up last week Never Again.

• Busy weekend, so put in an order for delivery Sunday afternoon
• Saturday morning get a text saying "sorry, we can't do deliveries on Sunday this week, you'll get your box Monday before 6pm, we'll give you a credit for the delivery fee". Fine, annoying, but have enough stuff in the pantry and freezer to put a meal together
• Monday evening rolls around, 6pm comes and goes, still no food. Have scrounged another meal together for me, my wife and my toddler. Get the toddler to bed at 7pm, then call the help line - they clearly have not been told that something is going wrong, are actually super helpful and try to figure out what is happening and apologise a bunch
• At 8:30pm get another text saying "yeah, our linehaul is fucked, we can't get you the food, we'll give you a credit"
• Call up the help line again cos fuck no you don't get to give me a credit when you've taken the money and supplied nothing. Again, call centre people are really helpful but absolutely have no idea that this is going on, eventually get a refund

For a company whose core function is logistics, they seem really bad at doing logistics. Also, I've worked in call centres before; if something like that is going down that is going to affect a big load of customers and generate calls, you tell the call centre so they don't get caught out by angry people

There are two truely hard problems in computer science; P=NP, naming things, and off by one safety

Beyond just being able to draw a bow, being able to draw it well enough to have a chance of shooting at all repeatably takes a lot of training - it's not just lifting a 50+lb weight, pulling it towards you with one and and pushing it away with the other while keeping your arms stable requires a lot of strength in muscles the people don't tend to use.

Source: former colleague is an international competition level archer - the sheer amount of core strength and coordination and balance you need to be a good archer is wild

Theoretically the contents of these lots would be insured, so if there was a sudden unexpected fire that happened to destroy all the cars Tesla gets a cash payout, unlike if they just sit there where Tesla has to take the cashflow hit of having paid to build cars that noone will buy