Cochise county is the south eastern corner of AZ. It’s about 50/50 Sonoran desert and mountainous area. This definitely appears to be the desert area. I’ve never seen a bear outside mountainous areas personally, pretty sure that’s a rare occurrence.
Dealing with dates and times in software will get you formatting using year-month-date and 24 hour time as the least possible chance for confusion.
I dunno, kids get really excited when they see Waymos.
If you’re in a studio apartment, you don’t really have a separate room for sleeping, so you likely have a tv visible from bed. If you move up to a 1 or 2 bed apartment, now you have a a living room, and a tv visible from bed is a choice. Guessing OP recently upgraded their living situation and is seeing how others do it.
The book Enders Game. I was will bullied in grade school. As was Ender. The overall theme is that it’s effectively impossible to maintain a defensive posture indefinitely. Be that always ready for dealing with bullies at school or home, to dealing with an alien threat becoming nearly impossible in three dimensions.
Ender comes up with the philosophy that you have to win, but not just win that fight/battle, you have to win so decisively that there won’t just be another fight later. While this turns out to be effective, it also results in genocide.
This resulted in a restrained version of the philosophy in me. When diplomacy fails, fight for your life, but know when you’ve won, know when you’ve prevented the next fight(s). And most importantly, know when to stop.
Everyone shits on Discover and Amex though, two companies that tried to break in. Discover gave up the fight and got bought by Capital one after 40 years of growing from the Sears in store credit card.
For alternatives to break the duopoly, people need to actually use them.
My blueray player broke, and my tv stopped showing me to use certain apps and I can’t figure out why. But a used PS4 cost me $85 and solved all my problems. And they left a copy of Minecraft in it, so I even have a game to play.
What delineates Europe from Asia that shouldn’t also delineate India from Asia?
Not trying to be argumentative, curious. I’ve always heard of India as a subcontinent, and when explained why it seems like Europe fits the same description.
Counterpoint: my software allows you to access your banking needs. I’m financially on the hook if fraud occurs. Fraud occurs because your favorite “slap the monkey” game also installs a keylogger and network monitor. So I don’t allow my software to work if you have that installed.
I think you’re right that companies should not be able to tell you what software you can run, but users also can’t be trusted to keep their devices safe.
A lot of network, banking, and telephony protocols historically rely on trusting that there are no bad actors in the chain. Technology has added more links to the chain increasing the opportunities for bad actors to tap into it.
It’s a situation that needs better fixes. Maybe we just need to hand the current internet over to the bots and start a new one with security and privacy built in from the ground up.
Fully stocked pharmacy, comfy mattresses, tvs and video games, car batteries and inverters to run the entertainment, and sometimes even citrus trees to prevent scurvy.
Downside is that without power to the building you have a lot of work to do to dump all the fresh food before it stinks up the place. That dairy cooler alone would get disgusting real quick.
Letterkenny
I always expect people to have heard about it but no one ever seems to. Hilarious look at small town Canadian life with a fucking great music selection. Equally fun for those of us in the states if we have a good sense of humor when they’re making fun of us.
I think it’s frustrating long term. It’s a great “weekly sitcom” show, but if you binge it, the complete lack of character development is painful to watch.
Good expansion on other things that turn turbines, but all of which would also never work in a mobile suit. Solar and PZ are truly different than “spin turbine“ but neither would work great to power the suit. Batteries and fuel cells might someday be energy dense enough to run an iron man for a short time, but still a long ways off. I think the direct energy converters are a super long way off. Good for low power situations, but I doubt they’ll ever be powerfully enough to propel even cars.
The tech behind the power source, thrust, and primary weapons doesn’t exist, and there are no real-life counterparts to them even at large scale that would just need to be miniaturized. With that much fiction in even the mark 1 suit, it’s impossible to estimate cost.
The biggest problem IMO is the fact that all our power generation technology comes down to “boil water to turn turbine”. How we generate the heat changes, but not how we turn it into electricity.
That makes sense. 10+ years ago many models didn’t liquid cool the battery which is what lead to the degradation. Anything in the last 5 years on the used market is much more likely to have no issues.
Have any data to back up second hand EVs being less reliable than second hand gas cars? Everything I’ve personally experienced is that as long as the battery is liquid cooled, they’re practically maintenance free.
My F150 Lightning has knobs and buttons for most functions. Specifically the XLT trim, only the XLT and pro have knobs and buttons. Plus it’s a truck which makes it the best EV for me. I tried to go with a small EV car and ended up having to rent a truck several times that year.
It’s always super frustrating that even on “high end“ pc laptops they’ll use some shitty combined Bluetooth and WiFi chip that will bottleneck everything.
Seriously, all they have to do is make an EV or hybrid under $20k and not try to push subscription BS.
Do you understand how complex it is to even have a force field? Then to have it be selective to keep air inside but let solid matter pass through? And you want to scale that complexity to a larger size? Just asking for problems.