The article implies that tungsten pellets are particularly bad, but they're actually a replacement for cluster bombs that could leave behind unexploded ordnance. Technology can't save civilians from a missile targeted at where they are, but at least these missiles don't also endanger people entering the area in the future.

I want a car with a manual transmission and ideally with rear wheel drive, so I'm looking at the Miata and the BRZ/GR86. Even the new Miatas still have real, physical gauges but the BRZ has an LCD display with the tachometer shown graphically but the speed only ever shown with digits, and that can't be changed unless you buy the 2020 (or older) model which still has physical gauges.

I used to drive a sedan so I'd prefer a newer BRZ (I'm looking at a 2023 one) because the Miata has so little cargo space (the BRZ at least has back seats that fold down) but I've been renting a car with a digital display for a week and I still haven't gotten used to it so I'm worried that I never will.

I don't mean that the numbers flash when I'm going over the speed limit - I just mean that the value is constantly changing, the changes are abrupt (a big part of the screen updates), and visually the difference between "55" and "75" is no bigger that the difference between "55" and "57". Actually monitoring my speed feels like having to look at my phone. This is as opposed to just seeing the speedometer needle out of the corner of my eye and knowing how fast I was going and how fast my speed was changing.

I used to worry about what women would think when they saw my home, but it turned out that none of them ever see it at all so I might as well be true to myself and collect all the My Little Ponies.

The fact that the salute is so offensive, they did it so blatantly, and their denial was so disingenuous is the point. It's a demonstration of power. They can do a Nazi salute and their opponents can't punish them. They can deny that they did a Nazi salute and their opponents can't control the narrative. If they did something more subtle, then people might think that they weren't facing any consequences because their opponents were giving them the benefit of the doubt. With the Nazi salute there is no doubt. The only explanation for why they aren't facing any consequences is that their opponents are powerless.

Their oath bound them in undeath. Once they fulfill their oath, they can't just choose to stick around. They're a single-use consumable item.

Oh and even they can't just walk into Mordor, because Sauron casts Turn Undead as a 20th level Cleric.

pissing standing up

I sit on my throne like a king.

This is what international law has to say about incendiary weapons:

1. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons.

2. It is prohibited in all circumstances to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons.

3. It is further prohibited to make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary weapons other than air-delivered incendiary weapons, except when such military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in any event to minimizing, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects.

4. It is prohibited to make forests or other kinds of plant cover the object of attack by incendiary weapons except when such natural elements are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or other military objectives, or are themselves military objectives.

This treeline is clearly not located within a concentration of civilians and it is concealing (or plausibly believed to be concealing) enemy combatants and therefore the use of incendiary weapons is unambiguously legal.

Wow, I didn't realize that they were about the same age. I just assumed that Clinton, who was last elected president twenty-eight years ago, was way older.

1. Meet woman, don't be weird.

2. Gradually build a loving, trusting relationship.

3. She has to get surgery and she'll be bed-bound while she recovers.

4. "Will you take care of me, Anon?"

5. Lord of the Rings marathon. The director's cuts. She can't run.

So today I drove five hours to see the eclipse, had a tire blow out, didn't see the eclipse because of thick clouds, and got stuck in traffic for hours on the way back. (I'm still not home.) But at least I haven't been shot by maniac, yet.

A better title would be "Supercomputer that could conceivably simulate entire human brain, based on a rough estimate of what it would take to do that if we had any idea how to do that, will switch on in 2024".

So drinking a real-world cow's milk is ok, but drinking a Zootopia cow's milk would not be ok because... the Zootopia cow is presumably a full member of society who earns a living by consensually being milked?