It would limit watering down the register with ‘minor’ offenses. It would also help avoid trapping an idiot teen in a negative spiral, due to a stupid drunken mistake 10 years previously.

Proof has a different meaning in science, compared to layman usage. In science it means absolute proof, and so generally only applies to mathematics.

A good counter example is Newtonian physics. It has/had a massive amount of experimental evidence behind it. It was basically proven. Then a few slight mismatches were found. Those led to both quantum mechanics and relativity. Both disproved Newtonian physics.

As for germ theory. It’s technically been disproven by the existence of viruses, and prions. Both cause infections without germs being involved.

None of that makes germ theory much less useful, just not “proven” in scientific terms.

Drawing boobs is second only to the instinct to draw cocks.

I’ve noticed you can basically replace “woke” with empathy (in various forms).

I’ve broken a few people out of the “anti-woke” cycle by pointing this out. It tends to work best on people who would be woke themselves, if it was presented in a different light.

Modern society is making both mild autism and ADHD more obvious. It both brings out traits associated with them, and makes it more acceptable to have them and not mask completely.

As for cancer, that’s mostly an age and treatment thing. People with cancer live longer, due to treatment, so you hear far more about it. Also, if you live longer, you get cancer. Therefore an older population has more cancer cases.

My personal concern is neurological and plastics. People with degenerative neurological conditions tend to have more micro plastics in their brains. We’ve no idea of the long term implications of this. It could possibly be the modern equivalent of leaded petrol.

At least it’s only a monopoly because everyone else is apparently idiots when it comes to long term planning. I’m dreading the day when they turn to the dark side. Long away may it be.

I remember there being a newspaper interview with an old lady. She was a child and saw one of the wright brothers first flights. She then got to see man land on the moon, at the other end of her life.

The allied forces explicitly decided not to try assassinating Hitler. They were worried someone more competent would take his place.

I was one of them. They proved my fears unfounded (so far). They’ve also managed to convert me to a fanboy at some point. I realised I was playing a co-op game brought off steam, on my steam deck, via a steam link to the TV, and the wife using a steam controller.

https://youtu.be/462KBuAhncU

True, but they weren’t really used much as flying cars till later. I might be wrong on exactly when they moved from military to “rich transport to the race track”, however.

We’ve had flying cars since the 70s, they are called helicopters.

The issue with a flying car for general use, is one of maintenance and safety. If an older car breaks down, it causes a tailback. If a flying car breaks down, it could demolish a school. The higher standards required means higher costs. That means rich people only. The rich use helicopters in exactly that manner.

This is one of the biggest frustrations with nuclear power. The first power plants had issues (mostly due to them being bomb factory designs). We learnt from that, and designed better ones. They never got built. They were swamped in red tape and delays until they died.

Decades later, China comes in and just asks nicely. The designs work fine. China now leads the way, built on research we left to rot.

It’s also worth noting that there is a big difference between a fusion power plant and a fission one. China is doing active research on it, as is the west. There’s quite a friendly rivalry going on. We have also basically cracked fusion now. We just need to scale it up. The only big problem left is the tokamakite issue. The neutron radiation put off by the reaction transmutes the walls. Using radioactive materials as a buffer is an idea I’ve not heard of. I’m curious about the end products. A big selling point of fusion is the lack of long term waste. Putting a fission reaction in there too might lose that benefit.

While they are massively more common than in other fields, they are still a tiny minority.

It’s also worth noting that the toupee effect may be involved. A lot of trans people can pass, in a work environment, as their preferred gender. I know a few trans people that I would never have clocked as trans, except the info came out in discussions.

Fyi, I’m not actually American myself. I agree with you otherwise however.

Both are brainwashed, just in different ways. Republicans are wired for fear. Democrats are wired for passivity.

The republican version is a lot more dangerous, but the democrat version is a lot more insidious.

The prison sentence kicks in after appeals have been made. 2 years, plus 2 suspended.

It’s also not unknown/uncommon for people to be let free for a few days. It lets them put their affairs in order, before serving their time. It tends to be applied to those with a very low flight risk however, with significant affairs, so mainly the rich.

The British managed that, though we are more than happy to share with our European cousins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Shrapnel

He invented the idea of an explosion powered guillotine blade. Perfect for a rocket warhead.

That’s fairly close. The only proviso is there are some ways to affect the results. You can’t send actual information along the link, but you can prove they were in communication. That proof requires information from the sending end however. It’s only provable once that information is sent. Basically they communicate faster than light, but can’t send information faster than light. Entanglement is weird.

It also has thermal imaging capability. 😜