turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"Real" lasers also show up sometimes in the old EU. They're mostly explained away as outdated tech and "blasters are better" and that even the wimpy-est of force fields will stop them. There's not nothing to that either. A laser you either need to hold it exactly on target for a measure of time or have a massive amount of cooling in the emitter. If you can just "send plasma" in that direction instead it solves those problems.

"Slugthrowers", i.e. 'real guns', also show up and "blasters are better" because the bolt is faster and doesn't suffer as much from aerodynamic effects. But a lightsaber user is going to have problems if a bullet is now just molten instead of being reflected away.

That's leaning a lot into the older EU though which is much more a universe like 40k where tech just "is" and people maybe don't understand the mechanics of how it works anymore.

And of course it's significantly much more about the rule of cool than real physics.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

* banned drivers licenses that don't meet the requirements that have had their implementation date pushed back repeatedly for a decade+. We will do anything and everything but have an actual national ID.

I don't think any drivers licenses count as proof of citizenship though. (Even before, as noted, factoring in that they're not looking.)

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Many of them are focusing very very hard on selectively ignoring the text of the religion they claim to follow. Subtext might as well not exist.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't there something with the original switch where third-party usb-c didn't work with it off the bat either? I thought it ended up being something about Nintendo actually following the spec more rigidly than others did.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'd need to rollback the last 70 years of pensions being replaced by 401k plans and/or limit responsibility to the brokers. If you hire a licensed plumber that ends up flooding your neighbor's place, the plumber is the one getting sued.

It would probably also be good to restructure retirement incentives away from the stock market, but that's not going to happen overnight either.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's apparently a dorm in Michigan, this room is $1.5k per bed.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

$1499 per bed for this room. ($1519 with balcony/patio)

That both seems insane and also I'm sure it's right in line with other student housing.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Have also been out of the loop too but went through the know your meme page.

Pirate Software made a video a year ago criticizing the initiative on a very surface level and has continued to do so in streams. Guy who created/sponsored/however-that-works the initiative posted a counter-argument video talking about what the initiative would actually do. Pirate Software did the ol' Internet Doubledown and in general was kind of an ass and kind of revealed some ignorance. Cue Youtube Drama.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lifeguards take breaks every ~20 minutes, not just to look down or zone out, to get up and move around. And again, are in an extremely controlled environment looking for a very small number of specific problems.

Elon is making programmers sleep at their desks.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Lifeguards have very short periods of diligence before they take mandatory breaks in an extremely controlled environment. Train conductors operate on grade separated infrastructure. Security Guards do not have to take split second action or die.

Putting a warm body in a mind-numbing situation and requiring split second response to a life or death situation at a random time is a recipe for failure.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Duck Season is pretty fun too FWIW.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Expecting people to be able to behave like machines is generally the attitude that leads to crash investigations.

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