It’s making an image of someone that portrays them in an unrealistic and offensive context.

Given her situation, that might still not count as Evil, though.

Especially them.

The solution is easy: Say it’s Trudeau’s justice and ignore the ruling. /s

Yeah, but only one of degree.

Iran isn’t directly mentioned. Vague terms like “the North” appear, and historically many American evangelicals have identified the USSR with it, because that was the geopolitical bogeyman of the day. I’ve had older evangelicals insist to me that Russia borders Israel as a result.

Iran’s more plausible than Russia, but if we pretend for a moment it’s not all some desert guy’s mushroom trip it could just as easily be Turkey.

Exactly. I bet they escalate because they’re more instinctively drawn to a dramatic story than to pragmatic victory or desirable outcomes.

Western militaries, at least, have made it doctrine to always keep a human in the loop, so that’s good.

I’m still not really sure how it’s a coherent ideology. Techno-optimism is, but as far as I know most big tech people don’t actually adhere to it, or even think it makes sense any more than we do.

All the real theoretical kinds of time travel involve a physical path you have to move along with a specific start and end point, because yeah, otherwise the frame of reference would be ambiguous.

Yes. People seem to think the bends always happens on exposure to weird pressures, but it just doesn’t. I guess they’re understandably imagining it’s the same as hot or cold.

(though no idea about the effects on the human body from such a sudden change)

Well, enough delta p is entirely capable of squishing an entire person through a thumb-sized hole, and while there’s no hole here I image there’d still be some sort of shock wave, and the air already in your lungs returning to normal volume suddenly would be uncomfortable. Don’t go too deep the first time, definitely ease into it.

Interestingly just 1 atm is fairly harmless. The first time someone got caught in a vacuum chamber they weren’t sure what they’d find, but the guy just got up and said his ears hurt.

You know, every time there’s a mass shooting in the US, a lot is made out of their big collection, but I always think about how you can only shoot one at once anyway, so it’s actually a dumb thing to fixate on.

The real evil use would be telling nobody and becoming the world’s best smuggler.

And even if OP had said 10, the obvious thing is for it just not to work. Either teleportation fails or the rod is left behind.

It becomes my house. Now all I have to worry about is food, water and a few incidentals. To shower, I could probably exploit the geometry for endless water pressure instead of using a pump, then I’d just need a little heater and a filter of some kind.

The first thing I do, of course, is dick with the gravity dial. See how low I can get it before I lose my lunch, see how high I can turn it and still do everything I need. Maybe I stick something heavy to the side of the dial so it turns itself and so on.

Maybe to raise the rest of what I need, I’ll start a moving company.

The weird geometry could also have some engineering uses that are pretty unique. For example, you could make a magnetic bottle for plasma that doesn’t leak as it wouldn’t need ends, or a laser in a frequency of light that’s hard to reflect.

Anti-user features are a major thing. People are dumb enough with technology you can get away with openly screwing over your “customers”. The antifeature in this case is “it’s not actually the advertised game, it’s a cheap pay to win thing”.

Presumably, people download this thinking it’s cool, and then end up playing it anyway and whaling for the “developers”, who may literally be four people, one of which reskins existing games, while everyone else does sales and marketing.

Upvote because that sounds about right. I don’t think we actually disagree.

You do know Hamas (and most other similar organisations) claims the Holocaust never happened, right? They’re not above spreading lies they find convenient. As often happens in geopolitics, everyone sucks.

I don’t know, maybe you think Palestine has had such a rough time they’re justified, and they have had a very rough time, but it’s still lies.

Oh, good. I was asking because otherwise it’s the sort of thing that they’d try to shut down the first time it was misused.

I mean, that’s a kind of stereotypical view of China’s history. There absolutely was just as much dysfunction and disunity over there as in Europe. Feudal societies gonna feudal.

If you read the article, it’s has more to do with Chinese people not understanding US politics for obvious reasons, and the government being more okay with errors that make the US look bad.

I am beyond tired of this thoughtless take. “You can’t murder me, that’s illegal!” “You can’t harass me for being homosexual, that’s illegal!” “You can’t slam me into the ground and arrest me for nothing, that’s illegal!” Just. Fucking. Watch them. It was illegal the first time they did it too.

My #1 issue with the Democrats. I’m not sure how they talk about unprecedented times so much without actually acting on it.

It’s a bit oversimplified, actually. Sound bounces off of discontinuities in the medium, which is why foam works. You just have to control the scattering somehow.

The big problem with using oobleck or whatever is it responds to shear, and shear can’t travel through air. You could use it for earthquake protection, though, or if you could channel compressive waves from the air into shear form using a fancy bridge like in OP.

Also, shear-thinning fluid is a thing too.