His in-character book is hilarious.

Also, range. You don’t even need numbers on the RPM dial to know it pointing past 12-o-clock is not good.

Also, a digital display may be quicker to read a value, but an analog dial is infinitely superior for displaying both range and rate of change, which for rapid readouts is much more significant.

Yeah, sparks a whole lot of emotions, but joy is not among them.

Point kinda holds, though. Ignoring the long-term consequences for short-term gain seems to also feature heavily in America.

And would be correct. But if we’re planning a health system, and I keep insisting on bandaids but refuse to even talk about anything else, my proposal is a bait-and-switch. That’s the problem, not UBI/NIT, as a concept.

That’s under the assumption that you’re actually getting them to a doctor and not just slapping the bandaid on and calling it a day.

They absolutely do exist

Battle of Blair Mountain.

I mean, remember who was president 20 years ago?

Another reminder that France, Spain, and Italy forced the Bolivian president’s plane to land in Austria because they thought Snowden was on it.

It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.

People thought COBOL would let managers write code.

Reminds me of Reagan, actually. That was more or less the response he and Bush gave back when a US ship shot down an Iranian airliner.

“Funny” gets laughs. “Relatable” gets engagement.

Seems more like something Diogenes would pull.

The usual translation is “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” It’s a Mao Zedong quote.

Cold blood usually just means as opposed to “hot blood”, that is, in the heat of the moment. People say it as if it makes it particularly bad, but really, it’s almost a synonym for “premeditated”.

Do you and Mork keep in touch?

It’s getting there. The whole “pranked with a bun until unalived, in Minecraft” thing is highly reminiscent of the mud-crab-horse or whatever the Chinese one was.