Now that was a wild ride to read

Correct. And it’s not strange.

This comment appears to have aged well.

Hunted a bit growing up. My guess is, if you hit a human pretty much anywhere above the thighs with .30-06, they’re not going to live through it. The hydrostatic shock is devastating and the exit wound is significant.

If the round was armor piercing, .30-06 has enough force to go through a car engine block.

This is a very sad two sentence story.

Pretty sure the glass dome traps the heat they’re trying to dissipate.

That’s not quite the way they summarized the plot on the Oscar nomination, but yes.

Thanks to the KKK, I assume.

I was surprised by how Mickey 17 used a similar plot point.

I’m no Musk apologist, but this statement is nowhere close to being true.

https://www.inverse.com/innovation/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-9-economics

The letter ‘h’ just entered the chat.

Phish concert?

What you’ve described is often referred to as a rainbow table and is generally not considered to be GDPR compliant:

https://skymonitor.com/why-hash-dont-anonimize-an-ip-address-and-what-this-affects-gdpr/

https://www.ndtv.com/feature/man-fired-from-microsoft-after-22-years-becomes-goose-farmer-see-viral-linkedin-profile-5586211

I view the patent process as furthering the ability of others to benefit from the results: without patents, the only way to keep clones of your product from immediately appearing on the market is obfuscation and trade secrets. Patents grant a limited monopoly, but at the price of full disclosure. That full disclosure serves a useful social benefit as others can learn and innovate on what was done before. The limited monopoly encourages innovation because it helps people get exclusive rights to sell their work.

There’s a lot of bad patent behavior with patent trolls, etc. The duration of the patents should be relatively short and not extensible. But I think the disclosure aspect of the patent process does further overall innovation.

I’d like to get back to ‘for limited time’. Patents 10 years, no extensions. Copyright, 10 years, no extensions. Trademarks indefinite as long as the owner still has a meaningful business still operating and using the trademark ( this one is tricky to define well).

Deep blue Washington state has the advantage of giant amounts of hydroelectric generation combined with a relatively small population to consume it.

The money has to come from somewhere.

That’s why elons team took over the treasury payments system.

Rob Reiner’s dad Carl was best friends with Mel Brooks for almost all of Carl’s adult life.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/carl-reiner-mel-brooks-friendship

I think you meant Thompson, hopefully not Tompkins.