It’s used for very minor repairs, in this case, a more permanent repair is under the tape, but is likely curing, so they slap some speed tape on it.

Speed tape never holds anything down, it’s just used to smooth over a surface, to allow better air flow.

Whatever is being covered by the speed tape will likely see more attention from maintenance later.

https://www.salon.com/2011/10/27/ryanair_duct_tape_controversy/

Fascism is just conservatism with the addition of hyper-nationalism and the blaming of minorities for all of society’s problems.

But the core belief, that some groups are inherently better than others, is exactly the same.

I keep meaning to give that a try, but after Shyamalan… No. Just the memory of that is enough to give pause.

Also, Netflix live action has been… well, never quite as good as the original. They often don’t lean into the genre as hard as they need to.

The definition is that Tesla is shit.

They’re selling a spotty lane assist as Self Driving when it is not.

Other companies are selling actual self-driving cars, (even if those companies are fucking up as well) but Tesla is nowhere near that level of autonomy. All because Musk cheaped out on the sensor package.

Teslas will never be self-driving, because they literally cannot detect the road and obstacles with just their little camera setup.

They should not be allowed to call it self-driving, or autopilot, or anything else that implies that you can take your hands off the steering wheel.

The reason conservatives don’t like research is that to truly take advantage of it, you need a strong university system, and a lot of students.

And universities are breeding grounds for leftist ideals.

Education in general moves people to the left, but universities take that to 11. And that’s why conservatives hate it.

but you need to supervise it because you are both responsible and because it’s not perfect

Not self-driving then. Words have meanings.

Then it’s not “Full self driving”. It’s at best lane assistance, but I wouldn’t trust that either.

Elon needs to shut the fuck up about self driving and maybe issue a full recall, because he’s going to get people killed.

That’s not exactly how it works.

Most research is based around understanding the universe. Often called Blue Sky research (Why is the sky blue?).

Now that’s a very broad category, so you break things down into something more manageable. Like the lifecycle of a specific insect, or the behavior of crowds in shopping centers during holidays.

The point being that you can absolutely tell someone what to research.

Now, you are correct in that you cannot dictate the results of research.

Except that you can, and it’s the second type of research.

Goal oriented research, or maybe practical research? starts with a goal or a problem. Like a disease. The goal is a cure or prevention. How you get to that point doesn’t matter as long as you do, but in practice the way to meeting that goal is going to be more research centered around understanding the goal or problem.

Now, all that said, pure Blue Sky research has a guaranteed return on investment. NASA estimates that their return is 3-1. 3 dollars back for every dollar of their budget.

All that said, there is no ethical reason to constrain research topics or even to reduce spending on science.

That was mostly England. The Balfour Declaration kicked it all off, and then post WW1 British Colonialism locked it in, even though the people who founded Israel were actively fighting England to do so.

Except there no evidence of starvation in Ba Sing Se. After all, there was so little impact that the citizens could be convinced that there was no war.

As to supply lines, earth benders cannot be locked in by a siege. They can create tunnel networks with a literal wave of the hand.

So you’re inventing crimes that didn’t exist.

He was first in line to be Fire Lord until his son died.

I don’t think Iroh would have been as ruthless as his brother. But he did see conquest as a sort of duty.

But then his son died, and he realized that it was all pointless.

1.7% is more than enough to flip some swing states. Most swing states.

And two in particular have more than an average number of Puerto Ricans.

So yeah, it matters.

Or maybe some Russian State backed programmers have tried to slip in backdoors in various key systems, numerous times. Including one that almost went live on millions of machines.

The actual answer is at vaporization temperature. Which the satellite did not reach.

I’d remember a transhumanist species. It would be an interesting premise for an episode…

Eh, it’s honestly safer than you’d think. The size of the reactor plays a huge role in safety.

A reactor sized for a container ship would be literally incapable of melting down, because there just isn’t enough fuel to get to those temperatures. You could then limit the ship’s speed, and over build the reactor a bit, so that the reactor is never truly stressed during normal operation.

Then for refueling, you just remove the entire reactor and replace it with a new, fully fueled one every 10 years or so.

That’s where you want your controls.

Other than that, yeah it would be safer than oil. A crash just means your reactor casing gets wet.

The main worry is someone cutting into the reactor to take out the spicy rocks… and there are easier ways to get spicy rocks.

Fun fact, -40C and -40F are the same temperature.

Then 575K and 575F are the same.

Yup, those 15th century typesetters fucked up the language.

Columbus was a slave trader up and down the African coastline before he was sponsored to make his voyage in 1492.

He then enslaved the natives. It was his first response to meeting them. That included child sex slaves. This is an account from Columbus himself talking about how 9 and 10 year old girls were “in high demand”

He forced most of the people he captured to collect gold for him, or die, and then, because he didn’t actually have the means to feed the people he enslaved, he forced them to live on grass. Most of them starved to death.

There are accounts of slavers beheading their exhausted slaves rather than go through the effort of releasing them from the chain around their neck.

No, Columbus was a fucking monster, but Italian Americans of the late 1800s to Early 20th century wanted a “hero” so that the racist assholes would stop being racist toward them. So they appropriated Columbus as an Italian and whitewashed his crimes against humanity.

The mycelium is the main body of the fungus, yes, and it’s the entirety of the circle. The mushrooms on the edges are indeed the fruit.

And it’s every type of mushroom that does this… sort of. Any mushroom that grows along the ground at least. There are plenty of varieties that grow on trees and throughout a leaf pile or such.