"Basically" stealing?

Unless OP is a duck, I don't see how that changes things.

It's recognizably a chicken, but it's less than half the weight of modern chickens bred for lots of meat. The females are less familiar-looking, as well.

Ironically, he became a successful con artist by lying about being a successful con artist.

The embodiment of "fake it 'til you make it"

> So "size" in this context means radius of the star vs. planet, not the mass, area, or volume.

Thank you. It was so obnoxious that it didn't explain that.

I'm curious what might have happened if Germany had decided to surrender wholesale to the Western Allies instead of trying to fight to the end. Certainly would have been easier on the civilians, relatively speaking. Is there any chance the Soviets would have respected that? Or would it have rolled straight into a war of Germany+Western Allies vs. USSR?

Roman roads are interesting. Astonishing engineering, a really well-built stone road can last for millennia.

But you wouldn't want to drive on one. Stone pavers give a hell of a rough ride at any real speed, and stone is deadly slick when it's wet. For cars you really need something that's very smooth and slightly tacky, and unfortunately asphalt is the best we've come up with so far. I'll take dealing with potholes over a 30MPH top speed.

(And if we did drive on Roman roads, I don't think they'd last so long under regular 18-wheeler traffic.)

> Your body will inform you when you're thirsty.

My body doesn't. That's what I'm telling you. I feel like shit, I don't feel thirsty; as soon as I drink something I suddenly realize I'm thirsty, drink a bunch, and immediately feel better.

We're not talking about life-threatening dehydration. We're talking about thirsty enough to feel bad, but my body isn't sending "drink something" signals.

Well, yeah.

People keep telling me that. I'll feel like complete shit and have no idea why 'til I take a sip of water, find myself greedily guzzling the entire bottle, and realize I haven't had a drink in six hours.

"When you're thirsty" doesn't work for everyone.

That is terrifying.

> The current system already uses a couple of types of machine learning programs. To improve its accuracy, the Stanford team employed software that predicts what word typically comes next in a sentence. “I” is more often followed by “am” than “ham,” even though these words sound similar and could produce similar patterns in someone’s brain.

> But newer “large” language models, like GPT-3, are capable of writing entire essays and answering questions. Connecting these to brain interfaces could enable people using the system to speak even faster, just because the system will be better at guessing what they are trying to say on the basis of partial information.

Man, I'm sure it's better than not being able to talk at all, but using autocorrect on my actual speech sounds kinda creepy. Especially the GPT thing, since GPT can generate not just short phrases but entire essays. Even if it works perfectly 98% of the time, that one time in 50 when your "own voice" decides to say something that didn't come from your brain could be terrifying.

The article gives no details. Neither of use has any idea how far his plan did, or didn't, go.

Seriously planning to commit murder is definitely a crime.

I don't know the situation, maybe the kid was just being an edgy dork and never meant to actually act on it. But it's not the case that the system can't take action until a trigger is pulled.

You're not wrong, but this amuses me because, in aircraft, "ground speed" means what you're calling GPS speed. Basically just the horizontal component of your speed. An aircraft in a vertical dive has a ground speed of zero even if it's close to breaking the sound barrier.

(For extra confusion, "air speed" is your speed relative to the air around you, and that air may also be moving. If you're in level flight, heading due north into a 50MPH wind blowing due south, you might have a 300MPH airspeed but only 250MPH ground speed.)

Here you go!

> The land was previously covered in tiny iron meteorites

Interesting. Source for that?

> The aunt was likely picking up on signs he was a cheat risk

So she was punishing him for crimes he was going to commit, and that makes it okay?

I'm not saying he was right or justified to cheat, in the end. But the fact that he did doesn't retroactively excuse her abuse. Some bad situations don't have a good guy.

I can personally confirm that this has the same effect on middle-aged adults.

I've never really understood how you get from "I like Mickey Mouse" to "I will pay as much as I have to to own any object depicting Mickey Mouse."

The ones with the little handcart would be fun to fidget with.

I like the idea, but is there any benefit to using three wheels instead of four? Trikes aren't the most stable, and I'm reading that the Solo doesn't even have an airbag.

This thing doesn't look much longer than a big motorcycle, and a second seat would be wasteful.

And requiring people to drive a motorcycle for work would be pretty shitty, given how dangerous those things are. Three-wheelers aren't the safest either, I'm not a fan of that, but at least it's fully enclosed with seatbelt, roll cage, and crumple zones.

(But not, I'm reading, an airbag. Ugh.)

And he foresaw the existence of earbuds, which hadn't been invented yet at the time.

It's still a bit histrionic. Mildred's relationship with the TV, for example, is genuinely chilling (and prophetic). The idea that someone might enjoy listening to music while walking is not.

The utter, dehumanized horror when he describes someone walking down the sidewalk wearing earbuds so when you say hello to them they can't hear it.