That’s the rub, she probably did intend to hit them, but that, alone, is not enough for murder she had to have intended to KILL them. Her statements might make that hard to prove, and if they charge her with murder they have to prove it or she walks. While “lesser included charges” are a thing, it doesn’t apply if…

situations of mutual abuse are not rare-- but if you use the word “hysterical” I’m going to go ahead and assume you did it...

Yes, you can do this, some ultra-deep vessels for tending to divers do that, because the divers are saturated at high pressure and need to stay that way or they die (until they come to the surface and are very slowly decompressed in a decompression living quarters).

The problem is you introduce a whole NEW set of…

How would you propose a law to work?  Conservatives have long wanted companies to be forced not to remove lawful content, is that what you’d aim for?

I really don’t get opposition to the idea of restricting social media for children. To me it’s beyond obvious that it has to be done or society will pay a severe price. It seems like a lot of opposition is because some of the bills (though not all) has been proposed by “the other side” without any deeper thought.…

fortunately many of the laws address just that, and aim to restrict companies from collecting highly personal identifying data on children.

First of all, it’s hardly just Republicans. second I really don’t get the opposition to this, it really seems like it’s “because the other side wants it”.

Children don’t have full rights. Period. And social media can be very dangerous, especially to developing minds and personalities and worldviews. Between the…

except the terrified teenager (who admitted he was scared and did not want to go) basically forced into a deathtrap.

not to mention that the system they went with is wholly inappropriate for carbon fiber!

I’m not an autobody tech, nor an expert but I’ve worked with these materials on robotics projects and have done a fair bit with epoxy and laminates.

I think your logic is sound, but I think the much more likely culprit is that the carbon fiber was indeed strong, but because it was not strong under compression the epoxy was bearing the brunt of the load trying to deform the hull. As a result the epoxy developed micro-cracks and ultimately the strength of the full…

those big commercial installs usually still rely on deep-cycle lead-acid cells, both for cost and other reasons (temperature tolerance, maintenance costs, ability to modularly replace units, and more).

Source: I’ve worked in data centers for years and worked with them, including having been responsible for battery…

The biggest problem is not the users, but the moderators. Reddit’s built-in tools are utter crap, to the point you NEED 3rd party API tools to effectively moderate even a modest low-rules sub, to say nothing of a highly curated, very popular sub like “ask historians” or “science”.

Without those tools, the average user…

despite what the news would have you believe most court rulings are nonpartisan and based on clear legal reasoning. It’s not about “being decent” as that’s not the court’s job, it’s about whether there was a valid legal reason to challenge the law. In this case the plaintiff’s arguments were basically that “it wasn’t…

Yeah, that’s the tough part. He’s clearly an asshole, and that sort of criminal act would not surprise me in the slightest. But the story beggars belief, exceptional claims require exceptional proof.

I’m witholding judgement because of that, I’m with you, about 50%. On one hand, if you WERE going to pick someone to…

The thing I find most useful is reddit is usually up to date. If you do a search for, I don’t know, world of warcraft talent builds, or Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous bug avoidance/fixes, you often get articles from close to the release date of the game, because of how SEO works and the fact that IGN isn’t writing…

ah the peacock mantis shrimp-- the most inaccurately-named animal in history:  it is not a peacock, not a mantis, and, in fact, not a shrimp either.

One of the things I love about Star Wars is that thanks to the expansive “expanded universe” you can tell any story you want. You can go to the outer rim and have a space western, you can go to the corporate sector and go full cyberpunk, you can go to the old republic or early rebellion and do a cold war spy thriller,…

my favorite dig at waterworld is that people were calling it “fishtar”

Hydrogen is a dead-end technology. It just can’t be made safe and it has serious lifespan issues with hydrogen embrittlement, the fact hydrogen is such a small molecule it can leak even from a sealed tank, the fact you need cryogenic infrastructure and more. It’s also explosive at almost any concentration. Gasoline…