"The transformative power of rock ballads" sounds like an excellent Cards Against Humanity card.

Wizards have a ton of spells to destroy armor or force discard. Warriors have an entire class of attacks that completely ignore armor. Healers don't have as many options, but can still force discard. It's all about building out your characters to face any particular battle, and those fights can become a piece of cake.

I don't know if that was actually the case back then, but it's certainly not now. The only thing like that is movement related, where if the AI plays a move card for one of its groups, all the units in that group get to move. But things like attacks, heals, special moves, etc... are still one per turn, then back to…

"Looking ahead, it'll be various developments in molecular assembly, the social and economic consequences of mass automation, and the proliferation of AI and AGI."

"Culling lionfish makes the go into hiding" has absolutely logical no relationship to "culling lionfish is a bad thing", the latter of seems to be the thesis of this article. Poor form.

Given that this weapon actually exists, while plasma weapons and particle beams (at least ones that can work outside of near-perfect vacuums) don't, makes this a wee bit more practical.

And? That just means that the early railguns didn't work so well, not that they weren't railguns.

How is this not a railgun? It's the exact definition of one.

Line of sight. The Navy's goal is a 200 nm range, vs only a few nm to the horizon.

Hey, maybe you like riding in trains when an engineer freezes up because he's in the middle of a PTSD flashback from that time a car crossed the tracks and he killed a 5 year old girl in the back seat, and now the sight of that make of car can trigger him? Me, I'd rather people get the therapy they need for something…

You're still missing the bigger point, which is that essentially all of the difference comes down to the fact that Garamond uses smaller letters (x-height) as compared to Times New Roman. Since this would make a, say, 12-point font less legible, in order to meet readability standards, a larger point font would need to…

As someone from a lab that just received a sizable NIH grant to start work on a GC vaccine specifically because of the rise of resistant strains, I feel very conflicted about news like this.

It's rare, only about a 5% cross reaction. But for people who go into anaphyllactic shock from penicillins that's enough of a reason to never give cephalasporins except in true emergencies.

You seem to have forgotten to read any of the 150+ comments before you, wherein I explain over, and over, and over again, that the article did not originally include the word stateside, I pointed it out with that comment, and in fact the author thanked me in a reply, before noting that he would make the change. I…

Back to? String theory is based on supersymmetry. If the latter is out, the former is super-dead.

I'm sorry, were votes other than yes or no allowed? Are we all missing the story that the "cuddly hugs for all" group ran a vote-spoiling operation against the UAW?

So one side lied, the other side didn't, and you think that's perfectly fair. And if anything, you're blaming the guys who didn't lie for what, not inventing their own lies? That's some Fox News levels of "fair and balanced reporting".

India and Nepal only made it to ~1200, but remember he said those two countries only made up about 38% of the work force. So triple that number to get the total for all laborers. Thousands.

At this point, I think the best hope is that the Chinese company sponsoring the project looks so incompetent and out of their depth that it's very possible it will never happen at all.

The problem is we don't know how to keep humans safe and alive in space for long periods of time. Without the ISS, the moment we needed to do anything longer than a week outside of Earth Orbit we'd be stuck. Now, at least, we can solve the basic "keeping the astronauts alive" problems ahead of time, so that they'll be…