The force pushing the boat forward is based on the difference in velocities of the wind and water. Modern foil based boats pretty much have one wing sticking up into the air, and one sticking down into the water, and can eventually turn the relative motion into boat speed in whatever direction they want.

The military has backup links including satellites that can provide minimum command and control, but fiber carries 99%+ of all traffic, including encrypted military comms. Mesh and ring networks keep single points of failure from bring down global communications, but knock out a few links and international…

Anyone want to take bets on the division filing for bankruptcy just before it is ordered to make a large payout?

Well the way you go silent and slow now is to is to just power a deep see glider with an RTG. If you want to really, really fuck with the world, you use the gliders to plant super low yield nukes near undersea comms cables.

somehow managed to fuck up the ABS’s wheel rotation sensor. Sometimes the bearing has a magnetic encoder on it and installing it wrong will fuck things up

Except, you know, Wells Fargo... 

Except, you know, Wells Fargo... 

Meh, the lazy fucks should have done a safer and more permanent job. If you decide you want to fuck someones stuff up badly enough, a) do some proper damage: b) make sure you can’t do damage to random bystanders.

nah, the law firm gets a huge, cheap, publicity boost.

Fired? Perhaps not, but certainly some form of censure is called for. It’s not just a bad idea on the relationship side, it’s dangerous for the patient because the doctor can’t do their job as well as they should.

MREs would be higher in fat, sodium, and sugar than a recommended daily diet because they are made for the armed forced to eat while deployed and working. The daily recommendations are for an “average” person doing average things, not folks working their asses off to rebuild. 

That’s precisely fucking backwards.

Going down the not quite on topic rabbit hole: we need a proper public transport system if driving is to regulated as a privilege.

Oh, and ICE also makes sure you can’t get your Apple devices repaired by destroying any replacement parts coming in through customs that Apple didn’t authorize. Oh, and Apple not only has a long standing “fuck off, buy a new one” default policy on repairs, but won’t sell parts to third party repair shops, so “real”…

Good job Kotaku, claiming the damn cutscene as your own content in a copyright claim on a smaller YouTube channel.

Autopilot is best at low speed, stop and go traffic. Keep me at least half a car length or 1.5 the expected stopping distance from the car in front and everything is golden. If things go wrong it can slam on the brakes with suprise and a scratched bumper being the bad outcome.

REI didn’t suspend purchases because the conglom sells guns. It suspended purchases because the conglom is actively taking measures to support bad gun laws (making sure people who have been adjudicated mentally ill can still purchase) and weakening environmental protections (they got fined for illegal dumping so…

The thought experiment works right up untill “was still successful”. If she wanted him dead, stuck a pin in a voodoo doll, and he died if a heart attack, would you consider that murder too?

They do. The very companies making the ‘games’ have explicitly said how they are designed to separate people from their money in as addictive a way as possible. All you have to do is listen/read reports to investors or look at some keynotes at conferences.

Christian literalists believe genocide is a good act of God commands it. Clearly if God wills it, any horror becomes definitionally good in their eyes. Happily, there must be some disconnect between what drives their actions and what they describe as their morals or they would murder any child they came across.

A sizeable fraction of the dominionists think mass slaughter of infants and children is an infinite good as they go straight to heaven (at least when their God ordered genocide), so it’s not that much of a stretch. Believing contradictory things leads to such absurd conclusions.