It seems that nobody here is questioning what her intentions are, so there’s that at least, but the reactions seem so often to be that it’s an obvious thing that is abhorrent, but honestly, I question how many people are simply ignorant of the history on this. I grew up in a conservative, white (though not racist)…

It just like... ate them...

Apparently, I’ve seen too much anime because this isn’t flipping my uncanny valley switch...

Probably a silly question, but why not just stick these toys on a carrier? They already have the power supply. Is it because we don’t want our precious carriers that close to shore?

So a first-strike by America has the potential to wipe out much of Russia’s silos.

My thought as well. When a friend of mine from music theory class transposed Greensleeves to some obscure key (I think it was Gxm) and handed it to my sister-in-law, she spent like one measure being confused and then played everything else by memory, transposing it in her mind, not really even caring what the paper…

And this is why autonomous cars are an inevitability. Failures to save a life are software bugs, not “driver error.”

It’s really cool, getting 90% of my drawings right. Then it goes and does something like thinking a tornado is a microwave.

Except he has exactly zero power to create term limits. He can kindly ask his favorite Senators to write one up, but that’s about it. Even if by some miracle it came to a vote, the general consensus would be “lol, no.”

Do not forget that politicians are made by their constituencies. Trump offered (however inaccurately) to improve the lives of the white working class (which does truly need help) and in return, they handed him the white house.

Moral of the story: make sure your people-smashers have emergency cutoff switches!

Out of curiosity, why is this any more special than just rebooting the servers by hitting the power button? Oh, it sounds way cooler, but what does this do that’s so special that it requires a partial key encryption system to set it off?

What is that from?

Dammit, now I’m going to have to watch it a fifth time, immediately followed by a second Korra rewatch because of course I’ll have to. Man, I love these shows.

The first season definitely does keep the reality of the darkness of a world at war at bay, but it grows. With the third season’s addition of blood bending (if you’re familiar with Korra, you’ll know Katara is renowned as a healer, but at the end of ATLA, she’s downright terrifying in combat) and just how unhinged…

As much as I think you may be right about this being a superior design, I do think focusing on public interest generation at this point is the most important thing. If you could generate all that support and then say, “look guys, we cut the cost by 50% again by making it modular!” it’ll be a lot better for you than…

Not really. This is effectively fan fiction which they do actually have discretion on. If they were making money off this or if it weren’t clear it were a fan game, a case could be made for brand dilution which would effectively compel Nintendo to order a takedown, but since it clearly is a fan game and they aren’t…

1. Cannons at the time were muzzle loaded which means that to fire it, it either needs to slide all the way into the turret (making for either a very short barrel or very wide turret), or rotate upward while moving downward after firing so that you can drop in the ball safely (this would have been more reasonable due…

Because people like killing things? I’ll admit that it looks cool, but I’m totally with you on it being exclusively a murder tool. You can’t use it like a knife for camping because of the three curved blades. The only thing it’s good for is causing bleedout, but if you’re using a knife/dagger for self-defense, you…

Not really. A more conventional knife would be just as effective at self-defense. The curving of this blade is designed to tear up the inside of the target causing massive bleeding. The blade doesn’t make an individual stab any more imminently dangerous. It just makes a given stab eventually lethal. If you’re getting…