bluGill

There are medications that if not used correctly harm everyone.

Antibiotics cause antibiotic resistant strains, and if you don't take the full dose it gets worse. As such their used needs to be monitored closely.

Some drugs cause mental issues. you shouldn't drive after taking alcohol - also don't drive after taking many pain killers. Again we need to watch this closely since you can harm someone else.

If someone I don't know harms themselves I could say none of my business (this is a debatable moral issue, but at least you can understand that side). However if you harm someone else that is a problem.

China is making moves on Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and the Philippians. They are building up their military. Nobody knows what will happen in the future, but there is a reasonably possibility of war in the region which the EU will get involved in. The cold war wasn't all unreasonable fear even if some was.

You don't need to phone home. A radio is something you can hide in a chip, using the board itself as an antenna. Then the chip listens for the signal which can be broadcast many ways (the local embassy, satellite, or spys) Isreal already proved that you can attack pagers in ways like this (their radios were hidden in a battery, but the point remains). The engineering is tricky, but well within something China can do.

That requirement is easy to appear to meet while still allowing whatever remote actions they want to do. Remember the first step of evil here would be appearing to work perfectly long enough to get a massive install base. Then the setret signal to all fail goes out to them all. i can come up with the above attack so we can safely assume China can too - they likely have other ideas as well.

Stable of falling for more than a year. us demand hasn'tbeen mattively reduced that long-

https://curlie.org/ was trying to be that, but they seem to be down right now.

The slow down was in late 2024.

The best gifts are the ones where I get something great that I didn't even know I wanted. Or something you make yourself because that knowledge you made it is part of the gift.

For a kid a great gift is something they know they want but cannot afford. For adults though if we want it either we buy it, or it is outside your budget as well. (if you are filthy rich and your target is poor you can perhaps afford something they could never afford, but this is rare - but even then be careful not to show off your wealth)

People looking at Satellite data concluded that the stockpiles dried up in late 2024. There are still some tanks in storage but they appear to be in really bad condition and so between restoring old ones and making new ones they can only make 1-3 tanks per day. Russia was forced to make hard decisions about tank use starting last year.

Most other equipment will hit those same problems latter this year, or early next year - but for now Russia is still attacking with everything they have.

Note that all the information is based on open sources. I'm sure governments have spies and other secret information/data. They mostly are not talking, but if they do they know more than me.

Sunk costs are sunk and don't count. It doesn't pay to build a coal power plant but is already there so you only pay for fuel to run it. This the ammortized costs and current costs are different and so it pays to run the old plants.

the top Managers (both of them) earn $100k\year I'm sure. But not the commot person.

if I'd had stayed at mcdonalds I'd still be making more per year than I do now as a staff engineer - but I'd also have a few dozen stores under me and no control large parts of my life.

This is a bad idea. Getting community input is not bad, but it overlooks anyone who doesn't give their input and so it isn't a substitution for other efforts to figure out what routes make sense. Even if you get a route that has valuable, that doesn't mean it is the most valuable route. It is better to state the most valuable routes first.

Many of you live in a state with right to repair laws. If you are one of those people make sure you study what your local laws say you can do. Different areas have different laws, and some of you will have a lawyer begging to represent you for legal fees if you win....