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This is basically the history of the Ford Pinto.
6·14 days agoIt’s for identification, navigation, as well as light. You can tell which way a plane is facing/ which way it’s moving, and which side of the plane you’re looking at based solely on the lights and their color. That’s important for night flights. The other commenter is correct that most planes have lights on either side and the lights correspond to the colors standard for that side. So, right side is green, left side is red, etc.
The article below has more information on what the lights do if you’re interested still.
14·1 month agoYou responded to a comment directly about the Palworld thing.
Nah. Not in the Palworld thing. They applied for those patents after Palworld was already being produced and sold as an excuse to sue the company and the fact that the law allows this is bogus. That being said, boycott if you want, or don’t. That’s your business.
It absolutely is a chemical generator. Because it’s actually pure oxygen, and carrying that onboard a plane in any other form (oxygen bottles etc) at an amount that would keep 300 or so people alive would make the plane even more of an explosion hazard than it already is.
If it’s a game I’m not sure I’m going to like, or it’s a collectors item I’ll buy physical. Other than that, digital. If it’s physical I can pass it on to someone who does want it (this has happened mostly with switch games that I give to friends kids etc). But I own a Switch, a PS5, and a computer. All my computer games are digital at this point. Any physical copies I did have I’ve lost or sold so I didn’t have to move them.
An assumption isn’t good enough. If you want to implement this you’ll need a plan. It won’t be successful unless the community interacts with it.
No offense but this was explained many a time during the pandemic, especially in relation to immunocompromised people. If op can’t mask I doubt there are any breathing techniques they can use to prevent them from getting sick. But cleaning anything they touch and washing their hands is as good a solution as any.
I know that breathing through your nose is generally better than breathing through your mouth for the simple fact that your nose has special follicles that act as a filter. But honestly the eyes and nose are most sensitive to infection and that’s part of the reason people are suggesting masks. It’s to lower the number of mucus membrane vectors for infection.
Op is more likely to get sick, especially if the other sick person isn’t washing their hands and cleaning surfaces they touch, and limiting the amount of time touching their own mucus membranes.
How do you plan to prevent bot user comments? I think that’s an important part of how this goes. Several users (including myself) have had hit and miss success with blocking instances. Block evasion is absolutely a thing here with users too. I really do want to understand what the plan is for implementation, if the communities and instances are going to be warned, and if this instance will have admins and moderators and most importantly tools to combat some of the problems I foresee from this.
If you’ve ever tried to read something off a label in the dark and outshined what you were looking at because the light was too bright, you know why.
I’ve got bots turned off. Mostly because organic conversation can and often is stifled by bots. The lack of the karma system doesn’t change that. Over-inflated posting and downvotes still abound here and people dog pile on that even though there isn’t a karma system reward. They still get a dopamine hit from upvoting/downvoting, and they still get one from seeing upvotes etc. So in that realm it doesn’t matter that an algorithm isn’t boosting some content. Not when people can use bots to drown out other people or whole discussions.
People have posited this idea before. The community generally doesn’t seem to like this idea.
I suppose it depends on the Anime you watch or read vs the comics you watch or read. But comics generally have an over arcing plot and that plot goes somewhere. I’m that way the protagonists grow up or get better etc. The protagonist gets harder better/faster/stronger. Some long running comics do this eventually, but they run for so long often that these arcs just become rehashes of things that have already happened. Spiderman runs into most of the villains in his stories more than once (in one run of the comic, I know there are multiple). Batman and Joker, Superman, and just about every other person from his native planet. Hell, Superman and Lex Luther.
But perhaps it’s just harder to notice these kinds of themes repeating in a lot of anime. Or perhaps it’s just my experience or specific anime and manga. I will concede that they generally are more “audience of all ages” friendly in a specific way that American comics don’t.
I’d argue that I’m smack in the middle of the generation that grew up watching Dragonball and Sailor Moon etc. but I also grew up watching Superman, and Batman, and Spiderman etc.
The problem I have with American comics is a whole list.
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The serial nature of American Comics and the likelihood that the comic will end its run before the story is finished (this happens quite a lot with smaller American Comics, making it difficult to find new material and the will to invest interest in it).
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Anime Stories may not always grow with the fan base, but enough of them do that they maintain their audience over years as the story progresses. I think that’s pretty important.
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The most popular American Comic stories are over saturated on their own material. They reboot repeatedly, and have a wrote way that the main character(s) face/handle problems and conflict. You almost never have a full story that’s not just a cyclical thing. A lot of Manga have a beginning, middle and end, even if the story continues afterwards (story arcs finish more often than not). Sometimes they rehash, the same thing arc to arc, but more often than not, because those characters are new and not 50 year old icons, the audience is more willing to invest in that kind of story.
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There was definitely always this FOMO feeling about anime back in the day because it wasn’t such an outwardly accepted thing. It used to be only the “weird kids” who were into it, so there was a sense of it being scarce, even when it wasn’t necessarily. I think that helped it to be more sought after. It went from weird to cool.
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Anime often doesn’t have a way to endear you to the characters in a cheap way that’s everywhere, enough for you to invest in buying the media. Some American comics started out in news papers and on things like cigarette packets. They gained some level of notariety and recognition from the public that way. So they didn’t have to give as much effort to a first issue as anime manga often does. This to me is a notable difference.
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Superman though is also popular just as an icon, not necessarily (in this day and age) because he’s a comic book character. There are people who have never picked up a comic who knows his name and his general story. They may have never even actually seen a show or movie about him, but he’s now such an icon that this doesn’t matter. People still know him.
I’ve been trying to Google it and haven’t come up with anything. It’s been literally article after article of “ex-target” employees making the claim. Might mean it’s an old wives tale they spread around to each other. Might be that it actually does happen infrequently (probably to repeat offenders who don’t get caught in the act but do get caught when footage is reviewed).
Given the number of people this law firm has represented and the fact that for the most part they were not prosecuted for felony theft according to this article, my guess is that it happens sometimes but isn’t standard practice.
Can you give some hard examples of what you mean, and a contrast of what you would expect from a non-american please? I’m reading through this post and I don’t know what you’re seeing. It’s not clear to me given what you wrote so it’s hard to pinpoint which behaviors you’re referring to.
A lot of the things you bring up (about guns and walking safety at night and sending kids to school) doesn’t jive and sounds quite a bit like media washing the entire country. Like. Yes. Guns are legal and lots of people have them. I don’t see guns on a daily basis and even when I lived in a particularly crime prone area for the most part gun violence wasn’t my main concern.
The thing about corporal punishment of children is that what’s legal and illegal varies by state but it’s not outright outlawed to spank children (and I was absolutely not spanked, but beaten as a kid).
But there’s a reason the public hasn’t broken out in violent opposition of the government as a whole (the liberal majority I mean) and it’s twofold. Americans don’t generally want to have to do violence to force change. If we did there would be a lot more Luigi’s, Trump shooters, and BLM founders out there advocating in public for violence against the system and the people who uphold it.
Additionally, people don’t want to get involved with that if it means that it will significantly detrimentally affect their lives (which in a lot of cases is very much true). Living in between the “eat the rich/guillotine” idealism and the realism of making it day to day is hard and it doesn’t allow a lot of fertile ground for empathy and perhaps that’s what you’re seeing.
People have too much still to lose for a civil war to be particularly viable. They haven’t reached a level of desperation that will allow most of them to commit indiscriminate violence against the system. But also, the education system has been decimated and so they don’t think they understand the system well enough to effect change and that goes hand in hand with not getting involved in politics, lobbying, or playing the long game to indoctrinate liberals in a similar fashion to the way conservatives have been indoctrinated (but for the opposite view point, meaning incensing them to make change via a more long and arduous process that has lasting effects). We didn’t see Roe v Wade get dismantled overnight. That was the result of decades of conservative movement. We haven’t been actively and cohesively trying to counter that with our own movements.
I’d also like to add that the vast majority of people live in cities where nature isn’t easily accessible and time isn’t given to them to enjoy it. I work something like 60 hours a week. Some people work more than that. The system is directly designed to keep people tired, poor, ignorant, and just desperate enough to continue to participate in the system. So yes, we are disconnected from nature in a lot of ways.