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People's personal relationships are often messy, and don't perfectly align with political worldviews.
I am not vindicating anything he did, but storybook heroes like Picard rarely have the kind of glaring faults that one can find with a steady celeb searchlight and hindsight on real humans.
> Oh, and he quickly befriends a literal god
From Q's POV, yes, friends. Picard never stopped hating Q's childish interference.
Q was too childish (or incomprehensibly superior) for someone like Picard to trust, much less like.
I rather suspect there is a difference between people using dictionary definitions and hard facts, versus people using "processed" = bad, which is similar to "chemicals" = bad.
We have established a correlation between degradations in health with high-processed food diets. That is a fact, but it really doesn't tell us much. From this, and ideas like "brown bread has more vitamins than white bread", people naively say generalizations like "white bread is unhealthy" and "all processed foods are bad for you".
Overconsumption of corn can lead to pellagra from niacin deficiency. To avoid this, ancients learned to treat it with lye, a byproduct of firewood ash. The other grains do not endanger any of your other nutrients.
Since you can't infect others with celiac, isn't "asymptomatic" essentially the same as "not having it"?
A disproportionate number of the "felony record, misdemeanor or past criminal record" are drug-related and racially biased, often for marijuana, which is like saying "US towns with speed traps have a lot criminals driving!".
We have 5000yo texts.
I mean, technically, we have 7000yo graphics, but they were really too low-res to be functional for archiving data.
> There was nothing normal about the whole movement that MLK Jr led.
I agree; racial equality was a new idea for the USA. Really weird. Totally against the status quo.
> He presented himself as a holy man while participating in rape.
He presented himself as a reverend and also a civil rights leader. He was both. You make it sound like he wanted us to worship him. Nothing like that.
Andrey Kolmogorov made his name in mathematics, which is a field where politics don't matter at all. That's a ridiculous example, and completely unlike 99.99% of the Soviet well-to-do.
Unless, not until.
Dementia is a disease associated with age, not a result of age.
Quark is from a race that wasn't even discovered until TNG. When a Federation officer speaks of "in the 24th century", they are not saying "and Ferengi and Klingons and the Borg are unified in this." They are speaking of Federation civilization.
Wifi can be effective up to about 300'/100m outside, but houses in the boonies are seldom that close together. If your neighbor has a smart farmhouse fully Alexa-fied, a mere tenth of a mile away, your devices won't see it.
I had the opposite reaction to the series end (I know, I'm an outlier there), but I couldn't tolerate Caprica either.
Babylon 5, with the white-knight Rangers, the captain who single-handedly saved humanity in the war with the Minbari AND THEN went on to build friendships with them, and the completely monotonic, both-sides-of-the-coin moralities of the Shadows and the Vorlons?
Yes, the Narn and the Centauri were not so pure, but it reads as a pretty mythic Good V Evil world to me.
Do you mean Projectivy Launcher? Google is giving me no clues about "ProjectTV launcher".
RF transmission is harmless. It's data privacy we're concerned about.
Seriously, unless you watch with your face a cm from the screen, RF energy is totally insignificant.
Depends. If you want a breadcrumb trail, use primes. If you want no noticeable effect at all, or cannot imagine a traffic bump that you'll want to decipher, use random offsets.
Good point. 7,11,13... do not repeat every hour.
By definition, if you can see effects then the metrics have enough resolution.
The specific resolution is the Nyquist frequency - that part is accurate.
That's not what "tied to the dollar" means.
The yuan is not tied to the dollar, but can be traded for dollars. Same for Euros, gold, and bricks of heroin.
OK, that last one has to be converted to bitcoin first....
I am willing to field test this.
I mean, as a test subject; not running the test.
Your experience is valid, and the emotional response probably serves a survival goal, but it still is not data.
You think it's normal for the FBI to send blackmail letters to alleged rapists? I think it's more because they were trying to kill MLK.
He was more evil than you have imagined. Par for the course for a closer inspection of him.
I wouldn't trust anything from the FBI at that time. Period.
Par for the course. No surprise at all. Putin is willing to compliment anyone who doesn't embarrass him AND may be of use later.
But he's thin-skinned, like all dictators, and one critique could sour him.
> A self-driving train will happily cause a crash, if the target is "drive with high-speed in that segment currently occupied by another train".
Sure, if you allow trains to ignore safety completely, then accidents will occur. That is a ridiculous statement.
GPS-based PTC absolutely does what you describe. It has long been solved.
Tunnels are controlled by a single block - only one train can ever be allowed access at once, period. Until the "current" occupant train is verifiably out of the tunnel, that block is forbidden to all.
Forests are irrelevant; rail right-of-way contains no trees, and is wide enough to assure clear "view" of satellites.