The big problem is that bullets are soft. When they hit anything solid (like bone) they deform. Bullet matching is fine when the bullet is undamaged, but that generally isn’t the case, unless it missed and hit something soft and non-ablatative.
Trying to match damaged bullets is very unreliable.
They’ve been tested (in tongue and cheek). Most tin foil hat designs actually increase peak exposure levels in the brain. In order to reduce it, they need to be closer to a motorcycle helmet, along with mesh visor.
I mostly agree. I can think of a few niche uses for it. However, they are very uncommon. E.g. bringing a freezer of blood up from “deep storage” temperatures to “ready to use in a hurry”.
I can also think of a few more where a “boost mode” could be useful e.g. a supermarket that knows there is a heat wave. Over-chilling the freezers would let them cope better with the temperature spike later in the day.
Critically, these should still be within safe hard limits. The fact that hackers could effectively switch them off in mass is the huge issue.
Read only remote access is useful for life critical supplies. You want to know, as soon as possible if your blood has gone out of safe storage temperatures, and for how long. It would let you save the supplies by moving them to a new freezer.
The problem is remote temperature control. That bit should be air gapped, unless you have a very good reason to need to adjust it remotely.
I can see a use for adjusting temperatures, based on expected ambient. On colder days, run efficiently. On hot days, run them hard before the weather hears up, to stay ahead of it.
Other than that though, there is no reason to be able to run the fridge out of safe range remotely. Tweak and monitor only.
Art is a form of communication. Modern art tries to explore new ways to do this. This can take the form of viewing common things in a new light. E.g. the soup cans. It can also deliberately be abstracted to absurdity. E.g. using paint splatters in an attempt to express pure emotion.
A child’s stick man drawing takes relatively little skill (for an adult) coming from a small child to a grandparent, it communicates so much more, and can be treasured accordingly. The skill isn’t a critical bit of art (though often important, the communication is.
AI slop cuts that line of deep communication. It also poisons the communal trust in the value of that link.
My experience with young children is that they can be incredibly welcoming, and accepting. Only a few tend to be like you claim. They generally want to be friendly and be liked.
Unfortunately, they are also still developing and learning social skills. They often can’t tell different and guarded from hostile. They will often reflect back how they feel they are treated. This becomes a vicious cycle.
It’s about 8-9 that things like clicks can form. Social skills explode in complexity. This is where most aspies begin to fall behind. It can be overcome with training and/or practice, but that gets harder the further behind they fall. By the time it’s obvious, catching up is HARD.
Those all fall under the “jump straight in” category. If you can read the situation well, e.g. who is up for being approached, and who isn’t, then they work well for making new friends. Unfortunately, if you don’t yet have those basic social reading skills, it’s a minefield.
Incidentally, I’m fully past that set of issues. I used the fact that no one has any idea what’s going on at the start of university to practice and build skills.
I also help out with a nerd related social group. Neurodiversity is the heavy majority there. We often have people come along that are accidental shut-ins and want to meet people. I now make a point when showing them around to both make it clear that everyone there at that time is there to socialise and show stuff off. I also introduce them to a few people to break the ice. Watching people come out of their shell and realise they will be celebrated for their weirdness, not punished for it feels very good to me.
I’ve been on the receiving end of social punishment more than enough to call anyone risking it brave.
One of the biggest problems is that, outside of early school, there’s no real way to practice social interactions in a safe setting. The only real option is jumping straight in. If you’re already slightly socially stunted, it can be very easy to mess it up. It only takes a couple of negative reactions to put someone off for a long time.
I almost fell into the same hole when I was younger. Thankfully I realised what was likely happening and worked on it. I’m still not good at cold approach social interactions, but I can at least now do it without screwing up catastrophically.
It would technically be false imprisonment in most places. Kidnapping would require taking you away/hiding you.
The other option is “Jon Withanhache”. You can then complain they spelt it wrong too.
The element can cool the air below zero. They have to play games if it gets to the due point of the outside air to keep from frosting up however.
Also, there is an efficiency hit, as the temperature differential gets larger. This is why ground sourced, or even water sourced are more efficient in colder climates.
Oh they do, but the weird multi root nature of English, and it’s tendency to aggressively ransack other languages for vocabulary tends to give it a little more wiggle room for describing ideas. The cost being it’s evil to learn, compared to a lot of languages. Just try reading the poem “The chaos” aloud.
I still like the theory that the industrial revolution kicked off in England due to the English language.
English has an amalgam of several different root languages. This gives it an unusual amount of flexibility and granularity. This helps hugely with crystallising newer ideas into words. This, in turn gave English a slight advantage over France, Germany etc.
We knew the forebrain and hindbrain were different. This research shows that the difference is OLD, and likely from when the brain was more distributed. They also found that, while they function in almost the same way, they are built from different genetic tool kits.
Basically, we knew there was a difference. This explains what the difference is and how to work around the problems it has created.
Most modern desalination plants use a “reverse osmosis” method.
You have a barrier that water can pass through, but salt can’t. Normally, water would be drawn across this barrier, till the salinity is the same on both sides. This is osmosis, and how things like plants draw in water.
Reverse osmosis works by using a high pressure on the salty side. This effectively forces water against the osmotic gradient. This is generally done with relatively small amounts of salt water at a time. The end result is fresh water on one side, and extremely salty water on the other. If the salty “brine” is discharged too fast, it can mess up the local salinity levels in the sea around the vent. The process is also very energy intensive (though a LOT less than boiling the water off).
You also have the problem of the membrane being very sensitive to getting damaged or blocked up. You need to clean the sea water up a lot before you can desalinate it.
This new process would help avoid the brine issue, as well as likely being less sensitive to contaminants.
It’s definitely in the “lies to tell children to help them learn” category. The concept of length Vs counting is only just being taught here. The difference between dimensional cubes is a bit beyond most of them.
It lets them use a consistent reference for counting, as well as 1D, 2D, and 3D measurements. They also give something to learn with tactilely, rather than just an abstract set of ideas.
Basically lock the idea of measurements in with the cubes. Then, only when they are confident, split them off into counting and the dimensional concepts.
It works very well for a lot of children.
I need to jump back into that story. 😁
Apparently CSI had lawyers on both sides cursing it 20+ years ago (when I did a uni module on forensics). Juries expected concise, absolute results. Instead they get probabilities, maybes, and shades of grey.
I dread to think what it is like now.