Yeah, it made sense when a horse was the fastest way to travel over land. These days? We’re stuck with a ridiculous government structure designed when no one knew how democracies worked.

It’s not an overpass. A loose brick falls off a truck going in the opposite direction, bounces off the pavement once, then goes through the windshield.

Edit: oh hurray, there’s two different brick videos.

EEVDF?

From an ethical standpoint I would say teenagers should be allowed to send each other nudes, but from a corporate liability standpoint I don’t wanna have anything to do with that.

This is absolute total speculation but my guess is that the pain sensation is more of an interpretation created by your brain than any direct sensing of damage to your retina. Whatever it is that creates that sensation must require a certain number of nerves to be over simulated.

If you get shot in the eye with a sufficiently powerful laser (not a little laser pen) you’ll actually hear a pop from your retina exploding, but you won’t feel any pain.

Do we though? Can’t we ramp up local storage and production with solar and batteries on and in buildings?

Some of it is that people didn’t get the memo, some of it is that people got told incorrect information, some of it is that people got sold bad glasses, and some of it really is that people didn’t listen to the warnings.

It’s exactly the same as staring at the regular sun except the pain reflex doesn’t happen, so you aren’t incentivized to stop. Technically, yes, you can look at the sun for a brief moment, but the problem is that your eyes don’t scream at you to stop when it’s an eclipse.

If you can see any part of the sun, it can damage your eyes. The problem isn’t the total amount of light, but the energy density. The energy density of the light from the sun doesn’t change no matter how much is covered, until you get to 100%. When you stare at the sun, you’re kinda sorta cooking that spot on your retina, and it’s only dependent on the energy density of the light, not the size of the spot.

Think of it like cooking a spot on a steak with a lighter. Sure, you’d normally use a whole campfire, but fire is fire. You’ll cook the spot under the lighter if you leave it there too long.

You can buy glasses approved by the American Astrological Society, which independently checked that the glasses were safe. (They’re supposed to meet an ISO standard, but this is a double check.) Also, you can test them at home, by looking at lightbulbs and around your house. If you can see anything that isn’t the emitting source of a bright light (like the actual diode of an LED) then they’re not dark enough.

Counter anecdote: the Tesla owner I know says it’s the nicest car they’ve ever been in.

I’d have to learn about QA/QC industry standards for an auto maker of similar size and then look at actual date about Tesla if I wanted to say something meaningful.

I can tell you right now whatever alternative solution they have, no one will accept.

There’s two of us, anyway.

I’m still annoyed my new laptop doesn’t have a menu key. I remapped the caps lock key to act as the menu key because it’s so dang useful.

“Pop… Crack… Pop…”

Anyone who says vinyl is better is really just enjoying the experience. And you know what? That’s fine. The problem is, some of them do a terrible job of explaining that it’s not actually about the audio quality. When it is actually about the audio quality, vinyl is worse, but some people enjoy that aspect too.

How much slower is s CPU without this functionality built in?

Good data, I wasn’t gonna bother digging it up, but I’m glad you did. I think it’s important to remember that all realities are more mixed than we like to infer from plots and our preferred view. That is, while the geographic opinions are strong, neither the East nor the West of Ukraine are a monolith in their opinions.

I think you’re being a bit generous with the claim that central Ukrainians would have favored Russia as a destination, especially considering the data you brought. I also think you’re being generous with just how pro-Russia the East actually is, again considering the data you presented. I would also like to point out that the current front lines overlapping with public opinion tendencies is mostly a coincidence. Russia was intending to fully conquer Ukraine and failed. The current front line is only minimally influenced by the loyalty majority of the locals.

Still, I want to thank you for bringing the data. Good numbers are always better than no numbers.

The most pro-Russian, pragmatic, and morally flexible Ukrainians would be the ones to be living in Russia even post-2014 invasion. I think most of the ordinary people were somewhat neutral before the invasions. Plus, you know, a population always contains a spectrum of opinions. The Eastern part of Ukraine was known to have a reasonable amount of pro-Russian people in it before 2014, that’s part of how Putin justified invading.

I’m sure even now most Ukrainians aren’t exactly anti-Russia anymore than Americans were anti-Afghanistan when we (needlessly) invaded to go after the Taliban. A vocal minority were rabid about killing them all, while most people were only interested in killing the actual terrorists, if they were in support of the invasion at all. Likewise, I’m sure most Ukrainians don’t find Russia to be evil in general, only the people in power responsible for the invasions.

Finally, I must point out that while Russia is merely at the top of the list with muddy population numbers, not-Russia absolutely curb stomps yes-Russia.

The vast majority of people, when faced with an invasion, run away from the invaders, not towards them.

Lol, the Russian total includes people who were already in Russia before they invaded, but no other country does. Might be skewing the number there, a bit.

You’re getting downvotes for your tone, but you’re mostly right. My thumbs used to hurt from texting too much when I had a physical keyboard. Now I use swype and my single thumb is doing totally fine.