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Lower Decks doesn't need validation from live action Trek to be canon!

Sadly, in the ensuing fracas his invention of plywood would be lost, and not reinvented for thousands of years.

It's not justice if they die before they rat out their coconspirators.

You need to have the right infrastructure for them, and places that have it are the rare exception (example: Peachtree City, GA).

Stealing intellectual property is...

... a nonsense loaded phrase made up by the copyright cartel in order to dishonestly frame the debate.

In reality, copyright is not 'property' and cannot be 'stolen' to begin with.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

I'm not sure you appreciate how literally technically correct you are.

The harder you brake in the front, the more the weight shifts forward. At the point you start to do a stoppie -- when the front brakes are applying maximum force to the road -- the weight on the rear wheel drops to zero and thus the stopping force it's applying drops to zero as well.

In other words, the rear brake gets less useful the harder you try to brake.

For maximum deceleration, the main thing you need to do isn't to try to use the rear brake more, but instead get out of the saddle and stick your butt as far back as you can, shifting the weight back and making it as hard to get to that point of rear wheel liftoff as possible.

See also: https://bike.bikegremlin.com/813/bicycle-braking-technique/

TL;DR: Of the four candidates mentioned (including the incumbent), the only candidate quoted as saying the right things (a ring road won't actually solve congestion; the money needs to go to transit instead) is Jeff Leiper.

I don't know about the third one (I haven't even seen it), but the second one made huge advances in rendering water (among other things). There's a pretty interesting Corridor Crew video about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Gd0bR2kb4

If you think his movies aren't all about the tech you need to think again.

Okay, but it's not as if installing stuff on poles has meaningful public oversight even when it requires hard-wiring. It might make such deployments ever so slightly more likely by reducing the labor costs a little bit, but is otherwise entirely irrelevant.

If there's ever public input into that sort of stuff at all, it doesn't come at the putting-hardware-on-poles phase; it comes at the budgeting or procurement phase. And even then, that's only if there's a specific project with a specific budget line-item: at the political level of "we're proposing to spend $X million on a contract with Y vendor to provide Z service," no politician knows or cares whether the shit is hard-wired or plugged into a socket, or whether that changes over the course of the contract! It's nothing but a minor implementation detail.

...Actually, speaking of which, I should correct myself: complaining about it may not damage your credibility after all. But that's because most politicians' eyes are just gonna glaze over before they even understand what the fuck you're talking about well enough to nitpick.

So this could threaten air travel for a huge region.

Also known as just "travel" because we're talking about places with literally no way in or out except by plane. (Okay, and maybe hiking, dogsled in winter, or something like that. Point is, no roads.) That's why somebody was apparently going grocery shopping by plane in the first place.

If I break just one strand of pasta to summon Sal on purpose, will he at least give me the deli meat after he beats me with it? If so, worth it.