krelvar

Your pocket bomb doesn't have any actual bomb in it (unless the Israelis put some there, like the Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies.) They can burn fast, but afaik they don't explode, just like gunpowder doesn't explode. It burns very fast. On the other hand, they can produce gas and burst the battery pack, which might be considered an explosion, but I'd argue it's not actually one.

Which isn't going to make someone who has it happen in their pocket feel any better.

If I have my physics wrong, please correct me, I'm not a lithium bomb expert :)

https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/equestrian-helmet-ratings.html

This is a good place to start for helmets. They have the same sort of ratings for different sports so if nothing in the equestrian list looks good, you should check the bicycle list. Note that it's not necessarily current for everything but it's a good starting point.

When a person has nothing left to lose they will take chances that otherwise they wouldn't. If we weren't living in a corporatocracy, perhaps there'd be no demand for this sort of thing, but we do and there is.

Barbara? Barbara Streisand? Is that you?

Silver isn't with 538 anymore, I think his model and the 538 model have the same basis though, probably diverging a bit since he left?

In any case, the point that an 80% chance of X is no guarantee of X got pounded home, don't you think? :)

Perhaps the 538 simulation projector would be along those lines?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/

1. It gets treated as a "we'll work on it when we're not busy with wars, inflation, etc etc etc" issue. It's important, just never the top of the list.

(It's gonna fuck us blue but humans are bad at dealing with tomorrow's problems before tomorrow)

2. In the US election now, if you lean D, you care. If you lean R you don't. The assumption is that Harris would address it and Trump won't, so your vote for/against climate action is implied.

That said, the amazing growth of solar may yet save us from ourselves, if we're very lucky.

No Ice Pirates.

You know why