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Comment · 8 hours ago
An excellently nerdy video about all the ways that the guard rail on your road could be broken or fail.
Comment · 3 days ago
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
Comment · 4 days ago
I’ll say it again. The number of people _in the market segment Tesla is aiming the Cybertruck at_ who do that kind of thing is miniscule. Fleet trucks for plumbers or whatever were never a consideration; those users are outside the target audience for the Cybertruck.
Comment · 5 days ago
Way better to recommend reading the book instead of the Wikipedia page about the book.
Comment · 5 days ago
I think he tells the story differently in one of the sequels, but it’s kinda moot. There’s really no contradiction between the two.
Anyway, modern Muslims would regard the Fremen as apostate either for altering the religion or for allowing outsiders to alter it.
Comment · 5 days ago
The hydrogen is not a gas.
Comment · 5 days ago
The number of people who actually do that is miniscule.
Comment · 5 days ago
Well, the Fremen certainly thought it was authentic. But when you have a whole line of Bene Gesserit Reverend Mothers guiding the evolution of your religion over generations then maybe “authentic” isn’t the right word to describe it.
Comment · 6 days ago
Ironically the Fremen in Dune weren’t really Islamic. They were Zen Sunni, an artificial/syncretic religion created by the Bene Gesserit specifically so that they could be used as a power base by someone with Bene Gesserit training. Instead of empowering the Fremen it allows them to be controlled by an outsider who can step into the role and say the right words.
Comment · 7 days ago
Why would you do that? It’s quite well documented in games that use microtransactions or advertising.
Comment · 7 days ago
Very likely yes. Consider an ad for a political candidate: before a particular date it is worth a lot, after that date it is worthless.
Comment · 10 days ago
Agreed. Frank Herbert, like many other authors, either didn’t know much about relativity or didn’t consider it relevant to the story he wanted to tell. Relativity just isn’t applicable to the story.
Comment · 11 days ago
Sanctions on the ICC are not censorship. The ICC has never had and will never have jurisdiction to threaten or pass judgement on Americans. Sanctions are an entirely justified response to their recent attempts to overstep their authority.
There are no book bans in the US. Individual libraries can be and are selective about what books they stock, and libraries for children justifiably avoid specific topics. The government has not actually banned any books lately.
The White House has not restricted reporting, it has merely denied entry to it’s press releases to specific parties. Those parties can still report on the facts (or make them up, as they are wont to do), they just cannot attend the White House’s press releases. Since attendance at press releases is by invitation in any case, this is definitely not censorship.
Supporting public broadcasting is not an antidote to censorship, and ending that support is not a form of censorship either. PBS was notorious for supporting only one political viewpoint, and there was just no need to waste taxpayer money on it. You would cry foul if taxpayer money were spent to advocate for political viewpoints that you don’t agree with.
Jimmy Kimmel’s “gags” were praising a murderer for the murder he committed. That’s incitement to violence, which is not protected speech.
The US’s sanctions of Cuba are not related to speech in any way.
If you really want to cite American double standards, how about American banks denying service to Americans based on their stated political and religious beliefs? <https://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2026/nr-occ...>
Or how about the FBI declaring that parents at PTA meetings as “domestic terrorists”? Or targeting the Catholic church as an “extremist organization”?
Comment · 12 days ago
I don’t see why you think Chevron deference would have been of any use for anyone who wanted to preserve video games. Current regulations unambiguously allow EULAs, and Chevron deference is only about how ambiguous regulations are resolved during a trial. No ambiguity = no deference to the agency’s interpretation of the law.