Bullshit. This is not a voluntary thing that parents can choose to do or not: it is an enforced, mandatory requirement that is foisted upon literally all programs, regardless of user choice or whether it makes any sense at all to do so. Oh, and there’s a penalty of TWO HOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for EACH VIOLATION for EACH CHILD.

Download a foreign video app on your smart TV that doesn’t comply? Congrats, the pigs will fine a three-child family $7500 for the crime of watching manga.

You live in the US. You know that this will be unequally applied to the poor and minorities. You know that this will be used as an excuse to search people’s devices at massive scale. You know that companies will simply shrug and use face ID anyway, because they already have to do it for other locales, so why not just reuse the same process? You know that this is a foot in the door for the facists and capitalists. You know all this, so stop running interference for them.

Yeah, because that means they actually care about things that matter you fake-detached empty-inside waste of oxygen.

Raised crosswalks should be standard. In a pedestrian area like a school crossing area, narrowed lanes with bollards as well.

Fairly certain you’re being intentionally dense, but I’ll respond in good faith here:

I already told you the megastructures I want to build: a Lofstrom Loop, then a skyhook, and then an orbital ring. Wikipedia has good descriptions of each. Each would make getting mass into orbit much easier, so you start with the smallest to simplify the larger ones. The Lofstrom Loop would likely cost $10-$30 billion, and reduce cost/kg to a few hundred dollars. The skyhook and orbital ring would be orders of magnitude reductions. With the orbital ring up, we could literally winch payloads up to 80km, ship it around the Earth on maglev, or launch it off to other parts of the solar system - all powered by solar panels. If that’s not ‘sustainable’ in your eyes, I don’t know that further discussion will be productive.

No. I want to fight gravity at $100/kg. Hence the megastructures.

I’m fairly certain that with the resources of an entire solar system on tap, the word ‘sustainable’ takes on a new meaning. If we use few enough resources that they won’t run out before the Sun explodes, does it matter that it’s not net zero?

Let them fight

When life gives you a lemon, go to the store and buy more.

Awful lot of resources out in those asteroid belts. Put up a Lofstrom Loop, then a skyhook, then an orbital ring. Then you’ve got a whole solar system’s worth of resources.

I agree that the Earth should basically be managed as a wildlife preserve / population center. But you’re missing that we’re not limited to the resources on Earth.

So basically any serious space fighter pilot would be immersed in oxygenated perfluorocarbon liquid. A healthy human can withstand about 5 gravities for any real length of time (i.e. anything over a fraction of a second). A human in SCUBA gear in a water tank can boost that to 20g. A human breathing perflurocarbon liquid with no air pockets anywhere in their body can withstand roughly 100g. Given that piloted craft are already way less efficient than computer- controlled drones, you would need that level of performance just to make it remotely feasible to have piloted craft. Since we’re already looking at full liquid immersion, an aquatic species is a natural fit.

Controls? Heck if I know. I’m defaulting to a Battletech-style ‘neurohelmet’ with electrodes that read your brain’s electrical signals. It has the benefit of not needing to wait for the physical movement of your body, but would probably be less accurate. Otherwise a full-body harness that translates the ‘swimming’ motion of the pilot into thrust control could be cool.

For sure. No way I’m putting my kid on the floor at Chuck E Cheese. Just asking for the plague at that point.

Alright, I’ll bite. That baby is perfectly fine and probably enjoying watching their mom Do Things (babies love this for some reason). Obviously not the safest being where you could drop a skeeball on them, but Mom is very aware of that I’m sure. Laying face up on the ground is actually safer than trying to precariously hold them and risking dropping them.

Mmhmm, because what I really want is a program that teaches me to say “orange bacon sandwhich” when I ask it to tell me “where is the bathroom?”

Ah, so you’re a terrible person. My mistake.

Glad you hate science and healthy living. Luckily we have these glow-in-the-dark rocks you can lick - since ‘everything gives you cancer’ I’m sure you won’t feel any compunction about doing so.

Except personal responsibility is impossible when people don’t know that xyz food causes cancer.

That’s why they’re asking for a label. So that people can make an informed choice. That’s literally their entire point.

…do I bring up the factory farms now or come back later?

Hey! I had the same idea for four-joystick 'mech control, only with uplifted chimps in a setting I’m dabbling with. Great (maybe) minds think alike I guess.

I also have Uplifted dolphins piloting space interceptors- they’re better at 3D nav than the primates.

Cope harder

Cool pic OP. Love that sort of ‘bizaree slice of life’.

As an alternative, consider not eating meat.

You can have both. “Well-regulated militia” and all that. A community group that trains and keeps guns in a central secure location in case of war etc is a very far cry from giving everyone a 9mm for funsies. Good luck convincing your government to let you do that tho.