Where they banned in all their various applications? Because I had a scare when my 2-year-old granddaughter found a box with a magnetic latch and the magnet had been torn out. We thought she ate it. But after scouring the area we found it, and it’s a thin neodymium magnet. Went through the whole house making sure boxes like that were out of her reach.
Not as tough as it seems. People routinely memorize much more in shorter periods. Try learning the complete Kanji (Asian Pictograms) or heiroglyphics. It’s not inconceivable to memorize 10,000 random words. Think of how many songs you can recite the lyrics to. I learned Billy Joel’s, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” in a day. That’s pretty much what this challenge is about - a random list of words.
Impossible when events like Tienanman Square are the outcome in some countries. It only takes one to upset a global unionization apple cart.
Once we stopped being regularly exposed to pathogens associated with raw unrefrigerated meat, we lost our immunity.
Think of it like traveling to a country with low water quality standards. If you drink the water, you get cramps and diarrhea. The locals have immunity and their babies have immunity because antibodies to the pathogens are passed in mother’s milk. That gives the babies enough immunity to avoid illness when they start drinking the water. Frequent subsequent exposure to the pathogens maintains their immunity.
But if a person with immunity moves to an area with higher quality water and then moves back after many years, they can experience intestinal distress from the water because they lost their immunity.
Die without an estate and tell your survivors not to claim your body. The government will take care of your final disposition.
Someone wants me dead
It would no longer be the world-view destroying event that it would have have been 100 years ago. The moment someone came up with the idea of a matter-energy transporter, we had the idea of how someone could come back from the dead. Today we know exactly how it would be done - we just lack the technology.
We are not British. I know it’s hard for those in other countries with strong gun laws to understand. If you can fathom why women would put up with Sharia law, you might also be able to grasp why so many Americans embrace guns. It’s ingrained in our culture.
Many Americans worry that the government will incrementally take away the right to private ownership of firearms. That’s why these printed guns exist. If it’s impossible to prevent a person from obtaining a firearm, the argument that a ban only affects those willing to follow the law becomes stronger. Unless the intent exists to restrict the tools that can make a weapon, there will be those willing to make them clandestinely - either for personal use or for profit.
Guns like these are why gun control will fail to keep guns out of the hands of anyone who can afford a $500 3D printer and a $300 hobby metal lathe. While the model being discussed used some commercial parts, possessing these two tools allows a person to produce everything needed for a functioning multi-shot lethal weapon.
Instead of a futile effort to deprive people of weapons, we should instead concentrate on preventing, detecting, and treating the conditions that lead to gun violence.
When video or audio evidence is submitted, it will be questioned as to its authenticity. Who recorded it? On what device? Then we’ll look for other corroborating evidence. Are there other videos that captured the events in the background of the evidence video? Are there witnesses? Is there contradictory evidence?
Say there’s a video depicting a person committing murder in an alley. The defense will look for video from the adjoining streets that show the presence or absence of the murderer before or after. If those videos show cars driving by with headlights on, they will look for corresponding changes in the luminosity of the crime video. If the crime happened in the daytime, they will check that the shadows correspond to Sun’s position at that moment. They’ll see if the reflections of objects match the scene. They’ll look for evidence that the murderer was not at the scene. Perhaps a neighbor’s surveillance camera shows they were at home or their cell phone indicated they were someplace else.
But if all these things indicate the suspect was in the alley and the video is legitimate, that’s powerful evidence toward a conviction.
Same in NCAA and FIBA. The moment the ball enters the cylinder from below, it’s the same as going out of bounds. Play stops and the ball is awarded to the team that did not touch the ball last.
Cut them up and use them for rags, or deface the logo with permanent marker before donation. Clothes that are not fashionable don’t sell. They end up in huge bales. A few are sold to clothing recyclers (cut up for industrial rags or shredded for felt), but most end up in countries where they disrupt the local garment economy, become landfill, or are burned, contributing to air pollution (do search for “clothing in Atacama desert” or “donated clothing in Africa”).
I only donate quality items in good condition that I would buy. Cheap clothing refills my rag bin. If you’re really feeling guilty about not donating used clothing, the best way to assuage your guilt is to become a resale store customer.
Harris and Michelle Obama
Pulling out all your money or selling your home and possessions would give you away. And a pauper with a boat would be a red flag for any investigator. You’d have to be willing to give it all up. Your family would have to believe you died.
A better option would be to slowly siphon off money and be seen frequenting a casino, or become known as a drug addict. Once you’ve liquidated everything and racked up tons of debt, fake a suicide. Become aberrant or hyper-religious/political. Tell everyone that you’re going on a hike to “find yourself” or that you’re volunteering to fight in Ukraine. Never come back.
Mud too. My buddy lives up a hill at the end of a dirt road. My FWD made it there with no problem until it rained for a week. Since then I take my 4x4 when I visit in wet weather.
I see it as one possibility of many. Measures currently employed are limited because most countries are democratic, where politicians must appease the people to stay in office. China could implement one-child because they are a de-facto dictatorship.
Logically, killing humans would be way down on the list of potential Global Warming solutions. We would have to exhaust all other methods first. Just banning private vehicles would save a few billion from extermination. Green energy tech and Nuclear power would save more. Vegetarian diets even more. Reducing organic waste, involuntary birth control, carbon sequestration - it’s a long list of better incremental solutions. They may be more costly than extermination, but they’re infinitely more ethical. It’s only logical if that’s the sole solution that ensures some of the population survives. We’re a long way from that condition.
Pay-as-you-go phones work. A $15 (sometimes free) basic cellphone with a few minutes are all you need. Once the account is set up, the phone isn’t needed. I’ve made quite a few Google throw-away accounts this way. Just never lose your password and don’t turn on 2FA.
As far as Google tracking goes - you can firewall off all the Google servers if you dislike them, or use a router that connects through a VPN if you need that level of privacy.
An Android TV box doesn’t -need- Google once you’ve downloaded all the apps. But you do need it to keep all those apps up to date. I’m not sure what you gain with not having an account attached to the device. All those streaming services you mentioned require accounts. What’s one more?
You can do all that and more with an off-the-shelf mini PC running Linux. No need to reinvent a general purpose computer from a router. The chain of trust thing is above my paygrade, but I bet something like that exists.