Protons are positively charged. Like charges repel, so protons fly apart unless there’s an equal number of electrons (or other negatively charged particles) to keep them happy.

Electrons are negatively charged, and fly apart unless there’s a more-or-less equal number of protons. Electrons are a lot lighter than protons so move easier, and electrons deciding to be somewhere with more protons and less electrons is basically lightning.

Neutrons don’t have an electrical charge. They just sit there being gravitational.

I know NZ has ‘working holiday visas’ - I wouldn’t be surprised if the US has something similar.

Do you remember where you played it?

It sounds/looks a little like some of the stuff from bontegames.

It’s heavily dependant on the plastic type. PET bottles are pretty good.

Even if it’s not recycled, it’s still far better to landfill or burn it than have it hit waterways.

Apparently that’s the new way to do math in AI. The AI works out you’re trying to do math, tries to write some Python code to do the math, runs the python codes, gets the answer, writes a response around the numeric answer.

I can’t think of any possible issues with this; it’s infallible. /s

Are you talking about China or the US there?

If you’re an importer or manufacturer-importer, you can choose to take a lower profit margin or make a loss to maintain the same final price. If the market is dominated by domestic competitors, you might need to do this to maintain sales.

If there’s no significant domestic competitors, they’re too small to sway the market, or they’re also forced to raise prices due to tariffs on their supply chain, the price the market will bear goes up.

But I agree: it looks like it’s mostly trying to beat the idea into farmers’ thick MAGA skulls.

Bankrupting a casino is usually a good thing. E.g. “I’m the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo”.

Using it to launder money usually results in an extremely profitable casino, not the opposite.

relevant xkcd

The thing standing in the way of your dreams is that the person having them is you.

That’s not bad pricing wise. There’s very very little prosumer gear that’s multi gigabit and it’s all much higher price, or it’s just a PC with several NICs.

If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.

European governments and courts have a long history of laughing at US companies attempting to apply US labour laws on European soil. I’m sure they’ll cope.

I’m not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.

You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.

Lots of places also have variable limit signs that get updated based on traffic, accidents etc.

Here in NZ those seem to all be marked on the speed limit maps as 100km/h even if in some places the signs never go above 80.

Ngauranga Gorge is one such location and I believe has the country’s highest grossing speed camera.

“This accident will have been preventable”.

The question seems open to interpretation (which is bad for surveys like this).

If I visit a location that was the site of a mass shooting a few years later, have I been “physically present on the scene of a mass shooting”?

I think you could reasonably answer yes: you’ve been to the physical place where it happened, even if not at the time it happened.

“Greater Canada”.

Everything burns up regardless of size. Big things might not finish burning by the time they hit the ground.

You need either enough thrust to slow you to ~mach 2, or a heat shield to do the same by aerobraking.

It’s called aerobraking for a reason: you’re using friction to turn kinetic energy into heat to slow down, but that heat goes into the air and your heat shield instead of brake pads and rotors.

Advertisements are now everything but visual. Sounds, smells, tastes, touch, the way the pavement vibrates as a train goes past…

This is why it’s important to operate with enough available reserves (fast and slow) to cover the unexpected loss of your biggest generator, transformer, and/or transmission line.

Their black start procedures are going to be getting a good workout; I hope they’re well tested.