A similarly heroic effort in Oakland, CA resulted in a good story but no recovered laptop, because the police don't attempt to recover stolen goods from the "extra-judicial zone occupied by homeless people" lightconeinfrastructure.com/adventures-of-…

"Associate principal deputy assistant secretary" is a ridiculous title. The Secretary of Defense should become the "Oversecretary of Defense" and everyone moved up one. Likewise "Attorney General" should be "Attorney Marshal" and outrank generals. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_as…

we *need* to modify jet engines to recover meat from bird strikes and serve it to passengers. we can't undo the bird's suffering, so the least we can do is not let it go to waste. it's a moral imperative. some caveats: 1) birds that went through the turbine (not just the fan)

claiming that russia is a paper tiger is absurd. it regularly exhibits behaviors like language and mathematical thought that almost all felines are incapable of, especially those made of cellulosic products (which would not even have brains)

we need a nuclear submarine that converts into an airship. if the V-22 Osprey can switch between helicopter and plane, this is way simpler—submarines and blimps are literally the same shape already. technical details: - lifting gas should be hydrogen electrolyzed from seawater,

prediction market becoming “assassination markets” is solvable—just create an equally liquid market for whether the assassin-trader gets assassinated, so that stopping them is profitable.

I'd guess >0.1% of "normal" 18 year olds aren't fully conscious just bc they don't know how to use an inner monologue. People compensate for aphantasia, dyslexia etc, so the consciousness center prob also breaks >>0.1% of the time and >0.1% can still function normally.

With binary search they would be able to distinguish 256 ingredients by now and only get diarrhea ~4 times. This is why we study algorithms and experimental design