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I’d love to hear more about the frequency hopping thing. What devices would I need, and how difficult is it to program?

What’s the difference between a bus full of terrorists and a bus full of children?

Don’t ask me, I just fly the drone and launch the Hellfires.

Reducing the incentives for residential solar and battery storage also reduces the resilience of the power grid, something which Puerto Rico in the wake of the last hurricane shows us is vital. Having the efficiency of large solar plants is great when everything is perfect, but if your power is cut due to high winds and dry weather, known as a PSPS, or the power lines are downed by an earthquake, local solar and power storage helps people keep their homes and lives running, and prevents the deaths of the chronically ill, children, and seniors who are most vulnerable to temperature extremes.

Put another way, we should be expanding residential solar and local power storage, and make it more affordable than ever so the people most at risk due to climate change, people too poor to escape it, are provided local power generation from that giant fusion reactor in the sky. Instead, solar becomes more and more out of reach. Also, you can always tell how politicians feel about something. Unlike the Federal government, California doesn’t offer a tax credit for clean energy generation and storage, which aligns perfectly with the profit motives of Governor Newsom’s best friends at PG&E and SCE (over $1MM in campaign donations last I heard).

Orcas are a natural predator of everything that his the ocean. Fun fact, orcas have been known to toy with seals by catapulting them with their tails. I believe I remember seeing at least one baby seal got seventy feet in the air before returning to the sea (and its inevitable death).

This thing begs for a 3DP version. The action’s components can’t be that difficult to produce, and I’d bet Colt SMG magazines would work for it. Also, make the stock so that it holds the magazine in a horizontal orientation and have a folding grip and this thing could have 25-30 rounds in a package the size of a rolled-up Sunday newspaper.

My mom said no going into sheds with strangers.

Bring on the people movers and the monorails; I’m here for it, but I don’t want to get Covid again and as much as I despair of humanity, I have kids and so do millions of others so we should be working together to make a better world for current and future generations.

I don’t have images readily available, but there are little shopping centers surrounding parking lots where pedestrians go right from the sidewalks into the various restaurants/shops, if you can imagine a U shape for the shops and the parking lot and vehicular entrances inside the U. It just takes some planning and extra space, and you know, capitalism isn’t a huge fan of “wasted” space that isn’t generating revenue.

Take a look at the fault lines around California. There’s lots of seismic activity, and we’re close to train tracks so we have gas mask drills too (added after what happened in East Palestine). Given the major large-scale risks in our area are fire, earthquakes, and a train derailment spilling chemicals, those drills seem prudent.

One for every room I intent for humans to survive in, plus one in each car. Also recently upgraded to hardwired CO/smoke detectors and each bedroom also has a combination alarm that uses Z-Wave to alert me anywhere, just as a backup. Also, we practice fire and earthquake drills monthly, along with a couple of other scenarios that are more rare/less dangerous.

I absolutely agree with making more places pedestrian friendly, I just think a drive through makes too much sense to dismiss out of hand. Heck, I’m in favor of walk-up windows to better serve those of us who don’t want to go inside a restaurant even without kids.

You’ve lived in Alaska for multiple winters and you aren’t worried about the problem with exposing small children to extreme cold?