Thrashy

He should really aim higher.

Personally, I'd like to suspend the 8th Amendment for law enforcement and senior executive branch personnel. Fuckers need to feel the Sword of Damocles actively tickling their scalp at all times.

That's comedian Jack Whitehall, and I struggle to think of a presenter who'd be more in on the joke.

My wife and I have one kid, who's in daycare 5 days a week so that we can work. We're snowed in today, but since I'm a remote worker I'm in the home office and my wife is handling child care.

My wife has nowhere else to be and nothing that particularly needs doing. I fully expect she's going to be touched out, frazzled, and on a short fuse by the end of the day because being stuck in the same four rooms for hours with a needy three-year old whose only major interests are (1) monster truck (2) excavator and (3) monster truck excavator is a lot for anybody.

It bears emphasis that the isolated nuclear family is a historical anomaly, and before the mid 20th-century it was extremely common to live in a multi-generational household. Being able to hand off kids to a grandparent or sibling or aunt/uncle in order to accomplish something or even just get a moment to oneself is a tremendous liberty that few (American) parents have these days.

Look, I'm in no position to talk seeing as I once wrote a cron job in PHP, but the profusion of JavaScript in the late aughts and early teens for things that weren't "make my website prettier!" feels very much like a bunch of "webmasters" dealing with the fact that the job market had shifted out from under them while they weren't looking and rebranding as "developers" whose only tool was Hammer.js, and thinking all their problems could be recontextualized as Nail.js.

Mona Lisa's eyebrows may have faded with time, but his appear to have migrated down onto his eyelids, somehow.

He was given special permission to view Northrup's "Senior Ice" ATB demonstrator (from which the B-2 was ultimately derived) just before he died.

Important to note that it appears that the drone struck the north side of the New Safe Confinement structure. Russian claims that this was a false flag attack can be safely ignored, but there was always the possibility that a Ukrainian drone went off course, or simply hit a tall structure on its flight path. That's not likely with a drone headed south only a few kilometers from the Belarusian border. Sure seems like a deliberate strike on the NSC by Russian forces, on that basis.

UHC denied coverage after the fact for my wife's gall bladder removal surgery because they claimed she was insured with a other carrier through her previous employer. That got straightened out with a couple phone calls, but it was still ridiculous.

Even more ridiculous, though, was the time that they convinced a former insurer of mine to retroactively deny already-paid claims, on the (false) basis that they had been my primary insurer in that time period, only to then deny those same claims when the doctor resubmitted them on the (correct) basis that I had no active policy with them at the time! I suspect that it was a case of a faulty automated system rather than active malice, but the net result was a massive headache for three unrelated parties and a mind boggling amount of paperwork on my part, because they couldn't be bothered to write software that could properly handle the same person having two different policies with a gap between them.

Point me towards systems that don't have a human in the loop, particularly any that utilize fully-autonomous swarms, and I'll agree. Scary as the former are, there's a world of difference between a handful of FPV suicide drones, and a cloud of HL2-Manhack-esque things operating on face-recogniton-guided autopilot.

I've low-key started to think the only reason we haven't seen autonomous hunter-killer drones yet is that nobody's willing to break the seal, and I'm scared for what happens when somebody finally does.