Also assuming you stay clear of the smashy bits of the tank.

Don’t get degloved by the turret ring.

This depends on whether actual programmers are involved in the hiring process. If it’s just HR, nobody involved in that is going to know what an open source project is, why they should care, or whether it matches what’s on the job listing.

State funded conversion camp and human trafficking hub. This is gonna be a hole for unwanted trans kids to disappear conveniently into.

Maybe it’s a modified d20 roll to replicate a Deck of Many Things without a deck.

Yeah, so to break down what the others are saying - I could take a bus to work in my Midwestern city. I need to be there by 7:00. If I want to take a bus, I would have to leave my house, about 12 miles from work, at 430, hop the bus from in front of my house, ride all the way downtown, connect up to a separate bus an hour and a half later because the scheduling is done by a madman, and hope that I get to work on time because we have no dedicated bus lanes and they get boxed in all the time on the highways.

I also have the luxury of being able to take a train to, let’s say Chicago (the terminus of the line). If I wanted to make a day trip out of this, I would have to take the last bus down to the train station the night before because they stop running at 11, find something to do for 4 hours that doesn’t immediately get me arrested for looking homeless because the train station has no actual seating or waiting areas to speak of, and hop on the train at 330 in the morning.

The trip to Chicago by car, from where I am, is roughly 4 and a half hours to go about 300 miles. That same trip by train is about double that, assuming you don’t get held up to let a 3-mile freight train go first, or several, because freight is assumed to always have priority here. If that happens, your 9-hour train trip could go anywhere from 12 hours to 20+, one-way.

Hell, I wouldn’t be shocked if we see some teams outright refusing to come. Owners and managers might go for “well we can’t guarantee that half your team isn’t going to wind up deported to Libya”, but I guarantee the players won’t.

And effectively mandatory in schools that didn’t make it truly mandatory. I had to explain a LOT that yes, this is a proper calculator, it’s just a Casio because it was $50 instead of $150.

And I’m sure the fact the guy was Californian will, in no way, be spun to influence the California elections.

They couldn’t do a mountain fortress because Trump can’t stand being near actual nature.

Not true, if Trump federalizes the Guard, they can send whoever pretty much wherever. Now that “guy next door” is a chud from Idaho.

Also the relationship is really in an “it’s complicated” thing. Remember, “Gollum loves and hates the Ring, just as he loves and hates himself.”

Heinlein was…rather directionless on his politics. I think it was Clarke that once remarked that Heinlein’s politics depended on who he was sleeping with - which is why you get weird whiplash from the anti-governance free-love (and incest and racism) in Methuselah’s Children and Farnham’s Freehold to a full throated defense of utopian fascism in Starship Troopers.

Literally actually yes. Thiel and his ilk think Sauron just didn’t have enough focus on PR.

Could also honestly just have been “man I don’t wanna do the paperwork for something like this.” Never underestimate the laziness of the average man.

Yeah, The Big Short covers this pretty well too. It was a Jenga tower and all it was gonna take was one person pulling one more block.

Not off a belt, more likely a saddle strap. Hammers were often a cavalry weapon, because you need less of a swing to kill someone with a blunt object if that object is also on top of a horse moving at full gallop.

Moreover, like Hollywood, the gaming industry is largely run by people who truly do not understand the thing they’re there to make. All of the C-levels still think it’s the early 2000s where you could shit out anything that looked like a popular game and make 20 billion dollars from it. They think their entire market is dumb kids who will mindlessly play whatever is put in front of them without regard to polish, story, or even playability.

Don’t forget the Armenian Genocide.