…crap, I’m cis male and I wanna be addressed as “mage”…

At this point, the only thing I have Windows around for is VR. Every non-VR game I have runs swimmingly (often better!) on the Linux partition, but VR still struggles to keep up…

Brian below linked the etymology - but a ranger for Tolkien was pretty close to a park ranger: someone who wandered the woods keeping things safe.

Actually, I have a very vague memory of them teleporting a baby out of the mother during birth when there were complications, at the start of a TNG episode I think. Or did I make that up?

But doctor… I am the parent.

Seriously, half the stuff that we print is coloring pages.

They’re both quoting a (fictional?) author

I dunno, in this case the amateur happens to be able to absorb a whole lotta hits too - they can fail over and over while waiting for you to slip.

Maybe… More complicated limbs struck me as more prone to failure than rotors, and more expensive to maintain and replace

I’m remembering the old duelist’s adage, that the worst opponent to have is an amateur - because you have no idea what they’ll try

So I’m not as caught up in the current state of robotics as I’d like… The article talks about these being used to patrol, do safety inspections, and the like.

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace each of these with a dozen quadrocopter drones?

To my knowledge, there is very little research at all - the programs that would look into whether this might protect or endanger children struggle to get funded, because it’s icky.

I’m in the Midwest, where we really have long had wild fluctuations in the weather day to day - think snowfall in the morning in early May followed by 60°F in the afternoon. I’m on the eastern half of Kansas, so there’s a lot of open land to the west for big weather patterns to bounce around, and not a lot of bodies of water to moderate things.

I’ve had better luck commenting on trends rather than days: “Loving all this nice weather the last few weeks!” “Yeah, but honestly, it’s kinda unnerving to have it in January…”

In addition to the donated hair lacking DNA, they can only do DNA matching against samples they already have or could legally acquire (generally with a warrant).

So if she’s not otherwise in their system or already a suspect, she should be in the clear!

Eh, that seems to suggest it’s entertainment for or about misers, rather than misery

There’s flattering photos of him?

More seriously, what photos is he even objecting to?

Crossed my mind, but felt a little too close to what they’d do.

Figured going after their money sources with this might be more effective for them, anyway

Start with the elected officials who passed this, and their local donors!

I’m assuming each challenge needs resolved separately, right?

Well, sure - the times it turned out fine don’t make for an interesting story!

Wait… It just verifies the age of whoever initially activated the device? Which might predate the bill, implying a long activation time?

Do the authors of this bill even live with children? Cuz they sure aren’t actually dealing with their device usage

Texas has changed a bit since I was there last…