Yeah, there were "plot" books and movement books. A few of them one could read the first and last chapters and be good. The pinch-hitter author they brought in for the last few really did a great job, they were all action and no filler. The 14 book series could have been condensed into about 10 books easily. It would have been a 6-season TV show at least. I am not sure why they needed to call this show "Wheel of Time" since they discarded the MOST important plot points and bastardized the rest beyond recognition.

This show set some kind of record of taking incredible source material and utterly destroying it. I hate when people use "woke" as an insult for everything they don't like, but in this case I hate to say it fits. Two vital premises of the series: 1. The Dragon Reborn is male, males who channel are likely to go insane. 2. The little town they all come from is like some tiny West Virginia town, it is very insular and isolated from the world. It is the absolute utter opposite of a multi-racial multi-ethnic place. Rand stand out like a sore thumb for having red hair! The thing they missed utterly: Pretty much every racial and ethnic group in real life has an equivalent in the wider world that our wandering group from Edmond's Field encounters sooner or later, there was no reason to do what they did for the initial cast.

Quite right. AI will do the grunt work if you know how to manage it, but you still need the higher level ability to engineer what blocks of code you need, how to integrate them, and how to test them. I may not be very good at modern languages on the code-monkey level, but my old-school lay the program out with shapes and arrows on paper skills still work to figure out what to even ask the AI.L Also rant mode on, after the 394th time it puts a bracket in the wrong place and then tells you "that error is because the bracket is in the wrong place", why in f### can't it quit making the SAME error over and over!

I am no a coder by trade, but ChatGTP has helped me write code for some work projects and my hobby projects with GPS and Nav code. What I have found in both PowerShell and Python is a complicated request generates a very convoluted mess that neither me nor the AI can fix. What works is breaking up a project into simple pieces, getting that ONE piece working, and then adding the next one. I need to keep track of how variables are passed, the AI seems to want to lose track and rename them randomly. It also makes the SAME syntax errors over and over, the more time goes on the faster I get at finding them. Currently I can fix many of them quicker than the AI can.

Correct. Long ago a family member bit a thermometer somehow and swallowed the mercury. Poison control said not to worry unless they swallowed the glass too.

I had one. It was totally safe to use as long as you did not eat it.

Jet engines will run on diesel fuel just fine with no modifications at all. The issue is the tanks and plumbing, without fuel heaters diesel fuel gels and won't flow at low temperatures. Jet engines really only need a flammable liquid of some kind, they have been run on vegetable oils and they will run on gasoline.

If you mean time-reverse in the literal sense effect precedes cause. What if after the light is unscattered you decide not to send it?

Since 5G rolled out there are maybe a tiny sliver of times and places I get speeds better than I did on 4G. The other 99% of the time my coverage and speeds are the same or WORSE. There are plenty of places where I had 5 bars of LTE before and now struggle with dropped calls and 1 bar. This was a huge scam and also caused and is causing enormous problems with various telematics hardware built with 3G modems that is not easy or sometimes not possible to change out.

The title sounded like light sent out on Tuesday comes back on Monday, which raises the issue of what happens if after seeing the reflected light on Monday, you DON'T SEND IT on Tuesday. Well duh, that isn't happening. Bad title, bad!

They are about 11,000 and some feet too deep to survive getting out and swimming. FYI

The BEST camera site on the interwebs by far!

Not really. If the plane was dynamically unstable it would have been a huge pain to fly (BTDT) and never would passed even the most minimal checks before certification. What the issue was how the plane changed pitch with power settings. All planes do this, but some much more so than others. What happened was the Max changed pitch quite a bit more than the older versions. Normally this would require pilot training and a new type rating, which costs time and money. Boeing's lame cheap-ass solution was the MCAS that would jump in and save the day if a pilot not used to the airplane let it get away from him.

No one with 1/4 of a brain ever thought "noise cancelling" was the same as 100% soundproof. What they do accomplish is significantly reducing low frequency noise. The headphone shell and insulation are effective proportionally to frequency. Running at cruise RPM - say 2200-2400 RPM, there is a lot of low frequency prop, engine, and airframe noise that really gets old on a long flight. The noise cancelling does a really good job eliminating that.

This! Drive to airport. Preflight the plane. Load the cargo. Fly 2 hours. Unload the cargo. Unroll mat and nap in the back. Preflight. Load cargo. Fly 2 hours home. Unload cargo. Drive home. Time away from home = 12 hours. Pay = 4 hours.