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Indeed, having some disconnected powerful authority figure handing out decisions on who should live and who should die is a pretty repulsive concept.

There is no official body to decide which official body gets to be the official body that decides if a genocide is going on.

Maybe we should focus less on whether it's "official" and more on stopping it, regardless of how it's labeled.

We don't know what words were written on all the ammo he didn't fire, so maybe it was sheer coincidence.

So we've established that there are some people you'd be happy to see gunned down, we're now just quibbling over who qualifies.

So if he goes back to calling cryptocurrencies a scam, are they good again then?

IMO smaller populations lead to a stronger echo chamber effect. I've definitely noticed that the echoness of Threadiverse communities is generally a lot higher than corresponding subreddits and I suspect the small size plays a major role.

There's a nine-month window that should be pretty safe.

Switch to fire at that point.

I just asked copilot. The salt water has a couple of benefits over pure water; it's less irritating to mucous membranes, it thins mucus more effectively, and it has modest antimicrobial effects.

Now I'm imagining self-replicating hair tangles, akin to how a prion causes proteins to misfold. Take care not to get to close to someone infected with one or the knot might brush your hair and induce it to knot in the same manner.

The nightmare scenario would be a screaming mass of people bound together helplessly by their intertwined hair knots, binding anyone who comes close to attempt a rescue into the same hellish ball. The only solution would be to hose them down with industrial-strength Nair from a safe distance.

There'd only be a one-atmosphere pressure differential, though. Wouldn't be so bad, depending on which bit of your body gets stuck on the gap (don't sit on it).

This is another thing Hollywood often gets wrong about the vacuum of space. If your spaceship gets a bullet hole in it you could do an emergency patch by sticking your finger in it and you'd be fine.

Also important to note that the scale of these things can lead to intuitive misunderstandings. For example, if a meteor blows a meter-wide hole through the hull of an O'Neill cylinder, that intuitively sounds like a huge crisis. But in fact it'll take weeks before enough air leaks out through a hole that size to become a problem. As an emergency patch all you need to do is drop a big manhole cover over it on the inside and the air pressure will seal it up against the hole quite tight, making it easier for the repair crew to weld a proper patch onto the actual hull.