Stick a big enough engine in the back and it’ll fly. Maybe only once, but it will fly.

Both. Do both. Make it easier for them to address the issue than ignore you. Depending on which side of the aisle your MP is on, focus your letter on either “those evil <other side> are doing thus terrible thing, I know you’re bold enough to stand up to them.” or “this policy seems to have the following problems, and it’s leaving you open to attack from <other side>. It’d be a shame if you lost your position over it.”

What I find particularly concerning is that the were able to “hide javascript commands that link the victim’s phone to a new device” in the payload of a qr-code. I can’t see any valid use for javascript in the group joining process, I would expect the code to just be a signal URI with the relevant group ID, so is there sone external javascript interface being exposed?

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

As much a lie as it has always been.

I heard you like to irradiate things, so I put a nuke in your nuke, so you can irradiate while you irradiate.

A project Pluto powered missile really would be the ultimate ‘screw you’, it could fly around enemy territory for days or more, spewing radioactive exhaust, launching warheads as it went, before finally hitting a target. Shoot it down and you have a nuclear mess, don’t and you have a wider nuclear mess.

it’s just the B-52 but the bomb bay doors may fall off during flight.

Cunning. Extra munitions built into the airframe and deployable with minimal manual intervention. We’ll take 50.

That’s why there are all those “keep off the grass” signs. If people just walked all over the grass willy-nilly we’d soon be knee deep in benches and bins, and nobody wants that.

I’m sure he was, or at least making the statement in a wry way. It’s a very English sort of humour to understate the seriousness of the situation like that.

Brilliant, I just hope the captain’s coffee cup is on a gimbal, or they’re going to spill it every time they surface to shoot.

It looks like he pretty much invented surfing tidal bores on rivers, rather than surfing in general, and did it on a board he’d made himself.

I quite like knowing there were and are people like that about, even if you probably shouldn’t look too closely at their politics. Knowing the spirit of adventure is alive and well gives me a little hope that things will turn out ok, and laughing at their bizarre antics is always a bit of a boost.

I think ‘mad as a sack full of badgers’ might be a more appropriate fit, but I can see the psychopath accusation, although he seems to mostly not cared about his own safety rather than displayed an unusual level of psycopathy for a soilder. If you read about the rest of his life it looks like hus feeling of invulnerability continued.

Possibly, but if you read about the rest of his life it seems like he just really enjoyed adventure, and, in common with many others, saw war as a thrilling, life-or-death, adventure.

That reminds my of the quote by “Mad” Jack Churchill on the end of the Second World War: “If it wasn’t for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!”

He was apparently a good leader, being promoted to Colonel, and clearly enjoyed his war. He’s credited with the only confirmed kill with a long bow in the war, wore and used a Claybeg style sword and, on more than one occasion lead the charge in to battle whilst playing his bagpipes and hurling grenades.

In short, he well and truly earned his moniker.

Word for word what I was about to post.

Clearly what you need to do to avoid the recoil is mount the guns on a solid metal hoop like structure around your chest, and have a matching set in the back to balance the forces. One pull of the trigger and you ruin everybody’s day.

Not morons, just not educated enough about them to understand exactly what the implications of that action are.

I was more suggesting that it might be a bit eldritch, but sometimes humor doesn’t come across quite right/

The linked paper is focused on studying the ‘perforation-type anchor’ they use to hold the tissue to the mold as it grows, rather than keeping it alive afterwards. During growth the tissue and mold were submerged, or partially submerged, in a suitable medium to keep the cells healthy, and it was only when the resulting models were tested that they were removed (although one test did seem to involve letting it dry out to see if the anchors held). Growing the various layers of cells seems to be a solved problem, and I suspect that includes keeping them supplied with nutrients and such, so the authors aren’t examining that. What’s not solved is how to keep the tissue attached to a robot, which is what the authors were studying.

Do you really want to know? There are some things that the human mind is not meant to contemplate.

Maybe a good pair of headphones and the careful application of some spray paint? Mask and holes or areas you don’t want to colour, then apply several light coats until suitable pinkness is achieved. I suspect you’ll get bonus points for personalisation.