Art imitates life, right?

/I'm sad now

This is more like Obiwan being cut down by Vader as Han & Luke escape with Leia. Obiwan sacrificed himself to distract Vader long enough for the others to make their escape. We're just getting started.

Don't worry... Plenty of time still to blow up the Death Star. And then the Empire strikes back.

This just in, scientists unveil "a loop of wire"

I keed, I keed. Glad to see materials science improving technologies we have for new applications.

That ... That's baller. I'm "doughy" at best, and its all I'll ever be.

People are more buoyant in salt water because it has higher molar mass. Humans on average are about 90% density of water by mass so about 10% of your frame would float above the surface, which is generally enough to expose your nose. Of course you can articulate your neck, float on your back, tread water...

Salinity also matters. Salty water you might be up to 3% or 5% more buoyant, pound for pound, compared to fresh water.

Really, it depends on how fat and how salty, but generally the difference is less than 5% by mass.

Swim.

Not get splashed or crowded by kids, mostly.

edit: lol, sorry. misinterpreted the question

Public pools have a shallow end and a deep end. It's difficult (but not impossible!) to drown in the shallow end because you can just stand up, but you can still swim.

Most humans, especially fat Western humans, are naturally buoyant. Completely inert, most (fat) Western people will float above the bottom of their nose (because we're fat.) Very lean or muscular people tend to be more neutrally buoyant or even negatively buoyant (sink), YMMV.

Most important thing to remember as an Aquatic Mammal is you WILL get water in your nose, and sometimes down your windpipe. DO NOT PANIC. It burns, you will want to cough. Resist that urge. If you are under water or do not have free air passage, DO NOT COUGH. Control the urge and break the surface, then you can go ham coughing and sputtering.

The most important thing about being in and around water is to be comfortable. If you're not comfortable, you're too deep. Get shallow.

source: PADI certified diver

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I don't make the rules. Sorry.

The governor will appoint a replacement to fill the seat until.a special election in 2026. The winner will occupy the seat until the next regular cycle for that seat.

The governor of Arizona happens to be Democratic.

I think it's because he looks like DT Junior, but slightly better looking

📢 THE QUIET PARTS

I can't speak to the quality of actual locksets or recommended any products, but LockPickingLawyer on YouTube has a number of short videos discussing smart locks. My impression is most of them are trash at just being a lock. The ones made by traditional lockset manufacturers probably aren't generally good at being smart, but I've been wrong about major brands' commitment to open standards before.

Assuming you can find a decent lock that talks Z-Wave, I think you're on the right track with Zwave2MQTT and a USB dongle. I'd be squeamish about using a Pi specifically in a mission critical security control system for a couple of reasons (reliability, complexity, WiFi interference), but as long as you have keyed backup, it'll probably be OK.

I'll leave it to others to recommend the locks, but as I mentioned in another post her, most battery operated Z-Wave devices, in my experience, report their battery life. Most of mine seem to go from 100% to 70% to dead in about a day though, so accuracy might be hit & miss.

Maybe just leave one door with an old school keyed lockset as a plan B.

My battery operated Z-Wave sensors all report their battery life. You'd need to dig into the integration docs to know for sure but frankly I'd be surprised if they didn't report it as an entity.

+1 for Shattered Pxel Dungeon! The game play is devious in its simplicity but still incredibly rich and nuanced. The Dev takes great care to keep the content fresh & balanced. Plus the community is great.

It could be the "Alien vs. Predator" we never knew we needed

Then Governor of AZ does, but she's a Democratic.

I see Systems Engineering analogies in a lot of complex natural systems. It's a great model to understand how the world around you works, as long as you remember it's only a model.

For example, I optimize my navigation around town sort of like the OSPF network routing protocol. I consider the speed limit & number of lanes to be analogous to the link cost, traffic lights as Layer 3 hops, and stop signs as Layer 2 hops. I consider the local highways to be my "backbone area" so navigation is optimized to find the shortest path from wherever I am to the nearest major highway. Sometimes the solution takes me a mile or two out of my way, but I'll avoid 4 or 5 busy lights by taking a back road or cutting through a residential block.

In fact, the airline network is similarly structured: for a given carrier, routes among their hubs are their backbone area, and routes between regional airports in different regions connect through one or two hubs. As a traveler between two regional airports, you're likely to fly to the hub closest to your destination and meet a second leg back out the the other airport. All to better if you just live near a hub.

Eh, don't be so harsh. We posters here are like sports fans following the team in the off season, watching every news drop to analyze and discuss with other fans.

Outside of here, Most of America just isn't that clued in to politics for a number of reasons. With the decline in consumption of print & broadcast news (and their inherent slant these days, let's be honest) you have to put in effort to find the story and follow what's going on. And that's for when the Algorithm hasn't otherwise distracted you with the latest celebrity scandal. For the younger demographic who have to work so damned hard to make a decent living or even just make ends meet, it's probably just demoralizing to watch two old men yelling at the clouds, and feel like their own concerns aren't even being discussed. And then you have to go looking watch a couple different takes on the same story (so many stories!) to see past the spin and get even a sense of what the fuck is ACTUALLY happening. People are busy, man.

I can't really blame them for just now getting interested, because at least now it is interesting. I hate the situation for what it is, myself, but here we are.

Of course you're right, but this time America-- significantly, the part that votes Democratic-- is pretty divided over it and that plays to Trump's strength. By agreeing to keep the war going until next year, Bibi can accomplish at least two things simultaneously. First, it keeps the Democratic base divided between supporting the Israeli state vs doing anything substantive about the death, destruction and genocide occurring in Gaza. Any Democratic candidate that takes a stance against the war publicly will suddenly find their opponent very well funded. Meanwhile a key bloc of voters remains alienated by the party's policy. It's a heavy albatross hung about the necks of the Democrats. Harris has to campaign with that as a backdrop, and of course the Republicans will make hay over it.

Second, if and once Trump back is in office then Israel will be free to roll through Gaza and perhaps even the West Bank, completely wiping out any chance of a Palestinian state. The war ends, and Trump gets to say he resolved the conflict, which means "he won."

So, yes. Different than 1980, but not really. All Republican dirty tricks-- and violations of the Logan Act-- to muddy up an election for fun and profit.

Ah, Tennessee, what can we say about you that hasn't yet been blessed upon the bottom quinquagesitile?