I can support picketing, and direct action against a specific target, but as soon as you blockade general traffic you’re on the wrong side of whatever issue you’re concerned about.
I reject the premise of your question. Human judgment is inherently biased and cannot be implicitly trusted. I believe it is likely that you hurt people from time to time, as everyone causes such pain and injury from time to time. However, I distrust the idea that you cause nothing but pain. An absolute conclusion like that would require absolute, unequivocal, objective evidence to prove, and I have zero reason to suspect you are some sort of omnipotent being capable of acquiring such evidence.
The most likely conclusion from the available evidence is that your ability to recognize your own value is somehow compromised. A rational course of action when you cannot trust your own senses is to reject those senses. If you can’t trust yourself to fairly evaluate your own actions, you can reverse the process. Identify an action that does not cause harm, but rather, helps someone, somewhere.
For this exercise, it is important that the action be small. The smaller the better. You aren’t trying to save the world here; you are trying to recalibrate your ability to recognize the value of your actions. Any idiot can see the “good” in saving a baby from being torn apart by a rabid dog. Not everyone can see the good in picking up a piece of litter. Not everyone can see the good in kicking a rock off a sidewalk, so a kid doesn’t trip on it. Not everyone can see the good in pushing in a chair, or wiping the water off the counter in a public bathroom.
Go perform a tiny, objectively good act, right now. The smaller the better. The least significant act you can possibly imagine.
One of two things will happen: either you will see the tiny, positive value in that act and recognize that you don’t just cause harm; or you will not see that act as “good” (or “good enough”) and you will objectively know that your sense of personal value is not properly calibrated.
All the evidence so far tells me that nobody is serious about stopping the violence. The only way the violence will end in this region is if the entire region is turned into a sheet of glass.
My only interest in the region is ensuring that the violence continues, until such time as an option other than “glass them all” presents itself.
I like to think there is a point where the average person would observe a certain level of bullshit and immediately escalate to extreme violence against their corporate overlords.
I’m not saying that this patent is my level. I’m not saying this patent is not my level.
The most promising short-term approach is switching from spark ignition to compression ignition: Jet fuel is very comparable to diesel fuel, and doesn’t have the same problems with lead that avgas has. It has a higher energy density, providing lower fuel burn and longer range. And it is significantly cheaper than 100LL, let alone 100UL.
Europe has a significant number of diesel-engined general aviation aircraft burning Jet-A. Several manufacturers have received supplementary type certificates to swap out gasoline engines for diesel in many of the most popular GA aircraft.
Longer term, electric and hydrogen are being researched, but it will be a long time before they are viable options in the GA fleet.
The aviation industry is second only to nuclear in regulatory conservatism. They grind through change slowly, methodically, and expensively.
Every engine manufacturer went through a lengthy certification process to get their engines approved to run on avgas. If you want to burn a slightly different kind of fuel, you either need to go through that entire process again, or you have to convince the FAA that there is so little difference in the new fuel that it will perform identically in every engine that has ever been certified on the old fuel.
They finally achieved that second one earlier this year, after decades of work.
I don’t understand how the most viable solution is unleaded avgas and not a widespread transition away from spark ignition. Jet-A is cheaper than 100LL, let alone 100UL, but planes equipped with equivalent Jet-A diesel engines have significantly lower fuel burn and much higher range.
I would think that flight schools and other operators would be pushing their fleets to diesels just for the lower operating costs.
It will depend on your specific anatomy and glasses. I wear sunglasses all the time with mine without issue, but my girlfriend said they were a little annoying with her frames.
I have fewer glasses problems with the OpenComm than I did with my Jlab Air Sport buds, which had a hook over the ear.
If I had any complaints, it would be with certain hoods and thick, high collars on jackets.
If you’re in a noisy environment and want to block out the noise, this is a terrible option. I tried using it on an airplane and could hardly hear anything.
I mostly agree with your other two points, but not this one. You should never try to “cover” noise with louder noise; that is just a recipe for hearing loss. Instead, you should be wearing some form of ear protection. Earbuds are not designed to function as hearing protection, nor are most headphones.
With bone conduction, you can wear regular, rated earplugs to block out ambient noise without blocking your audio. I find that I can usually lower my audio volume significantly when wearing earplugs.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
There are many states where you can drive more than 4 hours and not leave, but now I wonder about the reverse: what is the maximum number of states you can reach in a 4-hour drive?
Surely, the route has to be through many of the small states in New England. I think it would be tough to reach more than 5.
Thank you. Connect has gotten much better since I started using it, but it’s still pretty clunky, and I have come to hate their comment nesting. Thunder is working much better for me.
Do you really want people like me involved?
Think really hard about that before you answer.