Finally. I was wondering if/when this might happen.

Thank you. Nuance, you know.

This is so flawed it isn’t even funny.

You need way more than 1,000,000 fingers. This is America after all. Even if you use all ten fingers, that’s only like 9.9 million guns.

Does his model include a candidate stealing electoral college votes or does it assume a free election?

Absolutely, but there are a few problems with this. First, I live in the US. Americans do NOT know how to negotiate a roundabout. There is a roundabout near my house. The instructions of how to use it are posted on signs as you approach. They are wrong. They actually have inside lanes exiting across the outside lanes that can continue around. So not only is it wrong but it’s teaching the locals here what NOT to do at a normal roundabout.

Second, they don’t fit at existing intersections.

Third, I think they would be more expensive than just a piece of tech attached to traffic lights that already exist.

I mean the best solution would be some good public transportation, but I’m trying to be more realistic here. That’s for more civilized nations. In the US the car rules. And the bigger, the better.

Timing traffic lights. They could look down the road and see when nothing is coming, to let the other direction go, like a traffic cop. It would save time and gas.

Any question like this can always be answered by asking yourself, who would profit from this?

It’s not just, you know, Halloween?

Not sure that’s the kind of technology purchase to which the OP was referring. I thought you were going to say you purchased some kind of high tech sink and was excited to hear what it did to improve your life. I mean, I can see the point but…

LOL. That was an assumption on my part. Eat at your own risk, huh?

Was so excited to answer this only to find the top post hit virtually every one of my suggestions.

But there is one more. This year I plan to revisit an old classic:

The Lost Boys.

We used to. They were called Vendo-mats. They had sandwiches and cakes and all kinds of things. They weren’t exactly vending machines in the sense that things would fall down. The food was behind a little door you’d open after paying. I’m too young to remember what the stuff tasted like, but it seemed pretty good because the food would always have to be put in the machines fresh every day.

You mean the worst? I don’t know. I’m just hopeful that I’m not actually the worst. Fingers crossed.

Nope. I’m just that bad. I feel like I have a logical mind but it just seems like the command don’t do what I think they will, won’t operate on a certain type of variable or Holy crap I forgot a friggin space or semi-colon or something.

Languages in order of proficiency: C++ HTML/CSS Matlab Basic Fortran (1 class taken)

But when I say proficient I seriously mean looking stuff up on the internet for every single line. And I haven’t used Basic in decades.

A one out of ten. I consider myself the world’s second worst programmer.

Yes but it’s very few.

Hmmm, I don’t get this. Usually if you’re in a flood area the mortgage company requires flood insurance. If you don’t get it, they get it for you and send you the bill.

But as most are saying, it’s a scam. They will tell you you have flood insurance without mentioning that there are three different kinds of flood damage. Rising water is the one most of us think of, but there is flood damage cause by plumbing issues and finally wind driven water. To a home owner, it’s water damage. To an insurance company it’s an opportunity to either charge you three times or deny your claim.

It’s great!

I see.

You’ve got to be a real idiot if you think the government can control the weather…

It’s the Dems and Jews that can do that. You know, using space lasers. Get with the program.

People in North Korea have golf clubs?