Are they unguarded right now? Your casually sarcastic "just a thought" makes it sound like everyone else is an idiot for not doing something obvious. Or are you suggesting building a magnificant wall?
Thankfully our land and sea borders only total about 312 yards or so, two squads of border control could keep eyes on it at all times, and shut that stuff down.
Meet people that have have done a lot of drugs? Some can still function. Others, just can’t. Had an owner of a successful tech company see it fall apart because he couldn’t make decisions anymore.
Was a really nice guy, but by the end I might hire him to sweep the floors, but only with supervision.
Not sure how he’s doing now, but I imagine he’ll be homeless by some point.
I am not endorsing drug use at all, but I have seen highly functioning drug users. I have never met a homeless man that could still function after being on the streets for a year.
(Superhero physics is vague and unrealistic at the best of times).
Assuming "dwarf star material" means "neutronium" (which is unstable at any level less than a neutron star) and the "half million tons" mass quote for the key…
That's about the energy content of all the world's fossil fuel reserves being released in a 10 minute half-life.
“I’m not addicted, it doesn’t affect me.” Every addict I know. Seen a number of people slowly change from it until they are no longer who they are. Never in a good way. Seen some who got off it.
One because her husband has such a bad reaction (after several years of use) that he can’t ever touch it again. She became her old self again. Not quite as bright as she once was, but personality improved to the loving person I once knew.
While I'm glad it worked out for you, it's also kinda dystopian to read how you had to work to keep your family under a roof in a time you probably should focus on healing. You shouldn't have had to do that at all, and in that sense I think some of these gig companies also prey on the needy.
Owner hired an extremely “senior” developer. Was told to let him do his thing.
After he spent 3 months building a web app, I asked him how he wanted to deploy it.
Perfectly straight face he said we would take his developer machine to a local data center and plug it in. We could then buy him a new developer machine.
It went downhill from there.
I ended up writing the application from scratch and deploying it that same evening.
