I really like what they're doing to GIMP lately and I am looking forward to 3.0!

a) Forecasts are very resource-intensive, they are performed on a specific schedule using a computational forecast model. Updating the predictions would require inputting new data and running the model again, and by the time they do that, the next forecast will already be out.

b) Do they know it's wrong? Where did you get the temperature? From an official weather station? If not, there is no reason to imagine that someone is noticing that this one particular model run was wrong in one particular spot across the whole country and trying to fix it in real time.

c) If you did get the current temperature from an official weather station, that IS your update for it. Real time data from official weather stations is always going to trump the forecast model. What would be the point of updating the forecast when the current measured data from the weather station is now available? That's like driving down the highway and saying "I was predicting my speed would be close to 65mph, but due to the heavy traffic I'm seeing today, I'm going to re-estimate my speed to be 45mph" when you have a perfectly accurate speedometer right in front of you telling you exactly what speed you are going at all times. Forecasts are only useful for the future, and they can be wrong.

Just like tobacco companies were (and still are) fighting to deny the harm caused by their products, there is no surprise that we see the same from plastic, chemical and oil industries. They will scream even louder every time we try to prevent them from killing us, and they will never feel a twinkle of remorse about it. They will murder millions to get at our wallets, they truly don't care about the consequences as long as they make money.

Experience is the best teacher. Practice makes perfect. Get in a creative world and build redstone machines. Copying other people's machines is absolutely fine and is a great way to learn all sorts of tricks. You learn not just by building it, but also by observing the one you've coipied, seeing it work, looking at what its parts are doing. You can tinker with the parts, change something and see if it does something different. If there's a machine you don't understand how it works, don't be intimidated by it, break it down until you understand how it does work. And that's where the next question comes in.

Things like "quasiconnectivity" honestly reflect things I would call more of a bug that has been turned into a feature. There's no way to make it intuitive because it's non-intuitive by design, it makes no sense that certain blocks don't work in certain cases or if the power comes in from one location and not another, or they need a block update to happen before they work, or that a block update makes them work when it doesn't seem like it should, and while you will certainly run into them by accident sometimes (and it's annoying!) you can also use these unexpected things to your advantage create really elaborate and bizarre effects (or more often just really compact ones). But unless you have a specific need for that compact/unexpected process or layout you probably don't need to worry about it. It's something you learn with experience when you're trying to figure out why the thing you're making isn't working the way you expect it to be working.

The other thing you're asking about, T Flip Flops are a kind of digital logic circuits that are actually from the real world. In many ways (at least when it's not dealing with buggy quasiconnectivity effects), redstone signals actually behave like a perfect digital circuit would. Electrical engineers and computer designers typically design their logic using all kinds of digital "building blocks", some of the most basic and well known are gates (AND/OR/NOR/XOR/etc) and flip flops. Flip flops are special because they can form permanent digital storage. That is true in minecraft also, and once you learn both what these do and how they can be used, you can also learn how to implement each one in Minecraft. The best way to learn more about these is to study digital logic. With enough patience Minecraft is effectively turing-complete, and can build redstone computers of unlimited size and capacity.

You don't have to be defensive about it, I think it just acknowledges a bit of a public relations tightrope the MIC has to walk. They can't gloat about how we're winning too much (even though they are not just winning, but even doing it with mostly hand-me-downs) or people will start to question whether how much we spend is really necessary. I know why it's necessary, you know why it's necessary, but the average voter doesn't necessarily care.

I read the title as "NVR hardware for a frigate" and was like WTF kind of self-hosting are you doing with military hardware on a warship.

Now I kind of want a warship.

Musk is the richest man on Earth, give or take a few billion here or there. He can keep it running as long as he wants. It's nothing but a toy to him. The problem will start when he finally gets bored of it, because he has already broken it to the point that nobody else will want it. He has killed it, it's just not dead yet as long as he keeps swinging it around and paying its bills. But one day he'll stop doing that, maybe once he finds a new, shinier toy. We just don't know when.

brb replacing all my bodily fluids with LSD, will let you know how it goes

I'd argue against that. For one thing it is impossible to imagine a situation where there is no change in the gravitational gradient across your body over time. Your orbiting a black hole situation is a perfect example of a situation where the gradient alone would tear you apart. The conditions you've specified are tautological. There's no way to maintain a zero gravitational gradient while also simultaneously having extremely high gravitational field. The two are mutually exclusive in any conceivable scenario.

It's like saying a human being in a hypersonic wind stream won't necessarily hurt you, burn you alive and rip you to pieces (not necessarily in that order) as long as there is no turbulence and you have a sufficient boundary layer -- but you're a non-aerodynamic human body in a hypersonic wind stream, so of course there will be turbulence and the boundary layer will not protect you at all, you're going to die, basically instantly.

Democracy without dissent. China has achieved peak democracy. Once you mercilessly crush all opposition, your population becomes completely unified and elections are easy, straightforward affairs! The one secret of success that western democracies don't want you to know!

"Number One: In 1945, corporations paid 50% of federal taxes; now they pay about 5%. Number Two: In 1900, 90% of Americans were self employed; now it's about 2%... It's called consolidation; strengthen governments and corporations, weaken individuals. With taxes, this can be done imperceptibly over time." - Leo Gold in "Deus Ex"

Yeah I speculated this was the case when the prevailing opinion of comments on the site made a sudden and drastic change in attitude. IIRC it stated shortly after spez made his infamous comments about how the blackout didn't matter and they didn't see any impact.