Children are children; lanyards get lost or mixed up. The brilliant thing about fingerprints is that the chain from person to ID is so direct. Most school systems store about six(?) points, rather th… (View Post)

Depending on what happens between now and 2028, a nice mayor from a small town might be just what America needs. Maybe even wants. (View Post)

Unfortunately, humans like exciting stories with goodies and baddies, and "system fails because they all occasionally fail, roughly in proportion to our collective cheapness" isn't an excit… (View Post)

As in "which British Prime Minister was most f@#*ing stupid?" (All PMs are brought down by their inadequacies. What made Boris's collapse special was how dismal his fatal lies ended up bein… (View Post)

That's a bigger thing than political parties though. In pretty much every field of our lives, we are given more choice than in the 1980s, and expect things to fit us much better than used to be possi… (View Post)