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There are numerous ways this can go, but here is the basic framework....

Opening scene is soon after the American Revolution when slavery was commonplace in the northern states as well and is portrayed as a branch to a different timeline. The scene is after dark and attempts to realistically portray the gritty harshness of slavery. Some slaves escape and capture their owners and sneak to the neighboring plantation and release the slaves there, capturing their owners, and they continue on. The scene closes.

The next scene is modern times and shows a form of festival. Everyone shown is Black and Native American, and the festival includes rituals that are a hybrid blend of various African (mo

Hello Portland, and Oregonians.

Have there been any efforts to cancel or suspend the bottle bill? I'm no expert, but it seems like a simple thing we could do that might make a significant improvement in the problems that are suffocating our city. I am wondering if there is already an effort to do that?

Oregon was first to adopt this and it made significant reductions in landfill waste. Back then (1970s) Portland didn't have curbside recycling (1980s). But, today, it seems it is mostly a funding system for drugs to the homeless population. I've heard many times that much of our homeless population came here from other states. There are plenty of food and other essential resources available

Good morning redditing gophers (or evening, or ....). I'm new to Go but I've implemented a Unicode utilities module that appears to outperform packages like "unicode" and x/text "norm", especially my normalization package. And I have ideas that I think will improve its performance further.

The problem is that pkg.go.dev appears to have buried my modules to oblivion and I don't know why. I know they changed the search the other day, but, still, searching "unicode normalization" would bring up my unorm package waaaaaaaaay down near the bottom of the secondary list, but now I cannot find any search terms that bring it up at all. I don't expect it to appear in the first re

If commercial airliners and cargo ships did not have cockpits or any form of on-board human controls, they would be virtually un-hijackable. Certainly the technology is here to allow them to operate themselves and also to respond to emergency situations much better than human operators could.

In the case of commercial airlines, there would still need to be a method for flight controllers to redirect flights. There are various well-established methods known today to secure that communication, and obstruct jamming, and to mitigate under extreme attack situations. No more worry about hijackers. No more worry about people pointing lasers at cockpit windows. More room for passenger seating.

When searching for planets, we often speak of the "Goldilocks" zone which is a certain distance from the star where liquid water may form. Planets in that zone may have liquid water and be suitable for life of kinds similar to that on Earth. In our solar system, Venus is near the inner edge while Mars is near the outer edge of the Goldilocks zone.

Why is the Goldilocks zone used as a metric to judge the potential habitability of a planet, when other factors such as the atmosphere play such a volatile role in the conditions on that planet?

Consider our solar system. Venus is a hot hell hole mostly because of its thicker atmosphere.

Now, consider Jupiter, wwwwaaaayyyyy far beyond this Goldi

In the older polarized 2-prong electrical outlet, there is a "hot" connection and a "common" connection which is connected to ground. The narrower prong is for the "hot" connection.

Modern electrical outlets have a third "ground" prong in the center. This is on a third wire that goes to the same place as the "common". What does this additional "ground" add that we didn't already have? With the polarized (i.e. wide and narrow blade prongs) 2-prong plug, you have protection from plugging in backwards, so why do we not use that for grounding and save a wire? One could argue that it provides support for ground fault protection, but most circuits outside of the kitchen and bathroom do not h