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Thanks for the explanation, sounds like something I should dredge up and check out for myself!

Who is that? I’ve seen here around in memes

Setting up a bird listening device a few meters off an active runway and no filter for engine sounds.

Play back is of course volume tuned for the bird chirps when processing data

It’s a communist utopia, I would assume the central government has that info regardless if it’s a citizen or a government personell. Citizens of other members in the Federation would opt in to the tracking

If you define parameters the first time you (or your parents) use a replicator (which is every thing you ever consume except for social dining) and the replicators sync you should have a quite large library of your tastes which it can use as a filter for when you order new stuff so you don’t have to refine the parameters very much.

At least in my head canon :)

Rough that the driver calls a lack of inspections a “loophole”, I wonder if the original text has the implication that inspections are needed at every step or any “loopholes” will be used to save some profit margin

They don’t until they reach a bit of age, after about a week you can start see them develop individuality but as newly hatched they are a bundle of insticts.

Just like human babies, although humans are way slower

Where I live the fire fighters are a professional force tasked with emergency tasks as well as enforcing compliance with fire safety regulations, as an example an association I work with had to pay a fine due to having some of the smoke detectors non functioning. Thats an authority I have no issue with, with goes back to the word “mocking” authority rather than “questioning” authority.

One sounds like the refusal of having another party authority over oneself, the latter implies a valuation if the authority is proper, fitting and reasonable or not.

It’s probably due to autism traits but “mocking authority” sounds like just mocking anyone relying on previous experience or education rather being able to justify their position in the situation at hand. Compare to the logical fallacy of “relying on authority”

When it comes to fire safety, I don’t need to know exactly with sources why some areas need to be “fire cells” while other areas, similar in my eyes, doesn’t if the information comes from a fire fighter. I rely completely on his/her authority on the matter and doesn’t need any more evidence to let the fire fighter enforce those laws and regulations.

Im guessing that in this context “authority” in the thread starter text is shorthand for “perceived authority by the enforcer without real and safe recourse for the person having authority enforced upon”?

Since both the cop and fire fighter have means of legal repercussions if their authority is not followed I mean.

The firefighter is an authority on fire safety, and shouldn’t be mocked for that authority