Pro tip with large physical property- if you can’t afoord it now, you probably can’t actually afford it if you suddenly “win” enough to buy it. Taxes go up as costs go up. The National US average on a million dollar house would be about $10-12k in tax a year. Unless you make $30k or more that doesn’t leave a lot in your budget, and still works out to about $1k a month in rent. In highly desirable areas like where I am $1k rents you a room, so that’s not bad. But now you own. A roof can be $20k+ if you need one. Water heater $1200~ any number of potentially expensive problems that if you don’t have the money can get worse and worse and cost even more to fix. You’ll need to heat and cool the house, so even if you live somewhere that $1mill buys a mansion, you have electricity, water (for lawn etc) and has for that huge space, and will need to clean and care for every sq ft. A working adult making decent money can buy a house with $1mill winnings- affording it is another issue.

If you look you can see things like the “3D” effects around the black “eyes” of the mask, the change in color/size/shape of the belt buckle etc. these are minor and iterative design changes most likely brought about by newer hardware allowing more accurate and realistic reproduction of character design. Going back to Doki Doki Panic (aka Mario 2) shy guy has remained largely unchanged, only updated incrementally as graphics improved- so I am not saying that the design isn’t awesome. To the contrary I am merely saying that there are two technical points I disagree one: shy guy has had minor updates for graphical improvements over the years, and based on that: shy guy has been pretty much unchanged in design since 1987. So it’s actually a much longer streak than Yoshi’s story.

Humans murder other humans thousands of times a day. The first time a poratible vacuum stabs a guy to death outside of a strip club though, that will be one too many machine murders for me to back robot vacuums. Human employees fall asleep on the job too, but of the control system of the nuclear power plant decides to take a nap for a few hours, yeah... I’m going to want that fixed before we roll that out any further. Yes, people crash. It was 17 years between the invention of the first petrol powered automobile and the first recorded fatality caused by one. Prior to this most fatalities from steam/petrol vehicles are traced either to the fact that people and infrastructure were not acclimated to sharing space with motor vehicles, accidents caused by the primitive nature of machines and total lack of safety equipment or guidelines, or via negligence on the part of a third party. The first road going self driving car was made about 5 years ago.

When and if a police dog comes after you- stay still. Stay perfectly still. If you are sittin or can be sitting even better. The dog will grab your forearm with its mouth. If you don’t try to pull away or struggle, it might hurt a tiny bit and you might end up with a minor bite- but it will just hold you there until the police remove it. If you run it will chase you and pull you to the ground, and at that point it is in “fight mode” and may not be as gentle. I’m not advocating hurting an animal, or crime- but the two best bets for fighting a dog are a swift downward grove to the base of the spine where it meets the hips (dogs tend to have weak backs) or... to make a fist and jam it down the animals throat, then grab and twist around. I only mention this because a trained POLICE DOG shouldn’t hurt you. A random dog might mail you if you just “sit and wait.” You still can’t put run it most likely, and running engages the “prey reflex,” so you either need to think fast to get to safety...

This is called Vavilov Cherenkov radiation (commonly just called Cherenkov radiation for short.) The important concept to grasp before I explain it is that “the speed of light” is a misconception. When people say “nothing travels faster than the speed of light” the part they leave off is that “nothing travels faster than the speed of light in a vacuum.” The “speed of light” depends on what the light is traveling through, for instance light is slower to travel through water or a gas than it is traveling through “empty space.” So what you are seeing here is the effect that occurs when a physical particle holding a charge (like an electron or proton) being emitted by the reactor travel faster than the phase speed of light travels through the coolant of the reactor. The phenomenon was first theorized by an English scientist in the late 1800’s but wasn’t recorded to be experimentally produced until over 50 years later by two Russian scientists.