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What’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?

Adding an extra lane to a congested road will always cause that road to be more congested, and will also increase traffic on nearby roads.

When China removed a highway, it reduced car traffic thought the entire city while not reducing the number of people travelling to and around the city.

The only solution to car traffic is viable alternatives to driving.

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It's already running

I wrote a program (not a virus) on my computer. Windows deleted the exe immediately after I compiled it because it was "an unverified application from an unknown source".

It didn't bother deleting the batch script I downloaded from an email that would delete all files if run. Apparently that one was fine.

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To say that Hitler wasn't human is to pretend that no human could ever do the same, making way for another human to step up and do the same.

Accepting that Hitler was human means putting processes in place to prevent another human from doing the same.

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Pilot Locks Himself In Cockpit, Demands Unpaid Wages, Gets Arrested

This isn’t the way to address frustration with your employer

What you're supposed to do is send a polite email once per year, wait until the business goes bankrupt, watch the boss make off with millions, and never get any of your back-pay.

How is anyone expected to survive 5 months without pay? The flight charts are absolutely a safety critical item, and making pilots buy them without pay should be criminal. If an airline can't operate safely, then they shouldn't operate.

The pilot put no-one in danger by doing this.