My uneducated opinion is that the US hasn’t really shown much publicly in the way of new military tech in the last 75 years. What they have behind closed doors I bet is full on science fiction. Their use of force over the decades has been just advanced known tech. I think if it ever comes down to it, they’ll roll out tech that’s 50 years ahead of anything else known.
But that’s just idle speculation.
I don’t believe they had drones 75 years ago.
My wife has an occipital nerve stimulator implanted, providing electrical stimulation to her brain, to help treat some of the effects of the TBI she experienced in a car accident years ago.
Considering some of the…interesting…side effects while they were working out which settings worked for her, and a few comments made by the doctor overseeing the treatment that hint at other applications for the technology, I would suspect that there is some pretty sci-fi stuff available in military circles.
(Imagine pushing a button on a gadget and then your brain stays awake and alert for many hours. Or press a button and your mind stays laser focused and mostly calm in stressful situations. Or press a button and you become incredibly aggressive…)
That’s what they want you to think.
Have often wondered if there is advanced US medical technology that could help with my son’s TBI. However guessing this type of technology is widely shared so unlikely there is anything in the US that is unavailable in Canada. If there was it would be unaffordable anyway as would not be a covered item under provincial Medicare
You could be right. I looked up the wiki entry -
One thing it mentions that I didn’t realize had already happened -
In 2020 a Kargu 2 drone hunted down and attacked a human target in Libya, according to a report from the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on Libya, published in March 2021. This may have been the first time an autonomous killer-robot armed with lethal weaponry attacked human beings.
The Terminator exists!
This form of treatment was initially just a different application of the hardware used for spinal cord stimulation, which is reasonably widely accepted as a treatment for chronic back pain.
It’s a mixed bag in the US as to whether the occipital nerve stimulators are covered. Our current health plan considers it experimental, and therefore denies coverage (we found this out the hard way when she got hers after having been told that it would be covered…) But there are apparently some Medicare Advantage providers that will cover the treatment. Since my wife is eligible for Medicare due to disability, we’ve thought about moving her over to Medicare (despite having to pay a pretty stiff penalty in premiums due to not seeking Medicare coverage when she became eligible), since there are better stimulators available now, and hers is approaching EOL.
Pre-pandemic I did ask about the possibility of her getting her stimulator replaced in Canada (on the off chance that out-of-pocket expense for the procedure in Canada wouldn’t be as bad as the options available to us in the US); my impression was that the technology had just recently been accepted by Health Canada, and finding someone willing and able to do the swap would be difficult.
Certain advanced medical hardware or medications seem to take the better part of a decade to become available in Canada after having been introduced in the US.
How else to get their MR-S?
If I wanted a Master of Regulatory Science degree, I would just focus on taking courses related to regulatory affairs, science, and other relevant subjects. 
Oh geez, I didn’t click the link, but somehow that doesn’t surprise me. I have recollections from freshman year of Rho Chi’s going through my roommate’s closet like “nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, maybe in a pinch, nope, nope, nope…” and telling her what all she needed to buy over Christmas break.
Reaffirmed my decision to be a GDI.
I did briefly date ONE frat guy during my tenure at Miami and it was an interesting experience. It caused quite the ruckus because when he asked me out the first time he told me it was to a Grab-A-Date. But actually it was a Date Party.
So everyone was asking me “how long have you and Jim been dating?” which confused me greatly. I didn’t know much about Greek life, but I did know that a Grab-A-Date was considered a very casual thing, didn’t even necessarily indicate romantic interest. Whereas a Date Party meant I was his serious girlfriend.
When the sorority girls in my Teacher Education classes heard that I’d been mislead as to the nature of the event it started a whole thing. They told their boyfriends and it got back to the guy who had asked me out. I asked him why he told me it was a Grab-A-Date when it was actually a Date Party and at first he denied it was a Date Party. Eventually he admitted that he didn’t think I’d say yes if I knew it was a Date Party. (Which I might not have, but we did go out a few more times.)
So I was constantly grilled about whether he was really my boyfriend or not and it kind of sucked the fun out of the whole thing. Sheesh, what a crap ton of ridiculous drama over… literally nothing.
Those last 2 @twig93 posts were Greek to me. Glad she cleared up some of the jargon in the second post. Had to look up what GDI was. No Greeks at the school I went to (though I think there were technically frats and sororities, but they weren’t much and very limited) and I lived at home* until I got married then it didn’t really matter.
Haha, sorry about that.
GDI = God Damn Independent
Rho Chi = sorority gal who helps freshman girls wishing to pledge sororities
I don’t know exactly how one becomes a Rho Chi, but I know they’re not allowed to discuss their sorority (even to say which they are in) with their prospective pledges and they are somewhat judged on how many girls actually pledge sororities such that they supposedly really are trying to help their charges.
I’m not aware of how much of a gap exists between theory and reality, but there was always major drama in my dorm when the Rho Chi was coming. Like… I was expected to tidy up my side of the room so that my roommate would not be judged negatively because I had half-finished Physics homework strewn across my desk. Who cares about Physics when there are pledge parties to attend?!?!
One less stress for me as a parent as sororities and fraternities are just not a big thing in Canadian universities. They have been banned at my Alma Mater since 1933.
My school didn’t have frats or sororities either.
Yikes, both kids tested positive for drugs. I screw up parenting daily but not that bad.