I just started Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, which I’ve been meaning to read for ages.
Before that I read The Queen’s Thief series, by Megan Whalen Turner, which was fun.
Put a fraction of that in wind, solar, or forced geothermal, and you’d get a real benefit. But the fossil fuel industry demands a fig leaf to cover its naked greed, so here we are.
Sounds like the beginning of a supervillain origin story.
I don’t have much sympathy for the McMansions, but there are huge sections of Pacific Coast rail line threatened by coastal erosion, and it sure would be nice to get some nice high-speed rail along there.
While we’re over-hauling doping punishments, we have to confront the deeply broken doping testing system and widespread contaminations of many foods and medications. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its country-level entities (UKADA, USADA, etc.) don’t like to talk about how laughably bad their systems are, and how often the pop false positives. It wasn’t as well known until cyclist Lizzy Banks challenged a false positive last year and spent €40,000 in legal fees and testing fees to get a “no fault or negligence” ruling. And that wouldn’t have been possible at all if Banks didn’t have a medical background (she went pro just before finishing a medical degree) and was able to read the faulty reports herself and challenge the claims of UKADA. Thanks to her, we now know that WAY more common foods and over-the-counter medications have contaminations with banned substances, which produces positive results with trace-amounts of banned substances.
I’m all for cracking down on dopers and cheaters, so long as we fix the system so it doesn’t create false-positives.
For starters, it can not arrest the bartender that punched a nazi after that nazi started a fight.
My dude didn’t deserve to be arrested, he deserved to drink for free throughout Lower Broadway!
The existence of a prior NDA is never a good sign.
Gotcha, thanks!
This has historically worked because Bing (from which DDG draws results) previously indexed Reddit. What indications do we have that it will work after this change? As I read the articles, I thought it wouldn’t work going forward.
Also, I will say because Brave search has such a small market share that’s probably not going to help Google’s case much.
I’d venture a guess that Brave is still allowed to search Reddit just as a legal fig leaf for Google’s arguments with regulators.
You know you crossed the line when you attack someone and the exes pipe up to say you’re wrong.
This bears repeating more: VW already knew how to make good driver controls. Their buttons and switches were carefully and thoughtfully designed for many years. The decision to throw in touch-screen buttons is either chasing a fad or outright dangerous cost-cutting. Companies like VW deserve the flak because they knew better, and did it anyway.
I don’t have much patience for officials who clutch at pearls over ebike fires but ignore hundreds of car deaths each year. Both are problems, but the amount of headlines dedicated to the former is out of whack.
(Dark was so good, I do appreciate the risks the old Netflix took on some programming, even if the company is busy burning that goodwill now.)
Don’t tell me you’ll resign, just do it already.
Anger and outrage. Extremism lives on outrage, it wilts if it doesn’t have pissed off people to constantly feed it.
Pure poetry from AndyJHawk:
Like the Honda e before it, it’s a vehicle too tiny for America’s truck-shaped digestive system.
Ha! I love it, this needs to happen!
If you want to dig deeper on how the company Fervo works, the CEO did an interview with David Roberts of Volts last year which was pretty interesting. This stuff isn’t hypothetical, it’s working right now, and apparently it’s profitable. I know huge portions of electricity demand can be addressed through wind and solar, perhaps at lower cost than enhanced geothermal for now, but the ability of enhanced geothermal to keep producing energy when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine is really key.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally
Have automakers gotten so used to fat profit margins from SUV sales, particularly during the post-pandemic boom, that they consider anything that requires investment to be “insufficiently profitable”? Or has the high-return mindset of Silicon Valley infected Detroit as well?