the citrussy:

Maybe cleanup costs should be baked into the price of a building permit...

look at Mr Moneybags over here, able to afford a van down by the river

USA did it in 1991, day one of Desert Storm

You gotta wonder WTF the French were thinking when they decided to force people into the sweltering insomnia of 80 degrees indoors at night just for the sake of creating the appearance that climate change is the fault of the dispossessed proletariat running air conditioners to survive global heating, and pretending like the owners of the means of production aren't actually in a position to change how the economy functions.

In a world with too many humans already, can you imagine painting a drop in the birth rate as somehow a bad thing?

lol

So this big breakthrough in tire technology is . . . making them harder and reducing their grip?

That extra weight will also mean that more force is required to accelerate and change directions.

The nimbleness of a vehicle can be expressed as the ratio:

(Tire Contact Area * Tire Stickiness) / Vehicle Mass

Increasing the vehicle's mass while making the tires harder will lead to longer breaking distances and will cause a vehicle to understeer at lower speeds.

run on "government bad"

get elected

govern poorly

"told you so"

There’s no reason EVs have to be heavier forever

That's a bit of a stretch, unfortunately. The energy density of batteries is nowhere close to that of gasoline - joule for joule, gasoline weighs about 100 times less than batteries. Also, a fuel tank big enough to give its vehicle a 400 mile range will get lighter over the course of the trip, as the liquid fuel gets converted into polluting gas and exhausted into the atmosphere - batteries don't get appreciably lighter as you discharge them.

Agree that 400 miles range with charging stations as ubiquitous as today's gas stations would help EV adoption. I do worry about the rollout of charging stations being slowed down by competition with expensive and fragile hydrogen tech (keep the hydrogen on boats and trains pls).

Interesting, didn't realize they had a geothermal loop in the concrete floors. I wonder if condensation will be an issue?

Fewer births is good news - a solution rather than a problem. There needs to be fewer humans if we're to avoid cooking ourselves and sending other species into extinction. We should all be so lucky as China to have this 'problem'.

The new law will establish an “obligation for the manufacturer to repair common household products ..."

This isn't what "right to repair" typically means. I've only ever heard that phrase used to describe the right of the owner to repair the devices they own themselves and to not be required to bring them to the manufacturer for repair.

*jobs exist that don't pay a living wage, sending workers ever deeper into poverty and despair*

media and politicians: "LoOk At AlL tHe JoBs! BoOmInG eCoNoMy!"

and a system of wealth inheritance that ensures whichever family was rich when the system first started is the de facto monarch in perpetuity

corporate sponsors like "the other guy is bad" more than "here's the plan to get the working class a bigger slice of the pie"

I stopped buying their shit after they started hiring Pinkerton mercenaries to clean up their mistakes.

from the wiki:

Following the Civil War, the Pinkertons began conducting operations against organized labor.[5] During the labor strikes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, businesses hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers.[6] During the Homestead Strike of 1892, Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, who was acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie, the head of Carnegie Steel.[7]

Why does the working class, the larger of the two classes, not simply eat the smaller one?

Maybe requiring computer nerds to not smoke weed if they want to work for Uncle Sam isn't the best national security strategy.

The things people drink out of are many different sizes of course, but when the word "cup" is used in the context of a measure of volume, then yes, they're called "measuring cups", and the volume is standardized.

Same thing with teaspoons and tablespoons. They're not just any random spoon - when talking about measurements, they have a standardized volume and you need to use a cheap and ubiquitous measuring device if you want to follow a recipe precisely.

Most people in USA do not have a scale in their kitchen, but we do have a measuring cup and a set of measuring spoons.

working as intended - won't fix - ticket closed

that would threaten Monsanto’s patents

Its the other cancer peddling shitheel this time. Syngenta owns the patent, making it completely justified for Greenpeace to prevent them from gaining control of the food supply, even if they have to use BS arguments about food safety to do so.

"You'll pay for that!"

Yes, I know how stores work.

"Mr. Deez-Nuts was my father's name. Please, call me Bofa."

Anecdotally, last time I was looking for a job, these kind of positions were offering about 50% less than the income you need to be considered poor enough to qualify for government assistance - you could work 80 hours a week and still need food stamps.

Nobody wants to hire anymore.

Its fossil fuel lobby propaganda.

the entire industry: "...and also fragment our offerings across a dozen different subscription services."

so circumcision is banned now, right?

Up to around level 50 or so, mobs are squishy enough that you don't need weapons perks at all. Eventually, some super mutants become bullet sponges, and you'll want some kind of damage boost, either weapon perks or just taking lots of combat drugs as needed.

I like to start new games with a focus on Science and Barter. With one point of Science, you can build Industrial Water Purifiers in your settlements. The excess water they produce can be sold to vendors.

Unique leg armor that increases your movement speed can be purchased in Goodneighbor and Vault 81. The Vault 81 vendor also sells the last gun you'll ever need. I like to trade water for those ASAP.

Next, there's a quest from The Railroad that gives a HUGE defensive boost.

The Nukaworld expansion introduced a new kind of knife, the Disciples Blade, and it is by far the best melee weapon in the game. A sneaky ninja melee build wielding a Disciples Blade can beat every encounter. The build doesn't really blossom until the late-late game, but once it does, you'll never need to use a gun again.

That's not a peer reviewed study - its somebody's editorialized book report.

An app would be allowed to stay in the US market after a divestiture if the president determines that the sale "would result in the relevant covered company no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary."

So apps can still be banned after divestiture, based on an arbitrary decision by one corrupt and potentially insane and/or senile person?

After all the talk of a "rules based order", I'm disappointed - this isn't a rule, its a leap of faith into the arms of serial liars.

yeah, for a while they were the only option if you wanted an EV with >80 mile range, but there are other options today

Tesla's no-dealerships, no-hassle purchasing experience is more like ordering something from Amazon instead of the usual, infuriating slog of trying to purchase a new car. Its strictly superior to the legacy car companies, and so are Tesla's batteries.

But the entire rest of the vehicle isn't the best anymore. The CEO's loud, public support for fascism is just one more nail in the coffin for a brand that was already past its prime.

step 1: it puts the lotion on its skin

There are different groups of people that respond to different sides of that message, and the people who broadcast either or both sides have differing motives as well. Countering it effectively requires understanding the problem.

The anti-welfare shtick comes from the political donor class - the capitalists, ie billionaires. Lack of a safety net gives them more leverage to negotiate lower wages within the businesses they own, and less government spending results in lower interest rates on the loans they use to grow their industries. The narrative is often framed as concerns over sharing limited resources, but the true motive is the elimination of the safety net - if enough of the working class can be convinced that the system isn't fair, that creates casus belli to delete the system.

The other side of the argument is about supply and demand of labor as a commodity. As supply goes up, the price goes down, resulting in lower wages. Its a fundamental weakness of unregulated markets operating in the context of uneven global development. Immigrants from the poorer parts of the world can accept below market rate salaries and still come out ahead, but they drive down wages of the local economy in the process. A "free" market gives the capitalists, ie billionaires, power akin to the divine right of kings - with enough capital, they can game the market to suppress competition, establish monopolies, and perpetually remain in positions of ultimate executive authority. Therefore, regulating the market to make it truly free isn't in their interest, so instead the propaganda organs they own - CNN, Fox 'News', etc... - blame the immigrants for pursuing rational self-interest as if it were a moral failing, instilling hatred in part of the working class toward other working class people to garner political support for representatives who pay lip service to anti-immigration policy. Such policy isn't actually passed - it would result in better wages and the capitalists don't want that - but the lip service wins elections in some states while also preventing the conversation from shifting to possible regulation to solve the problem of low wages.

"a lot of people are saying" = the voices in my head are telling me

The waiting is how you know its giving you correct answers.

Its not any random spoon or cup. We all have measuring devices of standardized volumes.

for example:
https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Measuring-10-Piece-Kitchen-Gadgets/dp/B091JXDLDX

i wonder if that has anything to do with GoG having been down for a couple days - did they run into problems during the data migration?

Wouldn't branding the Iranian military a "terrorist organization" be equivalent to saying the Iranian government is illegitimate and a terrorist organization? And how would that differ from simply declaring war on Iran or deciding to engage in war with Iran without a formal declaration?

Also, its probably safe to assume the producers will lie about how much they're allowing to leak into the air.