Economical extortion is a US thing.
Says the guy whose continent's main source of revenue is thinking up flytraps of entwined regulation that traps foreign companies into paying huge fines. Compared to that, Trump's tariffs look sdownright traightforward.
That is only a problem for the three countries that still predominantly use the antiquated imperial system of measurement: United States, Liberia, and Myanmar.
The metric system was Jimmy Carter's one good idea. Conversion was supposed to be by industry. The beverage, pharma and automobile industries switched to metric, but the initiative was never followed through nationwide as intended. The result was that all Americans know what a liter or a milligram looks like, but there is no such intuitive feel for kilometers and kilograms.
Whoosh! I'm old enough to remember when liberals had this thing called "humor."
The first thief to swipe an antimatter shipment is in for a REAL surprise. So is whatever city he happens to. Be in.
And stop this crypto scam going. Every cryptography researcher has got cryptocurrency in their crosshairs, its only a matter of time before the whole thing blows up.
No need to even wait for a hack of the scheme. So many different crypto coins are available for those who think they missed the boat on Bitcoin that the crypto market will die of the very hyperinflation that Bitcoin was intended to cure.
We're pretty much spitting in Darwin's face here. This baby was unfit to live, so now we are both doing genetic experiments on people who can't consent AND we're polluting the population with demonstrably unfit people. Wonderful.
We started playing God, or spitting in Darwin's face as you choose, the first time we took out a diseased appendix before it burst. Feel free to die horribly the natural way while the rest of us get treated for our diseases.
So tech bros invented trains and bus lines again? Good jorb.
But without the umpty-kajillion minor stops that make public bus commuting so miserable.
Very soon now, student bots are going to start protesting for increased spending on campus IT. Watch for harassing human students by displaying "Meatsacks!" And "Primate resource eaters!" on campus screens...
One more platform to abandon.
What will 'enshittification' be in Spanish?
Users must prepare for a new era of ten thousand day natural streaks.
That may make clear what is happening and who actually pays the tariffs to some of the dumber parts of the population.
Because a tariff is basically a sales tax at the national level, it should be displayed on sales receipts in the same way.
Airlines are going to have a procedure to deal with a lithium fire in-flight. If a device is potentially damaged and inaccessible, those procedures might not apply. When you're 10km in the air, bet safe than sorry.
Standard airline procedure is to carry special insulated bags on flights. If some passenger's device overheats, usually a power bank, it is dumped into the bag and sealed off. The problem on this flight is that the device was inaccessible when stuck inside the seat.
Legally, animals are property, and therefore can't be sued.
The government, state and federal, gets special permission to file suits against inanimate objects when it wants to exercise its special theft privilege, called "civil forfeiture." If the DHS decides to grab your only at the airport, for example, it legally takes the form of a suit with a title like "United States v. Two thousand Dollars."
It just feels...totally normal. It's exactly as though there's a driver, but there isn't. Waymo does't operate in my rural area yet, but I had the opportunity when I attended a conference in Tempe, AZ.
Now I just have to hope this proliferates everywhere by the time I can no longer see well enough to drive.
And when I come over that hill where I look down on Palm Springs, all I'll see will be a lake of magma?
Now that I know there's a geological explanation, I won't't have to wonder whether it was caused by something Hollywood did.
Reactor error - core dumped!
