Copper is actually about to become MORE expensive than fiber for a second time - pay attention to the metals market. Copper had a bad dip but it's recovering and will soon once again climb back up into double digits per pound price, at which point fiber is the penny pinching alternative.

You do know what direct line of sight is, yes?

Go look at some airplane designs from profile view and note the engines hang well below the fuselage, thus meaning one can blow and throw shrapnel straight at the opposite engine.

In fact, the FAA has reports of exactly this happening.

"Far right" as opposed to "Center right" seems accurate.

More so than the "radical leftist democrats" who seem to be the only sort that exist in the US political discussion, for example. Or the repeated labeling of our President's adversaries as "Communist Marxist Fascists", for another example. Gotta love oxymorons.

Bolsonaro is a guy convicted of trying a coup to overthrow a legit election. That tends to push opinions "far" in whichever direction. In TFA's case, this wasn't a case of pushing for different environmental laws, which is what normal politicians on the right might do. This was a case of actively encouraging people to ignore existing laws to illegally clear protected forests to establish illegal mining and ranching operations on public land, or land owned by native communities. I think saving adjectives like "far" and "radical" for actual law breakers seems a fair use of said adjectives.

A suggested edit: electric pickups don't work well for people who want to haul trailers long distances. That's not everyone with "real work" to do. For example, contractors. They need trucks to quite literally do real work... around town. They're parked at the shop charging up over night. The Lightning hits a sweet spot here, as they're the same as the ICE version in terms of widgets but with more storage and a built-in "generator" to recharge all those Dewalts. But, most truck owners are not doing such "real work" with their F-150's, so the contractor market along won't keep the product line in business.

Or are contractors the "urban cowboys" of which you speak?

That'll teach her not to ask the AI where she can get some New York Strips for dinner.

Regardless of who's to blame for this instance of taking ourselves hostage, a fundamental problem is that the president and congresspeople and staffers all continue to get paid during a shutdown, even if everyone else does not. Fix that exemption, and they'd have a strong personal incentive to do their job and make government work.

except for the independantly wealthy among them.

wait, nevermind, doesn't actually matter after all...

I suspect that one can't compare the Google results to past seasons because it was trained on those past seasons. So, this is the first abailable year for a validation dataset. They do mention that this year the traditional models performed particularly poorly, but didn't know why.

No, because whatever side is cool, the other side is hot.

This means one chip layer gets cooled while the other on the opposing side of the cooler is getting cooked.

"Agrivoltaics" is the buzzword you could search on to see what's meant here. Turns out, for example, that many crops that like shade grow better in between rows of panels than they would on their own. Plan the rows of panels appropriately (with enough room between them, but not too much) and it's a win-win for the voltage and the vegetables.

I think people should show him how insecure his locks truly are by using his felon head to open one.

1.) I just want to see a reference for this. You do understand that it's possible for a Left leaning person to have African ancestry, right?

2.) I've never heard someone with African ancestry living in America ask the public to refer to them with the term mention in the GP. Maybe the reference to #1 will clear this up?

3.) Even the SPLC puts the number of KKK between 3000 and 4000 individuals, in a nation of 330 million plus people. During the 1930's, one in ten Americans was a member of the KKK; today it's less than 1 in 100,000. Put another way, the concentration of white supremacists in the United States has gone from 100,000 ppm to just 10 ppm in less than a hundred years.

The reason Left leaning people never celebrate the gains made by minorities is because the underlying principle of Leftist politics is to condemn the innocent majority for factors and circumstances beyond their control. It doesn't matter how little racism actually exists, as long as there exists a shocking incident in the past, the Leftist can find reason to condemn people today, who had no actual connection to the incident or policy in question. Witness, for example, how Barak Obama characterized as racist the nation that just elected its first minority President. As a nation, the pendulum has swung so far back in the other direction that Leftists now justify DEI policies, as if more racism would somehow bring about a fairer, more just society for all. It didn't work in the past, doesn't work now, and it won't work in the future, and if the Left is realizing anything, their recent loss to an absolute imbecile must certainly have shown them that America would much rather have an asshole as President than a Left-leaning racist. You may have been able to say that you were on the right side of history 60 years ago, but you can't say that today. America has realized that racism doesn't work for us, we don't want any part of it, we've moved on, and the sooner you recognize that, the better.

After all, even the Democrats are now ashamed of their past association with the KKK, and you should be too.

Depends on the x-ray energy band and required power to achieve what is needed, but I suspect a copper or lead mask would suffice. If I knew their target energy level I could give a better idea of what would work for a mask.

And DHMO preloading for those long rides. Really makes a difference.

First off, African American is an offensive term coined by Left leaning folks to imply that people who were born here, but have more melanin than most, aren't truly American, or perhaps belong somewhere else. I know a person who was born a Negro, raised as a colored person, worked as a Black person, and retired as an African American, all without anyone ever asking who he was. He was never asked if he wanted a racial identity, but was assigned one by the Blacker-than-thou folks who insisted on seeing everyone in the world through the lens of race.

But if we can move on from that, I hear in your telling of America that you believe America is a cesspool of the worst kind of people imaginable. While I agree that there are bad people in the world, I disagree with the proportions. Americans, for the most part, try to be good people, and find that getting their government to actually serve the people is quite a challenge, especially when the political ruling class wants it otherwise. To characterize all Americans according to the worst examples is to commit the logical fallacy of mistaking the part for the whole.

This does not mean that we don't have cultural problems, but that those problems have been exacerbated by the DEI folks ignoring the problems of integrating different cultures into the whole. Simply put, DEI inevitably creates unnecessary conflict. If everyone can get past the idea of seeing everyone through a racial lens, (and therefore assigning them a racial identity), we can, together, solve the greater problems facing America. Otherwise, the political ruling class exploits the division DEI creates, to the detriment of everyone else.

So if you really want us to become one America, one culture, all getting along, you need to drop the DEI. The average person has the interpersonal skills to resolve personal conflicts and treat others fairly, even without respect to race. Just because you struggle with discrimination doesn't mean everyone else does, and it's time for the DEI folks to realize their worldview is making everything worse for everyone else. We don't need racial identities, and seeing everyone through the lens of race has never served us well. Wherever you find people seeing others through the lens of race, ulterior motives are always present. It is time to instead see people not as black or white, but as children of God. Otherwise, the offenses against human dignity will continue, regardless of the degree to which DEI is embraced.

Yes, conservapedia exist(ed). It might still - but at least they were honest in how they were biased.

The reason these sites should exist is because, generally speaking, the opponents of a political ideology tend to be the worst sources concerning what the ideology actually believes, versus what its detractors say it believes. If the enemies of the state are not allowed to speak, how will the public at large differentiate tyranny from the rule of law?