Apologies, Imma "Well actually" you here. Most people these days when they think "Tesla Roadster" think of the promised vehicle that will come "some day" that some people put $500K deposits on. But Tesla's first car -- before the Model S, before the model 3, before the model Y -- was a "Roadster" that was made between 2008 and 2012 or thereabouts. They made a few thousand of them (IIRC they mostly just took Lotus Elans and changed all the guts to be electric, but I could be wrong about that).

They're dealing with a catastrophic shortage of rainfall, which is required for operating the canal. So it's a more precious resource than it was before and from a supply-and-demand perspective, it makes sense to basically increase fees.

OK, boomer

It's been skeptical of such efforts in a Democratic regime. I would love for them to maintain ideological consistency when these agencies are in a Republican regime, but I am somewhat dubious they will be consistent. Time will tell.

I think this idea is stupid, obviously, but gosh, your assertion that setting up a printer that works, getting the files, etc is complicated feels like it's a few years out of date. It used to be the case that owning and running a 3d printer was akin to owning and running a car back in the early 1900s -- you had to have a deep and intimate understanding of the printer and a mechanic's level ability to debug and calibrate it; if that's your jam, you can still do that (for example, the Voron project will happily give you the plans to make your own printer, largely from scratch), but it's no longer required -- with printers like what's coming out of Bambu Lab these days, we're pretty close (not quite there, but pretty close) to how easy it is to print with a laser printer. It's made the whole process extremely consumer-friendly. (As someone who's been in tech for a while, it's tempting to analogize this to how when I wanted to register a domain in 1991, my peers told me basically that figuring out how to register a domain was an effective test for whether or not you should have one, and then more consumer registrars came around and now anyone who wants a domain can easily register one without, say, having to figure out how to run their own DNS servers).

Too bad that, if that's the case, the WineHQ folks can't just say no to that donation but instead are forced to accept it. It's a damn shame that we live in a country where people can just force you to take over their software projects against your will. (Is my sarcasm too subtle here?)

Not in any way this same feature. MS was taking automatic screenshots. This is "when you take a screenshot, we'll make it easy to search for stuff in it."

Not arguing, just confused -- I feel like most movie theaters i've been to, for example, only carry Pepsi or Coke but not both. In fact, that's true, I think, for most fast food joints too, right? Like, McDonalds for example only has Coke products, not Pepsi products. Is the issue here whether or not they're paid to make that decision?

This is exactly right. Since we increased security measures in the aftermath of 9/11, 23 years ago, look at the NUMEROUS attacks on security lines in airports. It's been an absolutely terrible situation, with most people I know being really afraid to stand in those lines because of just how deadly the attacks have been on them. I mean, look at the number of casualties we've had from such attacks in the last 23 years, it's literally ... Wait a second ... No, that can't be right.... Uh, Wait, this apparently has not really been a problem? Weird!

I mean. He's said that. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fpoliti...

You mean before 2020? When he wasn't President? And before a special prosecutor was appointed to look into Biden? And before Biden was convicted of crimes? And before basically Biden and all the other Democrats went "yup, he was convicted, that's the way the legal system works"? Sure. Whatever, man. Continue living in your orangeman fantasies.

Experiments can be successful for reasons other than "this is a way to save money."

I don't know about random strangers, but we ended up being incredibly frustrated by this feature at home, when basically it started feeling impossible to make sure that the Apple Airpod Max headphones my spouse got would connect to my spouse's iPad, instead of either of the kids' iPads when they were nearby. One of the reasons that headset is no longer in meaningful rotation is because it was hard to make it stick to connecting to one specific device. So now we're not using Apple headphones. I really don't want this feature for other headphones, unless this problem is solved.

Also, a little bit hard for the US to be all high and mighty about Russia not having signed the treaty. The US is also a non-signatory to that treaty :)

Worth noting that technically it's "fastest ground speed by a battery-powered remote-controlled quadcopter." There are a whole lot of military drones faster than 298 MPH (see https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fowlcation.com%2Fsocial-s... ) but I don't believe any of the known ones are quadcopters. (Nor, to keep this accomplishment in mind, were any of these built by a father and son team almost literally in their garage for almost literally no money)