My spic father is dead, so I'm quite sure he's not fucking anyone, anally or otherwise.

Being raped by a sad old loser with a tiny mushroom dick who claims to be a financial genius while having underperformed the S&P ain't great, though. I guess it beats being raped by someone whose penis can be seen unaided, but his victims have made it clear that it is small comfort.

What I'm talking about are victimless crimes, like public sex or voluntary but unauthorized use of controlled substances. You're correct that engaging in these things isn't legal just because it's done at a festival, but that doesn't mean I want to pay for them to be prevented.

How adorbs, you seem to think we have democracy.

When did they? When was Burning Man a love or peace fest?

Festivals have become increasingly scarce as it gets more difficult to have one. A big portion of your ticket price goes to paying for your own police harassment, which is especially pertinent for Burning Man where many of the activities that long-time Burners speak of nostalgically can often now lead to arrest, and authorities won't let the festival occur without a significant police presence.

I know it's trendy to claim that events have become passe, but Burning Man seems like the poster child for that.

One of my friends who used to attend every year stopped for another reason, though; it got to feeling like fiddling while Rome burns, but it's the world burning instead. Being part of an event where people expend a ton of energy and therefore emit a ton of pollution to get into a place where nobody can reasonably live in order to set things on fire was just too ironic. She thinks that instead of one big Burning Man, it should be a series of Growing Women. Instead of burning trash in the desert and making the world worse, it should be bioremediation and making the world better.

Yeah, I know. Hard sell. But paying for police to suck the fun out of an already expensive event? Hard pass.

There are other things wrong with Windows 11, but most importantly for this conversation, the telemetry isn't added by updates so you can't remove it so trivially.

I have windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 in VMs and bring them up on a non-routed network. I then mostly ruin this by allowing them access to the web via a proxy, but I can turn that off if I wish. I scarcely ever use any of them, but that's OK, I have plenty of disk space.

If I were running Windows on the metal, it would be Windows 10 LTSC, and I would be using that script to remove the added telemetry "updates", which is what I was doing with Windows 7 and 8. But now I do not boot Windows on any machine. I'm done kicking that can.

He's more of a shitstain than a person, and he was also never poor, which explains how he could afford to spend all that time on Epstein's island where Epstein's procuress claims she never saw him raping the children he definitely raped there.

Were you going somewhere else with that, or...?

Indeed. It's also not faster. And since this is VTOL, it will be able to land in most of the places where a heli can land.

None of that necessarily means this particular craft is ideal for medevac duties, but the argument the GP presented is nonsense, as you successfully pointed out.

What most public transportation proponents are asking for is not an end to privately owned modes of transportation, but rather their dominance over all other forms of transportation. Furthermore, there is frankly no such thing as a completely privately owned mode of transport. You can own your car, but it is completely meaningless without the road network, and you don't own that. There are literally rough men with guns whose job it is to enforce the rules for using it.

I never had a hard time getting laid when I was poor and awkward. Ugly is up for debate, I suppose. My level of disability is relatively mild but not zero. But I have always treated other people like humans, and never assumed they owed me sex. I would suggest this to anyone self-describing as an incel.

There are plenty of incels out there who are clearly just assholes, without the charisma that gets some assholes laid. They should try not idolizing assholes, and treating people like people. It might or might not lead to them having sex, but it definitely can help.

AGW discussions always bring out the most boring trolls.

Nobody is racist for claiming that Chinese batteries, BMSes, or battery packs can be the culprits, unless they assert that the cause is genetic inferiority.

I was asking about the differences. Therefore everything you said in response to my comments in this subthread was irrelevant, which is kind of obvious.

Every sentence in my comment was relevant to the point I was making, which escaped you.

That is irrelevant to the point I was making, which is that some Spanish speakers are speaking much more rapidly than other Spanish speakers. You responded with an irrelevant comparison of Spanish to English.

The sentence you ignored was "Spanish speakers also don't all speak at the same rates." How can you possibly believe that to be irrelevant when the subject at hand is the speed at which information is conveyed? That's like thinking different network speeds are irrelevant to the time it takes to transfer a file.

Fuck all the way off. Then, once you have fucked all the way off, come back so I can tell you to fuck off again.

That's an interesting question. Most batteries in small devices are pouch cells, and when the pouch bursts they're no longer contained and air can reach their contents. On the other hand, air inside a plane is usually so dry that it can cause some people nosebleeds, so I don't know how big a factor that might be. Especially since I've done some [casual] experiments with swollen pouch cells and they seem to react to atmospheric moisture very slowly. A punctured pouch cell will continue to swell up for a very long period, I've got a small one outside that has been displaying additional swelling for months and months now.

Your reply shows you ignored the first sentence of my comment. No sentence in that comment was irrelevant to my point. If you like, you can take another stab at it.