At least in your information silo they aren't.

If a shortage of corn becomes a problem in the future, the panels can be removed. In the meantime, if the extra electricity speeds the adoption of EVs, then we can *burn* less of our food in ICE cars. We're currently dedicating more than a third of all those cornfields just for that. There's no plausible scenario where a third of all the cornfields would be converted to solar arrays anyway.

That's only because the gold-plated chalice that LA Fitness's CEO is mailing to the White House is on backorder.

(Inventory is low. Lately there seems to have been a run on these items for some reason.)

Yep, you've got to sand down those pipes and slap on a fresh coat of spar urethane at least every three years.

Judging from all the ads I hear on the radio, someone has already invented an easy solution for this problem:

sed s/therapist/psychic/g marketing_material.txt

If you differentiate once again by time, you'll find a physical phenomenon called "acceleration".

Einstein taught us that it can be experienced completely independently of any fixed speed limit.

I said carbon neutral synthetic gasoline. That's the whole point of the OP's theory that ICE engines are hunky dory.

From an emissions standpoint, South Africa's coal-derived fuel is even worse than just using oil.

Right. People in this country threaten to riot if gas prices go above $4/gal.

Synthetic gas that is genuinely carbon neutral (not just greenwashing like ethanol) will never be less than $20/gal.

In theory, that would work if people were willing to pay more and get more efficient vehicles. In reality, in this country, no fucking way.

It was a neutrino. Those are often called "ghost particles" in popular sciencey articles.

While this is an energy record for neutrinos, the overall record cosmic ray (probably a proton) had over 1000X more energy.

Indeed, Linus should have followed the example of Bill Gates, who famously gained dominance in the desktop market by being such a very nice guy.

PHBs have a reputation for stupidity, often well deserved.

AI promises to do all the grunt work, so it has the potential to make everyone into little more than a PHB.

OK, give them all one of those travel bikes that folds up into a suitcase. That way nobody would have the advantage of a good fit.

What I would do: Have the race sponsors dole out randomly selected identical bikes to each competitor just before the race. They could even use crappy Huffy bikes as long as they're all the same.

That would kill two birds with one stone: Making sure that there's no cheating, and eliminating the ridiculous obsession the cycling world has with trying to create bikes that weigh only a few grams. As a bonus, the best *athlete* would probably win.

The bad news: Hackers have gained access to thousands of SharePoint servers.

The good news: It will be of no use to them, because just like the befuddled employees who are stuck using SharePoint, the hackers won't be able to find any relevant information in the byzantine hierarchy of pseudo folders packed with stale artifacts.

Everyone pile into the trades just in time for the next cyclic construction industry bust.