I was always under the impression that manhole covers were round for this very reason. Maybe I am missing something.

This... Both of my older Fords came with their proprietary Sync crap. It's a nightmare trying to navigate on a system that uses predictive text for street names that are newer than the last update ($$$). At least Ford saw the light and now let you use your phone with newer models.

It does seem odd... While I think there should be exceptions for satire, I support the idea of not allowing deep fakes for political ads. Lets hear the candidates in their own images and voices.

From the NOAA technical report Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States.

Relative sea level along the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) coastline is expected to rise on average
as much over the next 30 years (0.25–0.30 m over 2020–2050) as it has over the last 100 years
(1920–2020).

You will have to forgive me for not getting worked up over 10 cm in 30 years. Yes, bad storms sometimes happen. Even if the storm you mention was the largest recorded, it still fits nicely into a chart that shows no significant change in storm activity since we started recording such information.

Only if you completely ignore the fact the the very first CRT video game created for entertainment was on an old tube style oscilloscope. In 1958 the game of Tennis for Two was created. Not exactly pong, but definitely in the same genre. However, I will give you Spacewar if you are only looking at commercially available video games.

Personally, I have to say Pinball was probably more influential as "programmable" entertainment. They predate modern video games by a couple of hundred years.

Meanwhile, according to NOAA, the average sea level rise for the last 100 years, has only been 2mm per year without a change in rate. Not exactly alarming data.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.climate.gov%2Fnews-f...

High schools didn't start having computer rooms until sometime in the later half of the 1980s.

Now get off my lawn...

So then why is Three Mile Island being started back up?

Hint: There is profit to be made.

What you describe isn't Capitalism... It's Cronyism. Subtle difference.

So, do I listen to the scientist who are trying to keep their work on gain of function a secret? The ones whose jobs are on the line. Or should I listen to the scientist, like the former head of the CDC, who stated that the most likely cause was a lab leak. You know, the one who was in charge of the CDC back when gain of function was still legal, and isn't worried about his job anymore.

Personally I don't really care whether it was lab leak or wet market. What I am most concerned about was the absolute panic that shut down the economy around the world. If the governments had come out and said: These are the symptoms, these are the people who are most affected, these are our suggestions for remaining healthy. Then ask everyone to to do their best not to spread the virus. That would have been fine. Instead they forced businesses to close down ruining livelihoods. Caused an entire generation of school children to effectively loose a full grade level. And added Trillions to the national debt, all in the name of helping people whose lives they chose to ruin.

Or the Grey Goo...

The part of this that really scares me, is how did all of the fortune 500 companies get away from test environments before implementation of operational systems? It's like everybody shifted away all at the same time.

The systems training we used to get has now been replaced with the new DEI required training.

Can we stop calling it a drought. The normal state of climate in California is long periods of dryness intermingled with bits of rain every few years.

Many of our freedoms where stomped on during the COVID crisis. Avoiding that in the future is the goal of those wanting to push the narrative of the lab leak.

Sadly, people like Fauchi did actively try and stop any theory that wasn't the wet market. That isn't scientific. Allowing opposing theories to exist and letting the evidence go where it goes, should have been Fauchi's path. To many people, it really did look like he was hiding something. Worse, very bad policies were enacted due to his guidance.

I doubt we will ever have concrete proof of the origin, but we really do need to learn from the mistakes made during that time.