It's still open; police have only arrested two of the three suspects:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2Famp%2FUS%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2F20...

Note that the second story makes it clear that this flight was because of gang affiliations, not because of xenophobia. See also https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2024%2F12%2F10%2F... .

The fact that there is no fracking under Fort Worth or Tulsa or any other settlement of comparable size.

They can be, but TFS makes a strong suggestion that they are also, metaphorically, tulip bulbs.

As I said, it's easy to pay some damage in rural areas, where there are only a few buildings, and they are mostly timber frame and can be repaired with some filler and a new coat of paint.

It's quite different if it's below an area with 1.3 million inhabitants, some very large chemical plants and most of the buildings are made from concrete and stone and not designed to withstand earth quakes.

My take is: The U.S. president will go on a site, hold a speech, and then we hear nothing for five years, then there are cost overruns on the site, and finally, the plant will never go online, but instead, a giga battery will be installed at the site.

Nuclear is simply expensive, and I don't think its price will go down. And don't you come with "France! France! France!" chants: France's nuclear power plants never turned a profit. France's customers pay for the electricity with their taxes.

The U.S. is far less dense populated in the places where they are fracking than both Switzerland as a country and even more in the region around Basel. Taking out a policy to cover earth quake damage claims will be much cheaper for the fracking regions in the U.S. than in Basel.

I am using both at work, and frankly, chat is better with Slack, and so is 1:1 conferencing. Teams I am only using because the company organizes the phone conferences in Teams.

The problems are manifold. Basel, Switzerland has had a geothermal project. They had to shut it down because it caused too many earth quakes. Basically, the insurance for all the damage was far larger than the revenue from the energy they provided.

Meta is just contracting everything that can in theory provide electricity. They would contract an ICE prison full of alleged illegal aliens on home trainers, if such thing exists.

It does not mean that all of this has a chance to be a success.

No. I'm visiting Australia right now, and AEST is only 7 AM right now. When this story was posted, it wasn't 2 PM Friday anywhere in the world.

I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

I wonder how they solved the problem with Letter vs. A4 format.

CPB and the government have been collected data directly from the airlines ever since the aftermath of 9/11 through a number of programs, for example to check passengers against watch lists and to verify the identity of travelers on international flights.

What has changed is that by buying data from a commerical broker instead of a a congressionally instituted program, it bypasses judicial review and limits set by Congress on data collected through those programs -- for example it can track passengers on domestic flights even if they're not on a watch list.

Fascism isn't an ideology; it's more like a disease of ideology. The main characteristic of fascist leaders is that they're unprincipled; they use ideology to control others, they're not bound by it themselves. It's not just that some fascists are left-wing and others are right-wing. Any given fascist leader is left-wing when it suits his purposes and right-wing when that works better for him. The Nazis were socialists until they got their hands on power and into bed with industry leaders, but it wasn't a turn to the right. The wealthy industrialists thought they were using Hitler, but it was the other way around. The same with Mussolini. He was socialist when he was a nobody but turned away from that when he lost his job at a socialist newspaper for advocating militarism and nationalism.

In any case, you should read Umberto Eco's essay on "Ur-Fascism", which tackles the extreme difficulties in characterizing fascism as an ideology (which as I stated I don't think it is). He actually lived under Mussolini.

What I expect from a drug approvement process is effectiveness at first: to really know about the risk profile, the potential benefits and the drawbacks of a given drug in certain medical circumstances. Efficiency is very far on the backburner here.