Bananas only are commercially viable to grow in tropical climates, which excludes most of the developed world, including the entirety of Europe, North America, much of Asia, and Australia.

They also have one of the most well-developed and efficient supply chains of any fresh food product, which is why they are one of the cheapest fruits available for purchase by weight even in temperate zones. Bananas shipped to the U.S., primarily from central and South America, typically spend only a couple of weeks in logistics. In fact, they arrive so quickly that nearly half that time is spent sitting in a ripening facility.

They also must be shipped unripe given the delicate ess of the ripened fruit. Fully ripe bananas essentially can't be shipped at all.

After the monitor adware debacle (which I experienced), I am disinclined to trust them on this.

I own 2 LG monitors and 2 LG Smart TVs, but next time, I'll be looking elsewhere.

I always chuckle at the irony that the far right is so obsessed with the Spartans. These "tough guys" engaged in more homosexuality/pederasty than any other Greek state and normalized it to the point that there are accounts of Spartan men having their wives dress up as teenage boys just so they could get it up for "marital relations."

Uh, that's not how Americans use the C bomb at all, i.e. as an extremely derogatory term for women. Much more like a British or Australian usage.

Flock ALPRs are not speed cameras.

No, the simplest fix is to not patronize AliExpress.

The idiots canceling their contracts over this don't realize that they are making the case for its necessity better than Anthropic ever could.

Flock cameras are contracted almost exclusively by local municipalities, not the federal government.

While I suppose that Congress could pass a bill banning federal agencies for paying for access to their data, if you want to keep the cameras out of your neighborhood, the place to do it is at your local council meeting.

Which would be at all germane if Flock cameras were traffic enforcement/speed cameras.

They are not.

"The graphics suck, and I can't eat Cheetohs at my desk. I'm going back to work at Best Buy."

This is literally the first time I have ever seen a /. article on climate change when no AGW skeptics have comments modded +1 or higher. Guess the writing is finally on the wall even for the dead-enders.

U.S. Secretary of DEFENSE Pete Hegseth doesn't believe in germs because he "can't see them" and claimed he hadn't washed his hands in 10 years. NO JOKE. Best and brightest, indeed.

Despite your moral panic, the fact is that violent crime rates in the U.S. are currently at the lowest rate they have been in 50 years.

Hahahahaha. Couldn't have happened to a nicer group of assholess than Bimmer drivers.

Thhe strategy you suggest is pretty much exactly what the Trump administration has been doing to the world for a year and a half.