Seems like a perfect 'Big Brother' tool to find everyone that don't conform to the rules of the ruling party.
Stasi would have loved this tool.

Now, yes, there are predictions that you could get a supermassive black hole launched into space, especially during a galaxy merger if the velocity of the smaller black hole exceeds the escape velocity of the combined galaxy.

But I'd be wary of assuming that it's a launched black hole, unless we can find the merger it comes from. There may be ways for such a black hole to form that cause the stars to be launched away rather than the black hole being flung, and if a galaxy isn't rotating fast enough to be stable, one could imagine that a sufficiently small galaxy was simply consumed by its central black hole. Both of these would seem to produce exactly the same outcome, if all we have is the black hole itself and a velocity.

I'm not going to say either of these is likely in this case, or that astronomers haven't examine them (they almost certainly have), but rather that we should be cautious until we've a clearer idea of what the astronomers have actually been able to determine or rule out.

It's not that much of a change, though. The USA has only ever paid lip-service to its "allies" and always seen Europe as competitors. It's not a shift from "friend" to "enemy", just from "competitor" to "enemy".

for local trips I don't go to high speed charging stations. honestly if we focused more on level 2 chargers being ubiquitous that would be far more effective for folks who can't charge at home. If every restaurant, bar, grocery store, movie theater, had level 2 chargers you would be able to easily keep your car topped up and at a much lower cost than the high speed chargers.

When I use high speed chargers it is for road trips and saving time would be nice, but my car does 20-80 in 18 minutes on a good charger. With the upcoming generation of cars that will be the standard and some coming out are going to be even faster. I rarely have to stop for long enough to go to the bathroom and grab a snack and if the folks who can't charge at home had more ubiquitous access to L2 charging they wouldn't be relying on these high speed chargers either.

All of this is to say that the batter swap, which would still take time, just doesn't have the consumer advantage. Add to that the overhead of the infrastructure and the need to get multiple companies standardized and it's just not going to be a thing. It might have had legs if charging had stayed as slow as it was on the old EVs but that is just not the case

Someone get Greg Benford on the phone.

I assure you, it wasn't my choice. My boss has been drinking the Microsoft kool-aid and we all have to suffer as a result.

If you take responsibility for your own data using your own servers you won't end up with your balls in the cloud provider vise.

If you are in Europe and the cloud provider is in the US then the cloud provider is under US law so if the US government decides "no business with Europe" then the US residing cloud provider has no choice but to shut down all servers overnight.

I'm sure that serving you a lot of ads is the point of the excessive length of internet recipes, but there's another reason, too. A simple list of ingredients, or a list of instructions (like how to build Ikea furniture) cannot be copyrighted. I think many of these overly verbose recipe authors really do want to make it appear that their own takes on the recipes are distinct and innovative, and that helps them secure their own content from being scraped wholesale. But of course, AI just says, "fuck it, I can summarize," and it's pretty hard to prove it was your recipe it summarized..

...because you fired all of the elves after we told you that AI could do the work more efficiently.

(I was in a Microsoft presentation earlier today in which they were demonstrating how to use AI for "vibe programming". They spent an hour trying to get a Rails-based "Hello World" app running. At the end of the hour, it still wasn't working. Even in their pre-arranged demonstrations to customers, they can't get this crap working.)

No, the executive tells the civil service what it needs to do, but the civil service is wholly independent.

If the cameras need a cloud service to work then you are doing it wrong. Way too many devices uses cloud services these days.

Also turn off UPnP in your router since that can open up backdoors to no end.

I agree, as long as it's labeled or satire and clearly not trying to be "real" then I don't have any problems with it and it could be pretty amusing.