FYI $39K in 2014 would be about $54K today, adjusted for inflation.

I think the lesson here is that the House wins and everybody else loses when there's gambling involved.

I do eat a Poptart every morning. I have for 40 years. But I don't eat the frosty ones with all the UFP spread all over them.

Crap like this is why the morons want to discredit science. Sometimes I almost want to join them. Because they say shit like this. UFP's aren't the best way to get nutrition but, as bad a cigarettes? No way. I've consumed a lot of both over the years. My health got a lot better after after I quit smoking. I didn't notice a big change when I quit drinking Coke. I should know, I work at one of those research institutions mentioned above.

I've been doing research for close to 50 years. I've never seen a situation where, if you wipe out 2 years work, it takes anything close to 2 years to recapitulate it. Actually, I don't even understand how this could happen to a plant scientist. Was all the data in one document? Did ChatGPT kill his plants? Are there no notebooks where the data is recorded? This kind of thing doesn't happen to a good scientist. Oh, I see. It's 2 years of work, not 2 years of research. This is just another sad "lack of backup" story. The modern day "my dog ate it".

One more example of the Enshitification of America, brought to you by those morons that thought that voting for DJT would be a good idea.

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The article states "Even so, AA call-out data indicates EVs are more likely to be successfully repaired at the roadside than a 12-volt battery in a petrol or diesel car."

What the hell does that even mean?

Why try to even wade through gibberish like this?

Probably doesn't help that a lot of pizza these days taste like cardboard as the industry tries to squeeze profits out of the fading attraction.

The good news is that all this is done with electrons and magnetic fields. If we still used paper, like in the old days, there wouldn't be a tree left in site.

As an ex-smoker, I'd say this is a bad idea. A really bad idea.

This whole thing, with cold weather altering military aspirations, has been vetted before. Read the lead story in "Napoleans Buttons". Or just Google it.

Retreating from electric cars will ultimately be suicide for US car makers. Electric cars are better in almost every way. In ten years, most people will come to understand this. Unfortunately, this understanding will come from people dying and not people changing their minds.

Seems like, with all that technology, they could turn off all that beeping and flashing while they're in the charging station area. This is not a real problem with no solution. There is a solution but no will power to implement it. I don't believe the charging equipment makes that much noise.

Oh yeah, the math thing. That's almost entirely because all the curricula is being decided by people who don't do math. My wife, who is probably in the top 1% of math talents, tutors on occasion. She spends more time trying to figure out what they're trying to teach, than actually working the math. Usually, after some work, she figures it out and explains the old timey way. The response is almost always "Oh, is that what they're trying to say?".

Most math education is being concocted by education majors experimenting on our children.