What about the cited sources? What makes them unreliable?

Saying "that's a design issue with the seat" isn't going to help you when you're 36000 ft in the air, and have a damaged battery that could easily burst into flames, and not be exinguishable.

Saying "it's alarmist" doesn't change the fact that you can't put out a lithium battery fire with the battery jammed in a seat, or the fact that a fire inside a metal tube that no one can leave is a really really bad scenario.

The idea that you would not immediately land a plane with a damaged battery jammed in an inaccessible place is ludicrous.

Agreed that 4000 is a bonkers number and definitely a "you" problem and not an issue with the browser.

However I do tend to find myself with ~50 tabs open (thank god for vertical tabs) because I find it much easier to use open tabs instead of bookmarks as a reminder or to-do list since the tabs are a constant visible reminder. This is especially true for work where I have multiple projects/topics in-flight. Most of them are unloaded so they don't really use any resources.

I wish there was something between bookmarks and tabs to fill this use case. I've tried some addons like Reading List to handle it, but it didn't really work for me. A tab group might work since it's also easily seen (acting as a reminder) and accessible (easily acted on).

I admit this probably says more about my organization and discipline, but I've used tabs this way for over a decade.

My god, what is it like to go through life this stupid? Are you aware of it, or blissfully ignorant? Do you sometimes get a glimpse and wonder what's wrong, like a parrot occasionally seeing themselves in a mirror and being unsure if it's another bird or not?

I imagine being the putty in the soft, warm, sweaty hands of conservative pundits must be comforting though. Any time you start to become unsure of what to think, you can rely on being told exactly what to believe, even if it's directly contradictory to what you were told the night before.

Ignorance truly is strength.

What is it with that? I thought I was just unlucky when the two different physical therapy offices around here I've been to were both showing Fox news constantly on ceiling-mounted TVs. I've never had to bite my tongue harder than when the staff or therapist starts talking about culture war bullshit or asking me "So are you doing okay in this terrible Biden economy?"

Also, jesus, Fox News daytime ads are really something else. It (almost) makes me pity the poor fucks stuck home watching that shit every day.

You can't put a battery that is jammed in a seat on an aluminium pie plate.

Wow, this is an interesting weird belief that seems to permiate this thread. Go and poke a hole in a lithium battery with a nail, and see what hapens. Hint - if you expose lithium metal to water in the air, BAD things happen very very quickly.

It's not just the potential, it's the problem of containing the fire if it does happen.

First, an iPad with a visibly damaged battery is much more likely to catch fire than one that's plugged in (and this alone would be enough to divert the aeroplane, since generally the rules on such things require a plane to be landed as soon as possible for any damaged lithium cell).

Second, it's jammed in a seat. The only way to stop a lithium fire from burning the whole plane is to put it in a bucket of sand. If you can't do that, you basically gaurentee that the fire is going to spread. Once a fire starts on a plane, it takes only a few minutes before the atmosphere inside it is unbreathable, and before the pilots are unable to see the controls, let alone out the windows. From there it only takes a little while longer before control systems fail, and you have a major disaster. Fire on a plane is about the worst case scenario.

I mean, first of all, âoethe big oneâ isnâ(TM)t expected in California, itâ(TM)s expected in Washington/Oregon, when the cascadia subduction zone next slips.

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I can tell you this:

Apple TV has a popular show. It makes about four million on views versus ten million on production. Per episode.

For their best.

Thereâ(TM)s no money to promote it.

I've used Firefox Beta exclusively on my Android phone for several years and just don't see this. Yes, there's the rare occasion that a site doesn't work correctly because, as you say, it was created with only Chrome in mind, but that's hardly Firefox's fault.

There's room for improvement and change seems to come slower to Firefox on mobile, but I think it does a very good job. And the fact that you can use addons with it, including ad-blockers, is a huge boon.

You're being snarky (I think) but that's actually worryingly accurate.

Before WW2, there was a general understanding that war was a good way to deal with excess or unwanted population - especially from the lower economic class - as well as the mounting social malaise caused by inequality, poverty, and internal sectarianism. After total war and atomic bombs scared us straight, the last 80 years or so of unprecedented peacetime are something of an experiment to see if we can come up with alternative ways of dealing with these problems.

Finding something meaningful for people to do with their lives (especially younger men) is a genuine challenge. College used to be an easy early option for large numbers of them, while (I think) also smoothing some of the edges off and preparing both men and women for adulthood, but that option has become less alluring due to the increasingly obscene money required and distrust in higher education as a reliable means to a reliable future. Something else will need to take its place.

Personally I think it's tragic that the US didn't see this coming almost 20 years ago after the 2008 meltdown and start programs for creating new non-profit community vocational schools across the country. The rewards of government investments in such publicly-supported schools would vastly outstrip the costs -- the country will *always* need mechanics, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, etc, and these should be reliable, financially stable jobs -- supporting new adults as well as being a potential social safety net for older people who find themselves out of work and without other options.

If people are living a significant distance from any office, the requirement to move to keep your job could indeed be terrible.

When people vote for and elect an incompetent narcissist with delusions of despotic authoritarianism, they don't get to be surprised by anything on your list. You might argue that you didn't expect those things, but if you put a stupid person who intentionally surrounds themselves with other stupid people into power, any expectations you had are invalidated. Unless you expected "stupid things", in which case I guess you got exactly what you were looking for.

Jeez .. all of these self-centered entitled brats thinking the world revolves around them. No one has to change for you. Life isn't fair, get over expecting it to be. 90% of you will probably use a free AI to write it anyway.

Or, accept the reality that you don't have to go to college, and you don't have to go to a particular one just because your guidance councilor/parents/friends think you should. Grow a pair and chart your own course through life. College is only required for a few fields, and even those have workarounds. No one says you have to go full time and as soon as you graduate either. Or get a degree, going part time and taking specific classes can be far cheaper and may not even require the standard application. And you might find an employer to pay for it via a tuition reimbursement program. Aren't you the generation that wants to change things??

However, I will acknowledge that the traditional essay is an idiotic requirement. The only thing the essay should ask is 'Discuss what you expect to be the cost of college and how are you going to pay for it'. If someone can't do that simple task, they probably aren't smart enough to go to college in the first place.