An example (ok, anecdote). We had a county council issue (the majority gerrymandered the county districts so two council members they didn't like would have to run against each other). That made it into the local newspaper, and the result of that and other factors was that the gerrymandering majority is no longer a majority. But now that newspaper is gone.

Now we have an issue in the city, where a developer wants to turn nearly the last remaining greenspace into expensive high density housing, violating all kinds of things including the city's ostensible long-term, plan. It got into the remaining newspaper, which comes out once a month. So far it hasn't attracted much interest, and with a month between issues things can get out of hand before people realize it.

Social media is of course a way to attract attention, but my sense is that it's too fragmented and sparse to help. Whereas every household got a copy of the old (ad supported) newspaper.

"...they can be told to go do one and all they can say is 'yes sir'". Slightly different in the Navy: "Yes sir" is one of the three answers to a *question* (the other two being "No sir" and "I do not know sir, but I will find out sir"). The answer to an order is "Aye-aye sir!"

But yes to your point.

I have had an iPhone 11 Pro, and now own an iPhone 12 Pro. Both overheated during the summer. Now that the weather (and more importantly, the inside of our house) has cooled down about 10 degrees, I don't seem to be having the problem. That said, I'd be surprised if other iPhones (at least the more recent models) don't also overheat.

One thing I have that contributes to the heating problem is a case. I feel my phone needs the protection, but maybe that's wrong--maybe just a screen protector (which I also have) would suffice. But the phone is so slick that I feel like I'm going to drop it without the case (I just took the case off to see, and yes, it's just plain slippery). I *think* a case that was nothing more than the rim around the edges--an open back--would make it feel much more secure, and contribute far less to overheating. I may just cut the back out of an old case and see how I like that.

Case makers, if you're listening...

Meet me. I have an iPhone, which mostly works fine (except for overheating...). My wife has an Android, and I provide tech support for her. And yes--just like you--I have wasted (she wouldn't call it that) time looking for solutions to problems on her Android phone.

As far as my iPhone needing "all the special cables and dongles", I need exactly one.

You've got it all wrong. It's Hasta la vista, baby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maybe because solar panels fit on my roof, and power my house (in the daytime, with enough power left over that they could charge batteries to get me through the night, if I had batteries)? Whereas a wind turbine wouldn't fit in my yard, much less on my roof, and most of the time wouldn't produce a significant amount of electricity.

Not sure what your comment about EVs has to do with solar panels, although for the record I do have an EV.

"the temperature is much higher these days than I remember any time in the past": that has to be the worst reason I've ever heard for believing in global warming, bar none. According to NASA's graph at https://climate.nasa.gov/evide... the global temperature during your lifetime has been less than 1 degree Celsius, or less than 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Do you seriously think that you are capable of detecting that amount of warming? Your 47 year old body is way different from your 7 year old body, heck it's probably quite different from your 17 year old body. So no, your memory is a very bad way to measure temperature change of that magnitude over a period of decades. I'm not even sure you could tell a one degree C difference between yesterday and today.

"photos they take of nature dying, birds, hedgehogs just sitting there, doing nothing because clearly they are overheated by months of crazy heat": First, I can show you a lot of photos of nature dying (including birds) from before you were born. Ever hear of Rachel Carson? Second hedgehogs are not the liveliest of mammals; they pretty much sit there and chew on grass at any time. And if one was in fact doing nothing, you have no evidence whatsoever that it was due to overheating. They don't live forever, you know.

"At the ocean the water is much warmer than I am used to" Again, I say your memory is faulty. During your lifetime, the average seawater temperature at the surface has gone up by less than half that of the atmosphere. I really don't believe you can detect that.

"winters are completely different" Yeah, I suppose; when I was a kid I had to walk four miles through three feet of snow to school every day, and it was uphill both ways. Again, your memory of "winter" from when you were ten (or whatever age you're thinking of) are not any more precise than your memories of temperature back then. (And you were smaller, so the snow probably seemed deeper even if it wasn't.)

"it's happening everywhere": Did you grow up in these 15--20 countries? If not, how can you say it's different there than it was 40 years ago, if you weren't there back then?

Am I saying there is no climate change? No. But I am saying that your memories of your experience (or anyone else's memories) are in no way reliable evidence. If you tried to use that kind of evidence in court, you'd be laughed out and told to pay costs.

Wrong. At least two things need to be said:
1) If the conclusions were not supported by the provided data, why was it published in the first place? Why wasn't this caught in peer review?
2) Exactly what did the data imply, if not the conclusions? In other words, what's wrong with the logical reasoning. Saying it's illogical (or "not supported"), as Spock-speak, is not illuminating. Could just be someone's opinion.

You did understand that this racket was run out of Cambodia, right? Oh, I get it, you thought Cambodia was in the US and therefore under the jurisdiction of the FBI and DHS!

I also wish the controls (zoom, search etc.) would be consolidated in one place, rather than scattered all over. This seems to be a general fault with apps these days, whether they're on a phone or a desktop computer. The minimize/maximize or restore/exit have always been in the upper right-hand corner of Windows apps, or course (and similarly for other OSs I've used), but the proliferation of other (and mostly useless to me) controls in the title bar, the status bar, and even left- and right-hand margins is just making a mess of things.

I also wish maps (Google but also Apple) would include a scale. Sometimes they do, but it doesn't seem to be consistent.

was a 2005 movie about a Confederate gunboat with a load of gold, stranded up the Niger River. The plot is convoluted, to put it mildly, but the prologue (the CSS Texas escaping from a Union blockade) is beautifully done.

The monsters are due on Maple Street.

Simulate a straight line with circles? What on earth are you talking about?

"You can only simulate a straight line with lots of circles. Where the circles intersect, you have a point." This makes no sense. If two circles intersect, unless they are exactly tangent, they intersect in two points, not one. And if you have lots of circles, you'll have lots of points, not *a* point, unless the circles happen to be tangent and nested.

"A series of points going 'straight' in 'normal' space appear to be a straight line." Again, nonsensical. You have to have a straight line--which you say you can't have, even in theory--you can't know that this series of points is "going 'straight'".

I proudly resemble that remark.

what about a left-handed monkey wrench, and some waterline?