Here in San Jose CA, we have a development called "Communications Hill" which is a big mound of asbestos. https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home... In our infinite wisdom we decided the best course of action would be to scrape the foliage and topsoil off to build homes! The dust and asbestos that's kicked up rains all over south San Jose.

Not me. I accept that maybe unremarkable records might be overwritten, but the instant there's a major event (like a mid-flight plug blowout), you as a matter of policy pull all related records to a special "do not delete til years after forensics over" bucket. That this didn't happen has swayed me that there is a coverup actively happening.

I'm just a year younger than you. Come to the Federal government, specifically the VA. It's nice here, not nearly the grind, we do things slow and methodically for safety. Age is just a number. You would be shocked that we actually have WFH, and halfway decent pay in Silicon Valley with the new SSR tables. Someone of your caliber would probably come in as a GS-13. After spending a lifetime at startups I wish I would have made this move moons ago.

um, can those two nouns be used interchangeably any more in any context?

Having sifted through numerous theories, the pilot suicide theory stands out to me as the most probable, by a good margin. Troubles at work and at home, and the route:

Actually, it was about 25% more contacts for the Morse code contest last year... I should learn to check my numbers before posting.

Indeed, in last year's running of the American Radio Relay League-sponsored amateur radio contests in which US and Canadian ham radio operators contact the rest of the world, the Morse Code contest recorded about 12% more contacts than the radio telephony (i.e., speech) contest. In years with fewer sunspots, there are typically about twice as many Morse Code contacts as telephony ones.

I agree with your larger thesis, wanted to ask about this point:

Are canned and/or frozen veggies considered ultraprocessed?

These guys are luddites up until the point where technology can make them have strength over other warlords in the region, then it's "Let's get an AI SAM system from China!"

China though has the resources to create lithium batteries. They're the only superpower that seems to be making headway with Afghanistan (who supposedly has crazy amounts of the stuff) and they've already indebted Africa for cobolt.

Japan and China HATE each other big time. So maybe Japan's push here has more to do with energy independence from China more than anything else.

in favor of Hydrogen. 200x the energy density of our best lithium battery. That's 200x less weight. Yes we lose a little carbon cracking H2O into Hydrogen, but you just can't get around the economy savings of not having to drag around an extra 2000 lbs of battery when you only need 10lbs of Hydrogen. Not counting the tanks, but those are hollow until filled and return to a hollow state as fuel is used. Not to mention there are lots of lightweight composite tanks these days.

Finally this firmly gets us out of China's and Saudi Arabia's pocket. Anywhere we can run water and electricity, we can crack H2O and compress it.

Someone told me this is routine for Cisco, that they've been laying off folks this time of year since 2008. I don't want to believe them, does anyone know if there's a table showing the number of layoffs per year?

So let's say humans end up depleting oil, and the only way to get diesel is these machines connected to unlimited power supplies (say... fusion) to start sucking all the carbon out of the atmosphere. Will we get giant bugs as a result? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I think it was Gru.