Looks cool.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/38533...

Seriously, I immediately think of the face hugger from Alien when I see the name, and imagine that is what this company does.

RTFA. Step 1 was to redesign the living room.

So, my 2003 flip-phone is now returning to being leading edge?

The Social Security Fund can't and won't go "bankrupt." It may be depleted to the point where it has insufficient funds to cover current obligations, but that isn't the same as being bankrupt. The only reason its depletion might matter is that Congress required that benefits must be paid from the Fund rather than from general revenues. Thus, if benefits are reduced, it isn't because the Fund was depleted, it is because Congress is unwilling to pay the benefits. In any case, contributions would continue and, eventually, once the Boomers die off, the fund would once again have a positive balance.

We should be asking why we have a Social Security Fund in the first place... Back in the days of a gold-backed currency, a savings fund made some sense. But, today, given that we have fiat currency, saving money in one year to pay out in some future year just doesn't make a great deal of money. The reality is that Social Security contributions are just one of several sources of Federal revenue. The primary task of those controlling Federal spending is to ensure that inflation is controlled. Pulling money from a "savings fund" doesn't make the spending any less inflationary -- even though collecting the funds is, in fact, anti-inflationary because it reduces disposable income. The Fund is an anachronism. It may have made sense some many decades ago but no longer does.

If benefits are reduced, it won't be because the Fund ran out of money. It will be because Congress is unwilling to authorized continuation of the benefits with a reduction. It is law that requires benefit reductions, not anything which is inherent to the Fund itself or that comes from some economic imperative. Whether the spending is from the Fund or taken from general funds makes no difference to the inflationary or economic impact of the spending.

Also still here, looking forward to hearing your take on it!

Apparently nearly all of those 265 are in NZ and will be rehired (by Weta FX). Since they are in NZ, Unity office closures are not related to them (they work in the Weta offices).

This had been done for years by Companies Name AA Plumbing, A&A Auto Repair. Same gimmick, different medium.

For you Gen-Z's, it is called the Yellow Pages. It is like a search engine, but on paper and arranged alphabetically.

I'm pretty sure the straightforward answer is "no", but I'm wondering if it can be hacked in somehow? I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
Alternately, will Sony produce a version of the drive that can be added to the original PS5 digital edition?

BS is exactly it. A "physicist" should know better. The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the overall entropy of a closed system will always increase. But when you're talking about genetics, you need to include the entropy of the sun because its radiation is what makes life on earth (and therefore genetic changes) possible. External energy sources make possible a localized decrease in entropy, such as with air conditioners and heat pumps. The same is true with information systems that are powered by the electrical grid. This guy either slept through his thermodynamics course or is deliberately being deceiving. This is not really news for nerds (plenty of charlatans out there) and it definitely isn't stuff that matters.

Sex is recorded at birth. In the case of ambiguous genitalia, a genetic test can provide the sex of the child.

As for gender or gender identity, there is no scientific basis that either of these actually exist. People have faith in gender and gender identity. All the talk and posturing around these terms is akin to religious belief. Discussions around these topics are inherently unscientific.

Disorders of sexual development do not mean a person born with that condition is a third sex. All humans are of a body type that either normally produces eggs (females) or produces sperm (males). There is no third gamete and therefore, no third sex. In the rare cases where a baby is born with ambiguous genitalia, a genetic test can be done to determine their sex.

Further, we were talking about trans people when you brought up intersex folks. It's transphobic to assume that all trans people are intersex.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There's no such sex as non-binary. Anyone who defines themselves as such has defined themselves as something which doesn't exist. All people are either of the body type that produces eggs (female) or produces sperm (male). There is no third gamete and hence, no third sex.

Male puberty supplies many advantages besides testosterone. Those advantages include height, wingspan, lung capacity, heart capacity, raw strength, bone density, etc. Stopping or limiting testosterone doesn't reduce any of these permanent changes.

The only fair way to conduct sports is to separate men from women. (And yes, I'm using the historical definitions of those words. You know, the definitions based on sex.)

Non-binary is some sex designation that isn't quite male and isn't quite female. Problem is that such a sex doesn't exist. There's no sex spectrum. People are all either male or female. There's nothing in-between.

Anyone calling themselves non-binary is labeling themselves as something which doesn't exist. It's an imaginary sex category.

And yes, this is different from the trans folks who at least have the common sense to label themselves as a sex which actually exists, even if changing sex isn't physically possible.