There will come a time when the rest of the developed world realizes the privileged folks who keep pushing EVs were too smug to realize that 80% of the world won't be able to use EVs because of shit electrical grids, and in fact most of the developed world won't have the energy infrastructure required for everyone to use them, including the less advantage (average) folks who can't afford them, a time when it is realized EVs won't save us. And by then because they have been trying to bury workable solutions we will all be fucked and doomed to extinction because they worked so hard to support people like Musk who is cynically playing this to be a billionaire, and we've run out of time to find actual solutions. Musk wants to go to Mars. Why would he actually care about Earth. The rest of the world that can't support EVs won't stop using ICEs until there is a solution that works for them.

Everyone should know that the greatest fast increase in the general IQ of people in the world was when salt was iodized, thus preventing the main cause of cretinism. Lately we are seeing this silly rise in 'sea salt' (all NaCl we eat has been in a sea at some point), 'kosher salt", "pink salt", etc. with the big marketing point of not being iodized. This has been going on for a couple decades. I can only think that the popularity of shit B movies with characters like King Kong, Godzilla, and comic book characters must be because of diminishing intelligence. This is one of the few things that does correlate with the rise a shit movies. How I wish for the return of movies with human characters, human relatable stories and character development, and actual plots in a human based world.

This can only be a good thing if so. Companies that hire and promote based on merit will always excel over companies that hire based on quota. The truth hurts. Doesn't matter the person's skin colour, orientation, or age, etc. If they are the best person for the job, that should be the only thing that matters.

On cool/colder spring, fall, and especially winter nights, the west coast of Canada and the USA have brutally bad air. The worst in North America, especially at night when people are home. So many wankers heating their homes with wood stoves and no pollution controls or filters on their stacks to reduce particulates (even though the government tries to encourage it). And most don't use fuel that burns more efficiently because regular wood is cheaper. The people who burn it don't care, the smoke usually goes into the neighbours places and drifts miles. On Vancouver Island, anywhere north of Victoria, there are nights where it feels like wildfire season in the summer (it ranges from some nights at 50ppm PM2.5, to 140... just ridiculous). And if you bring it up, they call you city slicker and other bullshit. One guy even asked "do you really think natural gas is any cleaner?" Uhhhhh, YE-ahh! WTF. I guess long term to high particulate smoke does cause long term brain damage. Meanwhile on the mainland, 30 miles away in a metro area with way higher density, the air quality is 10ppm PM2.5. But that's because city ordinances are much stricter about wood burning stoves (they have to have emission controls). People don't get that wood burning stoves are one of the worst sources of air pollution in some areas.

FTA: "Samuel Sparks Fisher, who became the Commissioner of Patents in 1869, pointed out that “it must soon become a serious question to determine what disposition is to be made of the models.” The next year, Congress passed new legislation, dropping the requirement for models."

Re-read the post you replied to: "The USPTO will grant you a patent on your perpetual motion invention if you submit a working model."
If you can submit a working model, then I think you've got credibility (and have apparently discovered an error in known physics).

Also, by definition, a rejection for lacking utility would be inappropriate if the perpetual motion machine does work.

Disagree with whatever you want, but scientists pretty much all agree that standard time is best. You can do whatever you want in the evening sun or not. But the human body works best when it wakes up with sunlight. For most of North American, 3/4 of the year standard time is best for that. Daylight savings time would mean waking up in the dark most of the year, for example like now since the clocks went ahead again. It's like having to wake up in the night. Maybe you're logic is flawed because you think the fact that humans being able to stay up later rather than get up earlier bolsters your argument. It does the exact opposite. We can stay up later because that means we will sleep a little later and wake up easier when the sun comes up. The problem is that workplaces have set times and won't make adjustments for individuals to sleep in if they want.

That should have been done 20 years ago. Back in the 70s-90s, it made sense. Cable companies were given monopolies to incentivize them stringing cable all over the place so they could recoup their expenses. They have made back their money. Now, they're just milking the people.

LK

I wouldn't trust those as far as can throw a taxi.

It's not your country so you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. What was attempted mob rule was the trucker mob trying to intimidate people in Ottawa. And 80% of the country agreed rule of law had to be returned in the capital.

This guy is a conspiracy theorist "trucker protester' asshole. 80% of Canada agreed with them being driven off the hill with the emergency measures act. It isn't dystopian dealing with a bunch of assholes shutting down huge areas of a city more months, and spinning off other actions to close economically important border crossings, one of them with the intent of armed action (in Alberta).

You can say whatever you want. You just can't do it on my property. It's really that simple.

How does the concept of "common carrier" even enter into the conversation? These are all things that are happening entirely within the private property of the platform owners.

How about that? With the antitheft device/chip in the key. Those seemed to work quite well. Oh but then you wouldn't be able to push button. So sad.

Can't read your shit unicode. How long have you been on /.? FFS.