Not sure I follow this, searching through my private library to get songs from artists which aren't officially streamable is one of my bigger use-cases. It definitely works...

There's a difference between Youtube and Youtube Music, in that one doesn't autoplay any ranting random stuff unless someone's released it as an album...

Yes. My stepmom sold industrial disinfecting robots to hospitals for a while recently (unfortunately their company seems to have been folding when she left last year), and a big part of their pitch was that their robots catch areas others miss since they're designed to be repositioned a few times in different parts of the room (a standard part of their demos and product training) during a cleaning process. Her constant headache was that the competitors had been doing a good job convincing hospitals that that was "overkill", and a stationary (cheaper/larger/simpler) unit would do just as well. Don't forget, purchasers are human :-/

Your local bank _does_ basically "whamo" create new money. Consider when I walk in and ask for a loan for a $10k car. At the start of the day, the bank has no requirement to have reserves of $10k, since in their accounting, they also get to consider the new revenue stream totalling $14k in future payments I'll make to them to service their $10k paper loss now. Risk values are assigned to my probability of repayment when their decision to make the loan is issued. Their obligation to follow certain processes and methodologies ("the banking regulations" they agreed to in getting their charter) in how and when to do this gives them an ability to create currency within our system.

Ahh yes, I remember the news of the new law well. 'Henceforth it is decreed that anyone with a name that rhymes with "Bestinghouse", "Rickola Besla", or "Ghomis Reddison" are required by law to focus their efforts on our industry's growing need for energy"

Possible, of course, just about anything is possible. Unlikely, however. In general, nighttime pollenators don't rely on vision to find individual food sources (more for general navigation), and the introduction of a new glowing nighttime plant would generally go unnoticed by most.

Consider a small local ("non-invasive") business in e.g. Colorado, who makes the decision to stay open 24/7. This _could_ in theory bring in crowds of nighttime shoppers, but in general, most shoppers in most towns aren't going to notice the change, as they'll be at home sleeping... meanwhile the store owner now has extra staff/electric costs to cover. Of course it's possible their overall business goes up, but as a general strategy, "staying open 24/7" won't likely give them and end-game, I-drink-your-milkshake level of benefit that lets them drive out all local competition ("becoming invasive"). If it works, we've got a good signal that all of the other businesses (plants) weren't really optimized for their climate to begin with...

Yep, I inherited my parents and my home state (with a good mix of economy, nature, local/national/international transportation, and excellent local schools) through my merits. Then I definitely leveraged nothing in my world, grew up being sure to experience all of the wasted time and opportunity of the vacant parents I didn't have (but others might have), and entered the world a virgin on my 18th birthday, working my way forward from there on my merits. Get a grip.

I was about to ask for your favorite sports teams to see if I could guess if you're NY or NJ... but then remembered this is /.

...there are ways to retaliate to the loss of situational/operational communications that don't involve immediately launching ICBM's. Please slow down and consider that the people on every side of every prospective missile-based nuclear exchange are incentivised against being seen as an initial nuclear transgressor, and that the rest of the world would not look kindly on a nation who acted irrationally to a loss of some military communication technologies.

I'm just gonna go and tick the box that says this might be COVID-related. First case was _way_ earlier than reported, and those damn Ottomans covered it up!

It is solar power. Originally, the design used batteries to ensure continuous operation, but after that system failed due to a short, those became unusable.

The satellite becomes temporarily usable now whenever the systems have enough power from the sun alone to turn on, but can't stay active through any dark periods.

While I can't agree with everything you said (neat idea for sure), I do like the argument. I've used the same for years, when explaining to people why one should be able to build a house themself, with no local engineer's inspection required for habitability. _If_ they're willing to sign agreements with all local EMS providers to stay away from the buildings and not be offered fire/EMT/etc. services (hence there's no putting responders at risk in a shoddy building), why shouldn't one be able to bypass building inspections?

I'd like to play devil's advocate and extend your system. If the owners of such a business which re-opens are known to have spread infection (themselves/employees) to locals who frequented the businesses, are the self-risk-assessing customers unable to sue the business owner, as they chose to visit? Honestly curious..

https://www.theguardian.com/bu...

TL;DR, central banks around the world are committing to bail more and more debt. Counties with populations >2m, cities >1m, corporations which "until recently were rated Investment grade". The investment banks have gotten the hint that some of the questionable higher-return assets out there are actually risk-free.

I'm honestly curious, at what college is a dutch oven an option? I don't think that would have flown in my dorms..

Either way, thanks for the recipe

I too was surprised. I'm stationed in Downtown LA (well, Arts District), for work, and I can't believe the amount of smoke alarms I've heard going off in the last month, relative to the 2 1/2 before that since I arrived. This is a dineout neighborhood for sure, and some of the locals clearly don't know what to do.

Right.... but the topic is "recklessness", not "illegality".

For example, "smart stoners eat edibles at home, sit down, and play videogames... still criminals" is 100% valid, but if the topic was "smoking pot in public around children is dangerous to the children", it's not exactly relevant. I can't imagine anyone here doesn't understand that driving >65mph when a sign says not to is illegal... replying to a sub-thread about "recklessness" with a legal point is off-topic at best.