Thanks for saying this.

Tactile and nostalgic for sure. But you need a lot of wall space to store them, especially if you're an avid reader and have "a touch of grey."

You should check that the light sensor is working properly; a safety interrupt that will prevent the door from closing if the beam is broken. Critical if you have kids or pets

I do get your overall point BTW.

Agree, I've owned a couple BMWs. My 2019 has CarPlay, which looks great but I hate how you have to menu-dive with iDrive knob to use Maps (anything else on your phone for that matter.) You can use touch screen but that is even more distracting to me.

I also like how BMW has the programmable soft keys that are one touch for certain settings including phone calls.

Mankind has needed heat and energy since the Stone Age. We burned wood, coal, then progressed to steam (heated from coal). This was foundational to chemistry, engineering, and started industrial revolution. Petroleum processing was possible because we had developed enough chemical engineering knowledge. Industrial revolution enabled working class to afford clothing, food, and shelter. Of course there was (and continues) inequity, but 8 billion people today couldn't survive without fossil fuels

This progress has enabled the design and construction of alternate means of energy today. Nations will migrate to green (for lack of better word) as it becomes economically feasible, correct? No reason to be fighting about it IMO we can all reduce, reuse, recycle. Accentuate the positive as that old song advised.

Good post thank you. This got me thinking that more than just pedantry, calling hypothesis "laws" and ascribing to these "laws" moral significance is understandable but counter productive. Once we call physics theories "laws" we make them immutable, so new learning will struggle.

Good point offering perspective. Wish I had mod points today.

My current car (probably last one I'll drive, cause I'm old timer now) is manual. I went back to manual for the nostalgia, because I learned on manual and my first two cars were manual. Automatics were always preferred, but manuals were cheaper in the 60's and 70's so that what people had. In a manual, you have to be more aware of your surroundings because you have to plan to down shift, brake, put in neutral vs. keep clutch in etc.

So, I would say that a manual helps keep the driver more engaged. Important these days especially in EVs where large displays with phone connectivity seems to be huge source of distraction (at least to me.) So, not about the vroom vroom but about making the driver pay attention to vehicle and surrounding situation.

If you are modding, and you want to comment (and you are modding a story that you are familiar with) then you have to post AC. Good in theory I guess, but then some AC posts are worthwhile but kept down.

Slashdot was great for many years, I used to get a lot of mod points and I tried to take it seriously. When I hadn't been logged in for a while (weeks or more), I never got mod points. (Not saying it was due to me), but during that time I did notice that quality of moderation had declined and I ended up abandoning /. altogether.

So I would add that to your list of moderation issues. Don't make it hard for good mods to do what you need them to do. Give them notices or schedules, and don't evaporate their mod points so easily

Was a very impressive sight. Our company had a plant in Anasco, and we had to work over the weekend there (We were all from Cali.) Nobody wanted to go cause traffic on that highway was a bitch on Saturdays. I made everyone pile in the rental and we did the drive. It's about a half hour inland into the jungle from the city of Arecibo, which is on the coast. We were driving through the jungle on rainy tight roads, wondering if we were lost. Then we came around a turn, and saw the dish. I won't forget that sight, RIP dish.

There was already a little museum and homage to (I think was research group from Cornell?) Couldn't they just refurbish that and use the 5 mi for hurricane relief?

Man, you didn't even bother to wiki immunology and yet posted above. There are many layers to our immune system, including the innate. Mammals are born with this, as well as some antibody inherited from their mothers.

You really should be ashamed of yourself.

If only someone could explain to her that talking is exhaling and exhaling is CO2.

Kids these days, sheesh . . .

Yes, totally agree with you. The climate science debate is useless; it should be all about better efficiency and use of resources. This is also the best way for individuals to contribute, no need for protests, big government projects, taxes, etc. Why politicians & thought leaders cannot steer petty arguing in this fashion is beyond me.

Less bad is better than bad tho, so there is that.