There is an article on ny.curbed.com showing the Jacques Cortelyou map of southern Manhattan from 1660 overlaid on the current map of Manhattan. Southern Manhattan has easily doubled in size since the Cortelyou map was made, and for all that there may be bedrock under there, the land itself is all landfill.

I already keep a (mostly mental) list of products and services I won't have anything to do with, giving avoidance priority to the ones that show "video will play after ad" over the five-second "skip ad", although I have yet to encounter a YouTube ad that was for anything I was interested in. If they've got an algorithm to tailor ads based on my viewing history, it's crap. But if I have to extend my advertiser-deprecation to emailing declarations that their companies' unskippable ads has cost them my business and that of anyone who listens to my recommendations for companies to avoid, then that's just a cost I'll have to absorb.

And it's equally clear that, in the example of Great Britain, where the corporations building onshore and offshore wind farms accept CfDs -- 'Contract for Difference' -- that they bid on for delivered price, but decline to activate the CfD and instead sell their generated power at the spot-market price, typically twice or more the CfD price, are not doing anything to drive power cost down, and in fact are driving costs up because of the increase in costs for generating power when wind and solar are operating at only a fraction of their nameplate capacity.

The ones with actual users ...

These are the sort of self-generating monopolies I've seen in the past 25 years of the internet.

Effectively, everyone goes there because everyone goes there.

A bit more than herd mentality, but makes any startup something which requires large amounts of energy to succeed and then keep going. Never stop.

Twitter has self-inflicted wounds, thanks Elon, but continues to limp along. I find myself less likely to visit because -- not everyone is there any more.

Not all Venture Capital are angels, some come in and kill the fledgling company and take it's IP, others wring it dry over months or years while skimming money off the top. Never occurs to some investors a company could be the next Alphabet or Meta.

Fixed that lead-in line...
I'm not interested in giving Zuckerberg any of my information until he starts paying me for it.

And accept as "fact" the sea level rise as measured locally, which includes the local land subsidence, as solely water-level rise, and then the 'discovery' of the land subsidence, which is then added onto the sea level rise that already includes the subsidence, and chickenlittle around screaming about how this makes the problem of sea level rise even worse.

From watching the livestream, it looked as if the problem forcing the RUD was a failure of the upper stage to separate, and the lower stage tried to follow its programmed flipover and back-burn, with the additional mass of the upper stage confusing the software enough that the program crashed while the rocket was rotating, leaving it doing end-overs until they used the range-safety. Depending on the mechanism used to hold the upper stage in place and ensure a clean stage separation, the unbalanced thrust could well have torqued the mechanism, preventing the release of the upper stage. Unfortunately, barring access to the telemetry data, there's no way to tell for sure, and the use of the range safety pretty well negates any chance of analyzing the wreckage.

From the diagram on the livestream before the scheduled first-stage shutdown, it was five that were out -- the outer ring showed two dark together, a third about a quarter of the way around the ring, one more roughly opposite the first two, and one in the inner cluster loosely a further quarter of the way around, leaving the thrust reasonably balanced. Put me in mind of the similar problems the Soviets had with the N-1 and its 30 engines.

“There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.” -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Life-Line", August 1939

The Flex Alert recommendations are general. As reported on Fortune Magazine's website, "This week, the California Independent System Operator, which oversees the state’s flow of electricity, urged residents to avoid charging their electric vehicles over the long weekend, particularly from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. That’s when the state’s power grid experiences the highest demand as residents turn on their air conditioning and solar energy production declines as the sun goes down." This is an amplified recommendation specific to EV charging, not just a "try to reduce energy consumption" recommendation.

Or how much backup generation the wind and solar facility operators supplied for the periods when their renewable production dropped off because the sun went down or the wind stopped blowing, compared to how much they relied on the grids they fed into to provide the dispatchable power when their own production was inadequate. It is not an improvement to bring 30GW of wind or solar generation online to replace 30GW of coal-fired production if you have to keep the coal-fired production in service to cover the shortfalls of the solar generation because of the increased inefficiency of coal-fired 'peaker' generation. Renewable generation should be held accountable to the same standard of reliability as the fossil-fueled generation they intend to replace; if that requires three times the generation capacity and an industrial-size battery farm two orders of magnitude more expensive than the wind turbines or solar panels they're supporting, then these costs should be factored in as part of the cost of generation and publicized, instead of going around flogging the claim that wind and solar generation has become cheaper than fossil fuels. You can ask the residents of Great Britain and Germany how much their electric bills have gone down with the increased rollout of wind and solar generation... but they're still waiting for their bills to stop going up.

Your samba would be ever so much more danceable, were it to consist of more than one note.

Past editor of Men's Health. Now that's a credential if I ever saw one.

I see nothing's changed here.

*yawn*