Or are in a different city and don't want to take a chance on a random restaurant. McDonald's doesn't stand on quality; they stand on consistency -- with precious few exceptions, what you're getting served at one McDonald's is being served at thousands of others, starting from the same corp-delivered food bases. There are some exceptions -- the lobster rolls I saw advertised when I was in Boston, for example -- but you're going to be getting the same Big Mac no matter where you order it.

No, no; it's "Where do we want to allow you to go today?"

China's start to the construction of 94.5 gigawatts of new coal-powered capacity and resuming construction on 3.3GW of suspended projects in 2024, all fueled by investment from the coal-mining sector, would suggest otherwise. Analysts may expect that China's expansion of its clean-energy capacity will slowly squeeze out coal's share of its electricity generation, but their rapid coal-power expansion is posing a "challenge" (it's amazing how "challenge" sounds so much better than "major stumbling block") to their high-level climate commitments, including commitments on reducing coal use.

And Robot Jox .

It's a particularly niche webcomic, but the 'your job has been replaced by software' thing appeared in the 'Sabrina On-Line' webcomic twenty-five years ago, albeit with a somewhat different focus. The same 'pointy-haired boss' syndrome, though.

SAG is suing because the game didn't hire a live SAG member to do interactive voiceover work in a MOBA, where the live voiceover artist has to respond in real time on a 24/7/365 basis to an unknown number of dialog streams... while the voice actors were on strike. When SAG can produce a voice actor who can, at any time day or night, with no rest at any time, produce intelligent voice response to whatever a player might say, and do this in, say, ten simultaneous dialogs, I'll concede the SAG has some truly amazing voice actors. And if SAG suggests that a group of voice actors be hired for this work, add the requirement that they all must be phonically indistinguishable from each other -- essentially, requiring their speech to be run through an AI voice transformer into JEJ's voice, and since you'd be paying for the voice transformation already anyway, require them to demonstrate how an indeterminately-large team of voice actors is more efficient than making the whole dialog process AI-driven from start to finish.

That's a denigrating comparison to male bovine solid waste products.

Ketchup is jam or a fruit preserve.

And, equally, not a word about how, say, 1.5x battery capacity will mean 1.5x charging time. If it's taking you 40 minutes to charge your car now, with the "new, improved!" battery, it will take you 60 minutes. Consider the effect on the wait at EV charging locations if each vehicle is taking half again the time before they free up their charge point.

And the article waxes lyrical about the properties of this 'superwood', but doesn't say a word about how energy-intensive it is to make. It could require a bigger carbon cost than smelting steel. And if it's compressed by 4x (from the article), that would be, essentially, taking a 2x4 and making a 1x2 out of it, so the resulting volume is smaller, and until the laws are changed to recognize that this material is stronger and doesn't need as much volume for the same strength, building codes are going to require the same dimensions of lumber used in construction, so you're going to be using 4x the amount of wood in order to get the legally-mandated dimensions for the, say, framing timbers.

Isn't erasing all your data already a built-in core function automatically executed by Windows at random intervals?

And that's the information that's not being flapped -- TFA talks about three CEOs who got out and are now either retired or working in a 'less stressful' position, but it doesn't say how big a share of this increase in exits are taking the standard 'jump ship, collect golden parachute, roll over to a new CEO position for more money' exit route rather than the 'exit to less or no responsibility' route where they can duck the consequences of their bad decisions.

Just like practical nuclear fusion power generation has been ten years away for the last fifty years.

They've demonstrated that battery-powered aircraft are technically feasible for short-distance flights, limited by the amount of energy stored in the batteries putting a hard upper limit on range. Making them economically feasible has yet to be shown, as the mass and volume of the batteries is still many times that of conventional fuel (putting a limit on the useful load of a battery-powered aircraft), the cost of batteries combined with their lifespan under the usage profile of a commercial aircraft makes them orders of magnitude more expensive than conventional fuel, and the problems with getting passengers out of a battery-powererd plane if the battery goes up is ameliorated only by the smaller passenger capacity of an aircraft with the majority of its theoretical payload taken up by the battery pack. Although the layout of airports does provide lots of empty space, so a battery-powered aircraft can easily be towed into an open area where it won't be a threat to people or other aircraft if/when it does catch fire.

Now, in the spirit of the scientific method, we'll have to wait until the Church elects a new Pope and then send JD Vance to meet with him, so we can determine experimentally whether Vance's presence is or is not toxic to popes.