My neighborhood (suburb of Washington DC, near NASA Goddard) has underground utilities.
We have lost power for maybe 12 hours total over the past 30 YEARS.
When there's a lot of wind and rain, we sometimes lose power for seconds, maybe tens of seconds. Outages of more than a minute are extremely rare.
That's why the FIOS box, the routers, and the most important desktop are on small UPS units - primarily to avoid losing work.

Nearby neighborhoods with above ground lines lose power approximately annually, sometimes for days.

Extreme weatherâ¦â¦you mean the same type of weather humans have experienced every year????

Hey, people pay good money for non-radioactive materials!

I was going to notify you that you have a cranky Scottsman here wanting a word with you, but then I double-checked, and for some reason a thousand Watts is a kilowatt. But then why is it abbreviated kW? WTF world? Please fix.
And no, I am not a train fancier. Well, any more than anybody else.

"No net zero?
OK, carbon negative it is, you heard the boss."

Wow, Caldera, there's a company I haven't heard about in a looooonnngg time.

Let's remember that they transformed into blatant patent troll and persistent lawsuit pest The SCO Group which Microsoft funded in a futile attempt to bludgeon Linux out of existence.

I hope Ford gave all those hapless engineers back pay for the whole time they were fired. (Hapless, because they took the offer to come back instead of finding an employer that properly valued their expertise and experience.)

It seems that the gestalt of the era is not just plain incompetence, but a complete disdain for competence. Fuck these bad managers and slipshod stewards.

If you're spending $250,000 for a joyride, you should do some risk analysis of your own.
Home made submarines are mostly unnecessarily complicated ways of drowning as should be scrutinized with a jaundiced eye.

What is happening in Russia right now is what you get if you allow unrestricted drone activity. Of course the Chinese authorities don't want that to happen.

Oh, I get it, the commoners are too stupid to know whatâ(TM)s good for them. So letâ(TM)s make them vote multiple times and manipulated each time.

No problemo, the agent can use your crypto to buy more tokens./jk (as of 6/12/2026)


Are the cryptobros that stoopid or do they think we're that stupid?!!

Come on " Patchocalypse " was right there, Chris!

TFTFY.


If they really believed in AI, do you really think they would share any of the proceeds with you?

Close the hatch to the Russian section, not our problem.

Oh, NOW they want international cooperation.

If you don't measure climate change, Mar-a-Lago isn't under water. Insurance claim denied.