I would be interesting in hearing from people who _want_ the twice-annual clock change. Why do you want that? How does it benefit you?

I may just be confused, but I thought one of the primary advocates for the clock shift was parents with school-age children. Shifting the clocks helped prevent the children from having wait for the bus in the dark, or walk home in the dark, something like that. But that may be me mis-remembering something I heard a while ago.

My preference would be year-round Standard time (noon is noon). My second preference would be year-round Daylight Saving. I dislike the twice-annual clock change, find it of no value, and support eliminating it.

So between this robot, and the robot that recently set a record half-marathon time, does this mean we can now build an android Forrest Gump?

It surprises me to hear that the ID code does not already incorporate a check digit. One of the reason credit card numbers have check digits is so that when read over the telephone, mistakes can be detected and corrected. If you've gone to the point of having a microchip RF reader and a computer, Damm algorithm is easy to implement. I've used an Excel sheet to generate ID codes for boxes with a Damm checksum appended to the code.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I believe this is the link to the original article, it appears to be open access / no paywall.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...

I need to read it again, but it feels like it reads more like an essay or whitepaper than a scientific article. I am not sure the author actually conducted any testing or comparing tobacco to ultra-processed food. I am also not sure the author offered a concrete definition of ultra-processed food. The author does identify foods that are very high in simple carbohydrates (e.g. candy, M&Ms, Peeps), but I don't think anyone believes that candy is healthy.

I wish the author had provided their working definition of ultra-processed food. The way I understand, even things like home-made bread qualify as ultra-processed food. The problem is that unless you are eating only raw fruits and vegetables; pretty much everything else is processed to some degree, even if it just involves cooking. I want to understand how ultra-processing is being conceived other than "traditional" junk food, or just anything to come out of an "evil" industrial kitchen.

I'm in the United States. I still write a few paper checks a year, mostly to friends and neighbors. It makes it easy to pay my neighbor for some yardwork they do for me.

I think the killer app that would move me away from paper checks would be a "universal" (at least in the US, but for the entire US) app that would let me authorize transfers funds to other people and businesses. Something maybe like CashApp, but that every person and every business and utility uses. Right now, it feels like every person has a different cash transfer application, and the ones you can use for people are different than the ones you can use for businesses. It sounds like the Australian systems provide that capability.

Darkness blacker than black, and darker than dark...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I see where you are going, but unless you include the full quote, it just looks like you are being a lame Xtian nationalist.

Besides, I am more of an Ezekiel 23:20 guy myself... which is also relevant to the Xtian nationalists if they ever bothered to read their holy book.

Here is the link English Wikipedia article on the New Zealand toothbrush fence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I think the above poster is referencing the old Microsoft PC System Design Guides (PC-97, -98, -99 and PC 2001). See this Wikipedia link for more info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

One of the few enduring, useful, legacies of the Design Guides was a standard set of colors for the moldings for PC ports and cable connectors.

For reference, here is the direct link to the Washington Post article
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The above may be behind a paywall. The MSN link in the main story may be intended to help get around the paywall.

It should, the power cells have a half-life of five thousand years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I tried, but I just received a recorded message that the office was closed because of an air pollution emergency.

I think I've read that story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You should take better care of your teeth. You have a...quite a cavity here.