[Kramer: "Good point"]

The sky above the park was the color of a cup of tea left out on a garden bench in a rainstorm.

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I still play SMAC/X (Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri) at least once a week, even if it's just jumping on for a few minutes to run through a couple turns.

Including a Map, Factions, and Scenario editors helps keep old games fresh.

to see hardware specs for Elderscrolls VI and Cyberpunk Orion.

is now holding back AI datacenter growth which is starving standard buisness growth.

This is why I got a Sony tv in 2020 and have not connected it to the internet. Worth the price differential.

Still, what I really want is a decent 65" display; no speakers, no OS, just a bright colorful screen with quick refresh.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Seriously, the idea that we know all the practically important physics there is is the kind of thing only somebody who's never done science or engineering would believe.

Industrial R&D is important, but it is in a distrant third place with respect to importance to US scientific leadership after (1) Universities operating with federal grants and (2) Federal research institutions.

It's hard to convince politicians with a zero sum mentality that the kind of public research that benefits humanity also benefits US competitiveness. The mindset shows in launching a new citizenship program for anyone who pays a million bucks while at the same time discouraging foreign graduate students from attending universtiy in the US or even continuing their university careers here. On average each talented graduate student admitted to the US to attend and elite university does way more than someone who could just buy their way in.

Now who can argue with that? - I think we're all indebted to Gabby Johnson for clearly stating what needed to be said. - I'm particularly glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. - Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age!

Junior Exec flying out a high-rise window.

So much for Michigan.