Mozilla did this....and unfortunately, it's worse than useless.

Strictly speaking, Toyota's privacy policy is pretty liberal in terms of what is involved, and has been for years...and that's what their rating is based on. And, credit to Toyota, their "we can do whatever we want and you can't sue us" policy goes pretty far back, so Mozilla ranked my 1999 Camry as pretty not-privacy-centric. That's useless, because it got the same ranking as a 2024 Tesla Model S.

Now, regardless of what the paperwork says, the practical difference between the two could not be more different. The 1999 Camry had an ODB2 port, which meant it *did* do some tracking...but it kept it on the computer, and Toyota only got their hands on it if I brought it to their shop and they dumped the memory. A 2024 Tesla sends audio and video data, driving data, mapping data, and remote lock/unlock/disable commends to Tesla, in real-time.

Any list that puts these two things on the same level is worse than useless. 1999 Toyota's data is as opt-in as data sharing could possibly be. Tesla's data sharing requires lots of skill to implement, and functionality tradeoffs as a consequence. The paperwork may reflect that Toyota can share their data dumps if they get them, but Tesla's data collection is not just a default, it's a warranty-voiding engineering problem.

So, yes, I would *love* such a list...but when the privacy advocates are as useless as the privacy violators, the only list that *might* make some traction is an ad-hoc, opt-in list that either manufacturers or users create for vehicles where the owners enumerate the intrusiveness.

One of my tenants gave notice on the house he was renting from me because he was fired from his job the day after the Brexit vote.

Streaming resp. IPTV has this curious side effect to be a few seconds late. In my apartment block, it's funny to listen to the different flats cheering at slightly different times when watching the same game.

Yep I read it: It's advertisements all-the-way down.

"...1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to methods, systems and computer programs for adding content to streamed media, and more particularly, methods, systems and computer programs for embedding advertising within television programming. ..."

You are cherry-picking the  human effects of AGW;  one persons thorn is anothers blackberry. Areas like northern USA,  Canada and Russian Siberia are headed for a climate golden age.  Global food production should rise not fall. You DO know I imagine that African dessert regions are cyclic, and  "green" savannah will return as  earths precession changes independent of temps.  China and India do get hammered -- both have been long over-populated --  but the borderland region continues to elevate due to plate movement; so each will get a bit more high-forest regions.  Leave Australia to the death-adders & crocs. Also too bad about those pesky Polynesians; great opportunity for some massive earth-moving by resort owners and pearl farmers ; call  lawyers to make deals.

Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. ...no seriously, if these things exist, I would be super interested in knowing where to get one.

Let's put it like this.

• Natural Gas accounts for 12% of Germany's electricity generation in 2025
• Wind accounts for 30% of Germany's electricty generation in 2025
• Solar accounts for 19% of Germany's electricty generation in 2025
• Biomass accounts for 8.5% of Germany's electricity generation in 2025
• Lignite accounts for 16% of Germany's electricty generation in 2025
• Hard coal accounts for 6% of Germany's electricity generation in 2025
• Other sources (Coal Gas, Incinerator plants, Oil, Hydro) make up less than 8% of electricity generation in 2025

Now you can throw around buzzwords like deindustrialization, or you can look at the actual numbers.

They might use ADVA (now known as Adtran), which, while technically being owned by an U.S. entity, are developed and build in Meiningen, Germany.

Four degrees Fahrenheit is nothing . Florida is hot in the summer anyway, and oil-tankers love  ice-free  northern oceans. But, as solutions go  that's just the tip of the iceberg.  We have all those newly minted nuclear power plants to cool our buildings and even construct reverse green-houses for sugar maple & birch. Thank gawd we built 30 6-GWatt units starting in Y2K, because ...  oh wait ...

I think a lot of EVs can do this. My very early Model 3 (not 4WD or Performance model) could do 0-60 in 4.5 seconds for a while (before Tesla nerfed the acceleration).

https://www.zeroto60times.com/...

That's not the problem, the problem is that it becomes really easy to find homes likely to have cash stored ... especially with an insider.

He won't take any cash, but some of his friends will make a visit later.

You're painting a target on your back.

...I pay $10/month for my search results, and I'd rather pay Kagi $10/month than use Edge and Bing....and the worst part, is that I don't find Bing results to be *that* bad...certainly, no worse than Google results at this stage...but it's because Edge and Bing are just an *INCESSANT ASSAULT ON WHAT I WANT TO DO*.

"I'm searching for [thing]"
"Here are thirteen things that match pretty well with [thing] - ten based on our heuristics, three sponsored results that most closely match."
"Thanks!"

That's all I want a search engine to do!

I *might* stretch it a bit...
"I'm searching for [thing] near [location]"
"Here's a map of [location] with five push-pins most closely resembling [thing] - three organic options, two sponsored options, all matching [thing]"
"Thanks!"

...but with Bing, it's like...
"RANDOM ASSORTMENT OF THINGS!!!111"
"...uhm, okay, I just want --"
"HAVE YOU TRIED EDGE!!11"
"...I'm using Edge..."
"LOG IN TO EDGE FOR THE BEST EXPERIENCE!!!11"
"ehm, no tha---"
"Nevermind, I Logged You In Anyway Because You Used A Mandatory Microsoft Account To Use Excel."
"okay, whatever...I'm looking for--"
"REWARDS!!!!"
"...[thing]"
"Here Are Six Sponsored Listings That Are In No Way Relevant To [thing]...and then ten organic listings that are at least on par with Google...MAP!!!!" ...it's that constant battle to get Bing to just let me do an anonymous[ish] search, and then show me a combination of search results and unobtrusive ads.

I can use Searx to sanitize Bing if I wanted, but I'd rather pay for Kagi, who doesn't require that kind of headache.

Because money is the ultimate fungible commodity, the headline should really be:

"Singapore to subsidize production and use of sustainable aviation fuel"

I am skeptical that the "sustainable aviation fuel" is really sustainable and it isn't just disguised fossil fuel (like almost all hydrogen production for vehicles).

Does that decline in college preparation also hold for students coming from private or Catholic schools ?  Does it hold for traditional  HOME-SCHOOLED kids. And does it also hold for people entering the "skilled" trades ? Are new writers from The Paris Review and The NewYorker less literate than previous generations. Question really is: has America stopped preparing it's able citizenry for intellectual challenge.  Of-course in previous eras  ---  if you didn't work smart, then  you didn't get laid and didn't eat.