And?

First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.

When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.

Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.

It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.

If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.

Hostile design is often a sign of libido dominandi, not just laziness.

SmartTube has probably hundreds of settings you can tweak to improve usability and accessibility. The developer clearly has a user-first philosophy.

You have Revanced for Android but Apple doesn't allow such things.

It has some excellent accessibility improvements over stock.

Cheaper to just pay the bribes.

In America it's known as K-street. Or "donating" to an Inauguration Gala. Or hosting a high court judge in a European palace for a couple of weeks. Or giving decision makers absurd private sector salaries when they 'retire'. Or giving the Governor's wife a $200K no-show job. Pick your branch, there's a way.

In India the system is less formal.

Read through the comments in that telegram post, the amount of denial is staggering, the amount of cheerful propaganda is even greater, but there were some worried notes gleaming through all that cheerleading, where someone hoped they would still have a job later on. Someone thinks that the things may not turn out so well, they think that out of all of the options they may end up with the option I listed as number one here https://slashdot.org/comments....

what I can tell you from the very tone of this cheerful post, they do not have all of the necessary components and it will not be simple at all. Obviously they will try to launch Proton in December as scheduled by trying to do it without the service cabin, there is maybe a way, a bunch of wooden planks and ropes, who knows. The number of ways this may end up disasterous for the launch are too many to be listed here.

competing with spaceX is tough indeed, how exactly would you propose the Chinese bill uncle Sam for billions, consistently launching empty oversized buckets that burn up while delivering a banana to the Indian ocean?

No, I'm not. Don't be a sperg.

No, it isn't. 12oz 4pk@$10.99 = $2.75

No, it isn't. ~56,500 12oz in a 80k lbs trailer, max.

Wrong "value." Retailers don't pay retail, obviously.

you understand that the war that was supposed to last for maybe a week or two is now closing on 4 years, right? That all of the western powers were absolutely certain that prior to 2022 ruzzia was a world level super power with the military that was somewhere in the top 2 or 3 maybe, right? That this supposed super power was stopped by a country with 1/3 to 1/4 of the population, with 1/28 of size, with no oil or gas mining to speak of. Today ruzzia is occupying significantly less territory than at the end of 2022 as well because Ukraine got some of the territory back, for example the city of Kherson and most of Kharkhiv region.

More than that, Ukraine was able to enter ruzzian territory for whatever purpose and was able to hold some of it for about 6 months.

Currently ruzzia is actually a much more dangerous enemy than it was in 2022 to the rest of Europe, it gained enough knowledge, learned new tactics and is capable of taking out any European army in a conventional fight, I am certain of it. Should Ukraine fail and fall, putin will attack Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and then will go further and nobody will stop him without nuclear weapons if the USA decides to retreat, the Europeans are not in a fighting mood and will not be dying for their homes, they will be enslaved by putin if nuclear weapons are not used, this is certain. Europe's best chance at preventing this is seriously helping Ukraine, at this point with some man power as well.

As to the story we are talking about, ruzzia does not have factory capacity to build a new 8U216 service cabin and this has nothing to do with 'brilliance of people they are attacking', you are not reading me correctly. I am saying they do not have the capacity, they do not have the resources to manufacture this cabin unless they actually stop the war, retreat and restart normal manufacturing. It is also unclear that this type of a cabin can be built at any of their plants, maybe at the Cherepovets metallurgical plant. There is a reason why the USSR was manufacturing this thing in Kramatorsk and it wasn't about brilliance, it was about capacity, ability to handle a task of this magnitude. What, do you think you can just turn any factory into something that can manufacture a structure of this size and complexity? You are the one living in a fantasy world.

I am typing this on my phone, while on a train from Kyiv to Lviv, laying down in the dark, I have all of the autocorrect functions disabled on the phone, one thing is hitting the wrong keys and still have a more or less recognizable word come out than having the word changed completely by the stupid autocomplete feature (dumb ass grandfather of whatever we call AI today). That is why the words are often scrambled.

no, the biggest reason is neither, it is the resentment, feeling that nobody actually cares about ruzzia and its role, its status, basically not being the big scary ruzzia, the bear that the ussr was. While their own lives are small, insignificant, unimportant, at least these russkies feel that this war puts ruzzia back at the global stage to be the center of attention. They first felt it back in 2014, when putin orchestrated taking of Crimea and part of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Now was the second wave of this, but it is coming to an end, cannot keep feeling this elation, while your "big and scary" army has been stuck taking yet another destroyed village who knows where in Ukraine. While this didn't matter much earlier, before they really felt it themselves, now they are starting to feel it slowly, as inflation keeps creeping up, their oil refineries and now shadow fleet tankers are getring hit. I was in Kiev for a week, the city lives mostly on generators, but people keep going. I saw drones and anti drone fire, anti missiles hitting ballistic and cruise missiles, flashes of explosions in the sky. The ruzzians are starting to see these as well. Their cities will be living in the dark this winter too, lets see what that does to their attitudes.

In any case, there is and was huge support for this war on their side because they felt pride and at the same time they did not feel the consequences. Lets see what happens to their pride when the consequences hit.

I will add that there is this concept of the "good ruzzians", some who live abroad and are vocal about hoping to see putin gone and a regime change. It still doesn't matter, they hope to see a different ruzzia restored, returned back to the world stage under a different umbrella, paying its debts and such. I do not accept any of it. ruzzia is a death zone, all of its culture is the real death cult with never ending imperial ambotions, it can change colors, it cannot chamge its nature. It needs to be taken apart and it will be, it is inevitable now. With muslims taking over moscow, Chinese taking over Siberia, Kazakhs have some claims, Finnish have a large territory to reclaim, Ukraine actually can claim quite a bit of land, in 10 years time we will see something else and it won't be ruzzia.

It's been, what, a week, and they got 6000 jets through maintenance during a very busy holiday travel season?

That speaks to fantastic logistics. There are anonymous folks out there who did a great job and deserve a ridiculously generous Christmas Bonus. :gallant bow:

It is impossible to launch Soyuz/Proton rockets without this service cabin. The launchpad itself is a huge slob of armored concrete with a hole in the center, used to direct hot gases into a gigantic pit, ot takes a few years to dig out that pit and build the multistory tall launchpad. The service cabin is a multistory metal structire that provides access to set up various umbilicals and to set up the chemical matches, lit electrically, that are inserted into the rocket engines (yes, that is how they light up these types of engines, huge, many feet long, matches). The cabin then slides away into the wall and it is supposed to be fixed in place with some pins. They did not do it this time, so the engine exhaust pulled the cabin out of its niche and blew it out through the vent hole into the pit.