> Kansas City, it's a big destination for conventions
> because it's in the middle of the country.

Really? I used to have to travel there for work occasionally... not conventions or anything, just a remote site. So I'm not sure about its convention facilities. But KC's airport is just bloody awful and most definitely not suitable for the level of traffic of a major convention destination. The only airport I've personally experienced as worse is Newark... and that's mostly the people that make the place so unpleasant. MCI's people are nice. But the airport itself is just so god-awfully designed I have to think the architect was an active misanthrope who intentionally set it up it to make people miserable. Arrivals aren't so bad... but departures or transfers... ugh... it's like they wanted KC to be a roach motel. You can enter, but you can't leave.

I think a big problem is that there are no controls on the use of that little three arrows in a triangle logo that is supposed to indicate recyclability. So there are many products that are not, in fact, recyclable that do have the logo on them. So how do I know that this plastic bottle is recyclable and this other one is not if they both have the logo? How do I know that only the lid of the pizza box can be recycled, but the bottom of the box has a plasticized sealant that can't be recycled when the logo is on the bottom and there are no instructions otherwise? And as someone else mentioned, just what the hell is the difference between cardboard and paperboard and which inks do and do not make either one impossible to recycle and how is anyone to know when they're on-the-spot at the recycling station and everything has the logo?

So what happens... that could very easily have been predicted if anyone with at least two brain cells to rub together had bothered to do so... is that many people just say "fuck it," look for the logo, and if its there it goes into the recycle bin. Now, you may point to the recycling habits in Japan to counter. But let's be real, Americans are stubborn arses about such things. It will be a multi-generational effort to instill that sort of attentiveness to sorting and recycling here. And no such effort is underway, not even in.California.

What is therefore needed is a new recycling logo... one that is trademarked and only licensed to be used on items that genuinely are recyclable; in fact and not some wishfully thinking fever dream. Granted, there will still be people who use the bins interchangeably. We'll never get the "caring about the environment is communism" people. But if we took this one small step to drastically lower the effort, we'd have the "fuck it" people properly and effectively recycling. And I would bet good money that there are more of the latter than the former.

Sounds like you actually believe the Farmer's Almanac and a dozen imitators, with their annual forecasts and seasonal predictions, was accurate. I hate to disillusion you, so I'll just leave you alone in your blissful ignorance. Whatever you do, avoid comparing the forecasts of your "market full of private providers" with records of what the weather actually was.

No surprise at all that they sided with the corporations. Nothing positive for the consumers and people was ever going to get through that gauntlet of wickedness and corruption in the first place.

If what you say is true, it's shocking that Texas hadn't already stepped up to pay a private weather forecasting company to let them know dangerous conditions are coming. Perhaps such a company could work with the non-grid power producers who have done such a wonderful job down there in Crony Capitalist Utopia.

It must be difficult for those interested in cosmic bodies to deal with plasma. It's not solid, liquid or gas, but something...else.

Americans face a real chance of losing their health care if their job circumstances change. Those of us who live in civilized countries tend to forget the US is the only (putatively) non-Third World nation without universal health care.

Love it! Notice how quickly the far right trolls modded me down to zero. -1 incoming quickly, I expect.

I wonder whether citizen meteorologists might be able to pick up the slack created by all the DOGE layoffs and restore US weather forecasting to previous competency. Perhaps another incident like the deadly flash flood incident in Texas could be avoided.

You're still here after all these years?

Notably though if we actually run out of work to do we have a post-scarcity utopia, and that happens when people are so rich that there's basically not a single person who, given even more money, would even be able to think of something to spend it on. That's not going to happen any time soon, so we're basically dealing with a distribution problem, which requires distribution (e.g. minimum wage, set it to 1/3 national hourly GDP, the reason for this takes a while to explain) and redistribution (negative income tax, do it as a universal dividend) policies along with monetary policy to properly increase the money supply to not fall behind productivity growth.

Just hack into everything he makes, that's going to be the MO here. "Oh this guy's LinkedIn says he worked at [insurance company]" boom, an army of 14 year olds now is millionaires from stealing millions of credit cards and selling them on the dark web.

Why would there be one? This looks like a bog-standard corporate acquisition with some kowtowing to trump. Skeezy for the latter, but I don't see any climate angle to Juniper's networking kit.

The way the Idiot King is pissing countries off, it might not be long before the whole world realigns its trade to leave the US mostly out in the cold. That would be a huge win for Putin, of course, so Trump would be fine with that.

What kind of asshole tries to "both sides" the political violence in the United States? It's overwhelmingly coming from the far right. I bet you spend a lot of time comparing mountains to molehills.