Don't get me wrong, San Francisco the PLACE is beautiful, absolutely stunning. The Bay, the Point - some of the most consistently beautiful geography on the planet.

But the people of the city (at least, the ones that run it, who are elected to that position by the others) are the fucking worst humans. They have failed to run the city so badly that they have a full time crew to JUST pick up human feces?

At what point can one consider one's city government failed, if not that?

Do you know that at the same time they were criticizing Texas for sending them busses of illegals (despite their status as a 'sanctuary city' suggesting that they want them), THEY WERE THE FIRST city to implement 30+ years ago a program where the city would pay homeless 1 bus fare to go anywhere else but SFO?

Thracian slave girl? Thrace is in Greece, ergo she was probably white.

Black Lives Matter insists that America invented and perfected slavery AND that only blacks have ever been slaves, therefore this must be a fictional account.

When politicians cheerfully assert that dude with lipstick on is a woman because he insists he is one, I think we can all agree logic and sense have left the building.

It's hard to argue with repeated, ubiquitous video evidence of criminality, and then tacit if not explicit endorsement by political leaders as long as it's aligned with their particular dogma.

Yes, violent crime has been falling widely and persistently. And yes, certain events get escalated by media more interested in being inflammatory than factual (Cf George Floyd, if you need an example - or did you agree with that one, so it's true?).

Then again, neither are people stupid. Things have changed over the last 10 years and not for the better.
Are you asserting that people broadly ransacking stores isn't new? That the - daily - new video evidence of some store being looted, or widespread closures in our inner cities are FoxNews propaganda?

As Disney has woke-slammed the beloved franchise into the dust regain and again, we can probably expect their promotion of whatever can resuscitate fans interest to reach hyperbolic levels.

I mean, it's probably easier than saying "we were wrong, sorry. We didn't realize you just wanted an adventure series and not a sermon" (shrug)

I like how hard the /. woke crew gets up in the morning to aggressively downvote everything that makes their womanly giblets sad.

That, plus the likelihood that said Indian workers are pretty unlikely to show up to occupy the corporate offices with purple hair and some bullshit entitled complaint.

Let's be clear, a 700teu vessel is not what most people would think of when they think container ship, it's more like a local parcel truck or delivery van. (Typical ocean container ships today are 12000-25000 teus - 2 teus is roughly a semi truck trailer of cargo.)
It's good news experimentally, certainly, and was likely to first be launched in Asia where waterborne local cargo is a thing. But 5% of the cargo capacity dedicated to battery packs - and likely needing to be changed out roughly every couple of days - doesn't scale much yet.

https://www.offshore-energy.bi...

We are slashdot.
If you're not reporting it in Libraries of Congress or Olympic Swimming Pools, you can fuck right off.

...(but shouldn't be) by the meticulous, nearly atomic-level precision modern commercial systems can manage and deal with massive amounts of data when it comes to TRACKING THE FUCK OUT OF US* but simple stuff like "your 2-year digit code in your ticketing disregards that some people who travel live more than 100 years" never seems to get fixed.

*I mean that literally: when you click on some links, your info goes out on AUCTION to be bid around for which advertising they're going to show you, they have the auction, resolve it, and decide who's sending you what ad in the moments of the page coming up. Meanwhile, copies of everything you do, what you like, where you spend time browsing, even your mouse position while browsing a site is all being hoovered (pun definitely intended....sigh) by at least a half dozen government agencies of your own country, probably a dozen inimical actors, and at least SCORES of commercial services all joining in the ebukkake of selling your data back and forth.

What the hell are you on about?

You keep telling yourself that.

The fact is that - still, for another generation or two - the bulk of Americans are descended from people who are self-selected risk takers. People who would throw all their crap in a trunk and spend what they had to hop a boat to what they hoped was a better life.
Sure, tons failed. But tons succeeded.

I'm an American who has spent his entire working life employed by a European megacorp. There is a *vast* difference between Euros and Americans (generally) in terms of casual tolerance of risk, willingness to go ahead with partial information, and try new things.

Americans have plenty of problems, I'm not saying one is better than the other. Euros- as you say - value quality of life and are quite a bit less materialistic, if you need some pats to make you feel good.

But in this respect, the article's comments absolutely track with my experience.

...the administration's dawning realization that they might indeed lose to Trump in November prompts them to actually enact regulations like this, it might make an election year actually worthwhile instead of the the misery it otherwise usually is.

I have an LG CX (OLED) and love it.
The whole thing about burn in is a canard; I guess it's a risk if you have like a bar-tv where you leave it on one channel with a chyron or a video game with a persistent UI (like the frames of buttons) that doesn't change for hours and hours and hours.
And "potentially thinner"? My CX is literally the thickness of a single pane of glass - 4mm. There's a point where thinner isn't necessarily better, I don't even know how the guy mounted this thing without cracking it.

The foundational premise was that 'stuff's blown about by the Martian wind'.
https://www.quora.com/Are-ther... is a long thread.