The Dutch called them walghvogel, or "disgusting bird". Their greatest culinary virtue was their abundance and how easy it was to catch them - much like the passenger pigeon, only less tasty. Then, like ground-dwelling birds in other previously isolated environments, rats and cats and dogs and pigs all took their toll.

You need to track down a copy of Dad's Nuke by Marc Laidlaw - there's a cult in it that eats a cultured meat product called "Host", which is supposedly cloned from the prepuce of Jesus Christ.

Lots of marginalisations will affect internet access, or internet access at the point where people wish to consume this media. Poverty, unstable housing situations. Hell, even workplace rules may affect that if you can afford a personal phone and a data plan but are not allowed to take it into a workplace that's perfectly happy to leave a radio playing for all the good little drones to listen to.

Sounds like it's time for a community group at arms length from these operators to try to set up something under the provisions of the Local Community Radio Act, and push back hard against any obstacles they might encounter..

I suspect its use as an insult is often ironic, as many people I've heard called that completely lack both depth and warmth.

Fox News reports that the chocolate ration is increasing from 30g to 28g, effective immediately.

I'm holding fire on upgrading or migrating away until I hear more about Google's own alternatives for personal/family users. From their own help, in the "Legacy free edition upgrade questions" section:

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Nice, and i can't say I blame you. I wish I could get away with that, but there are too many users at work who need stuff sent by organisations that use Sendgrid. Yes, even the easier/cheaper service with the sendgrid.net envelopes. Including a few Shadow IT things bought by various departments, which have become business-critical.

What you're buying with a Tesla is a set of hardware, a set of software to run it, a set of features, and a guarantee that Tesla will rectify the issue for a certain period of time if that stack of hardware, software and features should fail to perform according to the criteria listed in the contract.

Features like enhanced acceleration or a greater depth of discharge on the battery pack (extended range) push the hardware harder. I'd expect that there would be a higher failure rate with those features unlocked, so it's not unreasonable for there to be an additional cost associated with them. IF you expect Tesla to provide a warranty, you should also expect that to be on the platform as they provided it. If you hack your internal combustion car to increase the turbo boost pressure, you can't expect the manufacturer to be able to guarantee trouble-free motoring either - but if they had a factory or dealer after-delivery option to cover the warranty for the increased boost on the same hardware based on the expected additional likelihood of failure, that would be similar to what Tesla are offering.

Once the warranty is up, or if an owner is willing to forego the warranty and eat the repair costs themselves in the event of a failure, it should be possible for the owner to carry out any number of performance modifications within the limitations of what is allowed by the registration authorities (in the case of a road car) or the racing authorties (in the case of a track car). But if you want Tesla to come to your rescue if the magic smoke leaks out, you'd better be sure you've held up your side of the bargain.

...the CD32.

It sold well, for a while, but failed to save Commodore.

I'm neither a chemist nor an economist, but I see other problems.

As most common commercially significant ores are carbonates, getting magnesium by liberating CO2 so you can capture CO2 in a magnesium carbonate seems like a stupid idea.

Mg(OH)2 - bruceite - is another magnesium ore which could provide the required magnesium, but I don't know how common it is. Magnesium Chloride can be obtained from seawater, but we've then got excess chlorine we need to find a market for. And that doesn't stack quite as easily as solidified sulphur.

They may be optimising for durability (Samsung example, less protrusion straight out means less chance of brushing and breaking the USB connector) and/or reducing the likelihood of pulling on the cable pulling the plug out of the wall (Nintendo example - with a nod to durability because the cord is also more protected from being brushed by passers-by, although a bottom or top entry would also do that at the possible expense of usability in low-mounted outlets).

That square and angled one, though? Yeah, that's just evil.

OK, I'm coming out of cryogenic storage to tell you to shut up. You opened this subthread with *bizarrely ignorant claptrap*, and should have shut up when the first reply called you out on your lies. But now you're doubling down.

Lincoln could not be the "trigger that started the Civil War" when he was elected *after the war started*, after the majority of the Confederate states had already seceded, the last 4 were already proceeding with secession, and the Confederacy had already started shooting at the Union. Which should have been enough facts to shut you up, but I suppose you enjoy the kind of BS sometimes known as "from the South's perspective": any lie to deny the truth, however bizarrely ignorant.

Lincoln wasn't a "two-bit" lawyer prior to his political career, he was an extremely well accomplished lawyer. And he didn't have "zero experience", he had represented Illinois prominently in the US House of Representatives, and served in the Illinois House of Representatives for 8 years prior to that.

Lincoln was of course recognized as a good leader while destroying the Confederacy, being reelected to do so. That is the very definition of "recognized as good leader": reelected wartime Commander in Chief of the USA. Yes, the US press and many factions are always highly critical of any president; "universally recognized as a good leader" doesn't even belong to FDR.

Oh, how about your BS about Lincoln's "razor close" first election? Lincoln: 1,866,452; Douglas: 1,376,957; Breckinridge: 849,781; Bell: 588,789. That 489,495 margin over #2 was a *landslide* 10.4%, . What the hell are you talking about? You also said something deranged like "but if the South had been voting in the second election". What about "but if the South had freed its slaves instead of seceding"? Because they're equally nonsensical hypotheticals. And your Electoral College split 4 ways because *there were 4 candidates*, no reflection on Lincoln's leadership. But Lincoln's 180 EVs to the combined total of the other 3 at 123 EVs was an even bigger landslide than the popular vote. The words "razor close" don't describe any aspect of Lincoln's *landslide victory* over a full field, representing a new party in a large war-divided country.

And how does maintaining his commitment to Emancipation, even in face of a resigning Cabinet member (showing Lincoln's commitment to including even those who disagreed in his Cabinet, more committed than they were to staying), show anything but deeply effective leadership - as the government didn't suffer, but instead the nation was kept together even despite the war?

Your spin on all that crazy talk is that Lincoln turned out to be a leader who rose to the occasion, despite no reason to expect it. But in fact Lincoln gave all indications of being an exemplary leader from start to finish of his presidency.

Were you perhaps educated about Lincoln out of some "ex" Confederate state textbook? In any case, who taught you that when you're totally wrong you should ignore being proven wrong and double down with even more wrong?

You're incorrect. Wow, that was easy.