The show was entertaining. It was not as good as Next Gent or DS9 as its height, and a few parts felt more Star Wars than Star Trek, but overall it is very well done. One should not skip it just because it is labeled as a kids-show. I suggest giving it at least the first few episodes.

California brings water from a lot farther than that -- the Aqueduct runs about 500 miles to service Los Angeles. (And has turned the formerly-lush Owens Valley into a desert.)

Destroying the first dam was environmentally catastrophic, and produced a massive fish kill. Ooops.

https://californiaglobe.com/ar...

Boeing's problems have very little to do with DEI. The primary problems came from when Boeing merged with the then struggling McDonnel Douglas and somehow the MD management ended up almost completely in charge. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/01/boeing-737-max-corporate-culture/677120/. They even moved the corporate headquarters to be deliberately further away from the factories and engineers. So what was once one of the most engineering focused of businesses became completely business focused.

Construction cost is not the main problem. The main problem is that regulation has made it almost impossible to build new housing at a reasonable speed. This has gotten to the point where a few years ago when an apartment building burned down in Allston (a Boston suburb) it took years just to get the permits to rebuild the existing building. This is part of a much wider problem in the US where building rules, construction rules, zoning, etc. all has combined very badly.

Journals don't have their own labs. Other labs are supposed to replicate research claims, not journals. Also, a major part of the system is the assumption in reviewing that scientists may be mistaken, but they aren't engaging in deliberate fraud. If reviewers were expect to somehow detect that and look for it every single time, refereeing (which is already a pretty thankless task) would become nearly impossible. And when this does happen, it eventually gets found out. If there is a solution here, it is to have more serious repercussions for faking results than there are.

Note that Dias is a different researcher than the group involved with LK-99 that made headlines over the summer. In the case of Dias, his claims involved alleged superconductors that only superconducted at extremely high pressures. This made duplicating his work extremely difficult. In contrast, the LK-99 claim was about room temp superconductors at standard temperature and pressure. Note also that LK-99 turned out not to be valid, and most of what they say likely due to the heterogeneity of their samples, there's no claim that they engaged in misconduct. They were just wrong.

Right, because of course reasoning about a site based on its name is the smart thing to do. Either a dumb joke or bad reasoning.

For some of them yes, but not for others. They are called spigot algorithms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigot_algorithm. Often a constant will have a nice one for certain specific bases.

There's a legitimate use of legacy admissions. Legacy admission fosters institutional loyalty, and promotes alumni giving. The more alumni give, the more money there is for all sorts of things including scholarships. Whether legacy admissions create more good than harm seems tougher to say, and at the various colleges I've taught at, I encountered some real doofus legacy students. But there's a reasonable interest in having some form of that is worth acknowledging.

When I was young people derisively said that fusion was always 25 years away. In the last 10 years people have been saying similarly that fusion is always 10 years away. That suggests that progress has happened, but not as fast as proponents predicted/hope.

That something can happen in a lab environment is a demonstration of how it can happen in nature given enough time and lots of options. Given millions of years, there's a lot of time for things to happen. And further research will likely find even more plausible ways this could end up happening. Heck, humans made nuclear reactors, but even that turns up in nature by sheer accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .

A partial solution for this is to have a law that if one is getting a tax writeoff this way then one has to give up the copyright on the media and release a copy of the media in some easily accessible fashion.

In this case, there's no better disposal method.

The cost to Warner Bros to keep these on Steam should be minimal. What do they gain by delisting this way?

Pity that distros made these two gigantic bad choices recently and didn't ease up on the gas when the cliff got near.