Courts may rule evidence is needed before "punishing" Tik Tok, otherwise could be considered unequal treatment.

> They can't [handle?] any base load under many, many conditions

I know there are limits, but when we know the power is out, we could avoid certain activities such as doing laundry (unless everything else is off).

> Or you can buy an ICE generator (gas/diesel/natgas) at a fraction of the cost and have it working as long as you need, under any conditions.

Those are noisy and smelly.

I once was asked to use data scraped from a competitor ecommerce site without asking. And at another company to use MS-Access as the app's database but claim it was MS-Sql-Server to a potential client. (We were working on the conversion, but it wasn't ready yet.)

And another time the software wasn't finished yet, so they sent a coder to the client's site under the guise of "monitoring the roll-out", when in fact the coder was finishing it then and there.

I took these as a sign it was time to leave those companies, but during the dot-com slump that often took a while.

Someone justified it by saying, "if one doesn't lie, they will lose to those who do".

> Quite often looks just like it though. Like, just like it. "From the river to the sea", "by all means necessary", etc.

One can always find extreme or odd quotes from individuals if sought out. Jared's "nice beachfront property" gaffe is an example (assuming it was a gaffe).

It's argument-via-outliers.

> Israel attacks valid military targets

And I'm Clark Kent. Israel stuffed the West Bank with families as human shields: "We can't move now, we gots babies!"

> Meanwhile, you've got Hamas specifically targeting women and children for rape and murder and live-streaming the whole thing to the world.

I've seen no evidence that was centrally planned versus rogue groups. Hamas often does things decentralized to avoid com interceptions by Israel spying. Decentralization means more rogue activities.

Check out the Four Horsemen series by Chris Kennedy (and friends).

https://chriskennedypublishing.com/the-four-horsemen/

Dump a bunch of Asimov, Star Wars, Gundam, Heinlein, and a dose of Bladerunner, add a cup of political theory, put in a bowl and stir...

It's the only scifi universe I've read from in years.

I'm personal friends with a number of authors who publish books in one of several subgenres. Mostly, they rely on Amazon's Kindle Unlimited: some of them are prolific enough that their book sales account for most of their income, simply based on peoples' reading of their works.

Mostly, unless people want a piece of history or something they can reference, folks seem to hate having clutter. Fiction that sells isn't usually, primarily sold as a hardcopy book anymore, I don't believe - short of the kinds of books that end up at the end of the grocery store isle or in an airport novelty store.

Regarding the OP topic, a lot of the published hardcopy books of the types mentioned are published for the explicit purpose of a PR or political campaign. Stuff like the Obama or Hillary Clinton books which are pushed massively and funded by third parties - the fact that they're books and people (supposedly) buy them is secondary, they're being paid for by other interests. They're basically a long form version of those "get published in our magazine about who's who/the top 50 in the x industry, for a low, low price of...." magazines you'll sometimes see, still.

Supporting Palestinian rights is not the same as supporting Hamas. Both Israel's and Gaza's gov't are bottom-of-the-line assholes. They are zealot-controlled Hatfields and McCoys.

> A radio signal takes about 22 1/2 hours to reach Earth from Voyager 1

Engineers having Comcast should be used to that.

people working on this are doing a much cooler job than mine

Actually I have similar problems maintaining our underfunded undocumented legacy apps, some pre-PC, but things like budget tracking isn't nearly as glamorous as interstellar exploration.

rather than being a feelgood title for some script kiddies

Yes, but at least my probe is web-scale and will thus get me a web-scale job! Fixing it at Uranus will be some other sucker's job.

Incorrect. It's been shown that Meta is extremely partisan, and anyone who's even moderate can plainly see it. They openly banned hundreds of satire and news sites during the last election, largely under the banner of "fake news and disinfo". Was it? Sure, much if not most of it was. Some of it wasn't, though - and it isn't their job to do that. What it was, was a highly partisan purge.

Stick around the West long enough and you'll have a chance to be convicted while present for political crimes, too. It's already happening throughout Europe and the UK for years.

You've got to be fairly significantly partisan to think any of what you just said. It really doesn't reflect well.

If Trump was a fascist dictator, he was the absolute worst fascist dictator - or dictator of any kind - ever.

Correct on all of that.

Nevermind that leather is biodegradable, environmentally friendly, and a low carbon option vs a petroleum derivative.

They were just catering to their ecoterrorist customers who lampooned them for killing animals to make a profit/product.

I wouldn't be surprised if they try to go back to leather. It's a natural choice - literally.

> Where does the federal government get the legal authority to...

They have none, they just secretly swipe bank money from gov't haters using their Deep Network of pizza parlor basement servers. Some are even hidden under the basement, a sub-basement, so they can't be found by vigilante basement inspectors like Edgar Maddison Welch. The Deep State out-Scoobied the Doo.