Whenever I've had trees cut down and the underground roots started decomposing, mushrooms would pop up all over the place, feeding on the dead wood under the surface. Would be interesting to know whether the mushrooms that result from this experiment generate more CO2 than what they claim to save from burying the trees.

YES.

Apple has been moving toward NO PORTS for some time (i.e., wireless charging and data transfers) and this may be the push that gets all of their consumer-level devices there sooner rather than later (however, don't know how they will get rid of the speaker and microphone ports).

Their pro-level devices will likely continue to need cables for higher data rates and they were moving those to USB-C already.

I think that after the 30-pin to Lightning uproar, Apple appreciates having EU take the blame for everyone needing new cables (if they don't already have one) - they will even sell you a Lightning to USB-C adapter to cover your needs under new mandate.

And with the problems with a lot of cheap convenience store cables, it's quite reasonable to think that Apple may include a cable tester in their stores, right next to the new USB-C cable that you will need when you find out that you bought a crap cable.

I used to work for SAIC (the defense contractor), and wonder how brand confusion will play into this down the road. The US company has already spent lots of money developing their brand reputation to the genreal population. It's not out of the question to believe that many "normals" might believe that SAIC (US) is extending the engineering side of the house into advanced EVs and calling it "SAIC motor".

Everyone was laughing when he started Tesla and SpaceX, but nobody's laughing now (well, they weren't before the Twitter adventure). Have no idea where he is going with Twitter, but I wouldn't count him out just yet. He's obviously brilliant, but like many brilliant people, is unconventional and looks (to most people) like he has a few screws loose. From what i've read, he may be trying to completely reinvent it. Like he did with electric cars and reusable rockets. Unfortunately, reinventing something and burning something to the ground look remarkably similar in the early days ...

It's called OnStar - now required in some GM vehicles - https://www.carsdirect.com/aut...

Not all of them hide. I found one that looked like it was frozen in mid step.

The other night, one of them tried to chew the fur off its skin to escape. Not pretty. It just ended up getting stuck elsewhere on the glue. Poison was of limited usefulness -- eventually killed the adults, but the young ones seemed to be too smart for that (maybe they figured out what killed the older ones), but glue traps are working for most of the ones left (so far).

I am looking at my Uber app right now and when I go to Account / Settings / Privacy (near the bottom), there are a LOT of options to control communications, especially in Privacy Center (push notifications tab) and Notifications

Everyone should have a "throw-away" bank account along with their primary account. Open it at a different bank (or credit union) that has a no-fee account and then keep the minimum in there (even easier - the next time you switch banks, keep the old account with a minimal balance). If i had to write a check to a company i didn't completely trust (when i used to write checks), i would transfer money into that account and then write the check from there. My paypal account is tied to that account also, so they can TRY to fine me, but they won't get far.

that's the second time i heard that name in this story, so i had to go check it out - turns out that 2nd and charles is all over the place, and one is only 10 miles away.

Remember the days when people in department stores spritzed perfumes into the air as you passed them by? They're coming back and that's not perfume ... ;->