Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

They have recovered the switches, and they are quite intact. As shown in this video. They will absolutely know if these had the safety mechanism or not.

Further, the fact that they were turned off 1 second apart fits the scenario that they did have the safety mechanism in place, and that the pilot had to lift up on the switch, then toggle it rearwards (cutting off the fuel), each individually, as opposed to purposefully or accidentally flipping them both off at the same time.

Capitalism produces value-from-labor greater than  slavery or guild/craft or communes. If you like a society with lots of "spare" value sloshing around waiting for the next bright idea then you chose a capitalist economy.  Otherwise you just survive, muddling-along until the next major  "extinction event".

How is this upvoted? I have seen news story after news story showing when all the alerts happened, and what they were. It is extremely well documented. The alerts went out in plenty of time - the warnings went out over an before the river in that area had begun to rise, and watches and other alerts four hours before that.

The problem with biased political rants like what you're spouting is they will result in more deaths. That's because the REAL reason these girls died is not going to be addressed if you want to make Trump, or even the NOAA, the bad guys.

The failure is in the extremely localized levels - that is the local government and even the camp itself. The NOAA can't know that in the absolutely insane amount of thousands of square miles they forecast for that there would be a summer camp in particular danger. That is up to local authorities. You want to place a camp right on the banks of a river, in one of the nations most risky flood zones? Then the local authorities are the ones with emergency services, building code inspection and enforcement, on and on, who are the ones who are supposed to make sure these kinds of situations can be handled. For example the fire department will come and inspect the place for fire safety - exits, alarms, fire plans, fire drills, fire extinguishers and on. Their flooding requirements / plan was token at best, and that is why people died at the camp.

This is a wake up call for local governments to require alarm systems to trigger evacuation to higher ground. What triggers it? How do they know? Is the business responsible for the costs? The county? That is what has to be done to prevent this from happening again.

Here are all the alerts that went out, in spite of what your post says.

Notable features include "dark message mode" to adapt message content to dark mode

This isn't a feature, it's a bug fix. And, it's long overdue. But, huge thanks to the Thunderbird team for addressing this.

For the broad legal community disbarment is just a "cost of doing business". Compare that "cost" to Intercepted Chinese fentanyl shipments , ICE raided migrant wage-slaves or Coast-Guard confiscated black-market Kenyon rhino horns. Damnation, even a black-hole horizon leaks one-way. The problem is the toleration of  AI agents at any non-local scale. 

Thank G*d you have Hondas. Drove a 2003 Ford focus until it  crapped-out at 120,000 miles ... with a dozen semi-major issues. My 'trusted' mechanic said he didn't  want to waste my money   working  on it.

That's the standard playbook. America, Japan, Korea and China all widely copied technologies from the previously dominant countries before they became innovative themselves. India is now doing step 1 in this process. It's not guaranteed they will get beyond the first step, but they've taken the correct first step.

The myocarditis risk is higher from catching COVID. Getting vaccinated is lower risk than catching the disease, for all age groups.

Getting vaccinated does not decrease your risk of catching the disease. It's only purported to lessen the severity.

So, if you're just as likely to catch COVID regardless of vaccination status, and the vaccine itself is known to sometimes cause myocarditis... follow me here... getting vaccinated increases the number of vectors by which you can get myocarditis.

So, specifically, from which scientific fields will we lose all of this talent, and to which countries will these people be moving? Further, in what ways will the NSF counterparts in these supposed other countries benefit R&D by foreign researchers?

*Takes quick perusal of the article* Ah, it's DEI bullshit that's being cut here. And, the likelihood of any of this research being funded by another country (other than Canada) is highly dubious. Therefore, the entire premise of this article is laughable. No scientific talent will be "lost to overseas competitors".

I know that a decade or so ago we did not have the ability to detect and monitor all objects capable of destroying life on Earth yet. Do we now have that ability? Are we now identifying and tracking every potential candidate of that kind, or is that even possible?

Power and energy are not the same creature. Watts do not toast bread. The article meant KW-hours ... certainly.

I recently started a contract for a company that provides their own windows machines that they manage. This is relatively new for me as I have always used my own hardware, however in this case I use the laptop they provide to access their system.

Every time I would log into Outlook and other bits of Microsoft software with an authenticator (I'm using Google's) it would take me to a website pushing Microsoft Authenticator. It literally said "upsell" in the URL, and I could find no way to disable it. After a couple weeks and dozens of uses it finally seems to have gone away.

From what I can tell, she's talking about Microsoft's disinterest or inability to create mobile hardware, and that MS is instead potentially licensing the XBox brand / OS / software stack to other manufactures that are already making portable gaming devices. She sees this as the decline of the Xbox I guess, even though MS has already stated there will be a next gen Xbox at some point.

I'm no expert in this arena, but Xbox has always had a pretty healthy market share even though its competitors had mobile offerings (although the PS mobile devices were never compatible with the actual main PS consoles).

China systematically builds insecurity into every political relationship and any product they produce ... I suspect even a lump of  Chicom-iron right off the forge has an antenna and  transmitter built in. China by their own actions is unworthy of trust. So rejecting an explicit  chi-com infected surveillance mechanism is a no-brainer. Yes ... as if you didn't know ... only the paranoid survive.