Why would China (or India) struggle with a shrinking population? That, in and of itself, should also be a reprieve! I could understand an aging population (like Japan).

Once worked with a vendor named NOMBAS. I thought it was an amalgam of the founders' initials. But when I asked, was told it means "NO MBAs! Because I'm never hiring an MBA, again, as long as I live!"

But the imagine the huge white "dandelion" puff when scoring a direct hit.

Even to this day, sounds to me like

Dir-ty Deeds
Thun-der Cheeks

The Zelle scams I've heard about is in the opposite direction. You sell something, like on say, Facebook Marketplace.

• Scammer sends you money
• Zelle gives you the money into your account
• Scammer picks up the agreed upon goods
• Scammer lies to Zelle, claiming they never received the goods
• Zelle takes the money back out of your account
• Zelle refunds the money to Scammer
• Scammer never returns you the goods

It is a business move. But you know what else is? Exorbitant fees for a college degree.

It's no wonder Yahoo became irrelevant

If we cool Earth, one unexpected volcanic eruption can compound the cooling and overshoot in the other direction. See: Snowpiercer

Google Maps needs something like this. Stop making the street names on the roads static like it's still a paper map. You're a dynamic screen, dammit. For every road you display, tell me the name of the road. Stop making me scroll 20 screen lengths just to find the name ... and then I have to scroll 20 more to get back to where I was!

If you kill 10 people, you're a mass murderer. Kill 10,000, and you're a conqueror.

Google Books, YouTube, and AI prove copyright infringement is OK, as long as done en masse.

Magnitude 4.5 quake from a concert: https://www.independent.co.uk/...

My favorite Weekly World News tabloid story was about Chinese villages orchestrating jumps to bring destruction to America. Thankfully, they keep getting thwarted by a group of dedicated fat guys in Jersey carrying out "well-timed counter-jumps"

This sounds like both the Sundance episode of South Park and the Fred Armisen "hipsters come to Springfield" episode of The Simpsons.

Robert Redford: This is perfect. Why didn't we think of it sooner? This town still has some charm left, not the mess we turned Park City into.

Phyllis: Forgive me for being observant, but, won't we just end up doing the same thing to this town?

Robert Redford: Yes. And the town after, and the town after that. Like termites, we will move this film festival from town to town until we have used it up. And then move on, until every quiet mountain town is like Los Angeles.

Phyllis: Why? Why would we do such a thing?

Robert Redford: Because we have to live in L.A. And if we can't live in quiet, simple, peaceful mountain towns, then nobody will!

Regional grids can also more easily and cheaply buy excess power off of each other in time of need.

False. In the averted crises since that fateful winter, ERCOT has admitted green energy kept them afloat. Green being a problem was unsubstantiated GOP FUD tweets.

You're forgetting the shaky Texas power grid.