produces higher quality sperm

That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...

Some areas would need additional legislative work to eliminate bureaucratic hurdles. For example, where I live in California the physical installation of the solar panels requires multiple permits and a structural engineering design, review, and approval process. You can't simply prop some panels up on a flat roof, balcony, or in the back yard because of California's permit-based approach to public safety on private property. A required portion of the balcony solar legislation involves getting approval for installation and use without requiring main panel and meter upgrades/replacement, because that work could cost several times the cost of the actual solar equipment. But the panel mounting itself also needs legislative relief from the existing permitting requirements. A homeowner *should* be allowed to put 4-6 panels pretty much anywhere they want and however they want, but again the engineering design, review, build, inspection, approval permitting process is prohibitively expensive and again can be far more expensive than the actual solar equipment.

Turnabout fair play? Create "uncomfortable" videos using the likeness of the creators of these copyright violating vids. See how they react to hundreds or thousands of fake videos portraying them doing all sorts of things or participating in all sorts of activities.

Poland pays daily fine to the EU for refusing to accept "refugees". Poland took more than 2 million from Ukraine; they have plenty other immigrant diasporas. They just refuse to take people who's obvious idea is to parasitise, leach and hate on the society that accepts them!

The EU has trade and manufacturing quotas (yay, free market!). These quotas are used as political blackmail. If a state does not conform to the EU's policies of self destruction, they are punished financially via that mechanism. And other mechanisms, including election interference.

Poland is major victim of all these games. Not only they are not on profit by being in EU anymore; it is a loss. And despite that, they are moving ahead. Several years from now the GDP per capita of theirs will exceed that oft he UK. Poland has the lowest crime rate in the whole of the EU. As a woman in Poland you have orders of magnitude less risk of being molested than Londonistan, for example. Or Frankfurtsan, Berlinstan, Parisstan and Amsterdamstan.

The only time you hear in the "mainstream media" of Western Europe about Easter Europe in general and Poland in particular are regular "two minutes of hate" regarding, for example, the abominable idea of Poland (and others) of....gasp...making more babies! What?! Or the Bulgarians summarily rejecting the cancellation of women and the sexualisation of children in the so-called Istanbul convention. And so on...

So, screw you, arrogant westerner! We, in Eastern Europe, are the ones keeping the liberal values of Europe alive. After all, we experienced in the 20th century the pleasures of both systems that sought to replace classical liberalism - the commies and the fascist. And we want neither of them. And that is why your wokistany authoritarian brainwashed mind hates us.

Lofting the orbit isn't nearly ambitious enough. NASA (Congress) should fund a robust spacex mission to replace/update failed or obsolete systems, and get even more useful life out of the telescope for a fraction of what it cost the last time it was serviced.

But will they release a new iPhone SE? I still want a phone that fits into my pocket.

Is it just me or does it seem like the article consistently used the word "profit" when they mean "revenue"? They're confusing the whole subject by talking about how record profits are ruined by expenses, but profit is what you get after you take expenses out of revenue. Bad AI article, or an author who doesn't really understand how P&L works?

Not really. Our kids are bailing out of it too.

Just the other day I was at Christmas party by friends with two boys - 17 and 15. We spent the afternoon playing Teken 3 on a PS1 simulator, playing music and discussing Minecraft visual enhancement mods. The last thing these kids saw and greatly enjoyed was Shingeki-no Kyojin.

They quit on cinema after seeing the old Indiana Jones films with dad, and then seeing the last abomination of that franchise.

Myself, I just celebrated the 10th anniversary of my boycott, which began on 25th December 2015. Having just seen the Force awakens, I walked out of the cinema and said "never again". And that is from someone with almost 1000 DVD's and Blue-ray's in my collection! I have spent many thousands on these people over the years. I have tracked rare movies and paid 30-40 euros 20 years ago for a single film! I can watch and enjoy the masterpieces of cinema from Fritz Lang to David Fincher (the last quality director, IMO, and he is in his 60-ies).

So what about "you are not the target audience" remark? How can I listen to music that is 400 years old and enjoy movies made decades before I was born? Are all modern people degenerated mentally so the "creators" are following suit? Of course not! Oh, the fun I had introducing Millennials and Zoomers to old movies! They love them!

And you all know what is the real reason behind that downfall. Politics, propaganda, and social engineering. They try to change the culture, morality and history of the Western world ala 1984. And people rejected it, slowly at first, and masse now. Speaking of 1984, you don't need to look any further than the "re-make" of Animal farm, just recently shat out by the abominable morons that are left in that industry (everyone else has been cancelled) to see my point.

Hopefully this will add incentive for laptop manufacturers to shift back away from soldered-on RAM and offer at least one memory upgrade socket. That way they can ship whatever is affordable now, and market permitting a user can upgrade later on if/when the memory prices are more reasonable.

If all they continue to offer is non-upgradable configurations, people are going to pass on buying new laptops and just keep using older upgradable hardware they already have or can buy refurbished. I already kind of do this myself, but when I do splurge on a new laptop I always get one with upgradable components like main storage and RAM. I'm already grumpy that almost nobody makes laptops with upgradable wifi adapters anymore, but there are still some that have easily upgraded SSDs and RAM. Those are the ones that get my money and I think they'll be more attractive to more people now.

Nonsense. Meat is the healthiest food on the planet.

If you factor the emissions associates with treating and "curing" metabolic conditions, the loss of productivity, sick-leaves, early deaths and so on brought up by overeating carbs and unsaturated fats, the opposite picture emerges. The anti-meat nonsense is pure ideology, greed and global politics combined. The opposite of the truth.

If you value the environment and like to minimize our impact on it, eat meat.

70 percent of the land mass of the planet is covered by grass. The only thing you can do with it, without intensive farming, requiring massive amounts of fossil fuesl, fertilizers and so on......is grazing animals. So, when you cut down the forests to plant palm trees to get palm oil to adulterate milk products with the claim that that makes it healthier (!?!?!?!) with it and make people sick and then you blame it on animal husbandry, you are so full of it that it leaks through your ears. I can give thousands of such examples.

There are errors in some of the lyrics on these sites that are replicated everywhere. That is, you cannot find the lyrics without the errors. Anywhere....except if you have a booklet that came with the CD, I guess..

Just one example that I encountered recently. In the soundtrack of the film "Arizona dream", there is a number titled "TV screen". A line in the lyrics says "You are the target for the stars and the products on the TV screen". I hear it very clearly....Every lyrics site I checked had "planets" instead of "products".

See here for example
https://genius.com/Goran-brego...

Can some good soul (native English speaker) listen to the song and tell me did I mishear? The whole world says "planets" but I insists the word is products. Also, products is much more in line with the the lyrics. The stars that sells us products on the TV screen.....planets just does not fit IMO.

Take your pick.

Would someone, please, think of the children?!

designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials

I love, that it is a prime number!

https://geosciences.princeton....

Abstract: We test whether Hg in marine sediments over the last 550 m.y. of the Cretaceous is a reliable proxy linking Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions to late Maastrichtian global climate warming and the mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB).

From what I have seen and read about this, it is quite possible that the traps were emitting unimaginable amounts of gasses for tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of years. In this video essay from Kurzgesagt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjoQdz0nxf4) it is suggested that the traps emitted the equivalent of tens of thousands of our civilizations (!!!) for great many years. Gases that swung the climate like mad: sulfur-based "coolers" and carbon-based "warmers". Plus the mercury, where our current emissions will not even register on the scale back then (and also why the greatest source of Hg in the air today is coal and oil burning - we are re-emitting the poison that the Earth spewed in the past).

In the last several years though, there seems to be a concerted effort to bury the contribution of the traps and put all of it on the asteroid again. Could it be because the traps show that the greatest danger is beneath our feet and has nothing to do with our civilization? Compare the apocalyptic claims of irreversible this and catastrophic that, which will surely happen next year, or at the latest by 2030 or at the very, very latest by 2050 with evidence that tens of thousands of civilizations worth of emissions, going on for a lot longer than our singular civilization has existed didn't result in irreversible climate change and wholesale destruction of life. In fact, adding the asteroid as the cherry on the cake, KPB extinction event is, as far as I remember, the mildest extinction of the big 5(?). Only 75% of everything living perished...

Kurzgesagt goes on mentioning that all the big extinction events were caused by volcanic activity.