Yeah, really seems like if you want to compare speeds -- either runner vs bus or cars vs bus -- you shouldn't be looking at "MPH," but rather "Passenger MPH." A bus carrying 50 people one mile in ten minutes is not going at 6MPH, it's going at 300PMPH; a human being running that one mile in 10 minutes is not running 6MPH, but 6PMPH. (If I did the math right).

Children, when they travel internationally, often travel without a credit card.

Because it's news for Nerds and I don't know what's more nerd than "fuck it, sure I can buy it but I'll solder it together myself."

Far more likely it wasn't considered social media because there's no algorithm pushing for engagement, it's just humans communicating with humans in a way that is unmediated by some random company and its attempts to drive outrage, engagement, and shopping.

I'm assuming that was a sincere question rather than rheotrical: I am, in fact, a parent (no quotes), and I have children (no quotes). When I set them up on Roblox, I specifically set up those accounts with their actual ages, because I wanted Roblox to know that they're kids and do whatever it can (which is not enough, but better than if it thinks they're adults) to protect them.

I live right south of San Francisco so I want to note for the record: I, at least, do actually believe you're making shit up.

Person 1: "The earth is flat"
Person 2: "That's kind of a stupid take."
Person 1: "Whenever I see anyone responding with a personal attack (even an indirect one), I see a tacit acknowledgement that the point cannot be questioned on its merits."
Some assertions are so dumb, they require no refutations, because only dumb people believe them. Honestly, the reason the internet has gone to shit is because the cost to post a stupid thing is vastly lower than the post to thoroughly demonstrate why it's a stupid thing.

"scraping" is maybe questionable, but there's no question that an AI is accessing your website.

Unlike, of course, the rest of us.

Why do 30 years of government service not count as actual qualifications and, you know, work experience?

One minor correction: The 787 family was announced in 2003, but the first commercial model of the family -- 787-8, much like this one -- went into operations in 2011, some time later.

Gotta tell you, it's reasonable to accuse me of TDS -- I think that dude is the worst, and a wannabe genocidal fascist who seeks to end Democracy -- but even I'm sitting here going "yeah, that's actually a reasonable call, to eliminate the penny."

Apologies, Imma "Well actually" you here. Most people these days when they think "Tesla Roadster" think of the promised vehicle that will come "some day" that some people put $500K deposits on. But Tesla's first car -- before the Model S, before the model 3, before the model Y -- was a "Roadster" that was made between 2008 and 2012 or thereabouts. They made a few thousand of them (IIRC they mostly just took Lotus Elans and changed all the guts to be electric, but I could be wrong about that).

They're dealing with a catastrophic shortage of rainfall, which is required for operating the canal. So it's a more precious resource than it was before and from a supply-and-demand perspective, it makes sense to basically increase fees.

OK, boomer