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12:33:24 CEST – grid collapsed completely, the HVDC between France and Spain tripped.
...
00:22 CEST – grid fully restored in Portugal.
04:00 CEST – grid fully restored in Spain.

Looks like 15 1/2 hours for full power back in Spain

Not really. Self-replication is the hard part. Once you can get molecules that self-replicate, then life may be easy.

Perhaps they could take a clue from software from 40+ years ago and make top-posting a configurable option.

But Microsoft has pretty much completely given up on making their software configurable for user preferences.

Hey, I resemble that remark.

"Dr. Sam Becket never returned home."

You forgot to misspell his name.

Not if they keep spending 10 figures a year trying to make VR happen.

This would strengthen the echo chamber effect, where people only hear things that reinforce what they already believe, and make it harder for voices correcting fake news to be heard.

That's what the people with an ideological agenda tell us. They are wrong. Misinformation is a real thing, and it is damaging our society.

Some people call it "truth decay: the fact that people pushing an ideological agenda realize that lies are as powerful, and even more powerful, than truth in energizing the outrage that fuels their agenda. And social media in particular is full of half-truths and outright lies.

However, the government anointing some news sources more "trusted" than others is not a solution. The government, or some people in the government, also has agendas to push, and wants to devalue trust in truths that may damage that agenda. "Telling the truth to power" means telling things that those in power don't want to be told, and these are voices that we need to hear.

How long can Meta survive without shipping a product people actually want?

What, the best you can do is bring up a show that went off the air fifty year ago?

And even then, when Robert Young did TV commercials for coffee, he was identified as "Robert Young," not as Doctor Marcus Welby, and they didn't pretend it was real. (In fact, the line from a series of advertisement of around that era, "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV," is still a meme today.)

"Please protect us from child-harm lawsuits since child harm is pretty much our business model."

No surprise here. Why is this even news? Every product that uses memory is raising their prices. This "story" is merely Apple mollifying their customers.

Might check out this film: The Eagle Obsession.

(only in pre-release screening now, but there's a youtube preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )

Except, of course, for the front part, which was weirdly aerodynamic

Easy to do when you have no fuel tanks.

I have no idea how you calculated mass. But about a third of the vehicle (not including the detachable part) seems to be the landing pads, which doesn't seem very optimum.

Yes, the lack of fuel tanks is a real problem. Also, how do they fly? They only have engines in back, but they skim over the surface of the moon like they are levitating. What holds them up? When they blast off to go into deep space, do they rotate 90 degrees to point the main engines downward?

The headline says "sold at a loss", but the summary doesn't:

"the profit margin for China's auto industry plunged to 4.4 percent and dropped further to a historic low of 3.2 percent in early 2026."

Profit dropping is not the same as "sold at a loss."