That's not accurate. I have a Samsung TV that grabs OTA guide that without any internet service at all. Is it slow to gather the data? Yes. But there's not backend provider, it's in the air already.

Not only are they going to build them, they're also building a nuke recycling plant, to get rid of all the tons of used fuel rods that have been collecting at nuke plants everywhere. All reactors have tons of used rods in cooling ponds, because we canceled the storage in nevada.
So, expect clouds of radioactive iodine and krypton gasses crossing the us everytime they dissolve a new batch. Expect the contamination to go back to the ww2 levels, in the TN valley.
I have a fallout shelter, and rad detection gear, so I'll be fine.

You gotta use a 24-hour clock.

And if you have an ecosystem integrated well enough, it'll even fill in the code received from the SMS itself without any additional effort!

I just want to steal the tesla in orbit, land it on utopia planatia,and do donuts until I hit something, becoming the first space pirate!

I see a future in robot repair and maintenance.

Come on now... you think Slashdot has an algorithm for stories?!

The We're Not Wrong Podcast has already started something similar to this.

Which COTS?

I'd have left behind some shaped charges against the hull.
For shits and giggles.

Well said.

I would also add: if I have something to say about an an issue, I (try to) directly address the issue, not the person. Even when I find them aggravating. What little power we do have relates to discussion and sharing ideas about the issues at hand, and what charities we do — or don't — thoughtfully engage with.

While many are locked to one side or the other in our highly polarized political climate, some people can be moved by reasoned discussion. I even try to be one of those people. Mostly. :)

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To your point, it's ccertainly perfect for this story.

But you know, they have to do something to increase revenue, since they've been entirely unable to update the site's code... you know, like supporting Unicode, which was introduced in 1991. Not to mention a bunch of useful HTML and trivial convenience features like markdown. Or making the firehose useful, or coming up with a modern user-moderation system.

I don't visit https://soylentnews.org any longer — not my cup of tea, community-wise — but it's worth noting they fixed the slashdot codebase years ago.

I still chuckle when Slashdot fronts me with an ad telling me I should put my code on their archive; they can't even manage this place worth a damn, and they want me to trust them with my code? That's a solid LOL. Also, No.

But we've dropped really low if we even skip OP or can't remember it a couple PgDn's further, haven't we.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Now, would you like a slightly smaller burger with your slightly smaller portion of fries?

BTW, that'll be 5% more with the new pricing.

Raising a question is asking a question

Sure. But that's not the phrase. The phrase is "raises the question."

FTFS:

Voters don't like high prices, so they punished the Democrats for being in charge when inflation hit.

Well, actually, voters don't like high prices, so they punished the Democrats for being in charge when corporate price gouging and housing price gouging hit and never backed off.

Also, because they have no other lever to "encourage" the corrupt political system to do something about it. Not that they will, of course. Have to keep those sweet corporate bribe flows running smoothly.