This is a thing that happens, if by aliens you mean foreign weed growers operating unlicensed grows in our country. But it's farmers illegally selling them the water.

Yes, if we want to solve our water problems we should make it possible for farmers to not use water themselves and yet keep their allotment in future years by allowing them to divert the unused portion to an aquifer.

The vast majority of pickups are never used to tow anything for their entire existence, not even once. This is probably not true in the UK, but here in the US they often serve the same market that a luxury car normally would, but for people with tiny PP syndrome.

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Yes. That's correct. But have you seen how much vehicles cost now? That's true of all American automakers in particular.

Ford didn't offer the base package with the big battery, which is how we knew right up front that they didn't give a shit about working people. THAT would be the ideal tradesman's truck, because it can power pretty much anything.

1.50 for a slice, $10 for a pie... but last time I tried to call ahead at 11 to get a whole pie at lunchtime, I couldn't have it until almost 1pm. I conclude that the pizza is another loss leader like the hot dog, which is why they won't hire enough staff to make enough pizzas to satisfy demand.

Maybe. Some of them outright prohibit it because their wiring can't handle the load.

Yeah, in some cases they are wired to the same circuit though. They shouldn't be, but RV campgrounds often aren't held to any reasonable standard.

I'm on some schoolie groups and may still be in rvelectricity (if I haven't been booted again for complaining about AI slop) and bad hookups at RV parks are horribly common.

If you're using all USB connections that's perfectly rational. If you need SPI or I2C then you will need additional hardware, otherwise there's no problem with your approach. OTOH a Pi is a hundred bucks and low power and will fit in pretty much any printer, so there's that I guess. Someday when I have another printer I will replace the guts of my Adventurer 5M because 128MB RAM is pathetic and causes real problems. It would also be nice to have the printer do its own timelapses.

At least some of this will be stress. If you're enjoying something, then you won't be stressed. If you're feeling positive and delighting in what you do, then you won't be stressed in unhealthy ways. This looks similar to the Mozart Effect, which turned out to be that if you liked something, your brain functioned better.

Yes, charging around the stage playing rock music isn't exactly gentle, but it IS extremely good exercise for the heart and the rest of the body. Again, that's going to have positive effects.

(We can ignore Keith Richards in this model, as he's older than the universe and only created it as a place to store his guitars.)

"There is an ongoing war that is crippling economies worldwide specifically to prevent one nation from getting one nuclear weapon."

No, there is not. That is a false pretext.

Cultural engagement and it's "lower" form, escapism, basically represent tribal social engagement and exploration of the unknown/new, you know, the things we previously evolved to be good at. That this sort of activity provides purpose, meaning and connection and thus educes stress totally makes sense.

I personally see and experience an amplified version of this in close embrace social dancing (massive health benefits, scientifically proven) and due to my diploma and experience in performing arts. It basically makes me 15-20 years younger than my peers.

Same thing happens with humans.

It's worth figuring out what your threat model is. There probably are ways that some government agencies can get into iPhones or decrypt these messages, and they probably are collecting all the encrypted data in case quantum computers can decrypt it later.

But are they going to waste any of that on you? Unless you are a high value target for them, and unless they intend to avoid any judicial process where their capabilities might become public, they probably aren't going to use their best tools to help the local cops break into your phone.

Those "271 zero days" in Firefox turned into 3 in in the patch-notes and only one was "high" severity. There is a lot of lying in the LLM field.

Well, an LTS kernel only lives so long and that is a problem. Maybe they should so a sort-of extreme LTS that gets security patches for 20 years and then drop all the old drivers from newer kernels.

Certainly no POSes who DGAF about anyone else like him