Some of the local orchards use them along with the usual ATV four-wheeler vehicles. They on the road as well, but the speed limit is only 50 MPH anyway. Off the highways they do fine. They carry two people and a decent collection of tools just fine.

The merger is a bad idea, but the comment "threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices over what and how they watch, " is a bit too far.

You don't have to pay for the service after all.

Sailing the high seas may be more popular, but given how little is worth watching it's a minor issue.

The direct fuel injection does seem to cause more trouble than it's worth. Small gain in fuel efficiency, large increase in maintenance cost.

Leave direct fuel injection to the diesels and race cars.

GM's transmission problems are due to other issues.

Owner's fault. I won't wreck my car to save a dog either.

I've run over a couple that I likely saved by straddling them. One clearly lived as it was running for home after the tumbling trip under the truck. I hope it learned a valuable lesson.

The last fatality left me with the following choices. Hit the dog, Slam on the brakes and get rear-ended, drive into the ditch which made up the median, or swerve into the right lane and hope the car in that lane just behind me could manage to miss me. The dog took the hit.

Not to mention the classic chemical engineering vs gender studies argument.

That said, was I really better off as an engineer than I would been as an electrician? I put in a lot of unpaid overtime that would have been time and a half.

For that matter the senior board operators at the chemical plant made more than I did, but they worked rotating shifts too.

"College is where you meet the friends you'll keep for life,"

That certainly didn't work. We went poof in multiple different directions. Never saw any of them again.

"The basic idea is to tax transport."

That jogs a memory, wasn't there a carriage tax in Jane Austin's day?

I thought a few wind turbines in Scotland were going to power the whole country.

The laws of physics are non-negotiable. Where to find the compromise between death by radiation and death by hypothermia is very negotiable. Similarly there is a broadband between living under a pine tree in the Lake District, and living on the slag heap from a blast furnace.

River Tam popped into my head too. "I can kill you with my brain."

"Microsoft management buying into way too much AI hype;"

It's not just them, Apple has been sucked into the whirlpool too.

Is it Marketing playing follow the buzzwords or the opportunity to drive a whole new hardware replacement cycle? Or is it Advertising all the way down?

I rather liked driving the tractor once I was old enough to reach the pedals. Taking care of the chickens did me no harm at all. There was still time for running around the countryside.

My daughter despised "no child gets ahead". She'd come home ranting about how one or two kids were holding back everyone else. Fortunately in her junior year she went into the running start program and we are close enough to a community college so she could start on her AA.

This is in a rural and very Red county that does its best to hold off the idiocy from the state capitol.

The same trend as the article mentions is evident here too, enrollment dropping while population is rising. The "pandemic" showed that the kids could do the schoolwork in 3 hours, so what were they doing the rest of the day?

The effectiveness of radiative heat transfer depends on the 4th power of the source temperature. Go ahead and look up the formula and the math.

The polar orbit can have continuous sunshine, but three months later it will be in the shade half the time. Three months after that it will be back in the sun full time.

To keep it in the sun continuously you will have to adjust the orbit regularly and that will take a fair bit of propellant.