"It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!" - Kyle Reese

So, they are measuring the properties of the positron interacting with the magnetic bottle (under the assumption that there is no anti-nucleus involved).

"Idle processors are the Devil's workshop."

"We simply can't rent space on poles occupied by our direct competitor. Power company, you choose."

Cars are the object of their hate and a symbol of the freedom they despise. If it were really about climate change the first term out of their mouth would be "power generation" and "coal" since that leads in terms of CO2 emissions causing the PPM to rise, cars play a role but not the leading role. Even when talking about road transport, shipping is around 10% of that. I don't see electric semi trucks taking the industry by storm yet, yet, either. However, climate warriors don't mind that they cannot offer real solutions, they don't want to negotiate, they want to get elected so they can use force.

So, unless you're in complete denial it's about who actually pays for it. This shit won't happen for free or on it's own. Fossil fuels remain the cheapest option in most cases, or at least one that's got the most momentum. Nobody has made "going green" cheap yet. It's always a higher cost or some kind of sacrifice. So, if you're going to be the climate hero who saves the world, who's back are you going to save it on? Sounds to me like folks would rather pick on some old conservative farmer with a farm truck than a giant corporation and a steam vessel bringing them their cheap Chinese Wal-Mart garbage. Folks know they'd be hurt and have to pay more if it's Wal-Mart who gets punched in the face with the climate change bill but they'd love to see their favorite liberal news outlet run a story about how Billy Bob had to sell his truck and buy a Prius with a trailer or whatever.

I always post the "Sure climate change is real. Do you want to smash the poor to fix it?" question and while there are 100's of replies to anyone in "denial" nobody ever replies when it's like "Hey you say you care about workers and the poor but you want to increase their costs drastically and have no real solution beyond use of force to take away what's working for people. Got any other ideas?".... crickets.

Who the fuck is this for? Does someone actually want to rent an Xbox over VNC (I know it's not VNC but you know what I mean)?

... the banks "Install our App" pleas. This is one reason why.

I thought this energy level for state transitions depended on which orbital they occupied (using an analogy with electrons).

I had that once. It worked well for my needs. But Comcast pushed it out of the neighborhood*. Which is what prompted the local telco to install fiber. Thank you, Comcast.

*Not really "out". They are still here, but do not serve residential customers.

"A Modest Proposal" - Jonathan Swift

Correct. But unlike a hotel, they don't have staff on site. In some popular resort areas, there is enough business to support a maid service. But if it's a BnB in a secluded spot, the cleaning crew has a ways to travel. So you are already expecting having to do some tasks yourself during your stay there . Suck it up and meet them halfway.

Actually, the trick is to keep it out of the Sun.

I was going to say Mylar space blanket*. But yeah.

When the cost of a countermeasure is much less than the cost of the weapon, you have lost that engagement.

*I wonder how much these might degrade the FLIR effectivity on CBP drones as well.

... taking out the trash.

Bears hands typed this.

Sounds legit. In a way, they are funding education of a sort. Learn what happens when you wave large piles of cash under politicians noses.

"Wisdom comes through suffering." -- Aeschylus