Metabolic disease doesn't turn on like a switch at a certain weight, it takes a while to develop. And when you fix your eating, it takes a while to undevelop.

Some of the NAND chips were ripped off and were not found. The ones that weren't ripped off were shattered - cracks in multiple directions. The dies inside were almost certainly exposed to sea water.

Exposed to sea water, the cells probably lost all charge very rapidly.

I had been hoping that someone would have made the attempt anyway. I'd have liked to read that report.

An artillery shell is subjected to one acceleration along a single axis of propulsion. It is a big acceleration, but not that big, and you mostly just need to organize the parts such that everything is supported along that axis.

Dealing with an implosion is different. Water with the density of concrete, moving around the speed of sound, bouncing everywhere and coming from all directions.

The SSDs look like someone put them in a pillowcase and beat them with hammers.

If you aren't dealing with the hassle of key management, you shouldn't consider your data encrypted.

The SD card was inside of a camera rated for the depth it was at. The camera looks like a thermos with inch-thick walls. The camera housing was dinged up by being adjacent to the sub's implosion, but did not implode itself. The energy of the nearby implosion ripped components off of the camera's PCB, but didn't harm the SD card. This makes sense, because the SD card is light and compact.

The sub's computer bay was a much different story. It was filled with air and when it imploded, everything inside was charred and crushed into a lump that mangled every PCB and cracked every chip with more than a few pins. They specifically looked at the PCBs of the SSDs, hoping to find some data, but those PCBs looked like crumpled up paper. I think the report called it, eloquently, "distorted on all axes"

A diesel engine runs at 14:1 up to 25:1 compression, and the heat of this compression is literally what ignites the fuel. The computer bay implosion was more like 400:1, which superheated all surfaces, but only for a few microseconds.

Unions were patient zero of enshittification. They did some good in the 19th cenutry and now mostly exist to convert dues into lavish lifestyles for the "leadership".

And because he is a fucking retard, his scapegoat is imaginary.

Every graph of school spending looks like this or this, a brutal reality that everyone who pays school taxes knows quite well.

Plastic packaging disposal is super easy for me.

My area has a waste to energy facility (an incinerator) that burns all of our trash. Our recycling goes through a single-sort facility, then all paper and plastic from that stream gets burned in the incinerator too.

At this point, I think of my plastic waste as natural gas that had been borrowed temporarily from the local power plant.

LOL. MAGA cities.

We have Rock solid evidence that approximately 7 million Americans got denied the right to vote using common voter suppression tactics last election.

I LOLd. What you have is rock solid evidence of 7 million fraudulent votes in 2020 when all 50 state election systems were in chaos.

This is known in the business as the Maddow Defense.

People are slowly waking up to the truth that this was never about labor costs. The Chinese government deliberately built up their industrial capacity because production becomes power over time. They used every trick in the book to become attractive to manufacturing. For a while, cheap labor was one of the tools they had, but Chinese labor hasn't been cheap for a long time now. Sometimes now it is even more expensive than American labor, but we still can't compete because we've lost those skills, that knowledge, those networks.

WW2 was over before it started because America had the industrial capacity to outbuild the rest of the world combined, in every category. WW3 will go exactly the same way for exactly the same reasons, but it this time it won't be America.

My estimate is that approximately 7 billion people are alive today who would not be alive without oil and gas.

No, SCOTUS did not rule that. They didn't need to - the word "corporation" literally means "person".

What the Citizens United ruling really said was that humans didn't lose their political and first amendment rights when they work together with other humans using a structured organization.

When I tried opening my spreadsheets in Calc, anything that had dates in them was broken. Libre Office forces dates to follow the Libre Office locale setting, which in America is absolute garbage.

I can override any components of the default locale in Windows, and Excel uses the specifics provided by the operating system. That means that all of my spreadsheets that use sane dates (ISO 8601) work in Excel, and fail in Calc.

This has been a known problem for more than a decade, if the bug reports and forum posts I've found are accurate. The proposed workaround is to edit the locale definition and recompile the office suite.