There are multiple sites in the ocean off Southern California including dumped munitions, low level radioactive waste, sulfuric acid, and toxic petrochemicals chemicals.

There is a Superfund site at he former location of the Montrose Chemical Corporation in Torrance where much of the DDT related waste was illegally dumped off Palos Verdes.

The full extent of the problem is still unknown. “The more we look, the more we find, and every new bit of information seems to be scarier than the last... This has shown just how egregious and harmful the dumping has been off our nation’s coasts, and that we have no idea how big of an issue and how big of a problem this is nationally."

I'm glad to see that Slashdot isn't above printing the occasional feel-good story. :)

You're not wrong!

Rolling blackouts used to be far more common and the government would issue a Flex Alert to indicate that rolling blackouts would be used. California has CAISO which manage electric related stuff and they have a PDF of grid emergencies since 1998 which include flex alerts. Spoiler, there hasn't been any since 2022 which is shown in this bar graph of flex alerts by year.

So now that we have established that rolling blackout haven't happened since at least 2022, the question is why.
Here is a bit more info but the TL;DR version is that in 2022 CA passed law to create the Strategic Reliability Reserve which has multiple programs aimed at preventing power outages, including that distributed energy grid system that was featured on here a while back.

However, is it really batteries that preventing outages? Well, it's already been shown that battery systems react much faster than normal energy production methods which prevents your power from "blinking" when a source goes offline. Also, here's a graph from 2024 that shows when battery power is being used and how much (noticed it's very negative when charging from solar). The point here being that the energy stores are substantial and can be discharged ad hoc. It's not definitive evidence but I'm sure if you dig into some of the stats on https://www.caiso.com/ that you could find you seek.

correct.

Can't do it. I'm refactoring on a large code base. I eventually had to tell it to work on just one task and ignore other concerns it had to prevent it from investigating until it got stuck in a cycle of investigation.

LOL! Forget super intelligent, right now, I would settle for somewhat intelligent. I've been trying to get an AI bot to adapt some code but it keeps doing so much researching and checking that it keeps compacting and losing information. I narrowed it's task as much as possible and it still keeps deliberating and forgetting! If super intelligent AI is anything like AI then all we need to feed it a mobius strip of a conversation to paralyze it. *sigh*

What is he talking about? They have no ability to understand OR control these systems.

Here's a better idea, how about the go government does it job and start prosecuting corporations that hack into other companies? Think a slow down is a good idea? I guarantee that a $100B dollar fine will cool your heels really fast.

The headline makes it sound like they are complaining about Apple encryption when in fact they support encryption.

I was a little confused at first because when I searched for xepub, I found an Electron application that stalled out 6 years ago that happens to have the identical name and purpose. Considering the repo was suddenly spawned with a fully functional application, it seems there is a fair chance these are AI ports of existing Electron applications to Python that use their new library. I haven't looked close enough to determine if it's true but it seems worth investigating.

Also, if true, I can't figure out why they would bother to make a port and NOT make it a native application.

Kimmel would love giving equal air time to a Green Party candidate. He'd make it entertaining and enlightening. Great television. He'd take his show down to Texas to accommodate Paxton for an interview, but it might be hard to pry Paxton out from whatever rock he's hiding under.

As far as allowing Democratic Socialists airtime, the FCC doesn't consider them to be any different than any other Democrats so it's a no go.

Trump has already called Democrats "godless communists", so that is the official party line. FCC clearly thinks that commies have no free speech rights at all, so no Talarico over the airwaves for you.

Grow up.

Where's my $2000 from DOGE savings? Does no one remember the last time? How fucking brain dead do you have to be to not remember?

Also his offer is completely illegal and no one seems to be talking about that little detail.

Trump and the Republicans think that voters are whores and will sell their rights for an empty promise. I'm afraid they might be right.

Next they need to start replacing executives in publicly traded corporations. They would be equally evil but at least we could turn them off.

Don't go blaming this on a computer, this is a company that committed these crimes. The fact that they were unaware of it does not change the fact that their company committed multiple felonies. If someone had a computer that did the same thing, they would be in jail. These companies should be prosecuted but won't be because this nation has become a cesspool of corruption.

A) Not all spam is commercial in nature.
B) If you are removing it from the platform then that is censorship according to your definitions.

Filtering? By the end user is a personal choice but removing it from the platform is bias/censorship.

I'll just refer to you as hypocrite and a liar.