Really? Office in your browser would qualify?

Porting is such sweet sorrow.

My Facebook account was assassinated a few years back for posting "#NEVERAGAIN" and a link to the British Holocaust Memorial Day Trust on May 6. Reason eventually given: the link to a HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE PAGE was supposedly "glorifying violent individuals or organizations."

That's right. Nazi Trash Filth Zuckerberg decided that saying "#NEVERAGAIN" about the Holocaust was somehow "glorifying" violent individuals or organizations...

Numerous data breach notification laws just for starters, you dishonest Anonymous Meta-Employee Trash Troll Coward.

Meta as a company ought to have been shut down ages ago for so many violations of law. It's honestly amazing that they've managed to avoid it. Constant impersonation problems, constantly not just allowing but actually HELPING scam artists defraud people, constant security flaws that allowed for taken-over accounts, or that resulted in people losing their accounts through no fault of their own, irretrievably. The best advice I can offer someone is to NEVER use a Meta-owned system, ever.

I think satellite data centers are colossally stupid, but I suspect the larger problem is the public's gullibility for big lies.

Now, which things ARE lies and which aren't has been delightfully co-opted by politics; what one puts on that list is *instantly* translated into political affiliation.

I can think of 3 big lies that would immediately get me labeled "stupid maga fuck".
I can think of 3 others that would likewise get me labeled "woke fag".
Amusingly, putting all 6 in a list would be cognitively negatively filtered; each "side" would only see and respond to the ones they DISagree with, in most cases as if the others weren't even present.

I think data centers in space will be inevitable WHEN WE LIVE THERE and some research to address the (large) physics challenges the context poses are a good idea. Anything above research trial scale today is dumb. But that's all noise compared to the bigger problems, this argument is only a symptom.

I have a home full of expensive electronics and live in a rural county in the US Midwest where weather is an issue. I'd much rather have the external feed trickle-charging batteries that steady-supply my home, than be vulnerable to the spiky local power during weather events.

I sort if wonder in a complete amateur sense if this might herald a "ac for distribution, dc microgrid in homes" evolution.

Are we doing that great with the process ourselves?

Our children are deeply despondent, increasingly suicidal, and from the latest surveys evolution seems to have decided higher thinking abilities are to some degree a waste of energy better used for other things.

It was a civilian plane afterburners! As somebody who lives about 500m directly under one of Heathrow's landing flight paths,

But Concorde didn't use afterburners during landing. Very occasionally on a go-around it did but that was rare - this is "abort the landing", not "we need you to circle longer"

Concorde did use reheat on takeoff. That was for up to about 2 minutes on hot days, more usually around 90s. Concorde didn't carry enough fuel to run the afterburners unnecessarily. (Around 60s is acceleration to rotation speed, the rest the initial climb)

The only other time Concorde used afterburners was the acceleration to cruise speed - and that always happened over the ocean.

The tyre burst annoys me. The Air France Concordes didn't have the same safety features as the British Airways one - specifically, the BA ones had guards against burst tyres.

Virgin Airways wanted to buy the BA planes to keep them flying and offered to, but BA just didn't want to give them a public relations win so refused to sell. Shambles all round.

... sadly for the Americans, the rest of the world now knows they can't count on a US based provider for this kind of thing any more.

It was uncomfortable enough relying so heavily on American software back when it couldn't be switched off remotely on the say so of an idiot. Today it's an intolerable risk.

So if we're declaring "sides" to issues, which one was it that emplaced govt officials in social media companies to control what people were allowed to discuss?

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

It's 2026.
Everything is partisan, don't you understand? That's *part* of the enshittification. :|
But thank you for trying to bring actual facts to the discussion.

I've been convinced for decades that nobody in the beltway - whether they have a (R) or (D) by their name, or a 'nonpartisan bureaucrat' (ha ahahahaah) - gives much of a shit about the 340m people outside the beltway except as farmable resources.

(slaps forehead): They should have asked AI if that was a good idea FIRST!

Well that's what you get when the GOP are now the Retardican Senilefucking Klanbitchbags Party. Every member of the GOP are either lunatic insane depends-shitting Senile Fucking Klantrash like Trump, or Russian Owned Nazi Treason Cunt Shit like Miller.