I'm so car-dependent, living in (desert) Suburbia, that i maintain my xeriscape myself, perform small repairs around the house, and take my bike on 3 mile errands, usually 3 times a week.

I also enjoy dining out regularly, and seeing movies in the theater, which stretches the bike practicality, not for distance, but because I do these things with my wife.

My real complaint? I regularly present as at least 20 years younger than I am, not the result of any deliberate effort on my part, and even my physicians claim I am in excellent shape, despite my knowing in myself I am as soft as a grape. But I do what I've known to do for 40+ years, which is weight training with deliberate, careful form, stress that form over the weight, and do what enables me to continue living life and doing what I most want to do. The printed advice would tell me I am doing most of it wrong.

The most important exercise you can do is the one you actually do.

How about you just let me ride my bike to the gym, starbucks, and back home for a 7.5 mile round trip, and keep your urban lifestyle advice for those who don't want to reach for what they want?

Most particle accelerators are unable to steer two particle beams to crash head-on into one another.

https://cds.cern.ch/record/281...

Ag-Ag might be unique but cern does Pb-Pb (which was always planned) and Pb-p (which is much harder due to the slight difference in orbit required to keep the bunches counter-rotating at the same period and is in my books amazing)

Whenever anyone says "everyone should do this thing" there are decent odds it's bullshit, spread by well-intentioned but ignorant people, or by not-so-benignly-intentioned people that know better but benefit from the outcome.

Meanwhile, if one is informed and tries to speak against the herd, it's pretty amazing in an anthropological sense how aggressive and angry "white knights" will pop up with no vested interest in the subject, only apparently in the argument itself.

And social media -which in any subject is vastly ill informed- has made it worse.

LOL sure.
"Canada's Automotive industry going independent of the US"
Next a news article about how your appendix going "independent of the rest of your body."

Canada doesn't HAVE a car industry. They are the outsourced production shop for the US car industry.
And, if you're capable of 2nd order thinking, ask yourself why so many US manufacturers put some parts and assembly work in Canada?

Per AI:

US carmakers established factories in Canada primarily
to bypass high Canadian tariffs on imported vehicles in the early 20th century, later expanding to benefit from lower labor costs, a skilled workforce, and integrated supply chains under trade agreements like the 1965 Auto Pact and NAFTA.
Key reasons for Canadian manufacturing include:

        Tariff Avoidance: Early in the 20th century, Canada placed a 35% tariff on imported cars, forcing companies like Ford to open factories in Canada to sell to the Canadian market, as well as to other parts of the British Empire which gave preferential treatment to Canadian-made goods.
        The Auto Pact (1965): The Canadaâ"United States Automotive Products Agreement eliminated tariffs, allowing the Big Three to integrate production, making it efficient to produce specific models in Canada for the entire North American market.
        Cost and Logistics: Lower Canadian wages compared to the US and favorable exchange rates (lower Canadian dollar) made production cost-effective. Close proximity to Detroit (Windsor-Detroit corridor) allowed for easy logistics.

Wait, so you're saying Canada put up....prohibitive tariffs blocking US goods? To drive manufacturing into Canada? And it worked? I thought only the Orange Baboon did things like that to friendly neighbors?
And then after those tariffs went away (in 1965 I guarantee it wasn't "for the good of consumers" lol) that the artificially-propped-up US dollar effectively benefited Canada's economy and workers, the same way the same action benefitted who else? European postwar manufacturers as well?

I know most of you are raging and will be unable to even see this paragraph but I think Trump's fight with Canada is stupid and egotistical. If he hadn't been such a moron, Poilievre would have won handily and the US & Canada could be - as usual, as natural - cooperating on bigger, more important issues.
But let's not pretend the US hasn't since WW2 deeply & generously advantaged other economies, and it's no longer a postwar world. The US can't afford to keep buying everyone lunch, not when we borrow 25c of every dollar from the future. That's dumb. I also think it's dumb to start fights with everyone like an egotistical child but whatever.

Plus, if even that teeny bit of loosely flapping material measurably helps, maybe women would get closer to mens' performance?

Feels like a win-win.
I guarantee the Olympics would get much, much better viewer numbers across all events.

This is an awful thing, granted but "Eric and Emily never go out without wearing hats now, for fear they might be recognised" is ridiculous - there are 8.3 BILLION people on the planet.

Eric & Emily I 1000% guarantee your sex antics are utterly not noteworthy nor memorable enough that the sorts of pr0n addicts that subscribe to these things would recognize you if you were sitting across from them at dinner. Guaranteed.

And you look like you're reasonably fit, healthy people.
Me, they'd pay to never see me in their feed again.

Meanwhile they use Chinese electronics and buy energy from Russia.

TDS is a powerful thing.

I don't think it's a lack of expertise that's the point.
The EU of course has ample technological resources.

The problems are the incessant bureaucrats. The EU is suffused with and mired in endless bureaucracy.

The obstacle to replacing Microsoft will not be the code, it will be the necessity of ensuring every country gets their participation, gets their say, that every special interest gets served, that everyone has a piece of whatever is created.

The license payers. The idea would be instead of paying for Teams, pay for a joint venture open source Teams alternative.

It's an attractive idea but in practice fraught with issues. First, I don't want to wait until its ready so I'll end up with a Team license anyway. Second, this means I'm going to have to agree a feature set with my fellow contributors - many of these companies will be rivals, and some will have some dumb workflow that means it's absolutely vitalthat a message turns purple 33 1/3rd seconds after being read otherwise how on earth can their compliance dept....blah blah, you get the idea.

Then you've got classic Tragedy of the Commons. You mean if I don't pay/stop paying, I can just get it anyway? Well then, guess what I'm going to do. And them. And them. And...yeah. And god help them when it's 'finished' and suddenly they realise they have to pay for ongoing maintenance not in license fees but in ensuring there are always coders who are interested and knowledgeable about it.

It's all do'able, but it's quite the model shift. I wish it well.

Mostly harmless.

Apologies - commenting to undo a misclick mod, please ignore.

Because it would be unusable. Lockdown mode is pretty severe, it's not something you want to deal with day to day.

Everything you just mentioned is physical. They're made of computers and wire, and all of those computers have a physical location and wthe wire goes through holes in the ground. Remember the internet was created to link multiple geographical sites to allow things to continue if one were hit by a nuclear strike.

Just because we're used to dealing with the abstractions doesn't mean the underlying isn't real. It's a long time since this terminology was in use, but even 'the internet' used to be 'an internet', and it was possible to have multiple and that the global one was spelled with a capital I.

Less efficient, more expensive? Yes, I'd think so. Whether that's worth it or not depends on the goal you're looking for.

Who said that?
I'm sorry are there other points on the liberal wishlist that would have been better examples?

Or are you one of those people who INSISTS their ideology is "the center" without even the fundamental self-awareness to recognize honestly ones' own biases and where they are in the spectrum of beliefs?