At best cloud seeding takes water that would likely fall in one location and cause it to fall in another. It does not create new water. As such, how is the different from someone upstream damming a river and then taking the water for themselves?

To further clarify what I didn't say....the kids don't deserve it, the parents may though. But I would never say that.

Some e-bikes are basically motorcycles with electric engines instead of gas. Some allow people to barely pedal while still going 20+ miles an hour. Others require that you pedal hard but by doing so you can go about 1/3 faster than you would otherwise.

There are already classifications for these three types of e-bikes. If a write up wasn't designed to be inflammatory. It would have distinguished between the different classifications of e-bikes in far greater detail and not have such "California is run by jackboots" tone.

Kids are not allowed to ride around on gas powered motorcycles. How is society better off with young children and reckless teens riding around on an electric ones with equivalent torque, acceleration, and top speed? I would say anyone who thinks otherwise probably deserves to have their kids die or maimed, but I won't.

A very similar argument goes for adults and older teens. You have to register a gas powered motorcycle and be licensed to use one. Just because the propulsion isn't gas, should not make any difference.

Lastly and not addressed with this. e-bikes have no business being on mountain and forest trails where other motorbikes, and atvs are not also allowed. They are a safety hazard to themselves and others on trails designated for non-motor vehicle use.

On roads though, electric powered motorcycles are great. And with the case of class I and II e bikes, paved bike trails are the perfect place for them.

Depends on the sidewalk and where the sidewalk is located. Most places where cyclists should not be on the sidewalk have laws stating as much.

Exactly. They should also allow a full MacOS to run on it. Even if it just runs as an application. Or better year, the vision OS runs as an application on top of the MacOS. But as is I might even pay the same as iPhone Pro or MacBook Air ($1100). But no way am I dropping $3500 for one.

They are definitely better than my Quest 3. But $3500 is far too much for something that basically only useful to the majority as a content consumption device.

In other news, some people make bad parents. I guess it's better than smoking crack in the same room as them. However, the first certainly doesn't preclude the latter.

My thoughts exactly. I don't have a mod points. So I will just concur with my words.

Seems more like a PR stunt than anything practical.

They can hear very low frequencies. Has anyone asked them if them if they experience overwhelming ennui and an impending sense of dread? Or is it just people who hellucinate ghosts? Or perhaps they need even lower frequencies to experience those effects?

I mean aspect ratio. When a file is specifically filed for IMAX instead of just shown on a giant IMAX screen the dimension of the image projected. Though that is not necessarily true for every scene in the film. I read "Project Hail Mary" had the most actual IMAX footage of any film so far. All the space scenes were shot in that aspect ratio and well, it is a long movie. If you saw the film in any other format the space scenes were all cropped.

I have an half acre lot with a house on it. Within a 15 minute walk of my house I also have a train station, offices, a bank, a grocery store, restaurants, bars, salons, tailors, a medical clinic, and parks. Within a 25 minute walk there are also schools, additional train lines, museums, more parks, hardware stores, offices, a courthouse, and many, many more restaurants, bars, coffee shops, retails store, galleries, parks, boutiques, B&Bs, etc.

Depending which train line you take it is 50 minutes or 25 minutes to the heart of major city on the northeastern seaboard. It takes about 30-45 minutes to drive to the center of the city by car. It is a 15 minute drive to the airport.

What "15 minute cities" try to create is what exist already with most towns and neighborhoods in the USA that predate the automobile. My town was first settled in 1647. The first passenger train here was in the 1850s. You would be so lucky to have everything you need within a mile and half from your home. What you seem to forget, is no one is going to force you to stay within that mile and half radius. I am in fact able to leave whenever I want. I just get to decide if I want to do so on foot, a bike, a car, or by train. Over half the people in this country have to jump into a car to go to those things I can comfortably walk to.

Dolby Cinema beats out IMAX in everything, but aspect ratio. The picture quality, the sounds, and the seats are all far superior.

Even a 2% chance of nuclear winter every year means just that. A 2% chance any given year. Each year is an independent statistic. It doesn’t mean two years is 4%. Ten years is 20%. And fifty years is 100%.

This is just proof that just because someone understands one complicated concept that doesn’t mean they understand a different one.

While people like to think the sound of the drones would ruin otherwise tranquil settings, I have to say at least here in my neighborhood it would fit right in. My neighbors and I all may have roughly half acre lots, not be on busy streets, and are surrounded by noise dampening giant trees on rolling hills. But between the weekly leaf blowers and lawn mowers; plus the: home projects, delivery drivers, and the five private trash companies that all pick up trash and recycling bins all on different days which service the neighborhood it is hardly consistently quiet. Add in the church bells and occasional sirens wafting in over the hills as well all, an intermittent buzz of a drone would fit right in.

I’m not surprised at all these neighbors don’t notice.

Make The Philippines American again?

Let them show ads to empty theaters and those who haven’t figured out the game. The theater basically charge you $3-$5 per ticket in fees to pick your seat before the show. Which you are pretty much forced to pay these if don’t want to sit on the edges or are with a group and don’t want to make two trips to the theater. If I’m going to be social engineered into paying extra “ convenience” fees, then I’m not going to step into the theater until the show is about to start. All the trailers are online in short order anyway.

Now if they got rid on online reservations and went back lines at the ticket booth so you had to show up early for a good seat, then I’d complain about the ads.