These platforms are starting to let people bet on wildfire activity. What a fun way of incentivizing arsonists.

Although, from my two second check just now, Venus is technically considered within the Goldilocks zone for this solar system it is right on the very inner edge of it. This finding differs from Venus in that respect, making it more interesting as a possibility.

All highly speculative of course, but to be fair that's exactly what the article says. Atmosphere detected, everything else speculative.

The terrorists won here almost two decades ago. This is how long I had this one HP printer I own. Two of the cartridges are still the ones included with the printer back then.

I totally should post this on /r/shitamericanssay

"the left" certainly does "sound like pigeonholing" though. American politics no longer has anything to do with left, right or center. Saying otherwise is pigeonholing.

Also, the claim is not correct. Objectivity is not monopolized by "the left", nor critical thinking, nor naivety. Conservatives USED to be critical thinkers and centrists are principally defined by that. While conservatism is influenced by selfishness, liberalism is idealist. Both alignments are subject to bias.

In fact, the entire bogus conclusion "sounds like pigeonholing".

"Fact consumers such as you are a small sample of voters, like it or not."

This is such a partisan take, presented as though it is not. The entire Republican strategy is to drive contempt and hatred to cause disengagement, "like it or not". Your point is the same as Scalia's point was when Bush stole the election in 2000, "Get over it". Republicans have won, get over it, right? Fact consumers are NOT a "small sample", they are a targeted group.

"On the flip side, there are ALSO powerful groups who have a clear interest in controlling narratives."

Which is why there used to be checks on influence in media and why Republicans since Reagan have been destroying those checks. The creation of Fox News, and Rush before it, was deliberate, as is this furthering of that agenda.

"So, any news source that makes a sincere effort at being unbiased will be distrusted by viewers at least half the time."

False. You are assuming distrust is inherent but it is not and you have made no case for it. People used to trust the news because the news was trustworthy.

"... and will be fighting a losing battle against wealthy special interest groups. With cards stacked against them like that, it is no surprise that there aren't very many."

Right, the very reason news is untrustworthy.

Power outages happen in Germany too. Mostly minor, because construction workers dug where they weren't supposed to. Sometimes major, due to sabotage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Yeah, there's two main problems:

1) People entering the wrong fields. For example, medicine really needs workers, at all levels, but not enough people are going into it.

2) Certain manual labour fields, like field work and home construction, because... well, I think we all know why there's a shortage of workers in those fields.

The summary says: "Microsoft also addressed three zero-day flaws, including two that are already being exploited in the wild. "

(scratches head) How can a flaw be called zero-day and already be exploited in the wild?

Oh, so you never heard of sunglasses and flashlights? Well, now you know.

If you have found sarcasm in my words, you are welcome to keep it.

Hey, you won the war 37 times already. What happened?

Alexa is the shittier version of Alexa. It used to be good, but nowadays it is barely useful.

It is the same with the car market and, I suspect, most markets in the USA - just a couple of brands or even specific models and pretty much nothing else. Is it peer pressure?

It's a little unfair. You win a war, but they have no right to be doing what they're doing.

The orange shitgibbon literally said that.