A clear sky being blue, the current sky is gray. ;-)

The 3AM thunderstorm did not knock out the local power, by the way.

No it's not a shortage of generating capacity. It's wild weather knocking down power poles. Hurricanes, tornadoes, derechos, ice storms in winter, thunderstorms, etc.

Then there is the squirrelian horde.

https://nebraskapublicmedia.or...

A squirrel managed to take down the power to the county seat a couple years ago. Then add in the transformers that are just plain old and the truck drivers who cut the corner a little too close and takes out the pole and power outages happen.

The thing about doing this nationally though, is nobody is a bigger customer than the federal government. If by statue federal agencies move'd to 7-4, big business with federal contracts and small business with federal contracts absolutely would follow; and everyone else would follow them.

It makes zero f'ing sense to not have noon be when the sun is directly overhead. I realize that timezones are geographically to large and if you live at the edges noon is never really noon. Still FFS the middle of the day should be the middle of the day at least near the center of our given timezones.

The other thing DST means is the earths rotational day does not align to the calendar day, that just means more goofiness around local observations, and recording.

Given this is entirely a political thing if people WANT DST from a life style perspective, why don't we collectively agree start the morning news at 5a instead of 6a and open the office at 7 rather than 8 on the same day we set the clocks for the last time?

If you didn't try to steal copper, your brain wouldn't be fried and there'd have been one less power outage.

...You're sitting here comparing an Iroquois village with a larger landmass and a tenth of the population to a country, and then being aghast at the difference in scale. Besides, since when does your igloo need electricity?

When everything is illegal, nothing is illegal, but an authoritarian government can enforce laws against anyone it likes. This isn't about stopping companion bots, it's about creating an excuse to stomp down on anyone They want who is using the latest tool.

There's no reason Slashdot would suddenly come down hard on "infringement" by AIs except misguided general anti-AI sentiment and consensus cracking. Some people don't like AI and have seized on this as a way to stop it. Some other people are paid to say these things, to create the illusion that there is consensus for strong copyright laws. But strong copyright laws hurt almost everyone and have gone far, far beyond their original justifications. Rent seeking owners of publishers are holding our culture hostage, and it's evil.

No. It is not copyright infringement, and there's no reason to hold copyright so sacred anyway. Are you seriously wanting to protect hundred year old fairy tails from being retold? Information wants to be free.

MDS runs just about as hard as TDS.

LOL what company doesn't have arbitration clauses? It's almost a 100% certainly if you've clicked agree on a click though EULA there is 100% an arbitration clause somewhere in there.

I'm pretty sure Musk hasn't had diddly squat to do with PayPal since he sold his stake in it over 20 years ago, other than buying the x.com domain off them.

Paypal still has it's uses. I use it all the time to pay for shit on ebay. And if i'm buying something online from an infrequently used or small time retailer if they have the option to use paypal at checkout, id much rather do that then put my credit card into yet another retailer's website that might get breached at some point.

DST is completely retarded as far as work that needs to be done outdoors. How bout instead of making the entire populous suffer by changing the time twice a year. If your job requires outdoor work in sunshine then you get up and start your job an hour earlier or later depending on the time of year and leave the rest of us alone.

I noticed that the update rate in Mint seems quite elevated lately.

There is a lot of scrambling going on. AI does see, to have a value for slinging endproduct against the wall and targeting where ever something stuck.