Indeed you don't have to look very far to see this in action. Consider Texas' move to quickly gerrymander the few Democratic seats into Republican. Or North Carolina where the state legislature has drawn districts such that republicans will always hold the state house in perpetuity, regardless of whether the people elect a Democrat governor. The brazenness with which the GOP is acting now is really frightening. They used to at least pretend to believe in democracy and the constitution. Not anymore. Faced with this kind of nuclear threat, I fully support Democrats considering their own gerrymandering to counter this threat from the GOP.

Modded troll seriously? Wow.

And even if things are made in the US again, they won't be much cheaper than the import good plus the tariff. Why leave money on the table? So Americans pay way more either way, nevermind the overwhelming negative impact on the entire world's economy. Getting your average maga person to understand this simple fact is unreasonably difficult.

For decades hundreds of chemicals in our food supply have been declared as "Generally recognized as safe." Originally this applied to substances that have been put in foods for hundreds of years or more, and thus probably were safe. But apparently in recent decades all sorts of chemicals have been simply declared by companies as "generally recognized as safe" arbitrarily, particularly chemicals in the health supplements industry. Interesting article on the subject: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/f.... Warning, CBS was contractually obligated to include a picture of RFK Jr for no apparent reason.

With trump wanting to gut all government agency and eliminate the FDA entirely, and RFK Jr pushing health supplement which are part of the problem, the future doesn't look so healthy does it.

The new design is fine, although I prefer the perspective projection of the older icons to the isometric projection of the new icons.

The use of a representation of a bare IDE hard drive was always a bit of a weird choice for an icon, especially for MacOS, but also for Gnome and other Linux DEs which copied it. It made perfect sense to me but your average Mac user has never seen a bare drive, just like how most people today have never seen a floppy disk.

Not as the law is written. The difference is who owns them. Under dealer franchise law, dealerships are not owned by the manufacturer and must buy the vehicles which they then sell. Whereas Tesla owns all their dealerships and thus sell directly to consumers, which Rivian rightly wants in on.

There may have been good reasons for these dealership laws years ago, but now that Tesla has carved out exceptions for themselves, it's only fair that all manufacturers should be able to do the same thing.

I've been watching him for years and he's an excellent resource for information on electric vehicles. Very informative.

Hopefully Hyundai and others have addressed this very real problem. I read once there are safety regulations governing when the brake lights can be lit, but automatic emergency braking systems on all modern cars do put on the brake lights, so I don't see why they can't light them when regeneratively braking.

Electric Trucker on youtube also recently commented on a video about one truck he drove that didn't light the brake lights when regeneratively braking, and he said that was big problem. But other trucks do.

Technology Connections is most certainly not in the pocket of oil companies!

Yeah it's quite the wasteland out there, sadly. PC Mag did a recent rreview of ergonomic keyboards on the market now, and none of the ones they reviewed looked any good to me. Chiclet key caps and hardly any key travel. Sigh.

There's a split keyboard from a company called Meetion. They want a pretty penny for it. A few reviews say it's favorable to the MS Natural. Wireless only unfortunately.

My father also loves the MS natural keyboard and he has two or three spares in boxes that he bought a few years ago. I looked on Amazon today and found one for sale (brand new) but it's a french version but might work in english? They do come up once in a while. I bought one off of ebay a while back.

I've been using the Adesso natural keyboard (PCK-208B) for years, and like it better than the MS natural. Just about wore the letters off the key caps. The version I use has been discontinued (sigh) but Adesso still makes and sell split keyboards, which they call TruForm. But I don't know if they are any good. They moved the two halves closer together.

The GOP certainly doesn't and are taking a lot of steps to ensure that they don't.

If it's got that kind of earning potential, what went wrong for the owner? Obviously he's lying or he'd be making a lot of money himself right now. He's just out to scam someone.

I'm sure there is someone stupid though. but most of the collectors I've seen are pretty discriminating in their purchase of NASA history. There's one collector that has at least one (now) working Apollo guidance computer. Some very brilliant Google engineers didn't several years reverse engineering it, repairing it and ultimately flying it in simulation. They've now backed up and archived several of the versions of the software that flew on Apollo. That's the kind of history worth preserving. Too bad it has to rely on rich private collectors. But no one else really cares.

Haha. We'll never see them. Today they transferred Ms Maxwell to a random prison camp in Texas. Any bets on when she'll get sick and die out there?

Never mind that it's American consumers who are demanding this. With Trump it's all about blaming others for his/America's problems. He never takes responsibility. Ever. Unless it's something others praise and then he's quick to tell us all his opinion of himself.

As someone who is self-deprecating and embarrassed by any sort of praise, my mind is boggled by his behavior, and how many people are cheering him on. Perhaps a solid third of the population is mentally ill? Probably, no matter what team you cheer for.

Most importantly, the Boring Company's raison d'etre is that it builds tunnels at far lower cost than conventional methods.

Faster than conventional methods? Nothing the Boring Company is doing is different from everyone else. I'm not sure why Musk thought he could buy a tunneling machine and somehow run it faster than everyone else. And they can't do it any cheaper either.

Maybe some day that rock vaporizer drill technology we read about a few weeks ago could be scaled up to burn out large tunnels. But until then, there's nothing at all special about the Boring Company, other than the continued hype and ketamine dreams.