And this just days after the unique numbers assigned to objects in orbit passed 66000.
I think this Starlink launch will put us past 66100, actually.

The most prominent example being the Amazonian rainforest, once heralded as the "earths lung", now has turned into a net zero factor in recent years. The area is getting so hot that some native tribes are already bugging out.

We are screwed. How hard is up to us.

Hey, I'm still waiting for the year of the LAN and the paperless office to arrive. Linux on the desktop... that's a long way off (says the guy who's been using Linux as his go-to OS for nearly 20 years and has no regrets.

... Is why the big players do not offer outdoor/rugged versions of their phones. They'd make a fortune, like apple with the apple watch ultra. I'd have started this 10 years about at least.

Drip is the shit version of coffee. Good instant coffee doesn't filter out the crema like drip does. In fact, good modern instant coffee is often even better than pressured "hand made" espresso, because you have to be skilled at grinding and operating the steam coffee maker in order to get anything of value out of it which most people can't. Espresso is what the name says: a fast pressured version of drip, originally invented to make lots of coffee fast.
Same with espresso bots. Price/performance is pretty much the worst with those. I'll take a good single serving instant espresso over one of those any time. For fancy nothing beats a good French press.

If you _have_ to spend lots of money for good coffee, I recommend cometeer coffee. They pre-brew their coffee at an expertly tuned industrial scale and then seal almost dry pellets of that coffee in single serves. You just pour boiling water over it and get the best coffee ever with zero the ceremony. Not cheap, but still lengths cheaper and better than Nespresso or similar nonsense.

... putting the people who came up with such brilliant ideas like the Rings of Power in charge of a nuclear fission plant? Think that's a good idea?

Don't say they can't be useful. I like this. I generally also like laws like the GDPR that enable EU regulators to fine megacorps for 50 bazillion Euros if they choose to get pissy with the rules and ignore them. Good stuff. Gotta hand it to the EU.

Bitcoin may not have a means to reverse a transaction (other than making another transaction) but it also has no mean of minting $300 Trillion of bitcoin. Mining is the only way to create new bitcoin, and that process was designed to get exponentially harder over time. Not only that, there are only a few million BTC left to be mined. I'm not advocating for bitcoin - I think it's essentially a scam at this point since all its "benefits" will go away when mining is no longer profitable - but it is fundamentally more secure in that these accidental money printing incidents are not possible with it.

> The law "undermines the basis of the cost savings and will lead to bulk billing being phased out," the group said.

Good; it's monopolistic, predatory, and ultimately unnecessary. The entire practice is aimed at driving consistency and forced adoption rates, not anything else.

At least US carmakers are scared. German carmakers are still stuck in the steam age because "luxury". Although they are getting a clobbering as we speak. And of course they're demanding a bailout which the new "conservative" government is willing to provide because they've been in bed with carmakers since the dawn of time.

Just plain pathetic. I would want my performance EV just to "naturally" whine as they do. I find that sound waaaay more impressive and intimidating anyway. You're literally hearing the pure torque at work. Sound of like the ground version of the Tie Fighter scream from Star Wars.

Mixer up the i and w there, sorry.

Sad I used mine to buy pizza :-(

EOM

Who said I wasn't vaxxed? I did get vaxxed because I crunched the numbers and weighed up the risks and uncertainties. At 68 years of age I figured I'd be better off being vaccinated, even if there were unforeseen risks associated with the vax that may surface ten years down the road. My point was that others may have different risk factors so for them the results may be different. It's about freedom of choice.

As for "putting others' lives in danger" -- we were all told that vaccination would protect us so why would we be worried about unvaccinated people in the general population eh? Unless we were being lied to?