Has Mr. Gilmoure been around as long as me???

Nope ;-)

Stevew

Totally agree, but if it costs google anything, then $10k doesn't cover it. Even if 10 independent stores sign up, $10k/store doesn't even cover a single FTE for a year, and they will probably need a small team to run this this program. The $10k is not there to "cover costs" as they say. It is there to deter small open source groups from running their own store. It really does feel targeted at F-Droid.

Th232 also has a half life ~3x longer than U238 (~14b v ~4.4b years) and only undergoes 6 alpha decays in its decay chain to Uranium's 8, so it is not as much of a bump as you would expect. Either way, it's still not like we will get anywhere waiting around for decay products to replenish our Helium if we run out.

I miss when you would still organically encounter people's personal website or blog, a web ring, or an oddball specialty web forum when looking for information instead of always landing on 1 of 5 social media sites. Most sites back then would work if you disabled JS and cookies altogether or just accepted them for the current session, so no persistent tracking. Flash did suck, but it also gave us sites like newgrounds and kongregate.

I've never been forced to restart FF that I can recall. I just get a little popup suggesting I restart for updates.

The only source on earth is radioactive decay of crustal uranium. It takes millions of years for an appreciable amount to accumulate. It's not replaceable on a human time scale.

MRI and other superconductor applications, semiconductor manufacturing, testing ultra high pressure systems.. Lots of high tech relies on having highly purified helium available.

My charger came with the car and I got a $600 installation stipend from the manufacturer. I paid $0 and waited a few weeks, during which time I just charged off an external 120/15 GFCI outlet overnight.

You can definitely find deals if you look. Not to mention many states have tax rebates and other incentives for installing EV chargers.

The real challenge is reworking 70 years worth of car-centric infrastructure that makes riding a bike a harrowing life threatening experience. This is coming from someone who bike-commuted for years in a relatively "bike friendly" city (for the US). Even so, we have little shrines of white bicycle frames shackled to sign posts and telephone poles all over the city to commemorate where bikers were killed.

Plastic companies invented the "give a hoot don't pollute" and "sad indian" campaigns to push environmental costs onto the individual when there was a danger of regulation limiting plastics in packaging. Oil and energy companies came up with marketing carbon footprint as a means of shifting responsibility for climate change onto the individual.

It's popular for services that run on a shared hosting model because it can be run as either a cgi processor or via mod_php. It gives you access to backend scripting and all you need is a shell account. That's becoming less relevant in the age of containerization and VPSes, but it still has a lot of inertia.

Most of those things are what I would expect to do when renting a vacation house via a handshake agreement in the days before Air BnB. Maybe not mop the floor, but dishes washed, trash taken out, beds stripped, and "broom clean" was all pretty standard. You are (supposed) to be renting someone's private home, not staying in a hotel with a full service maid. Leave it how you found it.

White women basically elected Trump in 2016, staying away from Clinton in droves and preferring Trump by a ~20 point margin. They still went for Trump over Harris 53-46 in '24 as well.

And what about something like No Man's Sky or Elite Dangerous. No idea what the server side of those games is like, but there is no ongoing subscription. However, it could still be legally problematic for the developer to release the server side component. Should games like that just be illegal to make?

Modern agents can just drive your browser via an extension and hand control over to you to solve the CAPTCHA. Once they have a token they can drive the browser through hundreds or thousands of interactions.