I like how we have cool engineering and cool computer science posts today instead of just legal battles, doomer gloom, and political intrigue.

> They now embark on a new task...what's wrong with Google these days?

That's pretty much status quo. They do some stuff, get users, get bored with it, kill the project.

(open source Android reader)

If it makes you feel any better, whether you're on Windows or Linux, you need to be looking for an alternative to Publisher... it's been deprecated and has an EOL about a year out. You can, of course, continue to run it, but I can't imagine running any MS software that doesn't get security updates anymore, especially one that's an Office component.

There are at least half a dozen different games called "football," none of which are the One True Football(TM). Soccer is a shortening of Association Football (itself named to differentiate it from Rugby Football which was codified earlier), and was, in fact, used as slang shortly after the codification of Assocation Football around 150 years ago.

You can identify the condescending assholes that already know that because they use terms like "handegg" to feign ignorance of this when they demand you stop using a word that's been in use for a century and a half in favor of their preferred terminology.

The more important anomaly is the JWST observation of galaxies that formed when the Universe was "too young for those galaxies to form".

If you push back the age of the Universe to allow those galaxies to form then you push on the coefficients of expansion and those need to agree with theory which they do not under current theory.

Some theories are compatible but lack a Big Bang which is taken as an article of faith by most and need more observations to consider.

Scientists not agreeing *is* science. If the schools fail to teach that in 13 years that's a massive indictment of the schools.

It's more like the System 7 icon, but still unnecessarily skeumorphic.

Who is going to buy a Macbook and think that's what their internal storage looks like?

Make Icons Icons Again

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Thats a really ass backwards way of putting it. They regulations were so bad, they instead broke regulations so they didn't have to follow the other regulations. thats gobbledy gook for they did the cheapest thing possible knowing it was shit and not safe because they were self regulated.

Fuck you. I most certainly do have a specific amount of regulation in mind. Absolutes are for dorks like you to use as strawmen.

But high props for your car 93 escort wagon was a hell of a car, that I aspire to own again some day.

No thats stupidity talking. There are meteorological seasons and astronomical ones. Why would we pay attention to where we are around the sun? Why? Isn't it a thousand more times important what it feels like for those that do experience seasons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer#Meteorological_reckoning

Its stupid in the same way that a roller coaster is stupid, recreational scuba diving, mountain climbing, skydiving, skiing, running a marathon, playing an instrument, or playing video games is. Nothing practical is achieved, its a waste of time and money, right? Or maybe people like doing things, and you shouldn't pass judgment on what exactly people enjoy doing with their time and money.

If we are going to start judging people, who buddy buckle the fuck up Because there is NO FUCKING way I approve of what ever you do.

The internet is more than just the web, and this is just a bizarre proposal. If you think bandwidth caps are bad, just wait until you can get charged per-connection fees.

Alphabet can absorb way more fines than prison sentences.

Hopefully they won't be Evil.

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.

There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.

We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.

This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.

As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.

I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.