This would all be great if the police were benevolent.

Which county has benevolent police?

I'm under the impression that most Ring users actually want their data to be used by the police to help stop crime (or whatever). Certainly some do. I can't find a poll on the topic though.

Along those lines, he can stay in office until his successor is elected. How he acts after may well depend on who wins.

Oxford close quote tag.

Trump fans keep telling me how evil Biden was for pre-emptively pardoning Fauci, so I assume Trump will do the same.

Trump is not healthy enough to live through a third term.

Sounds like AWS Lambda. It's all great until you write a recursive function and leave it running overnight, and then have a big bill at the end of the month.

In other words, be careful to look at expenses if you turn this on.

Could be a spy swap.

Putin isn't going to make a deal on Ukraine until China plays their hand, and China won't make their move until the US is entrapped as possible in Iran.

Code for, "we don't know who it was, but calling them a state actor will distract from our poor security."

Antibodies are used in research because they can be trained to connect to almost anything small. Once they attach in the body or in a petri dish, you can use western blotting or florescence or other techniques to find the antibodies, and you've found what they attached to.

There are a number of other uses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The question was what motivation Iran would have to attack a power plant in the UK. And there is the answer.

As for the rest of your post, I agree, it doesn't seem likely this was a hacking attempt, and attribution evidence is missing.

Those estimates are super low frequency though. I mean, hundreds of years between samples kind of low frequency.

Treating proxy data as if it is as useful as high frequency measurements in the modern satellite era is a category error.

Of course ENSO is a natural variation, and that it's not driven by human activity - it's literally circulation patterns of ocean heat that are hundreds of years long, untouched by industrialization.

I understand that the contention might be "well, our tiny fraction of human impact is going to be the straw that broke the camel's back on top of much more significant natural variation", but the truth is we don't have any really well supported evidence against natural variation - at best we have smoothed proxies that have lost resolution, and an otherwise very short observational period.

Now, I see being pissed at the boomers because of them building a welfare state that transfers all the wealth to themselves, stealing from the upcoming generations with inflation, taxation, unsustainable debt, and destructive social engineering against our shared american christian heritage. Even the natural climate change denial of the boomers is part of this selfishness.

The "New Deal" and "Great Society" and all the other socialist programs, including the "green new deal" were never a solution - they were a selfish programs that willfully cloaked themselves in faux compassion and charity, and destroyed communities, and virtue. Continuing the communist takeover only means that we're the ones giving the fuck you to the future, and pulling the ladder up after ourselves - there is no sustainable, involuntary application of "charity". Charity must be voluntary for it to work, and the failure of government interventions to force wealth transfers over the past 100 years has demonstrated that clearly.

The fact that the boomers have us focused on "climate change" is what lets them continue to extract wealth from future generations.

The recent trend in software companies is to fire middle managers, and the metric used to evaluate managers for firing is the velocity. So that's the reason.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/2...

If you like your manager enough to help them, then break up tasks into smaller tasks that take an hour or so but still have 1 point of value.

They hit what they can. Iran has attacked or threatened many countries, including the UK.

It's understandable. If I were the head of the Islamist regime in Iran, I would be trying to build up nuclear weapons that could hit America as quickly as possible.