I use Firefox as my main browser.

I can't uninstall Chrome though, because so many sites break on Firefox (and like major sites too, like Gencon's website or really annoying things like hotel wifi login sites) I have to keep Chrome around to keep my computer usable.

I don't care about Pocket or these other useless things. All I want from Firefox is for them to figure out why their tech stack is incompatible with Chrome and fix it. Even if it's not standards compatible. Make a compatibility layer so I can uninstall Chrome spyware.

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

And by the time the first "warning" was raised- the girl's camp was under water. The "emergency" wasn't raised until hours later.

And the republican legislature (including the repp for Kerr County) voted down the flood siren warning system. He says now that he "might" have voted differently.

The emergency alerts on the phones do not discriminate. They play that incredibly nasty noise.
And they also play it for amber alerts--- for kids who were kidnapped over 100 miles away -- 24 hours a day.

One you get woken up for a watch or an amber alert at 3am out of a sound sleep, the alerts get turned off.

Is that even with all this solar, wind, etc.... China *still* must build more coal plants even tho we are finding out their population is smaller than we thought.

In time, alternative energy will destroy demand for coal but for now, the projections are still for more coal plant by 2045.

I'm hoping they are wrong and solar/wind comes online faster. It's cheaper than coal but they simply can't produce and build it out fast enough globally.

I do believe you are 100 percent correct. From where he was to where he is, I fear the changes in Musk are probably due to drug use. He has said in the past that he "microdoses" ketamine, but has also said he uses more for partying. Some of the abuse indicators fit. His flipflopping from liberal to far right conservative, then getting into a fracas with Orange Daddy and making threats about the Epstein documents, then saying he over-reacted. Damn you need a scorecard to figure out where his mind is on what day.

I don't know how this can be addressed, he's too wealthy for an intervention - he's going to have to fix himself on his own. When the erratic behavior started a few years back, I predicted he was following the path of Howard Hughes. I haven't changed my mind.

I can't really imagine keeping 2x more trash cans in my kitchen and dealing with having to work around and walk around them....it's full as it is.

But hey, it's a free country...you do you.

I don't see any compelling reason to change a lifetime of behavior for no perceived value, and add inconvenience to my daily life.

What to you think about the fact that it keeps rapidly disassembling? I hear people talk about "Move fast and break things".

Would you buy a car that blows up every time, using the concept of move fast and break things?

Now that sounds kinda of specious at least to me, because liquid fueled Rocketry is over 100 years old. And modern rockets are pretty well based on the concepts of the V2 rocket designed and built in Germany in WW2.

Now if were me in charge of the StarShip program, I'd be placing a hard hold to assess why StarShip is so far - a failure. That thing is nowhere near ready for primetime.

This is not to disparage the Falcon Fleet - really good rockets.

Let's say I was in charge of StarShip. I'd change the "move fast and break things" concept to incremental steps. First thing I would do is wrap a stainless steel reentry vehicle that would simulate a upper stage Starship - but smaller - and it's tiling on a Falcon 9 heavy, launch it to orbit, return it and see what happens.

Assuming that worked okay, the next step would be to static launch an upper stage, and only after all the bugs are worked out, then mate it to the first stage and launch.

To each his own...sounds like a major PITA to me.

Where I am...each house has 1 or more general garbage cans...but plastic things, uniform size and shape....and on trash days (2 a week) you wheel the "bin" out to the road side....the truck comes along and a big mechanical arm picks up each can and dumps it in...

There's no garbage men there to even look at what you're throwing out.

On a different day of the week, I do see folks putting out their small recycle bins, the ones that want to participate.

To save money, they've set up this system so that we don't have 2-3 guys hanging on the back of each garbage truck grabbing each can and dumping it...there's pretty much just 1 person driving the truck and the truck grabs, dumps and returns each can....

Again, I don't have anything against recycling....but participation is and should be optional...where I live.

Johnny Fever on WKRP.

"When everyone is out to get you, paranoid is just....

.......good thinking"

LOL....oh, don't forget the Phone Cops!!

Thankfully where I live....no one forces anyone to recycle.

You can if you want...but you are free to decide if you want to bother or not.

We don't have any "trash police" here....we've got better things to spend our tax dollars on.

I'm kind of mystified by the absolute visceral hostility of a large number of Americans towards recycling.

I think it has to do with some cities actually forcing people to recycle....where they actually go through what you throw out and fine you...?

Thankfully I've never lived anywhere like that, but I'd be pissed if that were the case.

I'm glad people that want to do that can....I have nothing against it, but being forced to is another thing entirely.

I don't have room in my kitchen for 3x different cans to sort and throw shit out....nor the patience or time to bother.

But I support those that wish to do so....

I'm glad that down here where I live, you don't have to bother recycling unless you are so inclined.

If you want to throw pretty much anything in the trash here, they'll take it, no questions asked.

What does that have to do with the evil empire of Trumpistan? Apparently the US themed shops, selling outdated American candy and snacks plus overly strong vapes are largely shell companies based in Russia and Hong Kong. Anyhow - love to hear how this is US led organized crime money laundering.

I don't want to sound hyperbolic, but your TDS has left to be replaced by GDS. One does not plaster classified information on the intertoobz. I can find dozens of articles claiming old sleepy Joe was running a depression, and all manner of pro and con Humpty Trumpery purposely manufactured recession, and, and and, not a recession, a depression that Trump purposely created. In your Trump dictated 'Murrica - so evil it is responsible for the UK's Candy stores scandal, you can bet these people would disappear never to be seen again. As dictators do such things to those who inconvenience them. I suggest some Rexulti for ya. smooth off the GDS edges

Facebook is bad enough, but no one beats Google for harvesting and tracking. Install a script blocker, It might be a little distressing though as you plow through the results.