A retro disco sequin dress! Men are out of luck.

Arsonist #2

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/...

Arsonist #1, the big fire

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/10...

There was also a fire caused by a car crash on a mountain road.

It's normally tinder dry this time of year in the Cascade's rain shadow so it doesn't take much to start a fire.

Look at the good side, people won't have to move south when they retire any more. It will be warm where they already live.

Interestingly enough, on average I run the heat pump in cooling mode about 22 days a year. So far this year I've used it 8 days.

The heat pump is in heating mode from continuously from mid-October to Mid-April. It will be a long time before that balances out up here at 47 degrees North.

I've heard and seen the remains of a squirrel that crossed just a standard 7.2KV distribution line. Substation is a whole nuther level. Blew the fuse and the squirrel. Saw the remains on the ground the next day. Juice back in an hour, new fuse. Sounded like a small cannon going off though. Critters can cause problems.

One correction, that is 40T not 40B. And yes Bessent and others in the dump administration complained how Biden's treasury dept was doing mainly short term debt not longer 10/30 year debt. The "mix" of debt offerings had moved towards short. Dumpie's back then cried bad fiscal management. Well there was a reason and they are finding out themselves. Buyers of T-debt want a substantial premium for longer duration debt. And that turns out to be a problem for debt cost. 30 year is around 5.25 now I think, and headed higher. The other problem (short term, as you say longer term issue is the "wtf we aren't the reserve currency anymore") is Warsh was an advocate for reducing the fed's balance sheet. ie, buying less government debt. Well if the fed won't buy up the debt and real money wants more return, that 10/30 year has to offer an even higher rate. That is unless Warsh adapts the TACO approach and eats his words.

Don't understand how stock valuation works, do you?

You are posting on a US website. If you cannot handle comparisons to the USA, go find a European website. I'm sure they exist.

37C is 98.6 F ...body temperature. A hot day, but not out of the normal range for most of the USA in the summer.

It is horribly inefficient to do this, but it is a good experiment to learn from.

a human-shaped robot with a screen for a face recently stepped from a charging station toward a stack of green plastic boxes. It grasped an auto part from one of the boxes, pivoted, placed the part in a trolley, then pulled the trolley across the floor.

A conveyor belt would be far more efficient at this task. A sorting armature to pick the parts and place them on the belt. Another at the far end to place the part in position. None of this needs a humanoid bot slowly shuffling across the floor one part at a time.

Actual manufacturing plants need to make efficient choices in order to be profitable. They are not the place for these kind of experiments.

Two thoughts:

"Equivalence class" is like saying "A students, B students, C students, etc." You can certainly group people into approximate groups based on how well they fit the objective criteria.

I cannot support the idea of hiring randomly from the top group. Choosing "a good match for the team" is important -and it is subjective. Yes, people tend to prefer people like themselves. Yes, that can lead to discrimination. But hiring an asshole can kill productivity in any team. That is why we do interviews with co-workers: to get the feedback on who matches or does not, with management overwatch to ensure we don't just pick our bro's.

We are way off topic here, but... :)

The NBA -is- racist against white players. Watch interviews with players talking about Larry Bird. They say directly that their reaction to him was "Man, I ain't gonna play with this white boy", and then he smoked them on the court. There are dozens of star players who will say openly that they thought he did not deserve a place because he was white. He had to prove he was not only as good as they were but was better than they were, in order to earn respect from black players.

Disclaimer: European here.

4th epic heatwave this year in Germany right now. I'm currently in Karlsruhe and it's 37 degrees Celsius outside (too lazy to convert to bananas or whatever you guys use). Got an SUV rental and it's AC couldn't keep up this noon. Concrete on the Autobahn cracked open in the last heatwave and they had to close down to repair it. Right now NRW is seeing it's largest forest fire since ever.

I was up north on the island of Fehmarn at the start of the week. Summer was bearable there although I did get sunburn. Anything south of Bremen though has unbearable heat at noon. Not fun. The Rhine is at an all time low, you can almost wade through it ( this has never happened ) and Hungary is having an energy crisis because they had to shut down both of their fission plants because the didn't have enough cooling water. France is closing in an the same problem once again too.

Climate change is hitting us like a fist this year. Not fun.

Just wait until they discover a black hole sun

Cambridge professors certainly qualify as nerds even if they are not in computer science.

Therefore an article about a plagiarism happy professor getting caught out is relevant here.

A level playing field would for the vast majority of positions be blind hiring based entirely on the established work product with all sources used triple checked and any and all appeals to emotion in the portfolio grounds for disqualification.