Wonder if that foam is loaded with PFAS like so many other firefighting foams.

It's true, fire agencies don't ask "what needs to NOT burn?" and do suppression where it matters. But it's risky. CalFire has been doing control burns and already this year there have been cases where the burn jumped the control lines.

I bought a "Free the Berkeley 4.4" T-shirt. Eventually it became more hole than shirt.

What I remember was alot of vitriol between BSD camps, with some condensing in to what became FreeBSD and NetBSD.

The penalties are what make it interesting.

https://www.inc.com/georgia-fearn/paramount-warner-bros-merger-could-soon-cost-millions-more-every-day/91373364
"Under the merger agreement, Paramountâ€(TM)s $31-per-share offer rises by 25 cents for every 90 days after September 30, accruing daily. The additional money is payable if the deal ultimately closes. If required the transaction fails because regulatory approvals are not obtained, Paramount would instead owe Warner Bros. Discovery a $7 billion termination fee."

If I've done the penalty maths right, if Bonta can drag this out 2.65 years, the success penalty will be equal to the breakup fee.

I don't get this line of reasoning even though it gets repeated endlessly.
The Netflix offer did NOT include cable properties (CNN, et al.). If it was only about getting control of CNN, Paramount could have bought it separately from Netflix buying the studios. Paramount's offer makes the most sense if the cable properties are losers and it's only the studios worth buying, in an effort to get control of CNN.

What I was wondering was how does New Jersey handle these? They presumably encounter them routinely, especially since they issued them.
LAPD presumably can deal with California's pecularities like emojis mixed in and permanent disabled plates (with a small DP like the 10). Flock doesn't give a shit.

A blueish (bluegreen, cyan, ?) light is used by several brands in China to indicate that ASAS is active. For Waymo et al., might be helpful to have an additional indication that the vehicle is being remotely operated.

Change "French" to "British" and "Hawaii" to "New York City" and you've got Boris Johnson.

"On this and the birthright citizenship ruling it is astounding that any of the justices would have dissented. This is clear-cut constitutional law."

Even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Wong_Kim_Ark was decided 6-2. To paraphrase Forrest Gump's mom, SCOTUS is like a box of chocolates.

I'm waiting to find out what they'll pull out of the ass to say XXII does not apply to presidents-for-life-named-trump. I'll note that the amendment hinges explicitly on "elected".

"I'm ready for $15/gallon gas are you?"

I don't know, but recent rise in price, which isn't even the highest in recent memory, got me thinking about at what price would people actually stop buying gas. $15 is a good candidate, probably enough to shed the bottom leg of the K curve. Nearest gas is $6.799 and there are people buying it. Damned if I know why.

So who were the First Men on Britain? Recently, there was some news about a Neanderthal site somewhere in England, which kinda suprized me, but during ice ages it would have been walkable from the mainland. As humans, seems like they would count. And whatever sounds they made would be Britain's native language.

Ding!Ding!!Ding!!!

During 45 I wondered if MAGAs saw President Hillary say the everything word for word that Trump said, would they see the batshit crazy? Now with AI it may be possible to rerun 47 as President Kamala.

My faith in humanity is such that yes, they would see how batshit crazy President Hillary is, but when they hear Trump say the exact same words they swoon like a lovesick teenager. Like when President Hillary called the Wisconsin secretary of state and told him to find enough votes for her to win the state.

"There's a tendency for people to think of official representatives visiting now and doing secret deals with governments, but when someone talks about aliens having visited Earth, I imagine things like a group of scientists and thrill-seekers coming down to collect organic material samples and have fun back when mammals weren't really a thing yet."

This.
Space aliens have come to Earth...and were immediately eaten by dinosaurs, because it was 100 million years ago.

"say, mexico invaded the united states"
LOL.
That was one of the my first thoughts when Putin invaded Ukraine.
Analogous to Putin's claims, Mexico would invade to protect the Spanish-speaking peoples of the US and reunite the historic homeland. Basically, CA, NV, AZ, NM, some of UT and TX are Mexico's Donbas.

True EV costs need to factor in the diabetes and obesity from eating more junk food during the extended refueling stops. Where is RFKJr when you need him? (Oh, that's right, he's busy eliminating vaccines.)

I've wondered why no one seems to have built charging stations with an arcade.

So triggered.

I have a gas and a battery mower, each one worse than the other. Both old, battered, and free. Though, I replaced both 12V 18Ah SLAs in the battery mower 5 months ago.

The battery mower has an effective runtime of 20 to 30 minutes. The gas mower burns through a tank of gas in 90 to 120 minutes and its oil in about 30 minutes. I would have bought a new gas mower last year when its predecessor finally died, but the granola munchers who run the state made that illegal.

While a battery mower is the perfect solution for millions it doesn't cut it for me. With that short of a runtime the grass literally grows faster than it can cut it. And this, the first season with it, has been a low growth year.

One aggravating thing...a gas mower runs a full power until the last couple ounces of fuel. A battery mower starts losing power almost immediately and is basically useless in 40 minutes, but never stops spinning. I don't know how long, but it likely will spin for hours until it cannot overcome air and internal mechanical resistance.