In what utopian country do the police "ask the neighbors, eye witnesses, anyone if they saw or heard something. were there other complaints related to the victim or his address" ? Not America, where the police barge in shoot the pets and people and then figure out what's happened knowing that they are very unlikely to be reprimanded. It's gotten to the point where many people are more afraid of the police than they are of the criminals--especially if those people are in a minority group. A sorry state. The only fix is to disarm about 90% of the police because most problems that the police deal with do not require firearms to mitigate--and then rigorously train the 10% that are authorized to carry firearms. Of course because the amount we pay the police is pathetic, it should be no big surprise that the police force acts the way they do.

It took 800 years to recover from the last Dark Age. It should take much longer this time.

"Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak Based on Current Methodologies and Technology" should be the title. My thought is that new methodologies and technologies, such as being able to keep cellular information from deteriorating as people age due to replication degradation, should increase lifespan. My understanding is that almost all body cells are replaced every seven years, but each total replacement is less accurate than the previous one. After a few replication cycles, information deteriorates, similar to a photocopy of a photocopy.

I now support two content providers. I'm not dropping them (yet) as $1.78 isn't that big a deal, but I sure won't be adding any to the list or increasing the amount of my support. There were a few others I was considering adding, but no longer. I just see this as a cash grab by Patreon. Perhaps the CEO or CFO is getting ready to abscond with the money :-)

"they did not stop using BitTorrent to pirate movies and TV shows that were not included in the offering." They had to do a study to figure out that people will watch what they want to watch. They must have been very hard up for subjects to study, because the result is just what anyone would expect.

"However, upgrading a residential switchboard to handle a high output EV charger is a significant expense, and one that reasonably needs to be factored into the total cost of owning an EV. " Installing a 240V outlet is not expensive. To put a NEMA 14-50 on to an existing 200 AMP service is typically between $200 to $400. This is enough to charge any EV overnight (e.g. 6-8 hours). Because most EV owners charge at night, when their other demands are lower, there's no issue. In addition the urban environment becomes cleaner, asthma rates lower, and healthcare costs are reduced. It's far easier to clean up a power plant than it is to clean up millions of 20% efficient vehicles. And only 39% of the U.S. electricity is generated by coal, so the "OMG it's from coal" is a mainly bogus claim, as is the Solar and wind are more expensive--that was true at one time, but not any longer in most cases (there are always exceptions). And driving an EV is a much better experience than driving any gas car and far better than any diesel car. Most of the arguments against EVs are of the "it will put the blacksmiths and horse traders out of business" type. Having driven one for over 100K miles, there is no way I would go back to an internal combustion car.