According to the article, the investigation was started after three congresspeople received threatening test messages last spring.

Depending on your manager, it's intentional. For managers, personal power is a result of having more people below you on the organization tree. The most logical way to respond to this incentive is to hire more people below you. And if people are working slowly, then it's a justification to hire more people.

Not all managers do this, but the incentive exists, and managers who do it tend to gain power faster than those who don't.

So, because incentives are misaligned, evolutionary pressure exists in corporations to make you, as an individual contributor, inefficient.

And what happens when the enemy kills your satellites?

Now, I completely agree that stealth is overemphasized, but stealth is just part of a larger problem. The US military, particularly the Air Force, has a seriously bad tendency to rely on "magic bullet" solutions... a hyper-expensive technology that they think will win wars in a single blow.... instead of taking a layered approach that mixes new solutions with old. Which is important, because, war after war, we have to relearn the painful lesson that magic bullets tend to fail.

The F-4 Phantom not only met expectations, but far exceeded them, to the point that the USAF adopted it (even though it hurt their pride being a Navy program). McDonnell started the design in 1955, the prototype rolled out in 1958, and it entered USN and USMC service in 1960. After it was bloody obvious that the F-4 was far better than anything the USAF had in it's so-called Century Series of fighters, USAF adopted it in 1962 and their initial version... the F-4C... entered frontline service in 1963. It would dominate USAF's tactical fighter wings, with F-4's making up 16 of their 24 wings at one time. All on time, and on budget, with multiple versions being developed along the way (notably the RF-4 photo reconnaissance aircraft, and USAF's ant-surface to air missile "Wild Weasel" F-4G versions).

It's just an extension of the fallacy of dividing people into "left" and "right" which makes no sense, unless you are trying to divide and conquer a population.

The larger question of course is....

Are they new lenses bodacious bokeh monsters!?!?!

;)

(The photographers here should catch that one...)

It's a problem in China, too: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

School was near a lead processing plant. Local officials told the hospitals not to diagnose the children (who had obvious symptoms of lead poisoning).

California's dream is to have battery backed solar. That will be quite expensive, but California is willing to pay a lot for it.

It's easy, all you have to do is change the laws.

We've known that for decades, but the hope was China would become a free nation instead of choosing war. In recent years, their dictatorship has turned stronger, though.

There's been a lot of research on making better cameras, and cell phone cameras have been getting better. So whether this particular research makes it into production or not (which is beyond my ability to determine), it seems certain that some new research will actually make it into production and ten years from now we will have better cameras than now.

And as soon as he notices, they will be out of the pipeline.

Damn, don't say that. If la Presidenta gets wind of that he'll demand they go back to steam. During his first alleged administration, he attempted to force the Navy into steam. He said at the time (my paraphrase but close): You need to be Einstein to understand those things, they should use steam. And then issued some sort of directive. I can see how that was received:

la Presidenta: I decree that Navy catapults shall use steam. Picks up pencil from the floor.

Navy Head: Why thank you for your leadership, la Presidenta, in picking up that pencil. Re the steam catapults. I shall immediately turn this over to our engineers.

Engineering: Uh, what kind of a dumbass believes in steam. It is only good for softening old bagels. We'll turn this over to our Engineering Steering Committee.

Engineering Steering Committee: What a wonderful proposal. We shall commence a study immediately with our Engineering Review Panel.

Engineering Review Panel: Oooooo, a new study. We shall immediately commence a pilot study to study the feasibility of the study. Get Boomer in the Engine Dept. on it.

Boomer: Hmmm....another fricking waste of time. I'll need to think about this for awhile.

3 years later:

Sec. Navy: Okay, la Presidenta, I have your study on steam powered aereo-planes. la Presidenta? Yo? Where'd he go.

Flunkie: He's down at Mar-A-Loco. He left some prepubescent girls down there and wants to check in on them, says they miss their Daddy. Meet our new President, Mr. Biden.

They should just field some new porn sites: "Yooohoooo, Mr. Russian Spy Man, get a load of these!!!"

there are lots of those, often with their own "store." I find batteries like that a lot.

But this was explicitly a Walmart listing, by Walmart, rather than a 3d party listing.