17 more years? I can't wait to see people in their 70's through 90's adventuring through the universe. Are stargates handicap-accessible?

Seriously though dude this is actually interesting science news vastly more important than some cheesy show.

But I guess they need it to keep their chips cool.

I think the OP was going for satire. It's hard to tell these days.

It's not copyright infringement. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, only the specific form an idea takes. This is why, for example, there's many sci-fi seafaring tales, but in space books, TV shows and films.

Heck, I finally got around to watching that Wednesday series on Netflix and they basically did that whole school for exceptional outcasts trope, which is so heavily used that it actually ends up divided into several sub tropes.

I doubt that seriously. The big Iberian Peninsula outage already mentioned happened because a "reliable" power source was not decoupling correctly from the grid. France right now runs into electricity problems because its "reliable" nuclear reactors have to be shut down because of excessive heat making the cooling of the reactors problematic.

Your "reliable" power sources are not reliable, they are inert. This is not the same, and if conditions change quickly, or aren't within specifications, they fail in a big way.

So we put some app stores in our app store *Xzibit meme here*

Seriously, why should book authors get more compensation for their work being trained on than the rest of us?

Exactly. But you have to keep the original BSD license intact. You can modify the files, but you have to acknowledge, that you got them from FreeBSD. That's why many commercial companies like to base their systems on FreeBSD.

Your UID is too low to not be aware that mergers and acquisitions always end in enshittification.
 

I'm a night owl too, and I honestly don't care which one they pick as long as they get rid of the biannual clock fuckery. It's the losing an hour of sleep that makes it rough, once that's done away with I couldn't care less that I'm actually being "tricked" into waking up an hour earlier than solar time.

How about we just don't? It's not as if you won't be able to go to the store that closes at 10PM for groceries if your employer doesn't let you off until 5:00PM when others are off at 4:00PM. Also, a lot of us don't have kids and we'd consider it a perk to work at an employer that isn't fucking with the clocks twice a year to align the work schedule with the schools (or at least makes it something you can choose an an employee - many companies do let you come in an hour earlier or leave an hour later).

Society schedules things in a far more ad-hoc manner these days anyway. Even "Prime Time TV" is basically a dead concept, replaced by on-demand streaming.

Now we have solar powered LED lighting though, so it's NBD to install some lights at the bus stop.

And "walking" to school? Hah, these days the kids that aren't riding the bus or being chauffeured by their parents are on e-bikes and e-scooters (which either already have lights or they can be easily added).

Which might be true for the Southern U.S. states, true.

On the other hand, we tried this in the 1970ies already, and it was abolished immediately after the first winter, after traffic accidents during morning rush hour had risen sharply, and school children had to wait for the school bus in the coldest time of the day (and the school bus took longer because of all the icy roads anyway).

That is not true. Left without clocks, humans in median latitudes tend to sleep longer in winter than in the summer. A standard schedule throughout the year is not healthy, except you live close to the equator, where the day length does not vary much during the year.

I guess I'll be an hour late to work from now on. Or an hour early, depending on how you look at it.