"Do I have to look up from my phone?"

Although, I can't blame them completely as there are so many crises now, some manufactured, some not.

+2 Funny

Great nerds think alike. My 26-year old car is succumbing to the rust of our locale. I pondered it's replacement and the options are unappealing for differing reasons.

Decades ago, I helped a friend retrieve a "non-obnoxious" 1964 Mustang from another state that she bought. The seller handed us a catalog that surprisingly seemed to have every part for the car (even radios, knobs, seats, plastics, etc.), manufactured as new, with the exception of the frame. It dawned on me that one could keep this car "forever" without worrying about replacement parts, since the car is a popular collectible, and 3rd party companies have stepped up.

Bonus: Any mechanic could handle the repairs versus the sheer confusion I see on their frustrated faces today.

Perhaps it's 'back to the future' for me...

You plan to leave for 3 months to avoid the cold, and depart. A week later an update request gets sent but you left the car at home.

That's an interesting point you raise.

So is it about "quantity" or are we polluting when we breathe?

This sounds like the perfect puzzle for "AI" (the permutations among symptoms and microbiota), but as a software guy I don't know how to even wrap my head around it. As confirmed by my gastroenterologist, the microbiome makeup varies from place to place along the intestines in the same individual!

In such cases, I wonder about disturbed gut microbiomes, like SIBO, SIFO and IMO, and all these other alphabet soups that they are just starting to learn about and consider in patients. I took antibiotics a long time ago and have been gastrointestinally messed up ever since.

+1 Insightful. I saw that on the news just the other day.

Climate change is a major, global problem. I'm in the water industry; I am aware of the prevalence of ground water contamination--it is critically important, but it's not everywhere. And if our pollution of it stopped tomorrow, the problem wouldn't continue to grow. And I've posted here that our field guys are now pointing out that the water tables are not replenishing like they have in decades past. Unfortunately, this is self-resolving: No water? People will pipe it in (I think Los Angeles' water already comes from hundreds of miles away) or move away.

If your question is serious and not argumentative, I've posted on this issue before, so forgive me for pasting it here:

'Nine (non-violent) crimes have been committed against my loved ones by Hispanics now. I assume they were illegal immigrants and desperately poor, but I can't know for sure. My best friends are Hispanic, so I'm not a racist.

Being from a second world country and trying to live in an expensive, first world country is an issue. Worse if one doesn't speak the common language.

It's better to have people around who care about their locale and aren't just "here for the opportunities".

Their "hiding" can keep them from calling the police to keep an eye on their neighborhoods.

My male cousins have construction jobs. Naturally, their wages are being depressed by their increased presence.

Most are poor, which is a burden on everyone else.

Each will need money and care upon retirement, despite their random arrival time here and their likely low contributions to the welfare systems.

If the vetting is non-existent, costly troublemakers will surely arrive.

If the first law of borders is ignored, why would they bother with other, more minor ones?

All resources are finite; having less of them here means more expense.'

And I'll add, never before have we automated so much manual labor, which, arguably, is their best contribution...that's not a good combination.

I agree that the government has become a more important issue in recent times.

Supposedly, that's why he started the chain, as a place to put/market his machines.

It never gets old, only we do.

It's a funny story, but I'm not sure why this is on Slashdot; except for the fact that Nolan Bushnell founded the company, after founding Atari.

He who is orange is a moron and I didn't vote for him either. But Harris, nor anyone else, would have addressed what I've considered for decades to be the most important problem inside our country, the illegal immigration. That said, he's even doing THAT wrong it seems (I am not a lawyer), kicking people out without court hearings. And, of course, he has his dopey, sledgehammer approach to everything else...

Hahahah! You want to hear clear music when waiting on the side of the road for the AAA service. As you know, engineering is about choices. I agree with your choice over those who designed that vehicle.*

When I went to a classic car show weeks ago, I was reminded that spares used to be just strapped to the side of the car.

*That said, I have college graduates in our small department now. I asked, they don't know even how to change a spare tire. I told them to have their parents show them--none was interested.

Do those vehicles weigh the same as each other? I don't know much about them.