From the footage I've seen, the proposed location looks a lot like a pristine wetland. I've looked it up it's called Pecan Island, which is mostly salty marsh land. Surrounded by at least two wildlife reserves. It'll be home to lots of water birds, fish, and probably other animals - turtles perhaps. There are also at least one important Native American archaeological site. So they're about to place a massive massive piece of infrastructure, with related roads and ports, in the middle of an existing thriving wildlife area. How are they allowed to do so? How are they going to pass an environmental audit? I'm going to hazard a guess that the governor of Louisiana and the Orange Man in the White House will simply wave them through. Neither of them are going to let, say, a bird nesting area, get in the way of "progress"... again... Elon will get what Elon wants...

By my count, the US government has had at least 4 different moon landing programs in the last couple of decades. In fact, there are probably more than that just in shuttle-derived programs. The Orion capsule was the only working system to come out of one of the earlier programs, which was then incorporated into the current plan. The whole human space flight program has been held hostage by congress, or several specific congressmen, who see it as a cash-cow for their states. They have held up, delayed, and interfered with plans to such an extent that it's effectively been on hold. Then NASA's budget is disputed and reduced every single year - except for the SLS, which NASA is compelled to use. Even though it costs $4 billion per launch, is mostly disposable, and is years and years behind schedule. Then there was the huge distraction of the orbital moon station. Which, it turned out, was unnecessary. They've also changed their minds about the lander more times than I can count. The SpaceX option just looks ridiculously oversized and impractical. The one from Blue Origin is also behind schedule and, frankly, Blue Origin doesn't have a very successful history with hardware. The whole project has been a completely unfocused mess, which I hate to say seems typical of most large multi-year projects in the US these days. It's like the whole country has become bogged down and forgotten how to get things done. Admittedly, a vehicle like the Apollo lander and CM wouldn't be allowed to fly these days - they were considered extraordinarily unsafe even at the time. The goal, however, was to show off to the USSR, so the risks were accepted. It's lucky they didn't lose any astronauts during that program.

I'm a devoted Firefox user, in fact I've been using it and Thunderbird since they were Netscape Navigator. I've stuck with it because it is significantly different/better than the other browser, and also because it's not owned by any of the tech giants. I'm saddened to hear they're looking at AI. I have hated every AI plugin I've tried, and have largely abandoned any form of AI - and I work in IT. Semi-related: I'm finding a few websites lately which fail recognise the Firefox browser string, and try and render the Mobile page. Or simply don't work at all. Which I find depressing. I'm not sure this is Firefox's fault, and more that developers are only testing on Chromium based browsers...

I've been trying out various AI tools for over a year. I'm dramatically under-whelmed. At best it's quite good at pattern matching. But I find that beyond the simplest of tasks, which have to be explained in some detail, it flails. Integrating it into Windows will make an already creaky and fragile OS much much worse.

It's become extremely common here in Australia too. It's really quite worrying - I have a school age kid, and sometimes his class is 2/3 empty. He only misses school when he's genuinely sick.

...the river that flows upside down...

Washing me down, washing me down.

Oh, and as another user pointed out, the DAB+ radio transmissions here in Australia are very weak and have hardly any range. The rollout has been somewhat still-born, here in Melbourne there's one weak transmitter on a nearby mountain and that's it. In fact, it's actually surprisingly hard to buy an after market stereo that has DAB+ these days - I went looking recently when my current unit started playing up. People have jumped straight to streaming. Which is fine if you can get mobile coverage... but that's a whole other shitshow.

GM has not only stopped making Holdens, they have also killed the brand entirely. There was much mourning.

Cars sold here, from all manufacturers, are given country-specific equipment. It's usually not much, but the type of radio installed is one of them. When Holden's started being sourced from Europe, the factory there was very bemused that AM radios were still a thing they had to install. Sure it's too scratchy and low quality they asked! Yes, they were told, but in some places its the only damn signal you can receive.

Sadly, the last of the V8 Interceptors was destroyed during a high-speed car chase in the late 70's.

HF takes work to install. If you're out in the country side, driving a stock Toyota Camry, and everything is ablaze, being about to hear relevant information on the AM band will literally save lives.

Wot? Looks like someone copied my post for reasons unknown. I'm not in Singapore, and can't possibly comment on the radio there!

My vast nation of Australia has a serious problem with coverage by radio stations, and indeed internet and anything else that needs broadcasting. The vast majority of the population here is concentrated in a few large cities on the east coast. Which means FM radio station signals die out pretty fast as soon as you start driving from the population centres. So AM still has a role here, even if the quality is often sketchy. In fact, it's something of a life saver when there's a major emergency like a huge bushfire. In 2009, when massive fires engulfed large areas of my home state of Victoria, the AM stations of the Australian Broadcast Corporation did nothing but broadcast emergency information. There are terrifying recordings of warnings to evacuate, naming many towns. Or worse still, saying it was too late and to stay in place... Anyway, AM still has a big role here.

I had a vasectomy last year in May. Took maybe 15 minutes. Just had a local anaesthetic. The most complicated part was shaving my scrotum! I visited my local massive Chemist (pharmacy) and was googling "Best way to shave balls" whilst in their male grooming aisle

I'm 51, and I have fathered a number of children. I'm done reproducing, and now I also can't have any accidents.