And? Trump won the popular vote this time, not just the electoral college.

The unrelenting press on suburbs and small cities caused by larger cities accreting population results in economic misery. And people vote somebody who is not trying to force people to cram into cities.

Pretty much. Utter horror.

That's why the so-called 15-minute neighborhoods in Europe look like vasectomy preserves.

Can you read my comment, please? The argument is called "reverse J-curve" for a freaking reason. There are two poles of high fertility: desperately poor people, and happy content people.

It IS that simple. The Democratic war on suburbs and insistence on cramming people into ever-smaller shoeboxes (called "urbanism") is going to kill the democracy. It has already given us Trump.

There is. It's called "reverse J-curve". It's even more apparent when you check not just fertility, but the number of families with two or more children. You can reasonably raise one child in a city, but once you have two children, all the anti-human design of modern cities (war on cars, bike lanes, road diets, lax law enforcement) becomes glaringly obvious.

I wouldn't hold my breath for any inquiries. They would be held by corrupt Texas authorities and/or by malicious federal officials. But a lawsuit with a strong discovery phase is going to be illuminating.

The NWS was issuing multiple warnings, and a person with knowledge of local details would have had a chance to raise the local authorities.

We even know the _name_ of the person who would have been responsible for coordinating the alerts with local authorities: Paul Yura ( https://www.kxan.com/weather/w... )

This is incorrect. Turns out, that the person responsible for getting alerts to Texas officials left the NWS earlier this year ( https://www.pressreader.com/us... ), taking the early retirement option. And he was not replaced because changing positions makes you a "temporary" employee, and thus eligible for termination.

This is a rare case where we can pinpoint the EXACT sequence starting with Trump's decisions and ending with innocent deaths.

There are _no_ proven attacks of orcas on humans in the wild. In one case, an orca was documented doing wild contortions to avoid hitting a human, after it started an attack run, possibly mistaking the human for a seal.

They do attack boats, though.

Pat Gelsinger tried to preserve as much of Intel as possible, even asking people to come out of retirement. Well, now the regular Wall Street managers have arrived to wring Intel out of the last drops of money.

Also StarLink, which is not super-fast but is good enough and doesn't have caps on most plans.

And he was absolutely right. NT was better than Unix at that time. NT was Unicode-first, async from the start, with a pluggable modular kernel, and fine-grained SMP support (NT never had a Big Kernel Lock). Linux really only got to that level by mid 2000-s.

No, it's not. The acquaculture yields and its complexity are just not worth it. It's far easier to use regular agriculture.

Around 25% for cars with heatpumps. A bit less if you can pre-heat the battery on the shore power. This is assuming you don't live behind the polar circle with -50C being the normal temperature.

I appreciate the joke, but saponification has nothing to do with this. The saponins are named such because they were initially extracted from the bark of a soap tree from Chile. The Chilean soap tree bark has been somewhat of a meme in medical research circles for a while, apparently it just makes any vaccine work better. It's also used in Novavax for COVID, a vaccine that contains only COVID proteins without any genetic material.