That website is cool but it's not really convincing, since the presentation gives a much higher precision and confidence than their data actually allows.

Other estimates say more oil is flowing through the strait now than before the war. Of course, that isn't the same as the strait being open, but for most of us, it's what we care about. Ships filled with iPhone shipments to Kuwait don't affect us much.

"Real Capitalism" isn't a real thing. It's a strawman used as a rhetorical device to make communism look good.

IF you want to talk about capitalism from a scientific/academic standpoint, you should use well-defined terms, like "Free markets" or "private investment."

Okay PHP has a critical flaw, but, why is your PHP outdated, or so difficult to update? This is an issue I hear about frequently, usually in the form of: “Why are you updating X, didn't we just do that?”. Yes, we just updated X from 20 to 21, and 21 to 22, but, I do that, so I'm on the latest stable and safe release. I have seen this nonsense to often where someone refuses updates, then an issue emerges, and they can't update, since it would break everything. This is also the reason I argue against keeping everything locked on legacy. “It's works so don't touch it”, is the equivalent of, “It works now, until it's too dangerous to keep online, but then we can't update it.”.

I just spent 3+ weeks updating a system, and was told multiple times it didn't need to be done, and I was wasting time and resources. This morning, that project released a major notification of a serious flaw, and we're already on the newer version which is safe. The real problem was never PHP, or Node.js, or X (not Twitter), it was the refusal to update and keep systems updated.

I am usually able to find a place faster on agoda.com than on airbnb fwiw.

I heard he was well hung....

It makes sense, hotels are almost always a better experience than an AirBnB, unless you have a special location like this one or an area without enough hotels.

Why stay at a sketchy house that makes you clean, when you can stay at a hotel that cleans for you?

Wink, wink! Just because there is a law, doesn't mean it won't happen. Just buried a few layers deeper.

This.

They aren't going to use the beam on illegal immigrants, they are talking about making a plan to potentially use it. Enough to get headlines, not enough to do anything.

Here is some footage of the device in action. It was originally thought to be lethal because of the water, but that was mistaken understanding.

It's not always harmless.

The thing that worries me isn't "new" weapons, those are a perpetual problem of humanity.

The thing that worries me is that now people/countries have an understandable incentive to intentionally induce Kessler syndrome.

Point taken, but it only takes one good ICBM to ruin your day. Russia doesn't like Golden Dome, but China is the one on the warpath towards America (in both the Philippines and Taiwan).

just curious, how are electric cars, solar panels, big battery packs a bad thing for earth?

i go dark for a year, come back and knew id see you trolling right away. you never let me down pooboy