It does feel like the whole world is going through some giant global MKUltra experiment.

Especially pub-food in the South. In pubs in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas it seems the standard bar-burger is twice the size of burgers up north and half a bushel of potatoes were used for the fries! What is amazing is the prices are reasonable for all that delicious food!

Google made it easy to find. It's now the greyest of all the grey-icon-on-grey-background buttons.

Well perhaps, but if the "everything is climate change" numbskulls try to declare a not-so-uncommon January cold snap in Florida as indisputable evidence of man-made climate change, then no wonder there are so many vocal skeptics.

Sure, The Rock can get a date because HE IS The Rock-6'6", muscular, strong, and from what I can tell, a decent person. Even if he wasn't famous and just some regular guy like a construction worker, he still could get a date and into the pants of 90% of the women in any room he is in.

Bruce Willis, even in old age, can get a date because he famous and rich.

99% of men aren't The Rock or Bruce Willis.

Most men are closer to Clint Howard.

This is not vanity. Very few men look better after going bald. And a full head of hair provides surprisingly increased comfort in hot and cold weather, in addition to protecting your head against bumps and scrapes.

Compare before baldness & after baldness pics of Patrick Stewart, Seal, Michael Jordan, Bruce Willis, The Rock, and Yul Brinner and most people would be startled at how much better they look with hair.

Sure there are worst things out there, but saying that is about as constructive as telling someone with permanent red blotchy flaking eczema on their face "You should be happy it isn't something worse".

It's not just about vanity. Nature doesn't care about vanity and gave us hair for a reason.

Hair is a great insulator in hot and cold weather. Obviously it keep us warmer in the winter, but it keeps us cooler in summer by increasing evaporation rates by wicking the sweat away the from the skin surface, up the hair strand, and away from the scalp. Plus all that hair just above your forehead prevents that salty sweat from running into your eyes and burning.

Before someone says "wear a hat", hat's don't really help in hot sunny weather because with no hair, the hat makes a tight seal on a bald head that prevents airflow and heat from escaping. A bandanna is a cooling improvement, but in if there is no wind, then no cooling effect.

Also it does something else that people don't often realize, it protects the head from damage from scrapes and cuts. Not to mention, the nerves in the follicle will warn you an instant before you are about to bump you head on something and you can stop it from happening.

Will it be the same way as with fission-heat water, turn it into steam, and then use the steam to run turbines?

Not 50 years, but sustaining fusion for a week should be possible within 20 years. :)

But seriously and joking aside, sustaining a temp of 70 million degrees for 17 minutes is quite an incredible accomplishment.

Because the pressure at the sun's core is a one million gazillion times higher than here on earth. In fact the sun's core is so dense it blocks the light from leaving and it takes a photon a million years to finally reach the surface, then another 7 minutes to reach earth. That's right, the light you see tomorrow will have began it's journey one million years ago (plus 7 minutes :)

With that kind of pressure the sun's core only needs to be 25 million degrees in order to fuse H. We can't create sustainable pressures anywhere that high but we can compensate by creating higher temperatures of 100 million or higher. And it's very difficult to create such crazy temps, and even more difficult to sustain them.

Old is relative. Even at 20 you're already "old" to people who are only a couple years younger.

Welcome to your future, it comes quick.

The beginning of Apple's decline in intuitive and useful hardware & UI design goes back to when they decided we have been using the scrollwheel on a mouse the wrong way for 15 years. About the same time some bozo at Apple decided that Save As should be replaced, by default, with a cumbersome Duplicate functionality. And also around the same time they decided that after 10 years, the default functionality of the green window button should change from expand-shrink to window-fullscreen. Oh, and let's not forget the mouse that needs to be turned upsidedown to charge. Fun stuff apple!

I do see some common-sense improvements returning back in the hardware lately, but they are mostly bringing back things that should never been removed in the first place, like removing all ports except for one in some macbooks, and bringing back the magsafe cable, and the $20 4"x4" magical divine cleaning cloth (just kidding about that one! :)

Apple's problem now is software design and QA. I jumped three versions from stable High Sierra to buggy Big Sur and the software feels more of a downgrade than upgrade. More UI changes for the sake of fashion & style instead of change for the sake of improvement. For the first time since early OSX, the software is worse than the hardware now.

I read something somewhere yesterday that Mozilla receives $450M/yr from Google to prioritize it's search engine.

Taco bell...taco shells..."two shells"

Looks like it also has something to do with the origin of the "two shells" procedure.

But when I nod off at my desk then snap out of it a few seconds later, I feel revitalized and wide awake for a long time after.

It's difficult to concentrate and be creative when struggling to keep your eyes open.