The Hale telescope mirror was held at pouring temperature for a month, then cooled over 10 months.

I have one of these too! And yes it still works perfectly 40 years after I bought it.

Back in the 1980s we found Panasonic products to be consistently high quality and when we shopped for some product-type seeing one with "Panasonic" on it usually made the sale. They seemed to fade from the market in the 1990s.

The game the rightwingnutjobs and their patrons employ is to set an extremely low bar for measuring the well being of the bottom tier. Despite real per capital GDP increasing 2.5 fold since 1975, and doubling since 1985, the real income of the lowest decile has barely budged. But since it hasn't actually decreased the plutocrat apologists assert there is no problem at all, since according to this one metric "nobody is getting poorer".

A related game is to portray the poor as actually not being poor at all since they "have stuff" - like a TV and a microwave, as it those were still luxury items like they were 60 years ago.

There is a big problem with using the glycemic index as a tool for diet planning. It is a thing, it can be measured, but is it really a relevant thing in the diet for the large majority of people? The rush to found diet plans on the glycemic index was based on assumptions about what effect it probably has on people, not on actual evidence by studying people and their diets. A large meta-analysis of studies found:

Glycemic index based diet planning is planning based on a 40 year olf hypothesis, not actual evidence of usefulness. The actual evidence is that it means nothing for most people's health. But hey! is a single number to judge food so "easy"!

The other player here is ASML which supplies TSMC's fab tech. How do they fit into this equation?

Definitely not. It was in wide use in 1983.

Here is PC Magazine: The Magazine for IBM Compatibles , its actual name, from November 1983.

Beavers had also been eradicated in New England during the 17th century, hunted to extinction for their pelts, but were reintroduced in the early 1990s.

Also any place that it was introduced to (the Americas) during the age of globalization (i.e. after Columbus) it is an exotic species and not going to be key in the natural environment.

He absolutely deserved the shit. He was using that as an all-purpose cover to excuse an extremely poorly conceived and planned military adventure.

Ketamine is the drug of choice for people who can't stand their own company.

It is known as the "red-brown alliance" (brown shirts being associated with right-fascism).

Modern capitalism. The workers must bear the market risk, not management or capital.

Remember Bill and Melinda's earlier attempt to reinvent compute UI to be "commonsense"?

It would appear that nobody at Micro$oft does today.

Well, a reading machine anyway. Even at 2X, the usual max, someone talking is still slower than my reading. 4X might turn the trick and at least catch-up to my actual reading speed.