So I'm Gen X, which is important to what I'm going to say. My best friend from high school worked for the post office after graduating college and he retired a few years ago. USPS is essentially a government job and for those who don't know, US government employees are allowed to retire earlier than those who work in private industry do. I have to go to my local post office sometimes and the older employees are all gone now, having retired. Those guys cared. And it's not a case of "Blame the lazy Gen Zers" like everyone does now. The employees now are often Gen Y or Gen X and they don't care like the previous employees did. I see horrible delays all the time in packages both that I send and are sent to me. I ordered a CD from Amazon and they had it in a warehouse on the opposite side of the USA from me, so they used USPS to send it to me. It got misrouted to another major city in that state where it apparently sat for one month before someone could be bothered to find it and get it to me. I've sent documents via Express Mail which were said to be able to be delivered in 3-4 business days that in fact took almost 2 weeks to be delivered. I found out from tracking that one such attempt just sat at a local main post office for almost one week before anybody could be bothered to deliver it to the business it needed to go to. They aren't even trying any more. Yes, when private industry eventually takes over it will be horrifically expensive to send anything but I've used Fed Ex and UPS too and they also suck at times with unexplained delays in delivery and they cost a lot more than USPS does. It just seems like having anybody who can reliably deliver anything on time and at a decent price is an impossible ask.

It's worth noting that New York is run by the Democrats and North Carolina has recently been Democratic Party leaning. This is likely why they are targeted and Texas is ignored. Trump probably knows there is no real future in fossil fuels, but he'll be dead when nobody can deny that in the USA and his idiot sycophantic followers are huge "Drill baby, drill" people, so this plays well to their belief that solar and wind power are evil.

Well, my manager at a Fortune 500 company about 8 years ago assumed/believed that. He was a good manager and had real IT experience. He wasn't a paper pusher who got into IT management. I was floored when he told me he believed accessing stuff via an iPhone was much safer than using a PC. I told him my assumption was the exact opposite. I asked him why he believed that and he said he just assumed various app makers simply had to make their apps more secure because people were moving away from using PCs to doing everything on phones. I still don't agree with him.

The gold-standard tasteful way to handle stuff like this is cast a friend of the original actor. An example is Jon Lovitz replacing Phil Hartman on Newsradio.

I agree they could possibly get away with AI since it's being driven by his cast mates, but I don't think they'd try it.

It's an interesting journalistic debate. On the one hand their job is to report, not to help people stay anonymous.

But Banksy is part performance art, and his anonymity is part of that, by revealing his identity you arguably destroy the art work.

I feel like this expose kinda gets forgotten because Banksy was never completely anonymous, the reason he's not really known is that people recognize the anonymity is part of it and they don't want to know who he is.

Not in the slightest.

It just shows we have some levers to reduce consumption that we don't normally use.

It doesn't show that we can reasonably use those levers long term, not that those levers are actually sufficient to reduce fuel consumption enough to make up the difference.

Two years ago, somebody I went to high school with posted on Facebook trying desperately to sell some concert tickets the day before a show. Her husband got sick and they tried to dump the tickets. To the best of my knowledge, they didn't sell the tickets because she was trying to get full value. I made a screenshot of her post showing the cost of the tickets. I'm not going to name the band because if I did, people would post "I didn't know they were still around" or "I can't believe they paid that much to see them". Here are the details.

Venue seats 10,000 to 12,000. Located in a town with over 100,000 residents, so not a major metro area.
Seats located roughly 20 rows from the stage.
Cost of 2 tickets:
Tickets: $398.00. (2 x $199.00)
Service Fee: $117.42. ($58.71 per ticket - that's 29.5% of the cost of the tickets with no explanation as to what it's for)
Delivery Fee: $9.95 (These are mobile tickets so that's a fee for sending it via email/text)
Taxes: $42.03
Total: $567.40. or $283.70 per ticket.
I will give you a hint - The group's last top 40 US single was in 1977.

I have an old Yahoo email address. Why is it not Gmail? Well, I have one of those too, but at the time I got the Yahoo email address, Google limited who got Gmail addresses and it took a while to get one. Yes, it was like 30+ years ago. For years now, on the rare occasions that I need to send email to someone at outlook.com or hotmail.com, I find out that almost every time my email from Yahoo is marked as spam. Usually I have to follow up with the recipient and ask them to check their spam folder for my message. So not really surprised at this article.

That's why actual researchers did a study.
Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 populations in the northern hemisphere between 1993 and 2021, and isolated the effect of the decadal rate of seabed warming from short shifts such as marine heatwaves. They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year.

I mean the method they used to isolate the effects of temperature is literally in the first paragraph of the summary.

It the US planning a long term occupation of Iran?

Because without that they aren't getting regime change, certainly not a regime change they'd like.

Will audiences go? No they won't, but the Mandalorian and Grogu movie will be an exception to this.

Bear with me. Back in the 1990s, I was on Slashdot and you know what Sci Fi series has the most toxic fans of all? It was Star Trek. There were only 3 Star Wars movies then, so there wasn't much Star Wars content and they were pretty well behaved. Trek "fans" were bitching about how they loved The Next Generation but hated Wesley Crusher. They hated Deep Space 9, Voyager and they really hated Enterprise. It's kind of hilarious to me that now Wil Wheaton is some kind of honored figures in Trek circles because the same (now older) fans who fawn all over him absolutely hated him back in the day.

Then Star Wars movies started coming out. With all the negativity towards Trek, CBS/Paramount pulled the plug on Enterprise and there was no more TV Trek for a long time. Trek fans calmed down. Then Star Wars fans lost their minds over the Lucas directed sequels and it's most been downhill since then. I know "fans" who absolutely hate Rogue One, which was a great movie. They hated Solo, which I wouldn't call great, but it sure as hell was much much better than the reviews say it was. Other than the Mandalorian series, all I hear from Star Ward fans is bitching. They've remained toxic. A few years ago, Jon Favreau said there was no reason The Mandalorian couldn't continue as a series as long as the actors involved wanted to keep doing it. Now Disney has hinted that it's DONE after this movie comes out, no matter if this film grosses a billion or not, because that is just how streaming works today. Star Wars fans remain toxic, as I said, and while I think they will probably like the movie, it wouldn't shock me if I'm wrong and they just act like asses and complain about how "terrible" it is and that is the end of the series.

Not to be outdone, Trek fans have once again become super toxic themselves. My guess is that after 2027 there will be no more new Trek on streaming because of this and it will stay off for probably at least a decade. "Fans" seem determined to engage in a cut your nose off to spite your face battle with the current producers because the producers didn't give them the show they wanted (a proposed Star Trek: Legacy show featuring Capt. Seven Of Nine and Geordi LaForge's daughters) and did give them a show nobody asked for (Star Fleet Academy). This will only end like it did last time with CBS/Paramount heads flipping a middle finger to Trek fans and canceling everything.

I'm guessing two things went into the FAA's decision making:

1) Just like there was uncertainty in the reporting, there was also uncertainty in the FAA as to what the hell was going on. So shutting down the airspace is very prudent.

2) CBP shooting down an object without giving the FAA sufficient notice is a big fracking deal. It very well could have been a civilian aircraft. Making the shutdown a 10 day shutdown guarantees that it becomes national news, which guarantees that reporters will dig into it, CBP will get embarrassed, and they hopefully won't do it again.

xAI wins because Grok is burning through billions and has very little prospects of significant revenue.

Elon Musk wins because he increases his ownership in SpaceX, which is making pretty decent money.

SpaceX win..... SpaceX investors get to share that warm feeling that Tesla investors get from handing over additional large portions of their company to Elon Musk.

Except "R" really depends on your ability to travel. Which means what really matters is your proximity to transit and major roads.

I think the Line is probably a bad idea, but I don't think that's the reason why. I think the bigger issue is that cities are ultimately organic creations, shops, industry, and residences show up where they're needed. I'm not sure a planned city will be economically successful.

The convenience is because piracy is illegal.

If it was legal then you could easily combine everything in a single easy to search service that would be cheaper and more convenient than any individual service.