They killed off Iron Man and Black Widow and got rid of Captain America.

They made the Hulk nice and Thor fat.

What were they thinking? Of course nobody was going to see the second-class heroes even if their powers were super over-powered. Nobody cares.

Also, the meta-verse allows for too much variability, so a writer can just use the meta-verse to get out of any problem now.

That's very different from what his Mars plans have been in the past. Musk has said that he wants to have a permanent colony on Mars with 10M people in 10 years too. I think that putting a single person on Mars for a very short stay is possible in 6 years. Colony, no way.

Most schools will start remote learning on Monday morning. Would be interesting to see if that puts the extra load on the internet that still hasn't happened yet.

Trucks destroy the roads more than anything else. Road taxes should be based on vehicle weight (and tire type) in my opinion.

This was the Las Vegas Fry's during the AWS Re:Invent conference in early December. https://photos.app.goo.gl/W5Cr... Much was missing and about half of the shelves were empty.

Generally I use music to change my mood. How do they or even I know what mood I want to end up in?

OpenStreetMap provides source code to cache their map tiles. Also, there are public tile caches available already. You don't need to fetch tiles from the source.

FYI: The "Those jobs are never coming back" quote was from Steve Jobs when Obama asked him if iPhones can be made in the USA. It wasn't Obama who coined the phrase. Source: https://www.heraldtribune.com/...

The article says that we're consuming 1.7x what the earth can provide in a year, so if there are 1 million fish in the ocean, we're consuming 1.7 million fish? I don't understand either. How can we be consuming more than 100%?

Do you pay for your email? Gmail seems headed towards the same situation. Yahoo and hotmail already serve up unwanted ads to their free email service.

This is NOT easy, I just spend 20 minutes trying to uninstall it from my non-rooted samsung. No luck. I can't even force stop it.

The Hugo voted by the fans, who are the ones paying money to buy the books is obviously the "biggest prize" More money means you can afford to write more of the stories "you" want to write.

An author might appreciate the Nebulas because it is a vote from his peers but that doesn't pay the bills.

The Oscars are everybit a popularity contest as the Hugos

I think you mean right field, Bernie is out in left, who's on first.

Read the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks It is a true story about the same thing.

I would pay more for a computer/phone/etc guaranteed not to have pre-installed stuff on it that I don't want. Not a lot more but....more