omg that throws me back. The guy always trying to sell his "host file engine" as a good way to do... I don't even know what.

I guess he never heard of just putting up his own forwarding DNS server with blackhole stub zones and changing DHCP to hand that out.

Now we can just install AdBlock Home and be done with it.

If they are dumb enough to appeal the decision, the next thing that CloudFlare does is ban France from accessing their 1.1.1.1 DNS. Problem solved.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Because dams aren't engineered for where the dam sits?

Why are you so desperate to be "right" about things you clearly know nothing about? Do you think the US Army Corps of Engineers just rubberstamp hydroelectric projects everywhere they want one, or just maybe they look at the watershed to figure out what they can hold in the reservoir, and how much water they can let out per unit time based on the overall hydro system where the dam is?

News flash: the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia holds back 6 to 7 times the water that your Fontana Dam does, and it's entirely driven by snowpack melt. Every dam downriver from Grand Coulee (7 more hydro projects) uses the same water for generating more energy.

What do you think happens if there isn't enough snowpack? You end up with reduced output from each and every dam along the Columbia. This means there is less power to transmit along the Pacific DC Intertie to Southern California right when they are ramping up AC load in the summer.

For fucks sake.

Sounds like drama. Self-fulfilling prophecy for a ridiculous person.

Ridiculousness is not gender specific, and can occur at great lengths regardless of gender.

As always, nothing of value was lost.

Unless you are in the television business, or 60+ years old, who the hell is watching these televised self-congratulatory industry-wide group masturbation events anyway?

Also, who is to say that the quality of the "voices" is the same? If the "female" voices are just shittier at pronouncing things, they will get used less.

It could just as easily go the other way - if the "male" voice is shit, I'll listen to a "female" voice because BEING UNDERSTANDABLE is the goal, not gender studies.

I certainly believe there is a gender-based pay gap; but what the hell are we even doing.

Because we don't have enough AI slop clogging everything up already.

See: Law of Triviality, also known as bikeshedding

Imo, we should just get off the idea that normalizing around "noon" is stupid and everyone adopts UTC.

Who gives a shit if you eat lunch at 0200Z - it's an arbitrary label anyway.

Oh mister fancy pants with his clocks you have to adjust.

Just get a sundial and you don't have to change shit!

In Canada, in December, sunset is around 4:15p.

Why don't you actually learn what you are talking about before being such a prissy little asshat.

And if you live north of the 49th parallel (i.e. every single person in Canada), it gets dark at 4:11p in December.

How does that figure into your anecdote, when every single person that leaves the office at 5:00p gets absolutely no sunlight and is commuting in the dark?

Some people seem to want to have machines that are suited to purpose.

But bad things may happen and we'll just have to be ok with it.

That costs billions of dollars more than firing up 1960s-era crap that already showed itself to be unsafe.

These are the billionaires we are talking about. They won't be downwind when we get TMI 2.0. That's for the plebs.