You can pull back on the 12-alarm fire now - SFUSD killed the proposal, which was actually supposed to start as a test:

An estimated 70 teachers in 14 high schools — about 10% of the educators in grades nine to 12 — were expected to participate in a voluntary program to align grades more closely to student learning rather than attendance, participation or other factors. Some of those factors included whether a student brings in cans for a food drive or their parents sign a permission slip, according to the background information provided by the district on the Grading for Equity initiative.

... seems like perhaps poor communication from their BofE:

The problem, said Meredith Dodson, executive director and cofounder of the San Francisco Parent Coalition, is that this all came out of the blue. “Like most families, we’re finding out about this for the first time,” she said. “Parts of the idea seem interesting. Other parts seem unclear if they’d have their intended results. At the very least, there should be an evidence-based discussion about how this impacts students and families.”

"The average American I think has, it’s fewer than three friends, three people they’d consider friends, and the average person has demand for meaningfully more, I think it’s like 15 friends," he said in the interview with podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. ==== Based upon just what measurement, exactly? Facebook "friends". Is there some study backing this presumably weak metric up?

Came here for the cable rage. Left for the XKCD amusement and ensuing XKCD rabbit hole. Looked up the Maxwell's Demon writeup on Wikipedia (note: not the first time - maybe I'll remember it next time?!). Returned to leave this post. My day is complete.

Call me one of the "olds" but I miss the hell out of iGoogle. Come back to me, mighty home page of yore!!

To those that say we should accelerate ISS retirement... it'd be better to maintain it in anticipation of putting additional _larger_ and more capable hardware up via Starship. I'm sure some components (solar panels, temperature management, storage, etc.) have longer viable lifespans than others. Then you can just detach and deorbit obsolete hardware. Seems to me that ISS is a great foundation for a larger endeavor.

You'll get my subscription dollars for a limited-run series starring the 5-headed draconic goddess in all her glory.

I'd say it depends upon what factors are dampened by that volume/depth. Corals generally don't react well to change (just ask those in the tiny reef in my living room ;) ) BUT if the local conditions fluctuate more widely than those in open ocean environments the Red Sea species may likely be more resilient to extremes. Also depends upon what parameters get driven to extremes - salinity, pH, waste nutrients, etc.

Thanks so much for posting and for your excellent work on this experiment! Please forgive the potentially ignorant question: does this imply there could be neutrino telescopes in our future (similar to what we got with gravitational waves and LIGO?)? Hope so. Keep up the excellent work!!

The shuttle era featured delays quite frequently (in addition to this being a "new" system). A quick search brings up this article from Space.com quoting data from an AP study:

Aren't we still struggling to mass produce graphene, let alone at reasonable cost (once scaled, sure - but, still...)??

How are these other launch providers still able to produce "new" launch systems without reuse in mind?

Came here for this. Upvote parent!!!

F this guy in particular. You're going to say that the increase in Asian hate crimes and rash of gun violence in NYC is due to GTA? Huh?!? Get lost, dinosaur.

Were the previous measurements affecting other size constraints or measurements, such as the presumed radii of neutron stars? Maybe I'm conflating the metrics used but curious nonetheless!

... or it didn't happen!