I would imagine that one difficulty of using a blimp for delivery is that wind turbines tend to be sited at locations with great wind domains - which aren't exactly friendly regions for blimp handling, and there's also the problem of balancing ballast while dropping off 80 tons of turbine blade. The biggest blimps currently available have a maximum payload of about 50 tons, though the cancelled CargoLifter CL 160 was supposed to have a 160 ton capacity.
By comparison, the Antonov An-225 Mriya, which was used to transport turbine blades for several installations before it was destroyed at the beginning of the Ukraine / Russia war could carry 250 tons, so it makes sense to build another aircraft like that for these kinds of jobs, though of course it can't do the final leg of delivery.

You are right - cancer does suck - but the OP is correct to ask for quantitative information.
As someone with a brother whos busy dying of stage 4 esophagus cancer, I can assure you there is an unlimited amount of bullshit theories and unsubstantiated therapies out there.
My brother's been strict keto since the initial diagnosis (against his doctors advice) due to various videos on places like diary of a CEO, and has also had unqualified but all knowing diet advisors having him take various green juices, and enough herbal supplements to choke a horse, all at the expense of him being able to get actual nutrition in while his capacity to actually eat solid food rapidly declines due to the cancer choking off his esophagus.
Now he is spending hugely to do hyperbaric treatment, red light therapy, vitamin C injections, deep heat thermal pad treatment, and any other therapy that they push his way with clinics that only have online doctors and questionable qualifications.
  I would a few good sessions at the gym to be the cure, but there needs to be actual data backing it, especially considering the multiple surgeries and compromised abdominal muscles and hernias etc from all the laparoscopic examinations and other medical procedures that patients like my brother have already been through. He was a 6'6" 130 kg fairly athletic guy, whos now down to 76 kg over 10 months and for the doctors have told him he shouldn't be lifting anything heavier than 5kg.

All those diets pills, potions and vitamin c / d / whatever injections don't seem to be stopping the cancer yet, even though the people pushing them all reckon it's the one true cure. I drew the line at him chugging blended apricot kernels or the poor bugger would have ended up giving himself cyanide poisoning.

I do notice clinics like "hope for cancer" aren't offering a money back guarantee to your estate if it turns out their miracle 50k to 100k treatment doesn't keep you alive for at least 5 years though.

Testimonials about some therapy aren't sufficient - dead people don't leave testimonials saying the treatment didn't work.

Alternative therapies need actual data to back them, or they are bullshit.

Now I am basically semi-retired, I do the laundry and cooking in my household, while my wife earns the big bucks, and I spend the rest of my day writing games that probably no one will play.

Hurry up and invent a laundry bot already! If it can put the dishes in the dishwasher and empty it again and take out the trash too, so much the better. If it can also do tiling and painting, it'd be really awesome, because my last bathroom tiling job cost $2000 in tiles but $12000 for someone to lay them - and frankly, this is the sort of thing humanoid robots will end up moving into.

That's a long way away though, because from my experience of previously working in robotics with even traditional 6 axis robots, the planning algorithms for working in an unstructured environment like a typical house or construction site, and the difficulty in planning movements for handling non rigid materials like cloth, and working reliably in wet and /or dirty environments make these tasks extremely difficult.

My phone came with samsung's browser installed. I installed chrome myself, because I wanted to use that browser.
Same with my PC.
I could have continues using edge, but I generally found using Chrome a better experience. You may have your own preferences.
Neither of these situations makes chrome a monopoly.

Wouldn't brain uploading suffer the same philosophical problem as the teleportation quandary?
The uploaded copy of you might have a seamless existence that feels like everything worked perfectly, but the original you is still going to be facing death either naturally if the scanning is not intrusive, or more likely turned into a million salami slices so each slice can be scanned and digitised during the scanning and uploading process.
Is it still you in the end?

I'd rather that games have stronger and legally enforceable financial penalties for those that cheat, with penalty damages to the cheats based on the cost to developers to detect and enforce anti cheating. If a hotel can charge you extra for trashing a room after you checked out, a game company should be able to charge you for trashing a game.

When you buy a multiplayer game to play and compete against other players according to the game rules laid down by the developer , there's injury done to players who are not cheating when cheaters play against them and ruin their experience. In some cases, cheaters do this with the explicit intention of ruining others experience, for their own satisfaction.

If you want to cheat, play a single player game / vs bots game or on games that let you host your own private server.

No developer will care if you do this, and the vast majority of players who want to actually compete on a level playing field can enjoy a game that has more time spent on improving the game instead of endlessly trying to implement anti cheating measures.
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It's too hard to maintain tight control of ground based solar and storage, when anyone can just put it on their roof - and with the decreasing cost of batteries there is a real risk that pretty soon that many consumers will hardly need to use the grid at all, once it's possible to install enough batteries to carry you through several days at a time, combined with a small backup generator for the few times it's needed.

This way, the power generation stays centralised and more easily controlled by our corporate overlords.

If it started asking me to put a tablespoon of salt, or cayenne pepper or grated cheese into a recipe for 8 banana muffins, I'd be questioning it.

I have given up searching for recipes using regular search engines because of this.
If I ask Google for a banana muffin recipe, the amount of waffle you have to wade through before you get to the recipe is incredible.

Now I just ask ChatGPT "Banana muffin recipe"
and get a nice concise result without all the extra fluff.
I may have previously asked for results "without all the bullshit" and as a result ChatGPT seems to know I want concise recipes.

So far the recipes seem to be reasonable, without adding in weird ingredients. It's also trivial to ask for the recipe in metric measurements or for a particular final quantity, say, for 8 muffins.

The only thing I worry about is that the query might be using more energy than the muffins take to cook, but when I asked about that, it estimated it took about 0.00048 kwh for the three queries I made (I asked for imperial and metric versions, as well as for a particular batch size)

If they managed 27 with a single launch, I should think they should be able to do the job with 60 launches.
That's still a rather ambitious 4 or 5 launches or so a month for the next 14 months though if it's to be completed by mid 2026.

Had a bathroom zipper incident myself about 50 years ago when I was in pre-school. I don't remember anything else about pre-school but I sure remember that.
Anyone who has seen that movie won't ever forget that scene either.

I am currently trying to get my 7.5 sqm (80 sq ft) bathroom tiled with 600x600mm tiles (about 4 sq ft tiles), with an additional 30 sqm (322 sq ft) of wall tiles - about 6 days worth of work, including waterproofing and bedding. One guy -and they are mostly solo operators - even quoted me $90 to install each tile.
Even with me supplying tiles, the cheapest quote I have had so far is 8k, several around the 9 - 10k range, with the most expensive quote being 20k.
Even at the cheapest rate, that works out to 200 per square meter.
These guys are all booked out for weeks in advance, with loads of work - so assuming no major work gaps, at $8000 for 6 days work, working 5 days a year for 50 weeks a year, a tiler can earn at least 347000 a year.

Ok they have to supply tile cement and grout, so I guess deduct $1000 or so from the $8000 - for materials, excluding tiles. mabey they are only making north of $300000 a year.

Should have done that instead of IT.

The most useful button I find (in a 2023 Prado), is the mic button. When connected to my phone, using Google's voice recognition, the voice recognition works great - easily recognizing my requests for setting navigation destination, calling someone etc with an acceptable voice used for prompts. Unfortunately, the car's built in voice recognition is awful though, and worse than useless - it is actually distracting because it often fails to recognize what I have asked for (say, an address), and I have to keep repeating what I want and getting further frustrated until I have to look at the screen and mash the cancel button to stop the really annoying heavily female LA accented voice saying "could you please repeat that" in a way that grates on my nerves after the fourth failed attempt to "Call Jude" (it keeps thinking I'm saying "Call Judy") when it fails to recognize what I have asked for. It sounds like I am listening to one of the Heathers from "Heathers" Not that I dislike American accents in general, but this one is just super annoying, with apparently no way to change it.

Overall though, if you have good voice recognition, you could get rid of a lot of the problems of having to use a screen for most of the less used functions. I wish it was possible for it to play specific albums or artists etc. from my phone instead of having to use the screen for that.

Self driving cars may save parking space, but they will use more road space and create more traffic, because for some percentage of the time they will be driving around empty. To provide the same number of passenger miles with self driving cars, you will actually create more traffic congestion, unless there is also some kind of ride share mechanism to increase the passengers per vehicle average.
I think the problem with a lot of cities is the increase in apartment dwellings without providing parking space. Where I live, houses are increasingly replaced by apartment buildings and then high-rises, usually with only 1 parking space for even 3 bedroom apartments. Increasingly, developers are allowed to build apartments with no parking space allocated, which the council thinks will push people to use the sparse public transport system.
I think the opposite approach is needed - don't allow purchase of a car unless you can prove you have a legal and exclusive place to park it, and also require that high-rise apartment buildings have at least two car parks per car, especially for 2 or 3 bed apartments, because most adults generally need to work to pay the mortgage or rent. the days of full time stay at home mum looking after the kids is long over. Apartment buildings also need adequate visitor parking allocated too. This may require there be either deeper basements or have the first couple of levels be car parks, but it is better than filling the streets with parked cars.

A more benevolent app would be replacing all those long phone queues and press 1 for x, 2 for y... n for whatever phone menus with an AI that could actually provide reasonable answers and help for your problems at a similar to what questions in Chat GPT can already provide, with a callback option to talk to a human if you really needed it and couldn't resolve your query using the AI.