>NASA later apologized and promised to consult with tribes before authorizing any similar missions in the future.
>The lander will carry some payloads from a company known to provide memorial services by shipping human cremated remains to the Moon.

Looks like NASA is so hard up for cash it's selling trips to the Moon again.

Here in the US, the desecration of graveyards is hardly uncommon. Once the costs of grave plots and memorials has enriched the funeral industry, the actual give-a-damn longevity of those yards is always subject to other perceived uses for the properties. (At least Moon 'burials' are *probably* safer.) That's certainly the case for Indian grave 'treasures' ... they're still being returned to this day ... which may explain a heightened sensitivity.

One fine example of graveyard recycling (but far from the only one **) is San Francisco, where eviction notices were sent out in 1914 and 150,000 dead are moved to the city of Colma (by 1941). If people couldn't pay for the removal of long-dead relatives, gravemarkers were 'recycled' by the city... for example, some were broken up to bolster seawalls and gutters. At least one removed SF cemetery becomes a golf course. Whereas several 'finer' cemeteries are left alone.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20...

** Two more prominent stories: New York and Baltimore

is that a lot of drivers believe that if there's no smoke, they're losing horsepower. And many others just think it's really cool.

https://dieseliq.com/truth-abo...

> As I recall an oil change costs about $30, how much profit can there be in that?

We buy oil by the (retail) can. Dealers buy oil by the (wholesale) 55-gallon drum. Because of their hyuuuge discount there can be a lot of profit. Then there's the difference between the $175/hr shop fee and what the employee's paid.

Reminded me of the Therac-25 software problem back in the mid-80s, which killed several people, permanently disabled several others. Hardware in a medical radation treatment machine had been replaced with faulty software (written by an unidentified idiot), which allowed patients to be hit with dosages 100 times too large. It took two years after the first incident before the FDA had the 11 faulty machines in North America taken out of service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Also, good thing that all of these sex-abuse accusations aren't auto-discovered by AI's and register-shifted into a special look-up file where some non-cooperative party people can be quickly found by the Right persons.

"Oh ja! Ve haff our vays."

iFixit has -always- been a great site. Not surprised to see them supporting this solution. Making things repairable (as most things were not that long ago) will keep a lot of crap out of landfills and waterways. It will encourage the re-growth of repair businesses, which used to be very common (radio, TV, audio etc.) and employed a lot of newb technicians. This will discourage companies that want to keep milking their customers.

"if the country is lucky, universities will collapse..." Back to what ... Halls of Ivy for the privileged?

A look at the history of science shows that NOT ALL 19th-century science discoveries were made by people who had the privileged leisure-time to do so. Drive and self-education are important ... but so is opportunity ... EVEN for geniuses.

Take a look at the shit-ton of *extremely important* discoveries made by (highly motivated and highly poor and uneducated) Michael Faraday. Ever heard the name? When he was 14, he was apprenticed to a bookbinder for seven years.

"My education was of the most ordinary description, consisting of little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day school. My hours out of school were passed at home and in the streets. "

Then he got lucky: he was hired by chemist Humphry Davy (Davy started out as a poet and painter, then was hired as a lab assistant). Davy accidently blinded himself for a time, and needed a lab assistant. Apart from that luck, what would either of them have discovered while working 12-hour days 6 days a week?

We -were- wasting A LOT of talent before colleges opened themselves up to everyman. College -was much more- affordable in the mid-20th century. The benefits *to us all* have been remarkable (even if 'only' 25% took advantage of the chance, even if we're not aware of them). And now ... we're going back there, so fuck it?

Well lookee there. Further evidence that colonialism never died, it just continues to skulk in dark corners, pretending to be something less noxious. As if we needed further proof after the 2016 election (and the continued support of just under half of the US populace), years of accidental police murdering, and US reluctance to confront its own boarding school victims, even after Canada finally fessed up - a little.

Technology is not to blame, it's a convenient whipping-boy for the care-less behavior of the same morlocks - still convinced of the divine right of kings - who are hopeful that AI will rid them of their labor 'problem'. For them, as Thatcher (a good friend to multiple South American despots) put it, 'There's no such thing as society.'

Real education, of people by people - which was already holding onto life by a thread in our times - requires no technology beyond what existed in the 1800s, which produced innumerable insights into nature, adequate funding and educational leadership motivated entirely by a passion to learn and to share.

This site has most of the good stuff (less the jargon):
https://infoscihub.blogspot.co...

>an ideal virtual community that would be known as the only legal place online useless Junk can be marketed

Ooo Ooo I know one! It has existed since day one ... the dot-com domain. Limit ALL marketing (ads, spiels, , buying, selling of all kinds) to [whatever].com.

New users must OPT-IN to .com .

Anyone who BREAKS the LAW by marketing elsewhere (after they finish their jailtime) gets an IP-filtered connection to .com ONLY ... FOR LIFE, without parole.

What millions of people do personally do means a lot.

Old saying: "Every dollar is a vote." Still driving as much as we're used to? Still using that old furnace? So are millions of people. Distracted by the same load of crap that has always been used to keep those at the top at the top.

No interest in the info of 1.5M people, but I *would* like to see a complete list of the organizations the current USGov consider to be terrorist.

>fine for every individual's details that are unsecured and leaked.

Eeeyah, *if* the proceeds of that fine are paid directly to each of the affected individuals ... and those individuals thereby notified are then free to press further charges ... *before* the company also and separately has to pay for the fees of the prosecutors. IF the company runs out of cash and liquifiable assets, then the homes of the Chief officers, then the boardmembers, then random shareholders, are sold until the balance is cleared.

Wow. Looked over that WaPo article and neither 'your leader' nor his 'views' are mentioned in it anywhere.

Both countries have had shit on their shoes for a long time. And their immature pissing contest is dangerous, stupid, and invites us all to tune both of them out.

Hep me Ronna, hep hep me Ronna

Glad they fin'ly get 'ronna it