The cognitive dissonance, it burns, lol!

"We didn't want him to create a space force!!!!!" - nerds

And the weather. There is a limited amount of pleasant temperate climate in the US and California has a big chunk of it.

You might be surprised. Louisiana is an industrial facility powerhouse, probably just behind Texas in terms of manpower depth for a facility like this.

Does "AI slop" actually mean something, other than "something I don't like"?

.... to load a /. story and see in the top rated comments 3 anti-Israel, pro-Iran comments.

Just weird to see what has happened to people's brains over the years.

If "something" means getting back to going nuclear, and also figuring out carbon scrubbing solutions, then sign me up.

But if "something" just means "random emoting and demonizing", then no thanks.

Proof that "TV rots the brain", lol!

Now excuse me, while I go watch another Gilligan's Island.

A video on their website. Looked like even with the battery cover off, there was a thingie you had to screw to fasten the battery in. Again, not a bit deal at all. Didn't look any more (and probably a lot less) onerous than the screw for a battery cover on a children's toy. Hm, maybe I just answered my own question ...

Why do you have to actually screw the battery in?

Not a big deal (given the alternatives today), but I remember swappable batteries, and you just had to pop the cover off, pop the old one out, pop a new one in.

You could.

Just like for your music collection, you could hit 300 used CD shops, rip them all, have your own backup system, etc. etc., etc. Sure.

Yet somehow, Spotify exists ...

Spirit is kaput. Google is picking up wreckage from the scene at scrap value.

But you do make a point that most people underappreciate. The Spirit airline experience was bad, but one of the bigger factors in the poor experience was that everyone on the planes were extremely grumpy. You could avoid being nickel and dimed but there was no escape from the foul mood. No other airlines have ever come close.

... before or after the skunk pot, the shiny hubcaps, the $300 sneakers, and the $2000 iPhone?

I'm not sure how to break this to you, but "making payments on something" has been around forever.

No, having preferential treatment for one race over another is the past mistake you want to correct. You recognize in that statement why it was wrong to do to black people. How do you not recognize that that is universal truth and wrong to do to any race, any person? DEI is harmful to black people, anyway. In your world you believe black people don't have professional jobs and you are trying to balance that. In reality what it does is it undermines every black person that got there on there own merit because now there's a good chance they are there from DEI instead of just being damn good at what they do. Now when choosing between a black professional or say an asian one, well you choose the asian one because there's odds the black person isn't as skilled and got there on lowered standards.

And one that was the darling of the American left, for most of its modern existence.