bell-cot

This, plus: - Which way does the prevailing wind blow? (Toward your prospective house, or away?) - If the airport had leaky underground storage tanks, in which directions might the gas (& lead) s…

If the oil & gas rights on >1,100 acres were sold at auction for only $2,500...that suggests that (at least in the minds of the other bidders) there is d*mned little worth the effort of trying …

You assume that Google has no "secret VIP list" - full of sites, ah, "conveniently above the rules which us little people are subject to".

IANAP (...Not A Psychiatrist), but a great many people who are enthusiastic readers (especially of novels) seem to imagine close relationships between themselves and their favorite authors, extensivel…

Yes...but it sounds to me mostly like a "change fast or die" signal to VW's hidebound and sclerotic executives.

> or launching from tiny islands/ocean platforms which will have the exact same fresh water issues. If launching from an ocean platform, then fresh water seems pretty easy to bring in via ta…

One well-informed tidbit, for those who think that getting a Ph.D. might be desirable, or even a sane decision. (At least in the academic humanities.) - https://acoup.blog/2021/1…

Short-term, certainly. Long-term - negative ROI's would drive away the real customers, who are paying for those ads. Or at least that's the "Optimism set to 11" plan.

With all the creepy surveillance of America's phone system, internet, etc. that seems to be happening - is "we'll try to trace those death threat calls" even on the table?

I know a guy who does street performance gigs. He was a serious college cheerleader (doing human pyramids, trampoline routines, etc.) in his 20's. He is still going - but when only in his 50&#x…

Not C-level - but at Boeing, and convicted of a felony in the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darleen_Druyun …

Somehow, I'm envisioning a new boarding school for extremely gifted small children, with suspiciously low fees paid by the parents...

Well, if the "free market" wants to create unique, hand-crafted nuclear power plants, with generally inexperienced workers... While the government's alternative is something between a …

That public seems happy to be lied to, on all sorts of subjects, by politicians & salesmen & etc. Why should "the economy" and "economics experts" be special cases?

You mean all those Chinese goods that are (at best) sitting & rotting in a huge fleet of container ships, parked off the U.S. West coast, waiting to be unloaded "eventually"?

Plausibly TSMC's management noticed recent saber-rattling in their neighborhood, and/or more-distant governments starting to offer them worthy inducements.

The old joke about the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman comes to mind. ("...the used car salesman actually knows when he is lying to you!") I'm not sure…

Somewhat similar experience here, but Walmart / Target / Macy's. Last time I bothered looking at Walmart's web site, the "best" part of my experience was that I was able …

Mathematically, yes. (More-or-less.) Commodity price fluctuations usually are not. But "rising exponentially" seems to have become a way to say "going up very fast, and you should get …

You left off all the toxic and environment-degrading crap that the combustion (including combustion further up the supply chain) dumps into the air. Which at least has the "virtue" of sprea…

Very misleading title on the submission. The New Yorker's title is no better, but their subtitle is half-decent: "Stranded in Yemen’s war zone, a decaying supertanker has more than a millio…

Maybe I'm misreading this, but... If the question is about having a passible non-FB web presence (with out implying on-line ordering) - then Joey's Pizza is almost certainly on Yelp, TripA…

Rather than compare this robot to caring parents or human volunteers - maybe it should be compared to a teddy bear (or other "stuffed animal" toy), gentle pet tortoise, economy "robot p…

> Maybe because it's the largest [...] This. Same way that Apple gets the headlines when it's learned that workers at some electronics factory are being horribly mistreated. (Well...mayb…

> I still have a FB account [...] I have a hard time imagining how anyone could get sucked into it. I drink a glass of beer several times a week, and can't imagine how anyone could become addi…

Tell the guy that your dad and mom are rich, and eventually become soft touches if someone is really persistent about asking them for money. :|

Fusion's problems are very different from fission's problems. Fission arguably went from the first serious attempt at a reactor (U of Chicago, Dec. 1942, successful self-sustaining reaction)…

Which explains why grid-scale hydropower, solar power, wind power, etc. have all failed, new construction has all but ceased, and existing installations are being closed down...?

Sadly, nuclear fission power that works at scale - both on the technology and social sides - seems to be mostly beyond the capabilities of current human societies.

Thus accomplishing twice as much "Nothing, with a PR stunt on top" in the next 20 years? That doesn't sound like a winning strategy for BO. (BO's pointy-haired bosses and their co…