Agreed and as this is an art sub, it is filled with beautiful art of an amazing world!

It’s missing the next frame where no one believes the scientist anymore no matter what he/she says.

More like shoveling money into billionaires pockets is fashionable these days.

The planet money podcast has had several episodes where this has come up. I think the last one about the resistance to free filing tools is a good one

Don’t forget about cheap labor over there, economies of scale with the large Chinese market, and with a very different regulatory environment. The American auto industry has an uphill battle ahead of them.

Not to excuse the lack of innovation here, I personally blame the trend of wealth extraction for executive pay and shareholder returns at the expense of long term thinking and reduced R&D spending.

This was the part that I wouldn’t do just because I view the sink as mostly clean and plunger as mostly dirty. So unless I were to sterilize the sink afterwards I wouldn’t put a plunger in the sink.

Because not only did he not make the above distinction, the comments try to devalue anyone with that diagnosis.

Here and always excited to see more orchids

Very cool, but I suspect that participants will be giving up something when it’s implemented. I would be curious if the user can override the load sharing when the car is needed. Would be rather annoying to go get your car and find it at half charge.

This is a good steel man response, very much like Facebook posts I have seen lately. It’s really sad how much the right has abandoned listening to experts and just assuming we can apply “common sense” answers to fix problems that are complicated.

I didn’t get through it. I agree with your comment about the characters not resonating. I got about a third of the way in and just decided to go on to the next book in my pile.

You are right of course, but that’s part of the joke. I think it’s provokes such a viseral response because it’s directly “against” the reader, not many of us can claim to be directly impacted by genocide for example, even though it’s way worse.

Just in case you forgot the /s tag, that person’s job isn’t to collect the carts scattered across the parking lot, it’s to move the carts from the cart area to inside the store. The right way to handle the lack of cart areas isn’t to make the workers job harder, it’s to complain to the store.

Oh, and let’s just continue to screw over astronomy research for the foreseeable future. https://www.astronomy.com/science/starlink-satellites-disrupt-cosmic-studies/

There are some good points in the article and I think some poor comparisons. I have seen examples of what they mention. NASA is still demanding things from companies like a cost plus contract but paying them like a firm fixed price contract. This basically means that the only companies that will succeed in the long run are those that have billionaire funding instead of shareholders. Assuming SpaceX doesn’t have cost overruns is just silly, it’s just that NASA doesn’t see them.

This aligns with what I have heard from folks I know in that world. Fear motivated by exaggerating one off and isolated incidents. The information silos in the conservative world (especially news) is frightening.

At this point I am no longer surprised just wanting to know what the consequences are.

Odd implementation of ranked choice. Probably too many choices without party affiliation listed for voters that didn’t come into the booth having already researched the choices. Sad because this will probably get used to say the whole concept is bad.

If it can actually curb executive power then now or never right?

Nice! It’s messed up that this strategy was needed though.