Good to see people are learning that when they finally elect the stupid, they finally learn what was -really- going through those stupid heads for all those years. What they get is marinated in stupid… proud stupid … EPIC stupid. (Compated to today’s crowd, Reagan was a genius.)

It’s not like he had no way of thinking, “Geez, I don’t have the experience or knowledge or insignts to start the ball rolling on such a major decision.” and went on to do something useful instead.

Thanks for the pointer. Very informative insights into what’s going on in this area … news stories seldom take the time to explain these details.

really care about … build quality

Glad for you that has changed lately. Apple’s is the only (and most expensive) hardware I’ve ever had severe problems with … twice. (In between, that clone they killed worked great for 7 years.) Not buying it.

It has been fun watching that Old Guard tearing themselves apart -every day-.

LOL Wishing doesn’t make it so.

Well sure … but then, a majority of Americans actually VOTED FOR HIM. So … what’s that worth at the Bogega?

Yeah! Like, hmmmm… was it really a storm that brought Arecibo down? Or … was the storm just used as a cover by ET hackers?

Well yeah. But that’s to be expected in astronomy, they have to keep changing the model as they learn more and more. Who knew 40 years ago that stellar atmospheres could broaden radio-frequency lines?

Fair cop … but society’s to blame !

An interesting point … but unless you can see the serial killers per capita, it’s distorted.

When it comes to (single) homocides, the picture shifts substantially, the Americas are still at the top but Africa runs a close second. The PDF linked below (UN Drugs & Crime charts) has a very good set of PER CAPITA graphs to show the distribution worldwide. Here US homicide rates are much lower than Mexico and northern South America.

https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/gsh/2023/Global_study_on_homicide_2023_web.pdf

Get near-enough to the north (or south) pole and mercury turns into a solid.

Which is a better thing than when some gets spilled on the floor because it spatters into a thousand droplets that you have to chase around the floor , can’t mop up , can’t vacuum up … and can vaporize more easily and poison you.

Hmmm. Maybe it turned into a tax haven … like neighboring state South Dakota, mome of Kristi Noem.

Or maybe it’s: no state income tax. Or a maximum property tax of 2% (city + county). No capital gains, estate, or gift taxes.

Or maybe the 77% Republicans. Or the death penalty.

“You’re Going to Have to Trust Us”

Is that anything like “Don’t Be Evil”? (Google motto, 2004. No definition of evil followed.)

Reagan once said “Trust But Verify”. So … where can we do that at? (and who pays?)

I guess that’s okay, if we really got our money’s worth.

/s

Tux, FF and VLC have been dailies in my life for over a decade. Many MANY thanks to them, and to ALL those pipple.

Here’s a back-up, science paper on MOF from Nature with measured numbers. 8 liters per KG per day isn’t 1000 gallons until you get to 2 tons … but it’s about 200 liters per out of 25 KG … easily carried.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-58405-9

"The effects of temperature, relative humidity, and powder bed thickness on the adsorption-desorption process are explored for achieving optimal operational parameters. We found that Zr-MOF-808 can produce up to 8.66 LH2O kg−1MOF day−1, an extraordinary finding that outperforms any previously reported values for MOF-based systems… "

Wow, that would save A LOT of lives

Same fella that just told the EU that the US is its child and always will be. Hmmm, how many parents take the advice of their young teenaged kids?

Holding on to one’s preferred human culture and values is not being ‘left behind’ in any sense … they may in fact be ‘left ahead’.

The sooner EUrope has a firm handle on its own IT ecosystem, the sooner it can tell the US to go pound sand. Macron is spot on.