Not negating your core point about the economics, but the cable thing in California is mostly due to lack of maintenance…

For example the camp fire started because of a hook that wore though and failed. The hook was almost 95+ years old. A second hook was found nearby in a similar state. This same company also blew up a city block in 2010 killing 8 people, due to a natural gas leak. I can only imagine what theyd do with a hydrogen pipeline.

I just got into Brandon Sandersons books and they are amazing fantasy books. Mistborn: The Final Empire is the best starting place

Yes I think I’ve had pretty bad luck on that front both my current laptop (framework 13) and old laptop (XPS 13) have had sleep issues.

My laptop’s battery isn’t great, but my real problem is with sleep. the battery for me can drop 20% - 30% overnight and sometimes it just doesn’t go to sleep and the laptop is totally dead in the morning.

I’ve tried some of the optimization on the arch wiki for my laptop but no luck 😕

Why pay Microsoft for this when my Linux laptop already does this for free

Even with eminent domain though you still have to pay market value. Edit: Not that they shouldn’t do it. It would still be worth it in the long run

I agree with you up to the :30 part. 12:00am vs pm is nonsensical and seems like it could go either way.

But AM/PM means before noon/after noon, so 12:30 AM is unambiguously before the current day’s noon, and 12:30 PM is definitely after the day’s noon.

For determining 12:00AM VS PM I use the law of lease surprise. Basically it would be weirder for 12:01AM to be proceeded by 12:00PM since it would make sense for AM/PM to flip with the hour. Is this scientifically rigorous? Should we need this much philosophy to determine the current time: no, Hence the only real solution is to 24 hour time

Some more news did a pretty interesting episode on this a couple months ago. Worth a watch/listen:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LSUNJKsrQOA

It’s cause he already has one for that: https://xkcd.com/979/

But maybe a better use of Scientology infiltration tactics would be an investigative piece rather than a viral speed run.

The irony of the journalist writing this and missing that this is their job

I went to a concert of theirs and they refused to play any of the songs they’re known for

This one is unfortunate

I agree I don’t want the coup but maybe if ICE pisses off the military enough, they won’t coup a Democrat if they ever get voted back in

You’re not wrong. The US could do that. But in the US there is no forcing function to make the companies subsidize the oil locally and they would rather make more profit by selling oil at the market price.

Well yeah of course MacGurffin makes a terrible fake metal name. Change it to MacGufftanium and then we’ve got a real winner

The least they could do is pay in graphics cards and ram

Yeah what rubs me wrong is that they went out of their way to hide it and are proud of it

To be fair he also had Joe Manchin threatening to block it. Though what I don’t understand is why they didn’t pressure him to fall in line. (Insert controlled opposition theory here)

Because the power charging curve is non linear. You have to charge the battery slowly when it’s almost depleted or full. So they only post the numbers that make them sound best.

During the day open but for sleep I usually close it because we have lights in there that can be annoying

Though not for me personally, I could definitely see that based on the practices of other societies