The strikes are nice and the music was interesting on this one. Pronunciation sounded anglo Canadian. Anyone know the group?

I mean aoc would be a pretty well known and liked pick imo.

She's not old enough according to the Constitution. Candidates running for presidency must be at least 35. She's 34.

That is a true statement. However, as the article points out they produce 90% of the world's supply of Rare Earth materials.

And just to remind people. "Rare Earth" materials aren't actually rare. They're common. However, they are distributed in very very low concentrations, so you have to go throw mountains worth of material to extract measurable amounts of Rare Earth materials. This is typically energy intensive and ecologically destructive, which in most of the work equals "expensive" which is why the nations of the world have been happy to shut down their own Rare Earth extractions facilities any paying China to destroy its ecology instead.

China is free to set up its restrictions on exports. Other nations are free to restart their own extraction operations (with the costs that come with it).

"Beekeeper....inverted"

POWER...up

Trying to use just an image - let me know if links are preferred

I much prefer the image to the link. Telegram requires scripts to be enabled, and I'm a bit paranoid about that for Telegram. Thank you for asking this question.

If you're torrenting, then there's no risk of watching ads from what you download, which was your primary argument for not subbing. If that's the case then there's no risk to subscribing to the service to pay for the content, and simply never log in.

There’s no way in hell hush money is an official act

The hush money wasn't the illegal part. It was covering up the hush money payments that was illegal and what he was convicted on.

Its a monthly subscription, and if they sell you a no-ad product you'd have strong grounds to ask for a refund for that month. Otherwise simply cancel the month you see ads.

I imagine a gay couple living in the Castro District in San Fransisco experiences a different level acceptance than if that same couple were living in Birmingham Alabama.

There's a fantasy series that has part of this as a plot point. A normal person becomes god with all the godly powers but only for a very short time do they get ALL the power. Its overwhelming in the first few moments and they almost destroy the planet with a mere thought. They realize their mistake a few seconds later, but only have half the power by then, so they put in an ugly workaround, before most of their power runs out. Now that ugly workaround is just "life as we know it" on the planet for the people that live there.

This is a deep spoiler for a popular book series so I don't want to post the series name and I don't think we have a spoiler tag yet.

I dunno. I think the animals should worry. The Anthropocene is going to mean millions of species of things cease to exist because we're changing the global climate.

I'd be interested if they took samples of home ownership across LGBTQ+ and cis populations in geographies with high acceptance of LGBTQ+ populations. Do we see parity in this case? Could it be that geographies that contain accepting societies all have low home ownership?

As in, could places where higher home ownership exist not overlap with LGBTQ+ acceptance?

Sticking to the old model of “pay for cable TV and watch commercials” is never going to work, be it cable or streaming. I don’t think I’m in the minority here, either; I’ve heard this sentiment from plenty of others.

As much as wish I could agree with you, the previous ad-free streaming services now almost all offering an ad-supported tier disagrees with your conclusion. Price conscious consumers are choosing ad-supported subscriptions in large enough numbers for streaming services to offer them profitably. I'm okay with this. Not everyone has the money that I do, but I'll almost always choose the ad-free version of a streaming channel instead of the ad-supported.

One of the few exceptions to that is Hulu. I don't watch enough on Hulu to make it worth $18/month, and the ad-supported version can be had for $1/month-$2/month.

Cable companies have seen the writing one the wall with Cable TV for quite awhile. They had the perfect product to pivot to with broadband. Had they offered a great product with great customer service, they'd have had the market forever especially how much consumers felt burned by telecoms abusing their market dominance with with early broadband.

Instead, cable companies doubled down on the lock-in and bundle model with deceptive pricing and horrible customer service ceding ground to wireless providers and even the same telecoms that were hated before.

Our household cut the cord on cableTV/satellite about 14 years ago, but kept cable modem service since then. Now that the local telecom has laid fiber at 500Mb/s for $49/month we dropped any relationship with the cable company. Two months before the fiber came in, cable suddenly dropped the price of our 100Mb/s service and increased the speed to $300Mb/s. At $80/month it was still better for us to ditch the cable company and go with the telecom fiber connection.

I googled a cheap Intel NUC and saw power consumption numbers of 15w to 40w. Thats quite a bit of juice (and heat) for small applications.

I wonder if a parasite drone could be developed. A drone that would go up and latch onto the Lancet, and either neutralize or overtake control authority of the Lancet and fly it into a Russian target instead.

GenX here. Kids enjoying doing kid things even if we don't understand why they do that hurts no one? Keep it up, kids. You're doing fine. No cap.

Might be helpful to have this hardware if you want to develop malware targeting systems in China.