At least he steals his ideas from good sci-fi.

Wonder who he pays to summarize them for him.

They’re assuming zero maintenance and all that’s needed is refueling. I think if they have any anomalies they’ll need to pull the booster to another location for inspection/repair.

Which is great, but as soon as one tower is out, then you’re back to N towers.

And makes turnaround much faster since it’s already back on the launch pad.

Though it does make it so a damaged launch pad from either an abnormal launch or landing can stop all launch progress until things are rebuilt. We’ve seen the very reliable Falcon 9 damage the drone ships with a hard landing.

Would be interesting to see more than the two launch towers created to create more redundancy.

Wonder what international event 6ish years ago brought that image to the forefront…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue

Needs a new cigarette lighter.

Doping is a common term in electronics, it’s just that the article is on Top Gear so they didn’t explain it well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_(semiconductor)

If you are reborn as a new person with none of your previous memories, then does it matter that it’s still “you”?

Man… Might be worth it just for the zombie expansion. That was the best part of the RDR series.

We’ve always had to pay for quality, buying crap on Amazon is always going to be a tossup. There’s plenty of stores out there where you can buy good stuff, you just have to be willing to pay more than slave wages for it.

It’s tough out there, but there’s plenty of quality stuff if you look in the right place.

I’ve been running a pair of cyberpower systems for over a decade. I had to replace the battery in each of them once, but they’ve been working great.

I assume newer ones use some sort of Li-Ion battery tech, but mine are just plain old Lead Acid.

That article in Signal is bogus. It is entirely based on speculation from how funding comes in, and also either ignores, or misunderstands how Signal fundamentally works.

The EFF recommends Signal, and it’s one of the most secure ways to communicate.

https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

You can make your own decisions, but if you just grab any random arguments, you’ll find a reason to doubt everything.

There are quite a few anecdotal cases of people dying shortly after retirement, or shortly after a spouse dies. Death is complicated and sometimes people “hold on” for weird and unexplained reasons.

People in terminal condition have a habit of dying when loved ones are out of the room.

Does Jimmy Carter feel like this election is something major he needs to accomplish before he goes? Maybe. Or maybe he just keeps busy with all of his volunteer work and other philanthropy, which is keeping him around.

Maybe he’s just one of the lucky ones that happens to be healthy and sharp at 100 for reasons we don’t know.

This section implies their books are DRMd. I don’t know how ebooks.com works, but according to their about page, you still don’t own the content.

Probably not, unless one is wired incorrectly. You’re just connecting hot to hot and neutral to neutral, so no power should flow.

Of course DO NOT TRY THIS. Because any mistake anyone has ever made in the electrical wiring could trigger a disaster. There is a substantially higher than zero chance you would die, and it would hurt a lot the whole time.

If the Republicans didn’t win in 1980 we wouldn’t have the shitty Reganomics of today, so yeah, it was the most important election (that humanity lost) in history to that point.

If the Republicans didn’t win in 2000, then it’s arguable that the twin towers wouldn’t have been destroyed, creating an excuse for decades of suffering across the globe, so yeah, it was the most important election in history (that we lost) to that point.

If the Republicans didn’t win in 2016, then we wouldn’t have had the worst supreme court in a century in power, wouldn’t have politicized COVID, and would have had much stronger health care. So yeah, it was the most important election in history (that we lost again!) to that point.

If the Republicans weren’t consistently horrible and on the verge of power, you’d have a point, but until they’re gone, they’re a constant threat to the country.

Whoa, really??? I guess I just assumed nothing changed in the last 5 years. I need to look into that.

Not the only use cases, but you’d need a different service if you need/want wildcard certs, certs that are manually installed and managed, or certs with a longer expiration.

AKA: Good Day by Nappy Roots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn8iinkhR3w