I have long concluded that the governments in most US jurisdictions are fine with the majority of freeway users speeding. It allows them to basically pull over anyone they want at any time without being accused of profiling. I don’t see any other reason why speed limits are set so low. 55 is still the standard for most freeways back east. If you drive that slow you would be a hazard. Out west 65 to 70 is common. Some roads are even 80 or no limit at all. Whatever the limit is you can be practically guaranteed the flow of traffic is 7-12 miles higher.

Keep an eye on these reservoirs. If not this year, one or more will likely reach deadpool within the next five to ten years. And when it does the climate change refugees in Las Vegas and Phoenix Metro are going to make the dustbowl refugees scattering to other places seem like they were a trickle.

Hospitals could potentially produce "major savings".....savings which in our for profit healthcare systems will no be passed down to the pati------er customers.

I agree that people have come to expect basic things like the availability of water when turning on the tap. Generally speaking that is a reasonable expectation in the developed world. However, what humanity is doing to the atmosphere and oceans the last 150 years is no longer reasonable. And hasn’t been for at least 70 years. We have known better for a long time. The consequences are becoming more and more apparent with each passing year.

No one knows for sure when it will first happen and where, but the once relatively stable environmental systems which have sustained modern civilizations are shifting and becoming less predictable. The United States is not immune. And though not the majority, we have no shortage of naive, reckless, dumb, and/or selfish people.

I’m not optimistic the people in charge, and the people who keep reelecting them, in our most environmentally vulnerable areas will put society over personal profits and hubris. Hopefully I’m wrong.

If someone can’t type a long command into a terminal without typos, they probably should not be using a terminal for anything other than basic commands anyway.

Of course it does. Windows runs on tons of different hardware configurations. Mac OSs only run on and hand of variations. It would only be a surprise if that was not case. Talk about a non-story.

Daily I run mac, windows, and Linux systems. I’m not a a fanboy to any of them. “The right tool for the job” is my motto.

Some of us deliberately choose to move to where the water is instead of praying snowpack and rain. I was born in the inland western USA. After a few decades there and visiting other places; I saw the writing on the wall. After decades of decreasing water supplies coupled with irresponsible explosive growth in the Great Basin, Front Range, and SW in particular.its just asking for trouble. The snow pack this year out there is less than 50% of the average of the last century. The fire season is going to be bad. The large reservoirs are already all low. The [no longer] Great Salt Lake is very low. When things eventually hit the fan out there it’s going to make the Dust Bowl climate refugees seem like it was a trickle.

But the governments still encourage sprawl. And they still allow water hunger industries to move in and expand.

It’s going to get ugly. It’s just a matter of when.

"The reality is that the entire U.S. auto industry has been chasing the luxury, and large vehicle segment of the market...."

That isn't just the auto industry. It is true for most purchases in the USA dominated by buyers with loans. It is more pronounced the bigger the loan. Housing for example. As a percentage in the last few decades almost no single family homes under 1500 square feet have been built. Most apartments/condos not heavily subsidized with taxpayer dollars likewise chasing the higher end. If you can find a small newer small apartment or condo it is highly likely it was included in a building so they could build additional higher priced units.

The reason for this is pretty obvious. Almost all the economic gains over the last 40 years have gone to the wealthy while the purchasing power of the middle class has regressed considerably in that time. To make up for the diminishing purchasing power we take out bigger and bigger loans. Which long term diminishes our purchasing power further as the middle class devotes more and more income on servicing loans and paying rent. Which further perpetuates the cycle.

All these reasons and more is why millions, if not 10s millions, of Americans would likely jump at the chance of a buying an EV for $12k - $30K that was even just 60%-70% as the current vehicles on the market that largely start at $50K. I mean if US manufactures produced ICE vehicles that was sold for $12k-$30k that was decent, millions would likely jump at those too.

I work from home and only put about 3000k miles on my Jeep. My wife commutes, but uses an PHEV with enough electric range to easily make to work where she can then charge for free as a work perk. We also live a half mile from a train station and plenty of amenities.

However, our home furnace uses oil. The last top off, 169 gallons, was $898. It was about $600 before the war. We have to fill it about three times a winter/fall/spring. Bad timing, but at least it's now officially spring. But we do have two fireplaces and buy seasoned hardwood by the cord for about $220. We could definitely burn more wood to offset more oil if it came down to it. With our typical use we go through a cord in about two and half winters when leaving the furnace at 65 F. This past autumn we had to fell a 80'+ ash tree which should provide the better part of a decade worth of fires once it is all seasoned. We have about twenty other trees over 80' on the property. We will probably get solar panels and battery backup within the next five years.

Also #$%* the stupid war of choice. Completely unnecessary. Completely run by lying piece of feces. Evil murdering sociopaths, the whole lot of them.

Never rely on others for you safety and security if you can help it. Yes, I know I obviously can't completely help it with my lifestyle either. But my eggs are not all in one basket. I am the ant, not the grasshopper. It has been decades in the making. I had a three month period when I crashed at a friend's apratment on their coach when I was in college. Hopefully if/when society collapses, I will be further towards being more self sufficient. And if it never collapses, the definitive preferred option, the worst case is that I am still isolated against price increases in retirement.

...except for the people who lost their job without lining up something else first.

This is a study that makes me feel the world indeed has changed. I can fathom asking an algorithm for emotional or life advice. I barely trust it with strategic and technical advice. Yet my kids are growing up with “smart” speakers in their rooms they use to control the lights, give them the weather, sometimes use to “help” them with their homework. Brave new world, I suppose.

Nothing to see here. Just a corporation trimming no longer needed position at the completion of a product. It isn’t a family, it’s business. They only pretend it’s a family when they need something from you. Same as it ever was for a large public company.

Sure. Though I will also point out you can pinch and zoom both on a trackpad and the surface of the “Magic” mouse. And Microsoft never tried to use a smartphone also as a desktop. Smartphones were not powerful enough back then. Also back then containerization was hardly a thing. That is an apples to oranges comparison.

I am only surprised it wasn’t already the policy. Anyone who would not only do this, but not stop when asked; doesn’t deserve to be in a confined space with other more civilized folks. It would be even better if the policy included the words “early evacuation” and “parachute” in an affirmative fashion somewhere in the clauses you acquiesce to when you buy your ticket.