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10 years ago someone decided that dragging links is so much more important than selecting text, selecting text is scarcely possible. I'm going to have to fork a browser to give link-dragging the demotion it deserves. It was probably those DIV guys.
The last time there was anything rational on the table was Perry under the Trump administration's 30-day rule proposal ( https://www.nucnet.org/news/nuclear-is-vital-to-us-national-... ). It gave a hard industry incentive to any energy supplier who can have 30 days' fuel on site. This means nuclear and coal. This was no gimmick, it was the first time anyone faced reality about National Security as related to Energy for the grid and survival. And now AI datacenter yadda yadda, we're also talking about the luxury of keeping schools heated in Winter. Adverse weather even for a week is grid down game over for wind and solar. Proven natural gas are ~300 years, joy! As soon as they get around to sending pregnant whales across the ocean (losing ~20% of the gas-energy in cooling) it may even last 50 years! Before we have to go to endless war again.
"Outside a globe, with a a dymaxion projection humans will see the true shapes of their world. Inside a globe, it's too dark to see."
~Apologies to Groucho Marx
Then in 1962 suddenly another motive was added :USSR-missiles. The US blockade of Russian warships probably loaded with ballistic missiles on their way to construction sites in Cuba, was the closest brink of war yet. My Dad (ARMY) was on alert and packed to go.
With that resolved and no USSR missiles in Cuba the working motive for opposition fell back on (because Castro, Communism) and its economy was hobbled for years until neutral worldwide investors besides the USSR established ties. To this day Cuba is still on the edge with the lines shifting back and forth.
As has Iran since the Shah dynasty ended and American hostages were taken. So Cuba and Iran have lines stretching back into the distance. Probably you and I are young and it all seems so ancient. But Iran is a wealthy country now and (like us and the CIA) and it is now 'on our watch' to make sure money is not being funneled into the wrong places.
This nuclear thing annoys me but I'm a 'radical'. Aside from sweetheart deals and that 'other' country the US gave The Bomb by supplying their initial fissile material... since the USSR split anyone with MONEY has been able to acquire 1,2,3,+ bombs if they want them. "So and so is two weeks from having a Bomb" is generic Boomer slop to stoke fear and justify anything. And by all means if you have uranium, centrifuge uranium. And build out nuclear power.
Don't reply with an answer and place yourself in the crosshairs. But think on or find out for yourself, what number between 3% and 99% was Iran aiming for? If the number is on the higher side don't think in terms of [stupid] nuclear war, think in terms of money being wasted and having to deal with the most sordid people in the world to sell it. A bad direction. Things like this are both funny and sad, and hint at a world that might have turned out differently, better ( https://web.archive.org/web/20150518180531/http://en.wikiped... ). Time to revisit roads we had not taken.
~Anonymous, Datalinks.
Needing to amortize expenses over 15 years puts a big damper on anything corps may be excited about today but with less than 100% assurance of in the long run? Restoring the pre-2022 regime for domestic expenses only is for the most part supporting domestic workers? So your friend is back in a more familiar job market... maybe college grads too? Thanks.
Antarctica bug spanning the whole windshield
and people fuss about orientation?
They're looking at nothing but guts!
I love EQs with many bands. In the real world I used to drag across the row of sliders with the knobs between two fingers setting a general curve during the first second of a song... in a single motion. Without looking. Graphic designers want rectangular EQ knobs. DJs want round ones. I wanted to manufacture round ones with spinnable outsides to max the speed of the curve-swipe.
But even more hostile is a discussion forum has replaced embedded message post times <time></time> with just useless plain "x ago" text and the actual timestamps for each has been hidden as React "props" magically shown by mouseover events by "class". Like "I'll show a picture of a timestamp if you really wanna see one."
An HTML-only copy is more than useless when it used to contain messages and times. A "Web, complete..." copy has message text in there but it blanks everything, sounds like the kind of bug someone would have fixed in a minute if they cared.
And they don't it seems. Like web architecture involves toppling furniture at random and too bad if you trip over something. Love it or leave.
Is this a React thing or an attention-to-detail thing? When I cannot easily save pages locally, I'll go elsewhere.
PS: It "looks" as beautiful as ever. A tad slower maybe.
Anything less than an eternal universe is a waste of time."
~My Very Clever Dad. Miss you Dad.
Walls and floors always have positive charge conducted from the ground outside relative to the air, no sparks means ozone in too small concentrations to worry about. Dust, smoke, bacteria and viruses stick to walls not the inside of lungs and the air is clean and odorless. You can shine a very bright flashlight through it in a dark room and see absolutely no beam. Every so often you sponge off the walls with strong cleaning solution. Latex paint stains easily near the device which is a subtle way of reminding you how germy it really would have been. Use plastic over walls near the device to save yourself some color matching and painting.
Over all these years, the most annoying thing has been other people trying to sell me HEPA filter solutions with screaming fans that need accessory replacement often. They insist I'm killing myself with ozone as a fear tactic. Few people sell just ionizers or sabotage the concept by selling weak/ineffective ones... because HEPA is big money.
Ionizers use tiny energy and no recurring supplies. Just make sure your electronics are grounded well.
Kensignton makes a good one with a scrollwheel ring around it, the ball XY is perfect though the clickers are so-so in longevity. Working without a physical middle click and two button software middle click emulation is frustrating sometimes.
Lisa had an early capacitance keyboard sensitive to EMF. Our building was next to an AM radio station transmitter and talking or music resulted in a steam of ghost characters when you held your hand over it. For demoing the machine I had a ground wire running to an elbow rest and chair bottom. To type comfortably with no ghost I had to have a bare foot resting on the chair legs.
Dangerous actually, the effect it had on children. Of course they loved it because it had a happy ending, but at what price?
It is good they are being unmasked. You must avoid those people and warn your children about them. They are not safe to be around.
Vikings with drones would endanger commercial airspace.
Vikings with nuclear weapons would be funny, from a distance.
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