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Some WSJ articles work and some don't for me. I think the difference may be opinion pieces.

The next couple airports in Japan to be built were built over water on artificial islands:

Kansai International: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansai_International_Airport

Kobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_Airport

Kitakyushu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitakyushu_Airport

Chubu International: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chubu_Centrair_International_A...

Hoover dam? Svalbard seed vault?

There's someone I follow on YouTube[0] who criticizes the install quality of roadside barriers, with some positive results[1], after his daughter died in a collision with an incorrectly installed guardrail.

[0]: https://youtube.com/@TheGuardrailGuy

[1]: https://foxchattanooga.com/amp/news/local/after-wrongful-dea...

It's not quite the same pitch, but I use privacy.com to set up a unique virtual card for every subscription I sign up for - that way, all in one dashboard and can stop them on demand. I also set the spend limit just above the current price so if there's a price hike it denies the transaction.

If I remember right, I think Valve has implied that the steam deck arose out of prototypes for a wireless VR headset, so it could be possible there was some early collaboration to that effect, and Valve ended up taking a different path once they realized what the steam deck could be?

Regarding that turnpike, it may be of interest that the service stations were a public-private partnership between McD's and the commonwealth, and that the contract is up soon and the commonwealth gets a cut of the sales:

> Under a 25-year deal brokered two years ago, [the year 2000] McDonald's has spent more than $25 million to overhaul the Pike's 11 service plazas. In return, the Pike receives at least $9.3 million annually in rent, plus a percentage of food sales.

https://www.milforddailynews.com/story/news/2002/08/17/havin...

For one, loud parties might upset neighbors who might coordinate politically to restrict or even ban Airbnb in their area.

On top of that, smart summon has been disabled on ‘vision only’ Teslas since they removed radar sensors.

See also:

"Textual: lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser." [1]

[1]: https://github.com/textualize/textual/

Of potential interest, the source YouTube channel is prolific and covers many Japanese manufacturing processes: https://youtube.com/@processx

Tangentially related: " Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article [0] Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player 'Useless' " [1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230913163653/https://www.msn.c...

[1] https://futurism.com/msn-ai-brandon-hunter-useless

On my current motorcycle and body shape it says 0 degree forward lean, 90 degree knee angle and 94 degree hip angle. The most comfortable bike I've owned, Kawasaki KLR650.

That's what it looks like when the poster deleted their account, but not the post. When the post is deleted, the body text disappears. Account deleted but not post is relatively common on decade old reddit threads.

If it is unusual, it should not be. President Carter's prolonged time in hospice care highlights something important I think people should take note of: hospice care isn't about giving up. In my eyes, too many people wait for too long to go into hospice because of that mentality. Hospice is just a way to step back from the stressors of curative methods to instead focus on comfort and pain relief, on being with family, and living one's final days with grace. For our loved ones with terminal conditions, we should aim for this period of care to be as long as possible, and that means going into it as soon as possible.

The article does poke a little at that aspect:

> The bunker would need a lot of wood. He later insisted this came from fallen tree branches.

What if one of my requirements is that the top of the mouse supports multi touch gestures?

If it makes you feel better, owing to kerosene being highly volatile, the conventional wisdom is that at or above 5,000 feet something like 98 percent of it will have evaporated by the time the remainder reaches earth, by which point it will have been spread out over a large area.

I did not see that! Thanks for pointing out :)

A little known fact is that hotels constructed in New York City "before July 1, 1969 which cost less than $88 per week or $350 per month on May 31, 1968" are subject to a law that states that guests are entitled to become a permanent tenant by requesting a lease of six months or more, and hotels are generally barred from preventing such people from doing such that.

There's someone who has been trying to claim ownership through this mechanism of the New Yorker hotel across from Penn Station, with surprising amounts of success:

https://viewfromthewing.com/new-york-city-transfers-hotel-de...

The Hart Island public cemetery, at the end of the article, is a morbidly interesting tangent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island

Either works - adding only yolks yields a richer custard I think, but it's my belief that the albumen carries some important quality to the end product - somewhat mysterious, but anyway I usually use the whole egg. I sometimes throw an additional yolk or three in there if I'm feeling luxurious, exactness is not key to the ratios. If you mix the custard the night before too it develops a lovely flavor profile by morning.

Regarding the interior of the wood not being soaked by the stuff when it was cut open. (35:32) I suspect moisture content of the wood is a factor. A similar challenge is faced when cooking French toast, with particularly thick slices of bread. When making French toast, you want the custard to fully soak the bread, but a similar effect occurs if you use moist bread, where the middle is not soaked as well as the outside, it looks almost exactly like that cross section of the wood in the video. The solution is to leave the sliced bread out overnight, to allow the moisture that is filling all the capillary fibers to dry out. Then you can make perfect French toast because the dry capillary fibers are much better at sucking the custard in to the center, like a bazillion little straws.

Thus, I suspect drying the wood ahead of time would help?

P.S.: on the thickly sliced French toast, to get it cooked evenly inside with a nice exterior crust, after custard saturation (don't overdo it) I recommend searing the slices quickly in a pan with butter, then throwing in an oven at 350degF for 3-4 minutes. My custard recipe per serving is approximately 1 cup dairy, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon of honey, and a little pinch of salt. Briefly zap the honey in microwave to make it easier to mix.

It's petroleum industry[1] in the Orinoco Belt[2], ignition of waste gas[3] produces a lot of light.

[1] https://energy-cg.com/OPEC/Venezuela/OPEC_Venezuela_BaseMap_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_Belt

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare

It also usually takes two or three days for a bag sent from a hotel to reach the airport in particular compared to overnight for other such location pairs in the same urban area. On some Shinkansen trains there are extra luggage seats available that have more storage space for luggage that can be prebooked - I've used these before from and to the airport, with luggage delivery between hotels.

Who needs morale? Fear and uncertainty are effective motivators.

That seems a bit reductive, example from article notes how rocket flight paths do pass over public lands from certain locations and trajectories:

> For example, the company's Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base sometimes fly over Jalama Beach, which is due south of the spaceport in California. SpaceX has been performing calculations, based on flight path and breakup analysis, to determine whether the beach needs to be closed. But because this work would compete directly with the FAA's Starship analysis, it has put the Jalama Beach review on hold and attempted to find nighttime launch windows when the beach would be empty.

To answer the question of what has taken the place of air travel, domestic within as well as international mass transport to and from Ukraine has been predominantly train based during the most recent invasion:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-riding-the-rai...

https://apnews.com/article/poland-railway-disruptions-arrest...

This page was difficult to read on my mobile due to ads. Here is a link to the source of the interview mentioned in the headline:

https://text.npr.org/2019/06/21/734451600/ever-plugged-a-usb...

> Nitpick: sliding is a pretty rare way to stop on a longboard.

To explain for anyone unaware, I primarily footbrake to stop on my longboard - you put one foot out and hold it against the ground and the friction slows you down.