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How many of them will follow his instructions to boycott advertisers who stop filling their Twitter feed with promoted tweets?

It doesn’t make money with advertisers. So it’s a moot point.

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The weapons are already in Taiwan and flying soldiers in via commercial airlines is far cheaper than crossing the ocean by boat in some kind of bizarre reenactment of D-Day.

Why are there so many fatalities on our roads or from interpersonal violence? Did these people not attend the mandatory education about not killing people?

What is the practical outcome of this?

Do I camp outside Microsoft headquarters then walk in on day 1 of year 101 and say, “this is mine now”?

Where I live we have leasehold land so titles theoretically extinguish after 99 years. What has happened in practise is that the lease just auto-renews, making the situation no different to freehold apart from the paperwork.

The pragmatic people solve their problems by asking for help and part of that involves stumbling upon questions they have answers for.

Reader, Wave, G+, Hangouts, Stadia and soon RCS.

Never build a business on a Google project, only ever use Google as a side hustle.

It’ll be tuned to maximise for (number of remaining users clicking through ads) * (reward for each conversion) + (number of new YT Premium subscriptions) * (value of each YT Premium).

If the proportion of users leaving is lower than the proportion increase in income, YouTube wins.

If a population votes for the least worst government that doesn’t give that government permission to turn to autocracy slightly slower than the other option.

DNA testing is not positive identification.

Do you feel that telephone companies should take action when someone is using their services to harass a person, such as repeated prank calls or using SS7 signalling to capture calls that aren’t theirs?

Because using DNA collected from a victim of crime to prosecute them for a later crime is probably a violation of 5th amendment rights.

The next logical step if you don’t think the 5th was violated is collecting DNA from everyone (eg: repurposing COVID swabs) so you can identify all the potential suspects from your sampled population while completely ignoring that someone from outside the sampled population could be the person you are looking for.

Godwin’s law doesn’t apply when talking about actual Nazis.

Pre-collecting DNA from everyone to use as evidence against them in future criminal investigations is way over the line when it comes to “is this behaviour totalitarian or fascist”.

Using DNA from a rape kit to identify someone in a crime is a clear violation of the 5th amendment.

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

And on top of all of the fears expressed by Gunner Sergeant Andrew Guthart, there is serious discussion of using ADS-B in place of active radar at many airports.

With the high visibility of ADS-B you’d have thought that someone in US DOD would have thought about this newfangled radio stuff and perhaps put some controls in front of one of the people operating the aircraft to allow turning off radios or spoofing the ID on transponders.

“Hello fellow civilian aircraft I am a Cessna flying at 3000ft ground speed 75knots 45 magnetic” says the C5 in an attempt to camouflage the sensitive operational flight through civilian airspace before entering the war zone.

People who need less visibility can transmit a different registration or just turn off the various transponders.

Are they posting as an official voice of the US DOD? Or are the posting with a title in the hope that associating themselves with the military gives them more authority? Are they identifying their rank so other defence people reading the article will understand that a gunnery sergeant might not be appraised of the relevant information?

Inventing a problem that doesn’t exist.

Military aircraft have controls on their dashboards for turning individual systems off as required. Turning off ADS-B would be the first thing on the checklist for sensitive flights, and one of the things that are turned on purposefully when entering friendly airspace.

It would surprise me if military transponders do not have the ability to broadcast “I am a Cessna at 3000ft” regardless whether the actual aircraft is a F35 or a Galaxy.

cf the usual copypasta about the SR-71 crew asking ATC for an altitude and speed reading. They use the broadcast radio systems because they want you to know they’re there.

They have to set the IFF system to the OFF position.

In the meantime cities in Finland experience multiple inches of snow a day and still manage to have high cycling numbers during Winter.

The number one predictor of cycling participation is decent infrastructure that is maintained. Hills, winter, rain are all a distant third place to having decent infrastructure and then maintaining that infrastructure. Cycle paths regularly plowed? High cycling activity. No cycling infrastructure and a habit of plowing snow onto the sidewalk? No cycling activity.

Make it safe to ride, people will ride.

Catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

The issue is very much about supply, and supply that sags when the ambient temperature is high and water supplies are low.

Majority is not consensus. Consensus is not a magical garnish word, it has its own meaning. What you are describing is populism.

For me the most common cause of sluggishness and beach balls was having Microsoft Teams running at the same time as a Time Machine backup while a Western Digital Elements USB drive is attached (easily verified by quitting Teams, stopping the Time Machine backup, or unplugging the WD Elements).

It’s easy to point the finger some times, especially when one is biased against a particular vendor or technology. If it was disk access by the anti-malware software that triggered my slowdowns, I’d probably be pointing the finger at that anti-malware rather than the MacBook Air M1’s issues with sleeping USB disks or Teams’ penchant for gobbling up all available RAM.

I walked into a nightclub and asked for sex. I did not get sex, so therefore nightclubs are not places people go for sex. All those people claiming nightclubbers hook up for one night stands seems like scurrilous slander to me. It’s terrible to see people believing the journalists who attended night clubs for years and reported on their supposed sexual exploits over my story which is clearly a sign of leftist bias. Why do these people believe a journalist over my reliable reporting?

Right, because they would let someone who created an account in the last month or two and has no presence into their hunting lobby?

Corporations aren’t throwing you in jail for questioning the decisions of the King.

Enough to reduce output by 5–10%, which is less than useful when demand is peaking.

800 - 280 = 520, 800 - 310 = 490. That’s a change of about 6%.

The grid is failing on hot days because of the amount of thermal generation they still use. When it gets hot, thermal plants produce less power because their production capacity is related to the difference in temperature between their steam and the ambient air.

Nuclear plants are thermal plants. They are not magic. They have to abide by the laws of physics.