I’m completely on board with that, except for the “wish fulfillment”. I don’t know how it got twisted around that you could presume to tell God what to do or that he would - it seems so entirely inconsistent with anything else about religious beliefs

So we have this all powerful and all knowing supreme being , right? And he’s got a plan for the entire universe and all of time, right? But he’ll disrupt all of that to grant you a favor if you wish hard enough? Or you can blame him if something bad happens to you specifically, out of all the universe over all time? What hubris, what ego could make us think we’re in control and can use it for personal gain?

My mom still drinks tea

It is! I also go on the border a couple times every year! https://www.ontheborder.com/locations/

But then US interference most directly affects US jobs and customers. That’s a much better er situation.

Think of car manufacturers that have done this for decades. They may have a global supply chain, heading mostly back to their home country, but they also have worldwide plants near their customers. Thanks partly to similar incentives and tariffs, my Honda was assembled in, I think, Kentucky, and was as us-manufactured as any us brand, meaning us jobs, us manufacturing, partial us supply chain. The result has been almost entirely good.

We’ve spent the last few decades outsourcing key industries, where US no longer has as much manufacturing and we’re way too dependent on other countries. It took supply chain disruptions from COViD to realize how much of a bad idea that was.

We’re finally trying to recapture some of those key jobs, industries, supply chains, dependencies, starting with chips and renewable energy. THANKS, BIDEN! this is what will make America great again

Pieces don’t gain kinetic energy in a collision. Even if they collide and get sent off in an “upwards” direction, it’s not up very far relative to the orbit, and that’s just a less circular orbit at lower speed that will burn up even faster

For you scenario to work, there would have to be a chain reaction

• collision, sending a few pieces upwards
• during that small number of orbits they survive, collision, sending a few pieces upward
• repeat many times

Each chance is remote enough, and ricocheting pieces only go so far, and any higher satellites they could reach are also low orbit, that I can’t imagine how remote the chances of this happening are

Kessler syndrome is a real worry, but not in this low orbit

That’s a nice thought, but

• Starlink has no old infrastructure
• Rural and remote customers are difficult to wire up

Even in the best case where US was close to 100% wired up like we paid for, Starlink would have a market in remote areas world wide, RVs, aircraft, ships

Starlink is a very low orbit. Even if something like that happened, it would clean itself up in like five years

Supposedly included a stockpile of iskandr missiles ….

Hypersonic missiles are very difficult to shoot down, so ideally you want to get them much earlier, toward launch. In this case even earlier, while in a warehouse before launch

And somehow when my ex asked for help, I’ve spent weekends at her house carrying heavy stuff, assembling furniture and fixing stuff. Crap, I need to set boundaries, don’t I?

He’s not a freeloader because he pays his fair share of taxes…. Wait a minute

He’s not a freeloader because he takes on the risks of a job creator, including any financial losses…. Crap, nope

He’s not a freeloader because when he contracts put work he pays on time what was agreed …… can you see the pattern?

It’s misspelled slang

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pwn

“Trump pwns the libs” == “ Trump defeats the liberals”

Conservative/Reactionaries love anything to beat the liberals who are trying to bring change

It’s difficult for at least half of us to understand as well, but the only answer is repressed anger, desperation, fear of change. People are unhappy and Trump gives them an outlet with his rants, identifies scapegoats to hate, attacks changes they are afraid of. Even his open flouting of the law attracts those who feel stifled by overbearing laws.

Let’s take the Department of Education as an example. Here, education is mostly at the state and local level. The federal department of education doesn’t have much say, but they can give money with strings attached. In the last few decades, those strings included requirements for the disabled, racial and gender equity in school sports, separation of church and state (like our Constitution requires), programs to uplift the impoverished or poorly served, as well as programs to identify and remediate failing schools. For example my town just built a new high school: some of the reasons for the insane cost are federal requirements because they paid for most of it. People may not be comfortable with all these changes imposed by the federal government, despite the funding that comes with it and regardless of the overall good. Demagogues like Trump can stoke outrage based on outsiders telling people what to do.

Now it’s a core Republican plank to shut down the Department of Education, so state and local governments can run Education their way. I don’t believe they even think about what they’d lose, who they’d lose it for, or how much worse off they’d be., just “stop telling us what to do”

It all starts with a dating app - find the person of your dreams, build a life together, have children, help them grow up, then …… you have a house full of people with phones who can find your phone!

But more seriously: assuming Apple, I can find my phone from my iPad and from my Watch. I do also have the family set up as an iCloud family so that is easy as well. I expect any Siri device as well

I couldn’t find the oldest building overall, but the oldest surviving house was built in 1716. While my city was settled earlier, it was essentially a “boom town” of the early Industrial Revolution in the US

Ftfy:

This has absolute bearing on whether devices can be enshittified in the same way plaguing too many current home automation devices

This literally changes nothing except creating a standard path and manner to enable cloud dependencies and tracking from unscrupulous venders

For me, it was cool seeing the RCS indicator, but I didn’t see any functional changes. Texting with someone on Android is the same as it was with SMS

You’re right. The article I read had listed typical uses as EVs and personal mobility without saying anything about their size. Looking up actual pager batteries. I do see similar dimensions and similar weight, so it’s plausible they would explode similarly

If they have a concept of danger, it’s enough to blast away

They “became aware of a knife in his pocket”. That’s why there was no light reflecting