‘Building more lanes will reduce traffic’ is a classic.

‘Are we supposed to take out Spiderman and Spongebob?’ Iranian cleric mocks US and says Tehran can’t strike back at targets of Soleimani’s stature because America only has fictional heroes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline_(film)

The 1% at the top have chosen to maintain the current system for generations. They also have chosen to strangle any attempts to change the system whenever possible via immense violence.

jeezus this thing just started beeping like crazy

The fact that there is not a choice to just end the 1% makes this very

I heard once that old smoke detectors have some radioactive isotopes in them. Not sure how true or dangerous but sounds bad.

This. I have a nice 4k 120hz ‘smart TV’ that is not connected to anything. I use it only as a display for PC with external speakers. I’m pretty sure you can even do firmware updates without connecting anything but USB drive. Even if you have to connect to get updates, you can just disconnect it afterwards.

Every on-call employee should now get additional hazard pay until all devices have been throughly screened for explosives.

Pepper

https://youtu.be/wclLxDENiB8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orb

I use the adb method. Gets the job done with minimal fuss. I have a few cmds saved in a text file for copy, delete older than x days, etc.

Time + gravity + chemistry + physics = hot stirring clumpy rock stew

As the stew goes from hot to warm over millions of years things settle into some interesting patterns. The highest concentrations of known gold geological formations happen to be on the oldest pieces of the earth’s crust btw.

Shredding the last shred of plausibility of not being a genocidal state

The USA has by far the largest prison population in absolute terms and per capita. You have no idea what you are saying.

Reminds me of DS9. This isn’t Bajor though.

Stephen Stanley, chief US economist at Santander Bank, said that any impact was likely to be small. “The biggest deflationary force in goods prices here of late has been used vehicles, which has nothing to do with China,” he said.

BYD, China’s biggest carmaker, recently announced price cuts of between 5 and 15 per cent for its electric vehicles in Germany, after Mercedes-Benz warned late last year that its profits were being hit by a “brutal” price war in electric vehicles.

Citigroup analysts said this month that falling prices in China could help to hasten moves by central banks in emerging markets to cut interest rates this year, particularly in countries that consume relatively large shares of Chinese goods.

“We as investors are only just starting to connect the dots” on how falling prices imported from China might play out across markets, said Luis Costa, global head of emerging markets sovereign debt strategy at Citigroup. “The question is the magnitude.”