And in news getting significantly less coverage:

Right — if you compared the Betamax 1 hour recording time to the VHS 2 hour recording time then you couldn’t tell the difference. But people were using the 8 hour feature because we were all cheap bastards.

Meanwhile in stories not getting much press:

Gen Xer here. Betamax quality was the same as VHS and Betamax tapes had far shorter recording time.

In Beijing, a weekend. I wouldn’t want to drive on it afterwards, though.

They easily can be had in Europe for less than 100 Benjamins, so you would have to completely ignore all common sense. It’s way outside my budget range and I would want it to be 100% Scirocco, so I’ll have to wait another 10 years, I guess.

The direction here could also implicate companies using the tools in their products, including Microsoft and Google with their recent search/software implementations. Responsibility is yet another thing that the courts are going to have to clear up - hopefully before the AI overlords decide to play War Games.

Ah, a favorite Texas 18th birthday past-time of posting on TikTok about your new AR-15.

The fossil fuel industry was getting jealous of all of the BEV fire coverage.

I might not know about talking, but I clearly am more accurate about what I am typing about.

Oh, Canada. You are perfectly within your right to make laws that force companies to pay you when they do something you don’t like — and they are perfectly within their right to no longer do it so they don’t have to pay you. That’s not bullying - it’s a business decision.

Food for thought:

Routine traffic stop might result in you being shot (depending on your skin tone) but it took the authorities here in Pierce County months to finally arrest this woman. She made no secret that she was not going to comply. I’m very happy they finally took care of it but good gawd did they take their sweet ass time.

I’m not clear why they wouldn’t just increase premiums instead of abandoning the market altogether.

Phooey. They knew it was going to cost vastly more. The only reason NASA used this ridiculous design and low-balled the price was to get it approved by those congressional representatives with a vested interest in seeing the Shuttle manufacturing jobs stay in place.

I could have liked TLC except they made Brody and Sallah into idiots - the opposite of the brilliant people they were in Raiders. Overall, it was like they were trying to make everything funny rather than letting the humor come out naturally in what occurred.

What are you typing about? The ducklings lived.

The same environmental cost we are already eating to pull oil from the ground? Of course, it will take tens of millions of additional new EVs on the road to approach that level of environmental and political damage.

I suspect others will have better luck but everything I tossed at Designer gave back results that only superficially matched what I was asking for.

Temperatures way above normal this early in the summer create a feedback loop that locks in higher temperatures because the planet in that area has already absorbed so much energy. Hopefully this year we can avoid another 2021 heat dome pushing the NW into temps way beyond 100 degrees.