I assume the first thing she did, after hanging up, was to call her husband and ask him where their daughter was, right?

And making her cry makes it easier. Someone under duress sounds different, and any inconsistencies the listener hears can be chalked up to the fact that their loved one is crying/in pain/drugged/etc.

There are two refutations of that I’d like to present.

Nah, they don’t reconcile their views at all, they have a firewall between their views, and in most cases they never have anything that breaks down that wall. When something does, such as someone pointing out to them those very inconsistencies, they lash out in anger, because the only other possible response is to…

JWST being the successor the Hubble is no longer just hype, it is living up to the moniker.

LEO is screwed and ground-based observatories even more so. We need to build a massive installation on the far side of the moon. It will be blocked from anything interfering from Earth, and until we get too many satellites orbiting the moon, too, it should do really well. It will also be easier to service and upgrade…

Time travel could be in the cards, but rather than bring the young Sandersons to the present, I’d place more money on sending the modern witches to the past. The first movie was already about old-timey people out of time, so the third one would flip the script.

I was in Puerto Rico a few years ago, and kind of wanted to go see the observatory, but figured I’d go back and see it later, and now I can’t. It’s a bit sad, and I really hope they get some sort of observatory rebuilt.

How powerful of a beam would we need for this to be feasible? If we’re beaming MWs of energy through the atmosphere, what happens to a bird, or a plane that flies through it? What if the beam gets moved, either accidentally or maliciously, and points at some piece of critical infrastructure?

It is also important to acknowledge that the training data for tools such as ChatGPT includes the intellectual labor of a host of people such as Wikipedia contributors, bloggers and authors of digitized books. The economic benefits from these tools, however, accrue only to the technology corporations.

The first point is simple— if you regulate it here, it won’t get built here. It WILL be built, just not in America, in a country that doesn’t put up roadblocks.

out of sight = out of mind. Don’t be complaining when you get passed up for the best raises, bonuses, promotions

Counterpoint:

The story was fine, but I really don’t like the emphasis on “proper etiquette” that took up so much of the book. It felt very Victorian, which maybe intentional, but was just slow and uninteresting. I intend to read this, but I will do so via checking it out from the library, rather than buying it. And I’m a huge…

Point 1 maybe, but to assume they wouldn’t have found her is just that, an assumption. And if that is the case, then it would have been better for Indy to not get involved.

Yeah, but it should be about simultaneous streams. I pay for two simultaneous streams so I can watch something with my wife and the kids can watch something on their own. We also share our login with my brother-in-law. He uses it on his own sometimes, but it is mostly used when we travel to visit him. A handful of…

If you pay for X simultaneous streams you should be able to use X simultaneous streams at the same time, no matter where from.

Part of the answer was in the article:

Why do I feel like this move isn’t so much about them getting a larger toehold on renewables as it is about buying the land that is needed to mine lithium, so they can stop anyone from mining it at any appreciable volume, keeping lithium artificially expensive and scarce, so oil remains attractive?

I agree, this has perplexed me for years. I understand that they have been an oil company forever, and change costs money, but as you said, they are going to have to change sooner or later. It makes more sense to do it while they still have oil to fund the change, than to suck that teat until it’s dry, then scramble…