The cellular carriers have an incentive to stick within their licensed frequencies, which they do. There’s no benefit to broadcasting a signal that their customers can’t receive; cellular broadcasts are very tightly attuned. Broadcast power is also closely monitored because there’s no benefit to wasting power blasting…

“Immediate intervention is needed to avoid significant operational disruption to air passengers, shippers, supply chain and delivery of needed medical supplies”

don’t give them any ideas

The same chaos that ensued when they claimed a cell phone could take down a plane 20 years ago and nothing happened?

About the same time Gizmodo stops making slideshows for simple lists. Its all about the clicks.

All well and good and mostly things I’ll never use.

Seems weird to have to explain this, but because they spent the entire season setting up an intricate story line they had no intention of delivering on.

But all that glorious warhead-flinging and rail gun fire didn’t exist in a vacuum

They could’ve simply rewritten Duarte’s betrayal and not unnecessarily teased us with the Laconia goings-on at all. Because they didn’t do that, I’m left with an unmanageable rage towards a show I otherwise loved immensely.

Very disappointing and kind of surprising. It absolutely started off on the backfoot, but it was showing a lot of potential by the end of the season.

Oh, come on, these people are dying for the country, for the economy, and ensuring that stockholders get maximum return on their investments, and executive bonuses continue to flow. Hardly like the Al Qaeda at all.

We’re losing the forest for the trees here. The Supreme Court is an extension of the GOP at this point, which means that in cases covering abortion... the laws will stand while the Supreme Court drags it’s feet. In cases covering anything the GOP opposes (like safeguarding public health), the Court will take it up…

Well, the blatantly unconstitutional abortion laws are effectively what right wingers would otherwise call “virtue signaling”. Whatever practical effect they have is secondary to the goal of telling right wing voters what a bold little conservative you are and maybe getting on Fox News. Hey, you might be the lucky one…

If OSHA’s numbers are right, and there is no reason to believe that they are not, then SCOTUS just condemned at least twice as many people to death as died on 9/11 in the World Trade Center.

Honest question, and it’s not like the Biden Admin would do it anyway, but what’s stopping them from just ignoring this ruling? He wouldn’t be the first President to do so (*cough* Trail of Tears *cough*).

That Mos Espa Vespa street chase felt VERY Spy Kids to me, and not in a good way. The whole chase sequence felt pretty sloppily shot and edited. And then Danny Trejo showed up with a Rancor and I realized “Oh yeah, Robert Rodriguez definitely made this.”

Hello! UK reader married to a vegan, here. Ultimately people like me are the target market for stuff like this. I know - many of us know - we *have* to reduce our meat consumption. We’re the floating voters. My diet is broadly vegetarian, I know I should do more, and meat-eating is typically reserved for takeout and…

In terms of who this is for, several of my friends who are vegetarian for ethical reasons are fine with eating meatless products cooked on/in the same surface as meat. Unless you’re super strict about it (and yes, many vegetarians/vegans are) it’s not an issue. And, anecdotally, these folks are super stoked to eat KFC…

Basically this was the post-Isaac Hayes episode of South Park for Trek.

I love that they wanted to pay tribute to departed Star Trek actors (and Nichelle Nichols, who unfortunately probably isn’t too far away), the one thing I’d have changed would be to have somehow gotten Nog/Aron Eisenberg involved, maybe in place of Scotty so we wouldn’t have three TOS representatives. Maybe he didn’t…