I tend to watch anything that I’m heating a very small amount of in the microwave pretty closely. It’s very easy to overdo it.

I would hypothesize that the market there is part of it. Given that a Tesla is still out of reach for those who aren’t wealthy, and that those who are wealthy are almost-certainly tied to the state/Party in some way, that “friendly advice” not to drive Teslas is significant.

If Elon got a couple years of increasing stock values by selling his IP out to the CCP, then he (personally) won. Just like all other automotive companies in the world, they don’t give a shit if they go out of business in 36 months due to global competition with China (or anything else) as long as their C-suite is…

It literally looks like hell.

Ripping farts into the lower decks at Mach 1.7. Sweet. 

OK, so sustainable fuel doesn’t deliver the same energy as fossil fuels or Jet A, so let’s start with that. So it either takes much newer powerplant technology or is going to require much MORE fuel quantitatively to get to altitude and to supersonic flight regimes. More fuel means more weight and size. SSTs have never…

Sports are going to be next. Just let us sink beneath the waves.

I’m just guessing here, but some of the variation may be due to location. In general, the more densely populated the area, the more strict the lockdowns were, the more strictly enforced they were, and the more people followed them. So maybe, for instance, Maggiano’s did worse than Chili’s because you tend to find…

1985. This happened the first time Danny Sullivan tried to pass Mario for the lead. It didn’t happen the next time.

I agree with you.

What is even the thought process on this? Vaccines will kill you, but not if I do it first?

For those of us old enough to be around during the beginning of the internet, remember when everyone thought it was going to usher in a new age of enlightenment? Yeah, that didn’t work.

“part- and full-time partners”

Uh, I don’t think the “lab leak” theory is how you put it:

I think it does matter. If it was a biosecurity failure, the world needs to know it because next time it could be MERS. There needs to be far more oversight/regulation if human error was able to kill millions of people & destroy the lives & livelihoods of millions more.

“If something goes viral, you can go from zero to millions of followers in a matter of months. That’s really hard to do if you take a traditional trajectory.”

Yeah,  If you are asking top dollar, clean under the hood and show the full bed.

What kills me (and literally kills some animals) is that these people don’t do proper research before buying these animals and then don’t turn to real reference materials or resources.

Most of this happens because people don’t have the right setups for their birds. Common guidelines for backyard chickens are based off the practices of larger farms where chickens are a commodity (not a pet) or off of practices from long before people knew what salmonella was.