Air temperature increases (which will amount to 5 degrees C over a century, worst case) are not what will drive significant changes in A/C usage. More and more new homes have central air installed as it becomes part of our normal standard of living, and that will account for far more. On the plus side, the new homes…

This is something you want to try to frame as criminal conspiracy? Committees that have no cause to even meet for eight years should be dissolved, that’s just responsible resource management. What’s staggering is the ignorance with which people impugn every move of an administration that they’re content to blindly…

Over your head. Even if the number of active users would be 1/100th of this (280.000), and the petition would be signed by not two dozens, but 100x more people (2.400), that would still amount to <1% of all active users, and be a non-issue, by any and all means.

Remember folks, doxxing is bad unless it’s done against people you disagree with.

There’s that old Gawker feeling.

Am I the only one that sees illegal aliens being so horrible as to bring their children along while they commit the crime of illegal entry thus becoming illegal aliens and seeing the prison camps for what they are. Generally wouldn’t you want your children to not go to prison with you, perhaps go somewhere better.…

Listen to an interview with someone who has to deal with this every day before you make your judgement:

Amos is the best murder-suicide buddy a person could hope for.

I think this is an awesome untapped market.

Sorry, a growing number of accidents does not indicate a source of fault for those accidents...be wary of confirmation bias. Do statistics reflect higher accident counts for Tesla when comparing by accident type and model? Even if they do, it’s completely plausible that the increase is due to over-reliance on…

Sometimes I feel like the news neutrality movement will never gain any traction.

I’m absolutely convinced that they’ve engaged machine learning to produce and rank clickbait headlines for the staff to choose from. If the algorithm predicted 17% more clicks for “annoyed” vs. “prodded”, wouldn’t you take it despite the disingenuous disparity in tone? <sigh> Sometimes I feel like the news neutrality…

I don’t think the primary purpose of the nukes is attack/defense or even to illustrate anything with the day the bombs fell - I think they’re an “interesting” and convenient dungeon mechanic. Howard mentioned that the players will find rare gear in the fallout zone after an explosion and that you’ll likely need…

I wish someone would annoy me by sending cake.

I mean, it’s a Charles article. . .

Is ‘annoyed’ really the best way to frame how fans encouraged Amazon to pick up The Expanse? The interview certainly doesn’t support that word choice... if anything it seems like so many people of varying influence reached out en masse that Amazon took notice, and upon taking notice people who were completely…

That’s not true. Insurance companies would love to pay for things that cost $2. Their success comes through spreading out risk and cost, and in this case, it makes perfect sense that they would strictly limit access to such an expensive treatment. It’s also reasonable for this treatment to command a high price,…

Pretty much because, if you make it too cheap, then it’ll be used widely and will probably virtually eliminate the disease, thus destroying the market for it. On-going treatments are where the money is at, not cures. Not saying that is a good, moral or ethical rationale, just saying that is the one they’re going with.…

I once had a patient who got it prescribed, then took the bottles home and never opened it. By the time we found out 6 months later, it had expired. That was $30,000 GONE. And she still had hepatitis. No wonder insurance providers want to see that you really want it AND will follow through.