Good catch. I’ll correct the above.

Fun fact : cats are corpuscular crepuscular. They are most active at dawn and dusk.

Their high energy time is our low energy time.

They announced it at summer game fest a couple of days ago, then announced it would be released in 24 hrs.

Bit of a double whammy, but a well received one.

Sure. The movement calls itself a “bike bus,” but it strikes me as a tiny “critical mass,” where riders get together and ride enmass to express solidarity and take back the streets to some degree from cars.

A “bike bus,” or rolling mass of happy kids and parents on bikes that builds as they travel a parent derived route to school. Basically a mini peleton of kids and parents, with parents acting as “captains, sheepdogs and cabooses.”

Pretty rad, spinning up a “critical mass” though community organizing instead of each sitting in a car, waiting hours to drop kids off or pick them up.

It’s a strange but good idea that im glad is gaining traction.

Cheap and plentiful material, no heat or rot in space, apprently resitant to cracks, burns up on re-entry so no space trash.

Sounds like its got a lot of positives.

A sow is a female pig, which doesnt produce silk at all. Attempting to get silk from it would be difficult, if not impossible and futile. It wouldn’t matter how hard you try, you would get nothing.

You can get as much silk from a sows ear as you can get blood from a stone. I dont see much differnce, but i guess the sows ear phrase requires more culture context if it means “you can’t get something nice from rubbish.”

How is it not? The euphemisms all mean you “cant get X from Y.”

Both of my examples mean exactly that.

“You can’t get blood from a stone” is classic in the US. “No more juice from the squeeze” is another variant.

The article is about municipal broadband, since the OP wanted to clickbait.

Very common in rural areas. She is most likely a customer of a WISP, or a wireless ISP. They will often partner with a township to set up on a water tower or grain silo or some other high point, then have a fiber internet line brought to that tower.

From there, they will deploy pretty much this exact device for each client, sometimes piggy backing on client sites to extend their range.

5G cell service modems and starlink are making wisps less common, but they are still out there.

Here’s a great older article about a home grown WISP setup in the rural islands near Seattle. After years of terrible and unreliable internet service, the neighbors got together, paid for a microwave tower internet stream from the mainland, and rigged up relays and wireless access points in trees in order to get good, reliable internet to everyone involved. Most everything described here would be considerably easier today.

If youre friendly with your neighbor, point to point wifi is cheap and very effective. You can share their interent if they are okay with it.

You buy 2 wifi antennas for $200, set one up at the point of origin and line it up with the other at the end point. Plug each end into a router and you’re all set.

You dont even need perfect line of sight, although it does help. Range is 5 miles, so 1000ft shouldn’t be a challenge. They are preconfigured, so basically just plug and play.

Edit : they have an even better set for $400 if you want 1.5x the speed above.

Microsoft Bob.

Come at me, bro.

never wound up being actually true since they go against the very nature of physics.

This is an incredibly wild statement when you have no data on the device’s construction or operation.

Youre complaining about a lack of data then making wild assumptions about it with no data.

Not exactly a good scientific method here, mate.

Are you saying novel mechanical engineering designs are impossible? That the mechanism of a leaf blower is so near perfection, that a well funded team of 4 mechanical engineering students could not, without VIOLATING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, have simply found a better mechanism?

I agree with your “show me the numbers” critique, but I find your complete disregard of what may be a better answer without any data at all to be equally foolhardy.

300 billion across the EU.

“May even be breaking the law” is pure spin by sociopaths, for sociopaths. Ceos have a fiduciary duty to owners, i.e shsreholders, but that can easily mean you invest in long term gains like employee support, safer and more efficient tooling and policies building up community goodwill, etc.

It doesn’t mean you have to cut throat brutalize all you can grasp in your greed soaked hands. No law, of any type, compels that. If a board does, it’s just empowered by the thought terminating cliche that “no, no we have a duty to gut people’s lives so line goes up.”

The above is people making excuses for their socially destructive behavior, not an actual justification.

His actual actions aren’t important, because his results are “holy.”

If you asked them about a “demon rat” that had doen exactly what their “holy” man had done, they would rant endlessly about his vile acts and his damnation.

Their zealotry is transactional, that’s all. Give them what they want, and you can be their savior too.

Im not concerned about “gay or not.” I personally think you have to physically interact with someone to have sex with them, but honestly dont care if someone considers all threesomes gay. “Be gay, do threesomes” would be a fine credo for the world.

Im just making a pedantic comment in reply to a pedantic comment.

Im just getting specific in a reply to the commentor above.

A bisexual + “plus one” implies that the plus one is not the regular partner, and that if the “plus one” is not bisexual, i.e in this context engaging in sex with the same gender, then that implies the original couple is instead.

So a threesomes is not a “bisexual, plus one” unless the couple is in a same sex relationship, i.e 2 men or 2 women who invite a 3rd of the opposite sex to bed.

A threesome with an otherwise hetro couple who invites a 3rd of either gender to all have sex with is a bisexual threesome, but not a “bisexual, plus 1” situation. The same threesome where everyone engaged in only hetrosexual contact would just be a hetrosexual threesome.