“Advanced nuclear reactor” — I will believe it when I see it. The US seems to be stuck in 1970s designs. I would love to see pebble reactors and designs that don’t create as much waste.

Not the kind of thing you want to go around telling the press(or anyone else) that you found.

Maybe that software doesn’t need to be so fucking “complex”. It’s a web browser. Stop cramming everything but the kitchen sink into it. Half of the crap in web browsers like WebGL and WASM should be plugins anyway.

Does this mean in certain US states that you will have to provide ID in order to view X content?

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/05/1146933317/louisiana-new-porn-law-government-id-restriction-privacy

Primary runoff elections were held on some random Tuesday, just after a recent election on property taxes and other local issues. If you want voter turnout, elections need to be held on consistent days every year, and not some weird date pulled out of a hat when voters already just went to the polls.

Better yet, give us ranked choice primaries so there aren’t any runoffs.

When Walgreens cuts prices, it’s usually shrinkflation. They often have deals on paper towels and toilet paper — but when you look at the sheet count, it’s about half of what you would get on the same roll at a grocery store.

Same for fluid ounces on things like dish and laundry soap.

Portal! Wish I’d remembered that one for my list. Such an inventive game.

• Yars revenge on Atari 2600.
• Kaboom on 2600.
• Pitfall on 2600.
• Myst on classic Mac.
• Dark Castle classic Mac.
• Diablo 1.
• Star Wars Dark Forces.
• That weird Ayn Rand utopia in the sky Bioshock sequel on any platform.
• The Star Wars Battlefront game that came out around rogue one on Xbox until the developer started tweaking with it and it became a griefer’s paradise.
• Gauntlet arcade and home versions. So fun to play as co-op.
• Ms Pac Man arcade.
• Tempest arcade.

And a shout out to Arashi, which was a great classic mac homage to Tempest.

If we had high speed rail in the US, this number would be far lower.

Why is Google determined to kill one of its cash cows? Cramming AI into search results feels like “New Coke”.

You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.

I see that anti trust / Internet Explorer investigation had no effect at all.

Yes. But usually it doesn’t want to work (try to dial someone and I can’t dial properly or trying to find my car and Siri or maps won’t work).

If you can eat at a nicer place for the same amount of money, why would you eat at McDonald’s?

Studios shouldn’t be allowed to own the channels. It’s a problem similar to when studios owned the movie theaters.

Can’t have right wing talk radio cut off at the knees. Considering the interference generated by electric motors, I look forward to the added expense in EVs to add a feature I will never use.

55% of “all Americans” who respond to polls.

Jack Dorsey was just a year or two early with Vine it seems.

Pandora works pretty well for discovery, and has multiple “modes” so you can hear album tracks, not just hits. Just put in a few songs of a genre and/or artists you like to build a station of similar suggestions. Use thumbs up/down to tune it. I will warn you that after a year of doing this, it might get in a rut of playing things you’ve already thumbed up. If that happens, switch modes or create a new station.

YouTube suggestions also has a pretty decent suggestion algorithm if you start thumbing up music you like. It’s also a good place to look at a particular label’s catalog.

Both are free with ads.

Also, if there’s an artist you like, be sure to look up who produced your favorite tracks. Chances are they’ve done similar music with other artists.

You’d think evolutionary, there would be at least some green mammals to help them blend into the plant life around them. Like bunnies hiding in bushes, or monkeys in trees. I suppose shades of brown work similarly in the same situations.

I know some predators don’t see color the same way humans do — could the lack of green and dominance of brown have something to do with seeing motion, or heat, or something else we don’t see?