Fun fact: Columbia, pictured with the white tank, was the heaviest shuttle and was not modified to have the airlock necessary to dock with the ISS because the performance losses compared to the other shuttles made it difficult to use for ISS operations.

Where do you think white people came from? Hint: it wasn’t America.

I was confused by your list until I remembered that they didn’t change the Winter Olympics to being a different year than the Summer until 1992.

Idiocracy is about what happens after the current time when smarter more level headed people are trying to put the pieces back together. We are in the prequel era, things are going to get worse before they get better.

Though this does vary by locale, in most places legally it’s only permanent if you have to leave it there when you move.

For a permanent installation, yes, just like a large solar installation. But I can go down to Lowe’s and get a gas generator capable of similar output as the balcony solar and it won’t require any permits.

No it isn’t. The same thing happens with the kind of gas generators you can get from your local hardware store all the time.

Obviously. I was just pointing out that it isn’t an issue unique to solar.

The same thing that currently happens when somebody does that with a gas generator? Linepersons get zapped… people get sued… etc…

There isn’t any data transmission over the wires…

That’s very wrong. Not only can you extend Ethernet in your own home using your power outlets, the power companies have been reading meters this way for decades.

I get irritated with the dilution of the term as well but then I remember calling the computer players in games like Super Mario Kart and GoldenEye AI when talking about them back in the day.

As a penis haver who has been falsely accused of sexual assault, it’s far more common than you think.

My parents used to live in Fayetteville, the house they sold 13 years ago for $250k is currently worth $750k and the houses on either side have been bulldozed into combined lots for mini-mansions. It’s nuts out there.

The perversion of executive into leader is part of how we got here. Executives are supposed to answer I other people not lead anything. Like how a CEO in theory answers to a board of directors.

This feature debuted on the Moto Atrix in 2011. There was even a version of Ubuntu that could use the feature.

Fun fact: Jupiter has rings too!!!

IDK, when I was finishing my CS degree there were some people in my class that didn’t know the difference between Mac and Windows. The ‘weldingification’ of development means that for over a decade now people who write or research code may not know anything about computers.

My wife and I went out recently and a nearby table had no less than three children each with their own tablets all on full volume while the 5 or so adults completely ignored this.

Fun fact: … is called an ellipsis.

It’s almost exclusively called River Cane here. Probably why nobody thinks it’s bamboo.

One correction and fun fact: We absolutely had bamboo.