My wife was flying into Regan last Monday and they had to abort the first landing because there was still a plane on the runway.

For one thing stop the Kratom. It’s highly problematic in general but weight loss is a common side effect. General stimulation without energy reserves is also a common side effect leading to dizziness.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/prescription-drug-abuse/in-depth/kratom/art-20402171

For food try a Shooter’s sandwich.

If you have use of an outlet for an hour or so before lunch rice cooker meals can make a great hot lunch that only needs to be plugged in before lunch.

I’m poly but have a friend who it’s VERY poly. Her squigle is huge. I have no idea how they manage.

Pocket. A closed source binary blob in a “open source” project.

Orbit: AI productivity tool.

Anonym: Ad server.

Locking down extensions.

Cutting 250 jobs while raising executive pay 400%.

In 2021 the CEO made 5.5 million. They got about 7 million in donations that year.

80% of their revenue is from google. But google encourages them to waste the money on stuff not related to the browser because it’s competition to chrome. Their job us to look like a viable competitor but not be good one.

The browser is constantly getting worse on performance, user experience, and customizability.

They have gone from 34% user share to 2.2%. So clearly I’m not alone in my opinion of the current state of the browser.

Neat. I know almost nothing about the the Higgs field.

Because this is a science thread I’ll be a bit pedantic. Mostly because I think it’s an interesting topic. It’s a mass-energy equivalence (≡) and not just an equality (=) they are the same thing.

So it’s meaningless to say convert mass into energy. It’s like saying I want to convert this stick from being 12 inches long to being 1 foot long.

You can convert matter (the solid form of energy) into other types of energy that are not solid. But the mass stays the same.

It’s like when people say a photon is massless. It has energy and therefor mass. It just has no rest mass. So from the photons frame of reference no mass but from every other fame of reference there is mass.

My old school had a scale model of the solar system. It used the same scale for the planets size and distance. The sun was a 12" ball on one end of campus. Around campus were poles with little glass domes on top inside were tiny pins with little planet models on them.

So humans vision is much more sensitive to green than other colors. it’s why camera sensors are 50% green 25% red 25% blue. Which makes sense as being able to detect small differences in plant cover is useful in both detecting predators and prey.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

If humans had more flat color detection range we woulda actually be able to see that the sky is purple and not blue.

There are two main inverter approaches. One big inverter that takes the DC from a bunch of panels and converts it into AC and micro inverters where each panel gets it’s own small one placed directly under the panel.

The micro inverters cost around $150 each. So you need around 10 panels before the single inverter becomes a good choice.

Installers love the micro because the install is easier. However as a owner with say 30 panels you now have 30 points of possible failure instead of the 1.

I was talking about Ross Perot. He was a successful business man. I doubt he would have been a good president.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_1992_presidential_campaign

It wasn’t learned. He was a 3rd party presidential candidate that ran on being a business man not a politician. He came in third.

I’ll do the occasional 72 hour fast. A 24 hour fast once a month. These days I change the 72 hour to a 48 hour then blood test every hour or two until I see a blood sugar rise. That’s when the body starts to cannibalize muscle tissue so I stop.

The DS9 writers would sometimes write a script that they knew would be approved and then give the actors “suggested improvised lines” for what they actually wanted.

I always took his reluctance being about the report he was going to have to make about the incident.

Yeah the problem isn’t the ideals being in there but how bad the story is makes the ideals seem like a cheap crutch.

Compare Brokeback Mountain to Ben and Arthur. Both movies about the relationship between gay men and society. Both say gay people should be treated fairly by socity but aren’t. The first does it in interesting way with great storytelling and ideas. The later is a hamfisted mess.

I’m not going to say modern Trek is Ben and Arthur bad but it is much closer to Ben and Arthur writing then it is to Brokeback Mountain.

I wasn’t old enough but am glad I saw it (kinda). What is old enough for that movie anyway? Has anybody lived that long?

Getting groups to go along with your stupid minor lies is the first step. That way when you start doing the bigger important lies they are already used to just going along with your lies.

This is straight from the authoritarian play book and Trump is not doing this without purpose.

One grandmother died the day before her 102nd birthday.

Back in highschool my friend managed to set his family pc’s desktop to an animated gif of a woman getting a facial.

I got the most desperate phone call asking me to come over and help. I showed up and set it to normal about 1 min before his mom came home.

It’s a govt event that’s invite only so they can kick him out. They can’t prosecute him for what he said or prevent him from saying it elsewhere.

Still a shitty thing to do.