I don’t think your assumptions about police are valid. In my state, police are not allowed to assist federal officials when no state crime is being investigated. While it is targeted at immigration, it has the plausible deniability of being general and a veneer of non-interference and fiscal responsibility. Sanctuary doesn’t mean police will act to help the victims, just that they’re not allowed to help the thugs

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Virginia is home to the largest data center market in the world, with over 576 data centers, primarily located in Northern Virginia,

I remember it being like that decades ago - a long car trip might have required more stops to clean the windshield than to get gas. Not in a very long time though. Now I do get at least one hit per week but I don’t have to clean it even as frequently as I get car washes.

Where are you that there are still bugs (other than mosquitoes)?

I mostly hope that his companies make it back into the “disruptive technology” club, regardless of him.

Tesla was started by a handful of really smart people with a great idea. Musk was ceo as it grew from an idea into the first new major automaker in almost a century. As it grew from a dismissed toy that no one would buy, into an industry-wide paradigm shift. Most of that time musk preached the gospel. You can’t disregard that influence, you can’t claim the guy in charge had nothing to do with it. You might decide his skill was more manipulative than visionary, but you can’t deny that him being the front man was part of the success. You might decide any engineering or problem solving ability was not real, but he was the guy in charge, he did make decisions, and Tesla has generally been a huge success (until recently).

We just need some drug rehab and find a way to reset the god complex ….

For whatever reasons Musk has found himself as ceo of some wildly successful visionary companies. It has not changed that they are finally bringing the future to the present, disrupting old technologies in favor of newer and better, for a better world. And the musk from before his breakdown deserves a lot of credit.

At this point I no longer care about musk either, but SpaceX and Tesla are critical. Or at least SpaceX is. Tesla has not yet finished disrupting vehicle manufacturing , but if we’re content to let Chinese companies go ahead, they’re ready and willing. Legacy manufacturers have been slapped up the side of the face, but if they’re still not awake at this point it’s on them

Sometimes it seems that way when a favorite brand disappears.

For example Tropicana Juice has mostly disappeared: only oj left and it’s smaller and higher priced. I used to occasionally buy their other juices because at least it’s sweetened by fruit juice. Without it, I guess there’s the same variety but missing the middle choice. You need to choose either the corn syrup from the bottom shelf or the expensive stuff from the top shelf

Did you change the time you goto the store? I’m off my routine so the last several times I went to the store everything was out of stock

Apple ][

Got the extended memory to 128k, 80 character screen, and a real tank of a printer

It would save electricity

my middle name is my dad’s first name

This is what I went with: my elder has my first name as a middle name and my younger has my Dads first name as a middle name. It seems like a good way to honor someone or connect someone while still giving them their own identity

It’s that second step that’s the problem. While I also like the idea of a chain, the junior or second seems wrong. A chain is a tradition, a legacy. A junior is just a copy, not their own self.

I thought through this on my first kid: it would be unfair to make him a junior, unfair to make him live in my shadow. However my brother is a junior so if I were in his place I would definitely consider naming my kid the third

That’s such a crime that you can’t. There’s probably a lot of the time it’s just lack of awareness.

I’ll always remember this one store we were shopping in, literally killing time. The workers kept asking if we needed help but we were just looking. No big deal. It wasn’t until we left that we saw the sign and realized it was long past closing. We were the assholes out of obliviousness. I will always wish they were allowed to tell us about closing time

It’s especially egregious because most larger stores have announcements. If my grocery can announce “15 minutes ….”, why can’t that little shop?

This is one I’m guilty of. There are too many left lane campers and I just don’t have patience for that anymore. Why do so many drivers immediately move to the fast lane rather than “stay right except to pass”?

Why do so many drivers insist their definition of fast is the one true definition, rather than choose the lane based on relative speed and let the cops worry about who is too fast?

I do remember from college there were women who were into this. It may be a successful strategy if you have no shame or morals

Red light prohibits entering the junction, not staying there.

While true, That kind of talk leads to gridlock as more people enter the intersection expecting to go after the light is red. It also leads to more “stretching the yellow” well into red lights.

People don’t seem to get the distinction that it’s to allow getting unstuck. It’s not to encourage entering the intersection when you can’t go anywhere (welll … except for some poorly implemented intersections where that’s the only way to turn left)

This gets so bad at groceries certain times of the day.

But I get really annoyed at them at places like Costco. The aisle is like 15’ wide: how are you even managing to get this much in the way

And escalators. I forgot one of the reasons I hated shopping with my ex but this past weekend we had to get some stuff for our kid. Sure enough, STOPPED as she stepped off the escalator. Wtf

Yes, those same people are likely to act the same way in a car

The problem is that we don’t yet have a practical alternative to jet fuel, except high speed rail and Zoom. The technologies are all too young.

And it’s not just cost, it’s trying to make them useful enough. Batteries will not take you across a continent, for any cost.

We’re more at the stage of “fuck the cost. Give me another option to try”

I wonder if that takes an appreciable amount of carbon out of the air, and if it is somehow persisted in solid form.