Rednote isn’t trying to attract foreign users. It’s only blowing up because of the imminent app ban affecting TikTok, same as other apps like Lemon8.

Sugar itself doesn’t, I’ve never seen a study showing an actual link between the two. It’s instead excitement to getting something special, not the sugar causing a chemical reaction. Causation and correlation are different.

There is actual evidence of some dyes causing behavioral issues in some children.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9052604/

Country borders are just lines on a map. They don’t exist in the real world.

If only everyone was able to experience the overview effect, a lot of our issues could potentially fix themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect

It’s gotten to the point where you need to have an attorney on retainer just to get real answers from these companies. Instead of saying you’ll get an attorney to the underpaid customer service rep with no power who can’t care less and people threaten legal actions with no follow through constantly… an actual attorney sending a letter calling the company out for their failure to address your issues gets you put into a separate system where they know you actually have representation they want to avoid.

Those monthly retainer services are surprisingly cheap too if you just need something verified or a notice sent once in a while. Many companies even offer discounted legal retainer services as part of their benefits packages.

Didn’t Houston have historic massive flooding from Hurricane Beryl? And insurance companies are still fighting and having to pay out for Hurricane Harvey back in 2017.

Your house is only one data point, and not the largest part of the calculation. Your neighborhood, county, and city infrastructure have a lot more to do with your insurance than your specific home. And the Houston area has a terrible track record with flooding.

He’s right. Let’s get rid of the part that doesn’t function well. His entire industry.

All it does is put barriers between patients, their doctors, and the care they need while increasing costs with no actual benefit to anyone other than the insurance executives. Nearly every job in the industry would still be needed under a universal health care system, there just wouldn’t be a middle man increasing prices by billions every year so they can make a profit.

Order it from another store with curbside pickup, don’t have to even get out of the car on the way back home.

I don’t understand why they don’t just use a pickup ticket system. Costco does it for some smaller high end electronic products now. Hell, Toys R US did it decades ago with all of their video games and consoles. You just take the paper ticket to the cashier to pay and then the receipt to a pickup window where ALL of those products are kept.

Instead they choose the objectively worst option, extra hardware spread randomly around the store for each product, and spreading already shaky customer service even more thin with large waiting times for a manager with the keys to arrive.

Definitely, but it’s built into the existing system as it sits, and was implemented slowly over decades. This isn’t new by any measure, it’s just finally starting to be addressed.

Believe it or not, Deere has been right at the forefront (on the wrong side) of the right to repair fight. They’re one of the most egregious anti-repair companies on the planet, even more than Apple.

Almost the entire rural Republican base gets screwed by Deere daily. Now that there’s an official attempt to fix the issues, killing it would be a direct attack on those supporters.

And as much as Trump doesn’t actually give a shit about anyone else, it would signal that the Republican party, as an extension, don’t actually give a single shit about them either. Something that base has been clinging to like a life preserver in an ocean for years.

Seems pretty fucking basic here. No quorum means no business can be done. It’s the first step of any sort of meeting to conduct official business.

They’re performing fake business to show to their dipshit constituents that don’t pay attention and will believe whatever they’re told.

Probably just both honestly.

IIRC the emergency landing gear deployment relies solely on gravity to drop and lock them into place, it’s a passive system. Not 100% effective, but something that doesn’t require a powered system of any kind for emergencies. Even if they didn’t lock into place, they would at least deploy, which doesn’t seem to have been the case here.

The cutoff to the wrong engine is sadly the most likely given the rest of the context like altitude and already aborting one attempt due to the strike. Lots of things to track that low to the ground, easy to forget you didn’t deploy the landing gear the first time when your focus was trying to keep it in the air at that point and then going around and realigning for another attempt while also shutting down an engine.

Planes glide, fairly well. However, that requires having altitude and time to plan and maneuver since you cannot usually gain new altitude and any maneuver bleeds it off quickly. Control surfaces use hydraulics not electric motors, and standby power provides basic instrumentation, despite not powering the recorders.

And of course working landing gear (most landing gear drops and locks into position due to gravity, no power needed).

This particular case had basically none of those advantages, and possibly landing gear issues as well. There are a lot of questions in this crash, and many of the preliminary answers currently seem to be pointing towards things like poor maintenance, just bad luck, and the always possible pilot error.

This is why throat flight recorders are so useful. Hearing the pilot conversations in the cockpit helps with knowing what they were working through, and instrumentation logs help with what the plane was telling the pilots. Missing the last 4 minutes is the worst time for a gap, but the exact reason why battery backups are in newer planes. They should have been required to be installed in all previous ones as well.

Not very common for both recorders to stop abruptly before a crash. Unless they lost all power, which means both engines.

This particular plane seems to have been manufactured before backup batteries were required, so without main AC power the recorders would have stopped, standby power doesn’t connect to the recorders.

Even under rapid charging conditions with a full charge time of just 12 minutes, the battery achieved a high capacity of 705 mAh g⁻¹, which is a 1.6-fold improvement over conventional batteries. Furthermore, nitrogen doping on the carbon surface effectively suppressed lithium polysulfide migration, allowing the battery to retain 82% capacity even after 1,000 charge–discharge cycles, demonstrating excellent stability.

Assuming that this is scalable for production… Which is a big if for many of these “breakthroughs”, then this could replace current Lithium Ion batteries in most devices with a noticeable bump in capacity. Everything else is pretty par for the course though with current technologies.

The full charge time is meaningless without knowing what capacity they were working with. And a quick skim didn’t seem to have that in the article.

Well, it only looks like nothing because our power demands have increased as well.

Current Lithium Ion Polymer batteries are a far cry from the ones of a decade ago, despite being very similar tech.

The main issue with most of these alternative battery approaches are either low capacity, or low charge cycles. Finding a chemistry that both packs enough power in a small enough package to run devices for long term, and that don’t wear out quickly is difficult.

Not sure why it matters where the material came from at this point. Haven’t courts already said LLM learning didn’t constitute a violation of copyright? That conversation stopped very abruptly just a bit after ChatGPT became available to everyone.

And they’ll increase premiums across the board by 1% permanently to cover the cost and increase profit. The line must go up.