People might TRY to smash them, but that is a solvable issue. I will have to disagree about the solar roadways idea tho. Besides it being the dumbest place imaginable to put solar panels, we do NOT want lighting pointing up, full stop.

We need to rethink road lighting entirely. Cars carry their own lights for navigation and warning. Street lighting for ‘safety’ is expected but not necessarily supported by good data. Pedestrian path lighting is needed for safety, but bollard lighting provides that without glare.

Here’s another with another option:

I’ve been led to believe this paper is apocryphal and reproduction attempts have failed. Can you point to an actual study or are you also just echoing other voices in the zeitgeist?

Noted… now, what is your mother’s maiden name?

No, that’s correct. Pets would be incorrect…

But how’s the economy? Congrats on the CBE by the way.

i am not a morning person. it was very jarring.

However, i will say that it occurred at the time of morning that people head out on boats to do recreational fishing.

Sadly, a big enough chunk of the population has not the wisdom to heed that now “old” warning, and will “she’ll be right” it

if you *clear* notifications, you permanently delete the alert. which is irritating because it is inconsistent with other behaviour. For instance if you receive a text message, and you clear the text message notification that will not delete the text message.

…what does count? I mean… how many atoms per cubic metre would be measured at the distance of this companion’s orbit? I’m guessing it is pretty thin…

“…wait, they used *bubble-sort* in this library every single app since 1972 has included by default? What if I push a patch to the repo so it uses quick-sort…” then the tech singularity happens, GenAI awakes overnight and decides humanity needs to go

Extraordinary rendition might have started as a euphemism but our collective understanding of it is now is the illegal transfer of people outside of a jurisdiction so the government can continue to act illegally and improperly with those transferred people

Kidnapping and human trafficking are actions by individuals or groups and don’t carry the horrific weight due to this being the actions of a state.

No, it is extraordinary rendition