DisasterTransport

I don't understand what's so hard about espresso :-)

The CEO of Ford drives a Xaomi. He could have any car he wanted, and he chooses a Chinese car. It's ostensibly for market research but he's said he really doesn't want to give it up. So yeah they're cheap, and also I think China might just genuinely make better cars at this point. While China has been investing into manufacturing and consumer tech the big three have been dragging their heels and kicking and screaming because they see engineers as cost centers and that is biting them in the ass as well.

Company’s that own a patent can release spores causing cross contamination, then sue a farmer at harvest for their crop containing copyrighted genes.

No they cannot. This little bit of common knowledge is bullshit on several levels.

1. nitpicky, but plants reproduce by pollen and seeds, not by spores. okay, since i'm being nitpicky potatoes and sugarcane don't reproduce with seeds. potatoes are tubers and sugarcane uses cuttings. some plants reproduce with rhizomes but we usually don't eat those. point is spores are for mushrooms and ferns and whatnot.
2. the big seed producers pledge not to sue for trace contamination
3. monsanto was preemptively sued by farmers in 2013 because the farmers were afraid of the windblown lawsuits and wanted to get monsanto's patents on genetics struck down. court said no, because Monsanto could not be sued over a threat that did not exist. That is, Monsanto had never actually sued anyone for windblown genetics. But given the above point the court also said monsanto is legally not allowed to sue for windblown genetics. because they promised not to.
4. copyright and patent law are two different things. seeds and their genetics are covered under patents. that's either better, worse, or sideways depending on your perspective but it is different.

big ag is evil and they fuck farmers over constantly but you don't have to bullshit to make them look bad

no wait this page is still usable on ADSL, you need MOAR CDNS. MOAR HIGH RES IMAGES. MOAR VIDEOS! MOAR TRACKING PIXELS AND SCRIPTS MOAR MOAR MOAR

i resent living under a government run by such unserious people. i mean trump himself is circling the drain but the fact that anyone in that room went along with it is just disappointing more than anything. these people respect nothing, least of all themselves.

it would be very funny for Minnesota to stop extraditing to Texas. Zero shot but it would be funny.

Well how are you going to get rid of the ghosts if you don't consume them? You pour it drain and now the drain is haunted and you have to hire a plumber who's also a practicing priest. Its a very rare job description and I've only ever heard of one. He doesn't come cheap. You'd think it's a scam if it weren't for the water ghosts.

I wanted to make a cheap joke about getting the ghosts out by boiling the hell out of it but I wound up in a rabbithole about supercritical water. It turns out you can boil the hell into water. With a lot of heat and pressure water can dissolve rock, oil and gas dissolve into the water easily, and if you put organic waste into really angry water that shit will burn. Underwater! It even destroys PFAS and prions!

Canada does a lot of things better than we do, but all the things, really? They, too, have serious problems in their healthcare and educational systems. They've got severe staffing shortages in hospitals and long wait times, and their IEA scores are dropping across multiple subjects relative to international standards. Most younger working class Canadians alive today do not expect to buy a home maybe ever.

I don't mean this as a tu quoque, we have huge problems here too and like I said Canada does a lot of things better than we do, but this kind of starry-eyed adoration can only end in disillusion.

PS don't look up when the last documented "starlight tour" was

Everything Nostradamus wrote was incredibly vague and 3797 was just when he claimed his visions ended, not that the world would end then.

1999, 2000, 2012, 2025, and 2026 have all also been interpreted as the end of the world according to Nostradamus. There's your track record.

The main problem I've observed with zipper merging is nobody can seem to agree on what it is. People get aggressive when you try to use the available space on the road, and in discussions online it seems people think you're trying to queue jump if you don't merge as early as possible.